Experience

KPMG Future Analytics

• Ireland
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic Planning Consultant Manager

  • Aug 2022 - Present



Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC)

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Planning Officer

  • Oct 2016 - May 2022

  I worked as Senior Planning Officer in the policy team with the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC), focused on delivering the UK's largest regeneration project. The primary focus of my role was in supporting the development of a new Local Plan for the OPDC area, and the evidence and supporting studies which underpin it. I played a particularly key role in developing the spatial strategy of the Local Plan and wider development strategy. This included leading production of the Channel Gate Development Framework Principles, a masterplan framework for a key new site with the potential for a vibrant new high density residential led mixed used community of 3,100 homes. With responsibility for the infrastructure policy area, I project managed production of the Corporation’s Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP), a key document to support both the revised Local Plan and delivery strategy for the Corporation, which accounts for over £2 billion worth of infrastructure across the lifetime of the development. As lead officer for the area of planning contributions, I coordinated OPDC’s Planning Obligations Advisory Group, a senior officer level group to provide governance on the spend of developer contributions and prioritising infrastructure projects. I also have produced and published OPDC's Planning Obligations SPD. I worked closely with colleagues in the development management team on major planning applications, assisting in pre-app discussions, providing policy observations and advising on necessary conditions and informatives to ensure development proposals contribute to high quality, coherent new places. I also worked closely with colleagues in the organisation’s commercial directorate providing advice technical input to key workstreams to support OPDC's broader delivery strategy. Show less



Epping Forest District Council

• Essex, England, United Kingdom

• Planning Officer (Policy)

  • Apr 2015 - Oct 2016

  I worked as a Planning Officer with the Planning Policy team at Epping Forest District Council, a Green Belt District bordering London. The core function of my role was to support publication of the District’s first new draft Local Plan in over twenty years. The role required me to manage and work closely with consultants in the production of key evidence base studies to support the emerging Local Plan. I played a particularly key role in the delivery of the District's Settlement Capacity Study, Strategic Land Availability Assessment and Green Belt Review. I contributed to drafting elements of the draft Local Plan, including Place Chapters, and played a significant role in the site appraisal and selection process. I was responsible for producing the District's Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) and the collection and maintenance of all data in support of this. Within months of joining, I produced two new AMRs following delays of two years, and completed updates to the District’s housing supply assessment to satisfy statutory national requirements. I liaised directly with Councillors on issues pertaining to Planning Policy and the Emerging Local Plan, supported the staging of Councillor Workshop sessions and helped to secure political support for issues of major contention, most significantly green belt release. I regularly addressed queries from, and consulted with, neighbouring local authorities, government agencies, developers and the general public on planning policy and issues relating to the emerging Local Plan Show less



planningAlliance (now Greenspace Alliance)

• Edmonton, Canada Area

• Urban Planner

  • May 2013 - Feb 2015

  I spent two years working as a Planner with planningAlliance (now Greenspace Alliance), an award winning firm providing planning and urban design services to public and private sector clients in over 70 countries. In this role I worked as the primary project planner in the preperation of a number of statutary planning documents including Municipal Development Plans, Zoning Bylaws, Inter-Municipal Development Plans and Area Structure Plans. I also had the opportunity to work on non-statutary planning studies on behalf of urban and regional municipalities. In addition to public sector projects, I played in played a key role in the preperation of planning applications for residential, commercial and industrial development proposals on behalf of private sector clients. My work on these projects was supplemented by my technical skill set in programmes such as AutoCAD, Arch GIS and Adobe Suite, which allowed me to produce mapping, graphics and planning documents of the highest quality. Show less