Anna Louise Bradley

Anna is an urban strategist and health professional with expertise in programming the built environment. With a multidisciplinary background in urban geography, psychology, statistics, and health, she worked closely with planning offices, city authorities, and grassroots organisations before joining the Autumn Cohort 2023.

Anna has a strong focus on bridging stakeholders and fostering engagement to achieve collective place management visions. Notably, she has organised workshops, facilitated knowledge exchanges, and led research projects on active mobility, human-scale design, resilient neighbourhoods, local economy, and gender equity in the city.

She is also passionate about volunteering for women, girls, and refugees in various roles in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.

North Herts Council

During her placement at North Herts Council, Anna's focus was on developing a town centres strategy that addressed all four towns in the district, with unique consideration for each one's place identity. This required balancing research, monitoring, and synthesising ideas collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team. In addition to this, Anna worked on a sustainable travel towns programme and a visioning project for the future of a recreation site situated between existing and upcoming developments. Throughout these efforts, she applied her experience in merging active travel, physical activity in public space, and placemaking, while also gaining new skills in high street regeneration.