Regional Management Board

Anthony works with Hertfordshire County Council through WSP, specialising in transport and strategic planning. Anthony has a background and interest in healthy and active travel and now brings that to his work on infrastructure planning, settlement strategies and site masterplans.

Anthony regularly presents at Hertfordshire University, supporting their growing transport and planning courses.

David is currently Executive Director for Stewardship & Development at Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, the community benefit society that owns the freehold of the Letchworth Garden City Estate, reinvesting surplus from its main property portfolio back into the community through its charitable commitments.  This is the successor organisation to Ebenezer Howard’s First Garden City Ltd, which developed Letchworth in the early 1900s.  He has worked in planning for 32 years, in both the public and private sectors, including within Planning Departments at Broxbourne (whilst studying on a part-time basis at South Bank University), Welwyn Hatfield and South Cambridgeshire District Councils.  He was Planning Manager at Linden Homes (Chiltern) and an Associate Director of Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners before running his practice for five years.

David is a regular speaker on garden cities in the UK and internationally and a guest planning lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire.  He has worked on various development schemes, including town centre regeneration, urban expansions, commercial development and many housing developments.  In his current role, David is responsible for the regeneration of Letchworth Town Centre, the Foundation’s housing, environmental and sustainability strategies and the first expansion of Letchworth since the 1980s.

John is a barrister, specialising in planning and property, having qualified initially as a town planner . He studied at Durham and Liverpool Universities and worked for City, County and Borough Authorities on both development plans and development management before joining the Bar. He attended the Inns of Court School of Law and trained in London Chambers. He practised for many years in London before joining Trinity Chambers , Chelmsford .

He has undertaken a wide variety of planning and related cases for planning authorities, parish councils, residents' groups,  trading firms ,  universities , schools , churches and  individuals.  Much of his work is in the East of England and London. Recently it has included  

some major residential appeal  inquiries ,enforcement appeals , local plan examinations and appearances in the Magistrates' and Crown Courts , the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

For several years he has been a member of the East of England RTPI Regional Activities Committee and has organised the Region's annual planning law update conference in Cambridge.

This role is currently vacant. We welcome new recruits from all areas of planning so get in touch today by emailing [email protected]

Adam has been a member of the East of England Regional Activities Committee since 2012, and has served as regional chair in 2018 and 2019. In 2020 he will be representing the region as a member of the RTPI’s General Assembly. Adam lives in Norfolk, works as a local authority planner, and is currently focused on preparation of the Greater Norwich Local Plan.

A recognised expert in his field with over 30 years of development experience. He has been bi-annually elected on to the East of England Regional Royal Town Planning Institute’s Management Board since 1995. After graduating from Oxford Polytechnic’s planning school Robert worked in both West Berkshire and then the City and District of St Albans Councils. Robert is a Director at David Lock Associates where for the last 21 years he has advised on the provision of strategies to deliver implementable industrial and commercial planning permissions. This work extends from regional promotion, resolving site specific constraints – such as contamination, co-ordinating projects teams, negotiating planning obligations and advising on the implementation of schemes. Much of his work involves delivering logistics, power, energy, data centres and both large scale City centre office and health care facilities.

Having previously been part of the RTPI North West Young Planners Committee, Christian now works as a Planner at Lanpro and is based in their Norwich office. Since July 2019, Christian has been writing for the Urbanist Platform which is an online platform designed to engage people from all backgrounds and abilities within the built environment sector. A keen interest in the physical development of the built environment, and the social value that comes with that, has motivated Christian’s career and it is what drives his wider engagement with the industry.