RTPI London Summit 2025 - Accelerating Digital Capacity in Planning

Milan Bogunovic is the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)’s Digital Planning Programme Director leading work to use digital to modernise England’s planning system. Milan is an experienced Senior Civil Servant, Product and Digital Leader and Agile Coach with 15 years’ experience in government and related fields. Milan has held roles at a number of government departments including the Ministry of Justice, Cabinet Office, HM Passport Office, the Home Office, the Department for International Trade and the Government Digital Service. Milan has served as a soldier in the British Army Reserves for over 16 years. 

Nissa is a chartered planner and an expert in digital transformation and innovation within the planning, development and built environment field. She has spent the last decade of her career working across private, public and third sectors to push for the adoption of data-driven and technologically advanced planning processes. Her work focuses on using technology and data to increase a true representation of place-making needs alongside making it easier for those working in planning to make informed decisions. She strives to ensure that the local planning process meets the needs of its varied users by using the best of digital solutions available.

Fraser Trickett is a Client Partner with Made Tech and leads their account team to deliver digital projects for MHCLG. Projects have spanned numerous policy teams, including digital planning and building safety, focusing on agile and user centered design that helps inform new policy and data standards.

Nikki Webber has a background working across both traditional real estate and PropTech sectors, where her passion for technology-driven solutions in property and planning emerged. Now serving as the Digital Planning Team Lead at the City of London Corporation, Nikki works to integrate both existing and emerging technologies into processes across the planning team, supporting the digital transformation of the service.

Peter heads up the Digital and Data Team for Planning and Place for the Mayor of London, with a focus on unlocking the Digitalisation of the Planning System for Londoners.  Programmes Peter and his team have delivered include the Planning London Datahub, Planning Data Map, the High Streets Data Partnership, PlanApps and LAND4LDN.  The impact of these collaborative programmes put London ahead of the rest of the country in both the availability of data, but also how it can be used to deliver data informed decisions.

Dan is an Urban Designer, Master Planner and Urban Planner with 20 years’ experience in private and public sector roles. He has worked in 12 countries on projects ranging in scale from detailed public realm designs up to new city developments and national master plans. He also sits on design review panels, charity and regeneration boards. 

In recent years, he has up-skilled to become a digital-first designer and has created a variety of digital apps and software, including products to assist with assessing the compliance of buildings and spaces against part M accessibility building regulations. Most recently, he has been part of the design code pathfinder programme and completed area-wide and detailed design codes, including the Trafford Design Code. He managed the production of the master plan and detailed design code for Trafford Wharfside, a new waterside regeneration project to deliver over 5000 homes and new employment on an 85-hectare site adjacent to Manchester City Centre and Salford Quays. The complex urban site includes the Imperial War Museum North and the existing and new stadium for Manchester United at Old Trafford.  

Christopher works with Planning Authorities of UK & Ireland, Christopher currently supports over 90% of London’s Planning Authorities in creating robust planning pipelines with faster application times through using VU.CITY as an efficient 3D communications medium.

Anna has experience within the built environment both in London and across UK Cities. Anna is part of the Commercial Team at VU.CITY working with Planning Consultants, Architects and Local Authorities on maximising the use of VU.CITY within workflows to accelerate the planning process and maximise development output.

Scott heads up Business Development at the Planning Portal and is responsible for developing strong strategic and operational relationships with all key planning delivery stakeholders that use their services.

Working in partnership to fully engage with the Government’s digital strategy and endorse digital service delivery, driving an increase in its adoption and online application submission.

Tackling the cultural change within planning and building, to drive a channel shift to online service delivery, that involves streamlining business processes and procedures by adopting digital ways of working, to realise efficiencies and savings for all stakeholders that engage in these processes.