Regional Activities Committee

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.

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.  Adam lives in Norfolk and works as a Principal Planning Policy Officer at South Norfolk and Broadland Councils.

Beth is a Principal Planning Policy and Climate Action Manager at Castle Point Borough Council. She has more than ten years of experience in local authority planning, having previously worked at Colchester City Council. Previous to this she worked in Waste and Minerals Policy and in the Lead Local Flood Authority teams for Essex County Council. She has a variety of specialisms from her roles, and her work interests include Garden Communities, Green Infrastructure and Community Engagement. Beth has recently started running and enjoys supporting Norwich City FC and the England Roses. She also loves travelling and exploring new places.

“Dan is a Chartered Town Planner who specialises in delivering sustainable developments that transform places and leave a positive, lasting impact on local communities through holistic, inclusive growth. Dan is experienced in delivering strategic urban extensions, a brand-new garden village, urban regeneration schemes, student accommodation, hotels, and more. Since graduating from Cardiff University (MSc in International Planning and Development), Dan has gained over 10 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. 

Dan previously sat on both the RTPI West Midlands Regional Activities Committee and the RTPI West Midlands Ball Committee. He also served as Junior Vice-Chair  and Vice-Chair and, in 2020, was Chair of the RTPI West Midlands Young Planners Committee. That same year, Dan won the RTPI West Midlands Young Planner of the year award and, in 2021, was highly commended by the judges in the national Young Planner of the year awards. In a previous life, Dan was President of a Students’ Union and Regional Chairman of the Commonwealth Student Association (Caribbean Chapter).”

David is currently a visiting lecturer for the MSc Sustainable Planning course at the University of Hertfordshire, as well as serving on the Committee of a RSL and a Trustee for a national cancer charity.

Previously, he was 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, where he was 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.  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 35 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.  He has worked on various development schemes, including town centre regeneration, urban expansions, commercial development and many housing developments.  

He was previously Chair of the Regional Committee in 2022 and has been head judge for the annual regional awards since 2022.

He is an advocate for a wider understanding of Neuroendocrine Cancer as well as improved diagnosis and patient support.  He has been treated for this form of cancer since 2022.

David Carlisle is an Associate Director at AECOM where he specialises in plan making and planning for large-scale new communities providing support to: developers; Local Planning Authorities; and neighbourhood planning groups. He works collaboratively with Government departments and non-departmental public bodies on site promotion, viability and green/blue infrastructure projects. Prior to joining AECOM, he was a member of Croydon’s spatial planning team (2006 – 2012) and worked on the Local Plan from inception through to adoption. David helps supporting employees through the Assessment of Professional Competence and contributes to Continuing Professional Development activities.

Errin is a Graduate Planner at Savills in their Cambridge office. Having graduated from Queen’s University of Belfast in 2020, Errin joined the RTPI Masters Apprenticeship scheme at Savills and is currently working towards her chartered membership status.

Graham is Land & Planning Partner for William H Brown, heading up their Land & Planning service for clients and landowners. He has been employed in planning since 2003 with significant experience comprising local authority, consultancy, regeneration, housebuilder and developer roles, becoming a Chartered Planner in 2010. Graham was formerly the Young Planners’ Representative for RTPI East of England and has been a Member of the RAC since 2013. He has a particular interest in the APC process having been an Assessor since 2011 and sitting on the APC Advisory Board from its original inception in 2012 until 2015. He re-joined the panel in its new form as MAAP in 2020 and also provides APC training events on a regional and national basis.

Jake is an Associate Director at Endurance Estates Land Promotion Ltd, where he focuses on the promotion of residential and commercial developments through both Local Plans and Planning Applications. Before joining Endurance Estates in 2018, he worked in Planning Consultancy in London and Cambridge. Jake was previously a member of the EE RAC between 2015-2019 as well as an APC Assessor.

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.

John Mason is a planning consultant with Carter Jonas, based in their Cambridge Office. After studying at the Universities of Cambridge and Vienna, he joined the company as a graduate planner and got his RTPI accreditation in 2018. He now works on various public and private sector projects across East Anglia and is also active in Carter Jonas’ graduate training programme and its Diversity and Inclusion committee. John originally hails from the Midlands but has lived, worked and studied in the East of England region for the last ten years. Outside of work, John enjoys visiting housing estates around the world and regularly takes trips to visit family in India.

As of April 2021 John will be the Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire. John has a background including experience in planning practice and academia, having worked initially in planning policy in the North East of England before studying for a PhD on rural affordable housing. From 2010 he worked at the University of Liverpool, his research and teaching focussing on rural planning & housing and neighbourhood/community planning. John was elected as a Fellow of the RTPI in 2019.

Katie is a principal planner (major sites) at East Suffolk Council and has over six years of experience working in planning. Katie previously worked for 4.5 years at a local planning authority as a planning officer and senior planning officer.

Katie graduated from LSBU with a Distinction in Urban Design and Planning in 2022 and has since become a recognised practitioner with the Urban Design Group and is a charted member of the RTPI.  She has a wide range of experience working within planning, from dealing with listed building consents and lawful development certificates to working on garden villages and NSIPs. Katie has also been working with several local authorities to produce authority-wide Design Codes amongst other urban design projects.  

Lee is a Chartered Town Planner with more than 25 years’ experience, the majority of which has been gained in planning consultancy in London and the East of England. He is currently employed as a Planning Manager for regional house builder, Hill, working across their portfolio of projects. Lee has been a member of the Regional Activities Committee since 2015 and is the serving Honorary Secretary of the East of England branch.

Matthew is an award winning Principal Social Value and Town Planning Consultant at Arcadis UK. He has been elected to the East of England Regional Activities Committee as of January 2024 and has previously served on the Young Planner’s Committee from June 2020 – to January 2022; and award-winning was a member of the East Midlands Regional Activities Committee from January 2020 to December 2021. He has been a co-lead of the Neurodiversity in Planning network since 2022 and led its re-launch in November 2023.

Matthew studied BSc Psychology at Bangor University, PGDiP Audiology at The University of Manchester, and then MSc Town Planning at Anglia Ruskin University. He is MRTPI chartered, and worked across local authority, developer, and consultancy planning roles across the East of England region. His planning experience is wide ranging, having experience in residential, commercial, industrial, research and development, health, renewable energy, and other infrastructure development projects.

Currently Executive Director at Hertsmere Borough Council. Peter is an as experienced practitioner having worked across all sectors – private, public and voluntary. He has over thirty years’ experience working in the fields of planning and development. Peter has held senior leadership roles in several local authorities including at Southend on Sea Borough Council, where he was Director of Planning and Transport. Peter was also Chief Planning Officer for Brentwood Borough Council in Essex and Head of Planning and Conservation at Broadland District Council in Norfolk where he had responsibility for managing the authority’s planning service and advising on major development proposals.

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.

Sade lives in Hertfordshire and is a Principal Planner at WSP Planning Consultancy. Sade’s 15 years of Planning experience is mostly from working at local authorities in development management, planning policy, and planning enforcement.

Alexia Kallini is a Planning Officer at Hertsmere Borough Council, focusing on development management. Following her undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering in Greece, Alexia attended the City Planning, MSc at the University of Glasgow (2019-2020) and served as the Student Representative for RTPI West of Scotland until December 2020. Alexia has a passion for urban conservation and the historic environment. 

He is a Member of the East of England Regional Activities Committee 2024 and an Affiliate Member of RTPI.  He was a member of American Planning Association (APA) and an Assocaite Member of Institute of Town Planners, India (ITPI). He is a founder CEO of development related consulting practice in India & Singapore on planning, architecture, engineering, solutions, sustainability, operations and management areas. He earned his academic credentials of International Smart City Executive studies (Graduate School Design, Harvard University, MSc in Geography, Statistics & Economics (Kerala University, India) and Masters in Urban & Regional Planning (with Urban Design & Environmental Planning specialization, CEPT University, India), MBA (College of Business & Analytics, S. Illinois University, USA). 

He worked for 30+ years in Urban & Regional Planning and Development sector for Government Agencies, private Consultancies in Singapore, India, Qatar, USA before being with RTPI. He worked with national and international consulting houses like HOK, Atkins (USA), Fugro EarthData, DTS in the private sector. He is involved with charitable, cultural and think tank (Europe, S.Asia), UN-HABITAT, Metaverse Std Forum, IAI CAD/BIM Standards, Geospatial, Land Data Exchange organizations to support and promote development sector. In his current role as Solutions Consultant, he serves FinTech and IT Services sectors in the UK. In the past, he worked for diverse City Administrations, Counties, State and National, Land Management and Transportation Agencies. 

Ajay Padimukoth (Nair) is a regular speaker on professional, technology and sustainability national and international forums and academic circles in Singapore, Qatar, India, USA and in UK. His current topics of interests includes Sustainability, Environmental Planning, IT Systems/Solutions for Planning, Sustainability, Circular Economy, ReConomics/Renewal, connected SmartCity, Digital Twin, CityVerse, Industry 5.0., Operations and Management.