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Inquiry by the National Policy for the Built Environment Committee, 27 July 2015 to 8 December 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 9 July 2015: Professor Rachel Cooper OBE, Professor of Design Management, Lancaster University, Dr Richard Simmons, Former Chief Executive, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), 2004-11, and Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Professor of Town Planning, Newcastle University
  • 16 July 2015: Gill Graham, Head of Heritage, Department for Culture Media and Sport, Bob Ledsome, Deputy Director, Building Regulations and Standards, Steve Quartermain, Department for Communities and Local Government, Chief Planner and Ruth Stanier, Department for Communities and Local Government, Director of Planning.
  • 22 July 2015: Professor Peter Bishop, Professor in Urban Design, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Max Farrell, Partner, Farrells.
  • 10 September 2015: Dame Kate Barker, economist, author of the Barker Review of UK Housing Supply, former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee Toby Lloyd, Policy Director, Shelter
  • 10 September 2015: Lord Best, former Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation, former Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust Kathleen Kelly, Assistant Director of Policy and Research, National Housing Federation
  • 17 September 2015: Sunand Prasad, Penoyre & Prasad Architects, Quinlan Terry CBE, Quinlan and Francis Terry Architects
  • 17 September 2015: John Grinnell, Deputy Head of Development, The Crown Estate, Steve Melligan, Strategic Land Manager, The Crown Estate
  • 15 October 2015: David Tittle, Chair, Design Network and Chief Executive, Made West Midlands and David Waterhouse, Head of Strategic Development, CABE at Design Council
  • 22 October 2015: Chris Carr, Chair of the Home Builders’ Group, Federation of Master Builders, John Slaughter, Director of External Affairs, Home Builders Federation
  • 29 October 2015: Hugh Ellis, Head of Policy, Town and Country Planning Association; Paul Miner, Planning Campaign Manager, Campaign to Protect Rural England
  • 29 October 2015: Noel Farrer, President, Landscape Institute; Iain Taylor, Director of Business Development, Land Trust
  • 5 November 2015: Richard Blyth, Head of Policy, RTPI; Finn Williams, Director, Planning Officers Society
  • 5 November 2015: Ruth Reed, Former Past President, RIBA; David Henry, Planning Director Savills, appearing on behalf of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
  • 11 November 2015: Carole Reilly, Head of Neighbourhood Planning, Locality, Sophia de Sousa, chief executive of The Glass-House
  • 11 November 2015: Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive, Historic England, Henry Russell, Chairman of Spatial Planning Advocacy Group, The Heritage Alliance and Ros Kerslake, Chief Executive, Prince’s Regeneration Trust
  • 19 November 2015: Guy Bransby, Lead Director, Planning and Development, Jones Lang LaSalle; Richard Lemon, Associate Director, Planning, CBRE; Adrian Penfold, Head of Planning, British Land
  • 19 November 2015: Professor John Worthington, Independent Transport Commission; Esther Kurland, Director, Urban Design London
  • 26 November 2015: Councillor Sue Derbyshire, leader of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and planning and housing lead for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Councillor Gillian Brown, leader of Arun District Council and planning lead for the District Councils’ Network
  • 26 November 2015: Dr Laurence Carmichael, Coordinator, WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments; Dr Ann Marie Connolly, Deputy Director, Health Equity, Place and Mental Health; Dr Matt Egan, Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • 1 December 2015: Mr Michael Cassidy, CBE
  • 1 December 2015: Louise Sunderland, Senior Policy Advisor, UK Green Building Council
  • 1 December 2015: Sue Adams OBE, Chief Executive Care & Repair England; Paul Gamble, Chief Executive, Habinteg
  • 3 December 2015: Katrine Sporle CBE, Former Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate (2003-2011); Chris Shepley CBE, Chief Planning Inspector and Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate, 1994 to 2002
  • 3 December 2015: Simon de Beer, Planning Policy & Environment Manager, Bath and North East Somerset Council; Joe Henry, Service Director, Development Management and Building Control, London Borough of Barnet; Anneliese Hutchinson, Service Director, Development and Public Protection, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
  • 10 December 2015: Tony Grayling, Director of Sustainable Business and Development at the Environment Agency; David Wilkes, Honorary Vice-President of CIWEM
  • 10 December 2015: Simon Foxell, appearing on behalf of The Edge, built-environment think tank; Barry Sellers, appearing on behalf of Urban Design Group
  • 17 December 2015: Mr Brandon Lewis MP, Minister of State for Housing and Planning, DCLG