With over fifteen years’ experience in delivering mixed-use developments with placemaking and community at their core, Lucinda has played a key role in First Base’s success across London and major towns and cities. Her track record includes delivering award winning places in Islington and Ravenscourt Park as well as achieving planning consents in Merton, Southwark and Brighton. Lucinda is currently leading the regeneration of Soapworks in Bristol; a £170m transformation of a site containing a Grade II listed former Soap factory to provide nearly 250 new homes, 150,000 sq ft of offices and 40,000 sq ft of retail, leisure and restaurants. Lucinda is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Kathleen Scanlon is Distinguished Policy Fellow and Deputy Director of LSE London. Kath has a wide range of research interests including comparative housing policy (across all tenures–social and private rented housing as well as owner-occupation), comparative mortgage finance, and migration. Her research is grounded in economics but also draws on techniques and perspectives from other disciplines including geography and sociology, and aims to improve the evidence base for policy decisions at national and local levels. She is widely published, and recently edited Social Housing in Europe, published by Wiley in 2014. She has worked with a number of national and international institutions including the Council of Europe Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and Denmark’s Realdania foundation.

Joanna Averley took up the role of Chief Planner at MHCLG in September 2020. She is a town planner with 30 years’ experience working across government, major projects and with local authorities. She has been involved in all aspect of planning research, policy, practice and project delivery. Prior to this role she was at HS2 where she led on how the railway interfaces with its context with plan making and consenting processes. Until taking up the role of Chief Planner she was a London Mayor’s Design Advocate and Chair of the London Borough of Wandsworth’s Design Review Panel. Joanna has worked on major regeneration and masterplanning projects from Manchester City Centre to the London Olympics. Joanna has held a number of senior roles as Senior Manager for Growth and Development for Crossrail 2 at TfL, Deputy CEO and Director of Design and Planning Advice of CABE, CEO of Centre for Cities, CEO of LandAid and Director of Design for the Olympic Delivery Authority. Joanna has held a number of non-executive roles including Trustee of MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology).

Lucy is an economist with experience working across the private and public sectors. She makes the case for infrastructure and development projects across the UK, including new settlements, major infrastructure projects, and Development Consent Orders (DCOs). She also supports local authorities and Business Improvement Districts (BIDS) to make growth plans and has advised government on guidance and appraisal. Lucy is experienced in green book appraisal and applying this to the economic and social value assessments of developments and infrastructure.

Zeljka is a qualified architect and for the past 20 years has worked on a number of private and public sector projects and developments with strong design, community and environmental agendas. She has worked for a number of UK practices including Penoyre & Prasad and Stanton Williams. Zeljka has joined LB Lambeth’s Planning Policy and Place-shaping Team as Principal Design Officer in October 2019 as an Associate in the third cohort of Public Practice. She is currently leading on a design led capacity assessment of a number of sites in the Borough which will form part of an innovative approach to Lambeth Site Allocations Development Plan Document (SADPD). Zeljka has also been a mentor and external examiner for the RIBA Part 3 professional qualification at a number UK architecture schools.

Andrew is Group Planning Director at Countryside and leads the company’s planning function. He provides the professional planning lead for the company across all divisions. Countryside develops private and affordable homes through partnerships with landowners, registered providers and local authorities, with a focus on urban regeneration schemes and delivering landscape led developments and new settlements. Before joining Countryside, Andrew was Head of Planning at Barratt Homes Eastern Counties and prior to that spent over 18 years in planning authorities in the south east of England. He has experience of both urban and rural planning from small scale exception needs housing to master planning new settlements, major town centre redevelopments and international airport expansion. Andrew chaired the Royal Town Planning Institute Board of Trustees for 4 years to December 2016 and took on the role of Hon. Treasurer in January 2017, continuing as a Trustee and on the RTPI’s General Assembly. Andrew Chairs the Leeds Beckett University Partnership Board and is also Chair of the National Planning Forum’s Management Committee, championing planning and inspiring all those involved in the planning process and in delivering the new planning agenda.

Imogen took on the role of Director of Planning Projects at AEC in August 2020. She is a town planner and planning strategist specialising in major regeneration and transit-oriented development schemes. With experience working across both public and private sectors, Imogen brings a strategic and people-oriented approach to her projects. Prior to joining AEC, Imogen worked with Transport for London, where she focused on the growth and land portfolios enabled through the delivery of major infrastructure projects, and more recently worked for the Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration project, leading their planning and consents programme for the Phase 2 train station development. Before moving to the UK in 2014 to pursue an MSc in Transport and City Planning, Imogen worked for private sector developers and planning consultancies in Canada, delivering some of the country’s largest regeneration schemes, masterplans, and transit-oriented developments. Beyond her professional experience, Imogen is a passionate advocate for gender representation and diversity in the land use and infrastructure industries, a guest lecturer at UCL, and an active volunteer with London community groups.

Phillipa joined Hammerson from Drivers Jonas, where she specialised in advising Local Authorities on the delivery of retail-led town and city centre regeneration projects. She joined in 2002, initially leading delivery of a mixed-use masterplan for 350-acres surrounding Brent Cross. After successfully delivering 3 tiers of planning policy and Europe’s largest planning consent, she went on to deliver two 2015 shortlisted BCSC Award projects: the redevelopment of Monument Mall in Newcastle; and, a leisure and catering extension at Silverburn in Glasgow. In more recent years, she has adopted a more strategic role within Hammerson, assisting with planning related matters across the UK Shopping Centre and City Quarters portfolios.