ANGELA BARNICLE

Angela has a passion for cities and economic development and with it, delivering transformational change and inclusive growth. Having worked extensively across the UK advising on large-scale city development and transport schemes, organisational design and place positioning, Angela now leads the Asset Management and Regeneration Service for Leeds City Council. There, she focuses on realising the development opportunities and optimum real estate solutions to support the growth of the city.

The Service is currently engaged in a number of Place Programmes across the city including the delivery of the East Leeds Orbital Extension, releasing an additional 5,000 homes for the city, and the ongoing redevelopment of the South Bank — a project that is restitching the network of neighbourhoods making up the city centre and the Leeds Innovation Arc.

ANNA ROSE

Anna is currently the Head of the Planning Advisory Service, delivering improvement in planning services across the country. Anna started her planning career advising NFU members on planning, transport and environmental law before moving to Rugby Borough Council and becoming their Head of Planning and Culture at Rugby. In 2014 she became Milton Keynes Council’s Director of Growth, Economy and Culture. Anna is a past President of the Planning Officers Society; a trustee of the TCPA and sits as the practitioner on the RTPI accreditation boards for the planning courses at UCL and Birmingham City University. She is an active peer reviewer for the LGA and a regular speaker on strategic planning issues, growth focussed planning and improving the customer experience.

IVO GORMLEY

Ivo is the founder and Chief Executive of GoodGym – a social enterprise that combines exercise with social good. It has grown to be a movement of 20,000 people in 60 cities and boroughs. He is a 2020 winner of the Cambridge Social Innovation Prize and previously led projects increasing public participation for local authorities and NHS Trusts.

He has advised on user participation for technology startups in the UK and the US. He directed the film "Us Now", a documentary about participatory culture which was broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK and translated into 24 languages. He has presented his work to governments worldwide including the French National Assembly, The Hague, the European Union, The Houses of Parliament (UK) and Washington DC.

Ivo is a Fellow of the Clore Social Leadership Programme and was a founding Trustee of the Charity Art Against Knives.

JON FAULKNER

Jon is an international development practitioner, working on rights, equity and good governance in fragile and conflict-affected states. He began his career in the Australian foreign service, has had roles as a CEO and director of international development companies and non-profits, and is currently consulting on humanitarian issues. After long stints in the Middle East, South Asia and West Africa, he is now settled in London, and is increasingly focused on equity and sustainability issues in the UK.

JONTY MCNUFF

Jonty is Director of Group Finance at British Land, a FTSE 100-listed real estate investment trust which manages over £13bn of prime property around the UK. He leads the team responsible for all aspects of financial reporting, financial operations, property accounting, risk management and business transformation activities. He is Director of a number of British Land companies, including their joint ventures at Paddington and Canada Water, where a 53-acre masterplan is delivering up to 3,000 new net zero carbon homes, and 2 million sq ft of workspace accommodating 20,000 workers. Prior to joining British Land in 2013, Jonty worked at KPMG in London, where he trained and qualified as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

JULES PIPE

As Deputy Mayor of London for Planning, Regeneration & Skills, Jules is working on key priorities for the city, including: revision of the London Plan, major regeneration projects across the capital, ensuring London’s infrastructure needs are delivered to benefit all Londoners, and building a skills system that properly addresses the needs of young people and the economy. Jules has an unrivalled knowledge of London government, becoming the first directly elected mayor of Hackney in 2002 and serving as Chair of London Councils from 2010 until he joined the Mayor’s team in 2016.

LOUISE WOOD

Louise is the Service Director for Planning and Housing (Chief Planner) at Cornwall Council. Her journey into the sector comes from a background in art and design where her interest in how housing impacts us ultimately resulted in her dedication to creating great places and homes.

Her early career was spent working in planning in outer London Authorities before returning home to Cornwall in 2007. Over the last decade, she has worked across a range of roles in Cornwall Council from policy and strategy to development management, regeneration and housing. A significant amount of her work has been focussed on the delivery of large-scale projects, most notably West Carclaze Garden Village. She is a passionate advocate for what local government and great planning can do.

MEETA KAUR

Meeta is a chartered town planner and a UK qualified planning solicitor. She is a founding partner of Town Legal LLP, a specialist planning law firm. Before joining Town, Meeta was a planning solicitor at city law firm King and Wood Mallesons (formerly SJ Berwin) and prior to that a planning officer at Westminster Council. She has many years’ experience in advising on a wide range of development schemes of all types and scale, including urban extensions. However, her specialism is large scale mixed-use redevelopment and regeneration schemes, both in London and across the country. Meeta has been involved with the Royal Town Planning Institute at both a regional and national level for over 20 years and is currently on the board of trustees of the RTPI and chair of the Membership and Ethics Committee.

MOLLY STROYMAN

Molly has over 20 years of experience working in built environment roles across quality assurance, sustainable landscape, and stakeholder engagement. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary planning, inclusive governance and co-design, supporting communities to have a say in infrastructure changes which directly impact them, while helping project teams to deliver more innovative, ecological and equitable solutions.

As part of the fifth cohort of Public Practice, Molly took on the role of Stewardship and Community Development Officer for East Herts District Council, where she has been working across the Harlow & Gilston Garden Town (HGGT) partnership to progress stewardship S106 commitments for Gilston. She stayed in the role after finishing the Associate Programme and is continuing her work with the five partnering authorities, developers, community and other key stakeholders, to build greater quality and equality into scalable stewardship and governance arrangements.

Her work includes developing the HGGT Stewardship Principles & Objectives that form the basis of all evolving stewardship approaches, including the emerging HGGT Stewardship Charter. Together with the cross-authority team and collaborators, she has also worked on the HGGT Quality of Life social value mapping and monitoring project funded by the DLUHC PropTech Engagement Fund. This work highlights the needs of the local community to inform future approaches to community-led stewardship, masterplanning, and monitoring. She recently presented the project at the House of Commons as part of an update session from the TCPA New Communities Group.

Molly has also established a Stewardship Working Group for local authorities, focused on climate resiliency, social equity, socio-economic benefit, and scaling up impact for new and existing communities.