The technology we create today will change our tomorrow. In this webinar, we will look at how built environment professionals can embrace technology in order to enhance the planning process itself, including engaging with the community and increasing the efficiency of planning activities.

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G Greg Woodford
Digital Planning Lead, London Borough of Lambeth

Greg Woodford is the Digital Planning Lead at Lambeth. He is a town planner with over 20 years’ experience within the UK and Australia in private consultancies, and State and local governments in a range of development management, policy, regeneration and management roles. He is part of the Open Digital Planning team developing a range of digital planning tools that aim to modernise, automate and simplify the planning application process in England.

C Chris Standish
Senior Community Engagement Manager, Homes England

Chris is a chartered Town Planner and CIH Member. An accredited Community Led Homes Advisor. A current Board member for CIH Yorkshire and Humber area. A former Board member of Active Lancashire and the NW Design Review Panel.

Motivated by empowering local communities to transform their places, he joined Homes England in September 2020. He is responsible for establishing and leading the agencies approach to engaging with communities, and the linked outcomes that can be achieved through that. He leads and manages the Community Engagement Team, providing focussed support into a wide range of our projects and programmes across England. He works closely with colleagues in DLUHC and other government departments, sharing learning and building capacity.

J Jack Curran
Visualisation Senior Specialist, Homes England

Jack has over 12 years 3D visualisation experience in the private sector after graduating a Computer Games Design course.

Initially starting out creating 3D assets for interior design, he moved in to streamlining workflows via automation before ultimately leading and growing a team of over 16 talented artists.

The field of gaming technology (specifically “real-time” 3D visualisation) has now fed into multiple other fields, and when Homes England were looking for ways that could utilise the 3D mapping capabilities of their in-house Geospatial team, Jack was able to harness his experience and blend it with the world of GIS.

Now with over 3 years’ experience as a Senior Manager in the Geospatial team, Jack has been exploring the use of this technology and championing it throughout the agency.

1675857052-1e0ba0d5890f0c72 Nissa Shahid
Digital Lead Town Planning, Arup

Nissa is a chartered planner and an expert in digital transformation and innovation within the planning and development field. She has spent the last 9 years 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.

1671027862-4b556236a602d115 John Craig
RTPI Yorkshire Chair


C Catherine Neal
Head of Operations and Innovation at Lambeth

Catherine Neal is the Head of Operations and Innovation at Lambeth. Her career has focused on improving and innovating the way in which planning services work and ensuring planning processes deliver results. She led the transformation that saw Lambeth become one of the first boroughs to become fully paperless, and more recently has led from inception the Reducing Invalid Planning Applications project, now led by DLUHC under the banner Open Digital Planning.

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