POS Subject Specialists

 

In addition to the Regional and Policy Networks, we have a number of Subject Specialists who contribute to POS initiatives and policy making, as well as examining and commenting on Government consultations. They are also the people to talk to if you want to know what POS thinks about issues in their subject area.

Overarching Subject Specialists:

  • Management of Planning: leadership, performance, governance, organisational models and professional standards in planning services - Paul Seddon
  • Resources & Skills: workforce capacity, recruitment, retention, skills development and professional pathways - Anneliese Hutchinson
  • Future Planners: early-career planners, education pathways, diversity in the profession and long-term workforce sustainability - Charlotte Morphet
  • Digital Planning: digital transformation, data standards, digital tools and modernisation of planning processes - Greg Woodford
  • Infrastructure Delivery (including S106 and CIL): developer contributions, infrastructure funding, viability, CIL and emerging infrastructure levy reforms - Rob Krzyszowski
  • NSIPs: Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, DCO processes and cross-boundary infrastructure planning - Bob Bennett 
  • Inclusive planning - Tomas Johnson
  • Enforcement: enforcement practice, powers, investigations, appeals and national enforcement policy - Tim Rolt

Plan-making and Decision-making Specialists

  • Strategic Planning: spatial development strategies, cross-boundary planning, strategic evidence and duty-to-cooperate replacements - Catriona Riddell
  • Spatial Planning / Local Plans: local plan preparation, evidence bases, examination processes and plan-making policy - Steve Barton
  • Neighbourhood Planning: neighbourhood plans, community-led planning, examinations adn local engagement - Stephen Tapper
  • Development Management: decision‑making processes, validation, conditions, appeals and development management policy - Peter Geraghty

NPPF Aligned Subject Specialists (new structure)

  • Sustainable Development: climate change mitigation and adaptation, resilience, carbon reduction, overheating, wildfires, drought, integration of climate considerations across design, transport, nature and health - Nicky Linihan
  • Housing Delivery: build‑out, delivery trajectories, barriers to delivery - Nicky Linihan
  • Delivering Homes and Supporting Growth: housing need, mix, affordability, new settlements, growth strategies, town centres, economic development, communications, clean energy and water. Stephen Hill (Lead)
  • Conserving and Enhancing the Environment: nature recovery, LNRS, GI Standards, biodiversity net gain, irreplaceable habitats, flood risk, coastal change, environmental resilience and heritage (shared) - Tim Slaney
  • Minerals and Waste: minerals planning, safeguarding, aggregates, waste planning and national minerals policy - Richard Greaves
  • Creating High-Quality, Sustainable Places: design codes, placemaking, VAWG safety, Green Belt and Grey Belt, transport (shared), healthy communities, pollution, public protection and effective use of land. David Evans

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If you are a POS member and there is a subject area you would like to assist our Specialist with, please contact us.

 

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