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Community Engagement Planning
Involving people in the planning process
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Friday 30th April 2010
Radisson Blu Hotel, Edinburgh
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KEITH AITKEN Broadcaster and Journalist
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Keith Aitken is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, and one of Scotland’s most experienced conference facilitators. His busy freelance business encompasses newspaper and magazine journalism, radio presenting, speech-writing, pod-casting, drafting corporate publications, and chairing all manner of public debates.
Since turning freelance in 1995, he has been a columnist for the Scotsman, the Herald and Scotland on Sunday. He currently writes a weekly column in the Scottish Daily Express, for which he also compiles a hugely popular weekly prize crossword. An accomplished author, he has contributed chapters on Scottish affairs to various books, and written a critically-acclaimed history of the STUC, The Bairns o’ Adam.
Prior to 1995, he spent 16 years at the Scotsman in a succession of senior editorial posts, including parliamentary correspondent, labour correspondent, industrial editor, economics editor, chief leader writer, and opinion editor. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University. |
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LORD JIM WALLACE OF TANKERNESS Former Deputy First Minister of Scotland
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Lord Wallace of Tankerness QC (Jim Wallace) runs his own consultancy business, taking a particular interest in renewable energy developments. He has recently returned to practice at the Scottish Bar and holds an Honorary Professorship at the Institute of petroleum Engineering at Heriot Watt University.
As Scotland’s Deputy First Minister from 1999-2005, he was involved in all areas of Scottish Government policy, including the white paper ‘Modernising the Planning System’ in 2005.
He was MP for Orkney & Shetland from 1983 – 2001 and MSP for Orkney from 1999-2007. He became a life peer in 2007, and speaks for the Liberal Democrats on Scotland and Justice issues in the House of Lords.
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JOHN BURY Head of Planning
The City of Edinburgh Council |
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John Bury is Head of Planning with the City of Edinburgh Council where he is responsible for the delivery of Edinburgh's planning and development activities, including those in its priority areas such as the City Centre and Waterfront. He is also responsible for the management of the City's built and natural environment, including its World Heritage Site. He has helped to shape a programme of culture change within the Planning Service to implement the requirements of the new Scottish Planning Act. This has included a stronger emphasis on the role of stakeholders in the planning process and customer care.
Between 1978 and 2008, John worked with Glasgow City Council, latterly as Head of Planning Services. In addition to managing the Council's Planning Service, he was responsible for leading the Council's regeneration activities on the River Clyde and in the City Centre, as well as establishing the Council's Greenspace project and City Heritage Trust.
John is a member, and former Chair, of the Heads of Planning Scotland and a member of its Professional Development Committee. He is a member of the One Scotland Gazetteer Board and the Central Scotland Greenspace Network Board.
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FRASER CARLIN Head of Planning & Development
Renfrewshire Council |
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Fraser Carlin is the Head of Planning & Development at Renfrewshire Council and is responsible for the Statutory Planning Functions as well as the Regeneration and Economic Development roles of the Local Authority.
Having held a number of posts across a range of public sector agencies over the last 20 years, Fraser has witnessed a change in what communities need from their public services and how they want to engage with them.
To this end he is committed to introducing new and innovative ways to work with communities that puts them at the heart of the Planning process and ensures that the community is not a side player as a result of the long, overly technical and frankly tedious processes that have excluded them in the past.
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PETRA BIBERBACH Chief Executive
Planning Aid for Scotland |
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Petra has an MSc in Environmental Management & Energy Systems and a working background in community engagement and sustainable development. She has recent experience in local government, and with COSLA as Local Agenda 21 Adviser. Previously Petra worked for the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE), and before joining Planning Aid for Scotland undertook research and project management for the academic, private and community sectors.
Petra is a member of various Scottish Parliament Cross Party Groups, a member of the UK Planning Aid Steering Group and a member of the Association of Chief Officers of Scottish Voluntary Organisations. She is also Company Director of a green tourism company, BiberBach Initiative GmbH, in Germany. She also served on the Scottish Executive Steering group for the new Planning Advice Note on Community Engagement ‘Planning with People’.
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CLLR. MARTIN FORD Aberdeenshire Council
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Martin Ford is currently a Democratic Independent councillor on Aberdeenshire Council.
Until December 2007, he was Chair of the Council's Infrastructure Services Committee & prior to that, Chair of the Council's Scrutiny and Audit Committee (since 2002).
He was first elected to Aberdeenshire Council in 1999 & from 1988 until 1999, worked as an ecologist at the Scottish Agricultural College undertaking teaching and research. He was awarded a Ph.D in plant ecology from the University of Wales in 1986 following on from his first degree in plant biology, from Newcastle in 1981.
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PROFESSOR ANGELA HULL School of the Built Environment
Heriot-Watt University |
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Angela Hull holds the Chair in Spatial Planning at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh UK.
She spent five years as a town planner in local government before working as a consultant to the Royal Town Planning Institute providing training to local government officers.
She has worked in academia for the last 25 years teaching town planning and urban management. She directs the Centre for Research on Planning, Regeneration and Governance and carries out research on spatial planning and governance, and institutional triggers to sustainable urban management (transport, energy, housing).
She was Secretary-General of the Association of European Schools of Planning (1998-2002) and now leads two of the AESOP research groups: Evaluation in Planning, and Transportation Planning and Policy.
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VERONICA BURBRIDGE National Director
Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland |
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Veronica Burbridge has been the National Director of the RTPI in Scotland since July 2007. She has worked on strategic planning policy and research across the public, private, academic and voluntary sectors in Scotland. Veronica is particularly interested in continuing professional development and has worked at a number of Scottish Universities and as an Open University Tutor. She is a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and holds a LLM in Environmental Law from Dundee University and a PhD in Town and Country Planning from the Heriot Watt University. |
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DAVID C WATT Executive Director
Institute of Directors Scotland |
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David C Watt, Executive Director for the Institute of Directors in Scotland, and comes from running a consultancy focussed on individual and organisational development, particularly in the sport and leisure industry, for over ten years. Prior to this he had worked in both the private and public sectors.
David spent two and a half years leading Scotland’s Millennium activities and celebration, encouraging a range of partners to contribute £11.6 million to the festivities for people and places throughout Scotland in the year 2000. He also has extensive experience of delivery in both the public and voluntary sectors.
He is the author of many newspaper and magazine articles, and has written several books focusing on event organisation and the management and administration of sport. On a personal note, he is a keen golfer and follower of rugby, with a non-party interest in politics and current affairs.
Talented and committed directors are vital to the nation’s prosperity and David is enthusiastic about the role the IoD can play in representing, developing and providing for its members to the benefit of them, their companies and so Scottish economy and industry. Excellent corporate leadership is vital for Scotland going forward and the IoD has key role to play in delivering this through supporting and developing directors. |
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STUART WARD Force Architectural Liaison Officer
Fife Constabulary |
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Stuart Ward was appointed as the Force Architectural Liaison Officer for Fife Constabulary in 1996 following 10 years service within Fife Council's Property Services Department. The role of ALO involves using Police Knowledge of Criminal activity and techniques, to provide advice for proposed and existing developments, in order to design out opportunities for crime and anti-social activity from all aspects of the built environment.
Stuart also has a remit for CCTV (Closed Circuit Television), which is utilised as a tool to assist in reducing the opportunity for crime. In this remit for CCTV Stuart worked as the technical expert on the initial phase of the Fife public space CCTV System, which is the largest single fibre network geographically in Europe. In 2004 he was the project manager for the system expansion to the system. He continues to provide the technical advice and support for the system and recently oversaw the procurement and installation of the I-Witness Digital recording and management system, where all 101 cameras are now recorded digitally.
Stuart is currently engaged as an adviser in a European Union funded project led by An Garda Siochana to formulate a guidance document highlighting best practice from European Partner Nations. This involves travelling to participating nations on study visits in order to ascertain at first hand successful and appropriate Crime Prevention principles.
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IAN ANGUS Policy and Advice Officer
Scottish Natural Heritage |
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Ian was born in Aberdeen in 1955 and graduated from Aberdeen University with a degree in Geography in 1977.
After post graduate research into housing supply in North East Scotland, Ian joined Strathclyde Regional Council. He completed a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Strathclyde in 1984. Ian developed and reviewed urban renewal and retail policy, advised on major proposals and prepared and presented evidence at public inquiries. In 1991, Ian took the lead in two river valley projects in ‘Greening the Conurbation’, a partnership initiative led by Strathclyde. In this role, he improved recreation and access along the rivers, education and biodiversity as well as creating attractive places to live, work, visit and do business - more sustainable places, though the term wasn’t in wide use at that time. In 1993-6, Ian helped deliver the Clyde Valley Community Forest, a programme creating community woodlands around the conurbation. In 1996, Ian joined South Lanarkshire to work on rural development, transport and local plans. In 2001, Ian joined SNH to lead a team co-ordinating Greenspace for Communities, an initiative to improve the planning and management of greenspace across Scotland.
Ian is Convener of the Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland, Chair of Planning Aid for Scotland and Chair of the UK Inter Agency Urban Forum. Ian lives in Glasgow and outside work enjoys hill walking, golf, badminton and visiting the Glasgow Film Theatre.
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DAN MACDONALD Chair
Planning Committee, Scottish Property Federation |
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Dan is Chief Executive of Macdonald Estates, a Scottish based property and investment/development company that has become the leading company in its field in Scotland. Dan launched the ‘Scottish Property Development Forum’ in 2006; it merged with the Scottish activities of the British Property Federation later that year to form the Scottish Property Federation. |
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Conference development by: Matt Heap
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