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GO EAST: UNLOCKING the POTENTIAL of the THAMES ESTUARY Andrew Adonis, Ben Rogers and Sam Sims GO EAST: UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF THE THAMES ESTUARY Andrew Adonis, Ben Rogers and Sam Sims Published by Centre for London, February 2014 Open Access. Some rights reserved. Centre for London is a politically independent, As the publisher of this work, Centre for London wants to encourage the not-for-profit think tank focused on the big challenges circulation of our work as widely as possible while retaining the copyright. facing London. It aims to help London build on its We therefore have an open access policy which enables anyone to access our content online without charge. Anyone can download, save, perform long history as a centre of economic, social, and or distribute this work in any format, including translation, without written intellectual innovation and exchange, and create a permission. 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Centre for London gratefully acknowledges private, voluntary and public sector funders and works the work of Creative Commons in inspiring our approach to copyright. collaboratively with its supporters, drawing on their To find out more go to www.creativecommons.org. experience and expertise. Published by: Centre for London 2014 © Centre for London. Some rights reserved. The Exchange 28 London Bridge Street London, SE1 9SG T: 020 3102 3767 [email protected] www.centreforlondon.co.uk Company Number: 8414909 Charity Number: 1151435 Series design by Studio Aparte AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES Andrew Adonis Lord (Andrew) Adonis is an academic, a journalist and a Labour Party peer, who served in the Labour Government from 2005 to 2010. He is currently leading a review of economic growth for the Labour Party. Following his career as an academic at Oxford University, he worked as a journalist at the Financial Times and The Observer, before being appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair as an advisor at the Number 10 Policy Unit in 1998. Andrew was later promoted to become the Head of the Policy Unit, until being made a life peer in 2005. He was appointed to the Government soon after as Minister for Schools, and later served as Secretary of State for Transport under Gordon Brown. He is Chair of Progress and Chair of Trustees at ippr. Chris Brown Chris is Chief Executive of Igloo Regeneration. He is also a director of: Blueprint (Igloo’s public/private partnership with the Homes and Communities Agency that undertakes sustainable mixed-use regeneration in the East Midlands), The Chrysalis Fund (which lends to employment-generating regeneration projects in the Liverpool City Region) and Carillion Igloo (one of hca and gla’s housing development partners). Tony Burton Tony Burton works for a range of community, planning and environmental projects. He is Executive Chair of Sustainable Homes and a member of the uk Board of the Big Lottery Fund. Tony provides support for community groups on neighbourhood planning and advises hs2 on design and Lafarge Tarmac on sustainability. Tony founded Civic Voice – the national charity for the civic movement – in 2010 and has over twenty five years’ experience on the boards of national charities, including as Director of Strategy and External Affairs at the National Trust and Deputy Director of the Campaign 5 to Protect Rural England. He was a member of Richard Peter Hall Rogers’ Urban Task Force and was recently included Professor Sir Peter Hall is Professor of Planning in Planning’s Top 100 power list. Tony is a geographer, and Regeneration at the Bartlett School of Planning, a town planner and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal University College London, and Senior Research Fellow Institute of British Architects. He was awarded a cbe at the Young Foundation (formerly the Institute of in the Jubilee Honours in 2012. Community Studies), where he served as Director from 2001 to 2004. He was knighted in 1998 for services to Kathleen Dunmore the Town and Country Planning Association, and in Kathleen Dunmore is an economist with over 30 2003 was named by Her Majesty the Queen as a ‘Pioneer years’ experience in housing and construction, and is in the Life of the Nation’ at a reception in Buckingham a Director of Three Dragons, a policy, economics and Palace. In 2003 he received the Gold Medal of the planning consultancy. She worked for many years as Royal Town Planning Institute, the first to be awarded Social Housing Consultant for the House Builders for twenty years. In 2005 he was awarded a Lifetime Federation (1988–2000) and before that for Milton Achievement Award by the Deputy Prime Minister for Keynes Development Corporation and the Building his contributions to urban regeneration and planning. Employers Confederation. From 2000–2004 Kathleen He received the 2005 Balzan Prize for work on the Social was a part time Senior Research Fellow in the Centre and Cultural History of Cities since the Beginning of for Residential Development at Nottingham Trent the 16th Century. In 2008 he received the Sir Patrick University. She was Chair of Midsummer Housing Abercrombie Prize of the International Union of Association from 1994–2000, and is retained as Architects. His latest book Good Cities, Better Lives: housing policy advisor by Retirement Housing Group. How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism, was published by Routledge in September 2013. Christopher Hall Chris is a Director in the Planning, Development and David Leam Regeneration Department at gva (Commercial Property David is Executive Director for Infrastructure Policy Advisers). He provides advice relating to planning at London First, a not-for-profit business membership and regeneration, and brings 20 years of experience in organisation. David joined London First in September the uk and North America to his assignments. Chris’s 2010 and has a range of experience in infrastructure and experience includes spatial planning, economic and regulatory policy across a number of sectors. He was a housing strategies, investment frameworks, master- Special Adviser at the Department for Transport (from planning, and stakeholder and community engagement; 2007–2010) and at the Department for Communities as well as delivering large scale regeneration projects and Local Government (2006–07). Prior to this he was through multi-disciplinary teams. He has advised the a civil servant at hm Treasury (from 2003–06) where he Greater London Authority, a range of London Boroughs worked in the Productivity Team and then in Housing and local authorities and private sector organisations and Planning on public spending. David has previously across the wider South East. His work in the Thames worked for the Social Market Foundation think tank Gateway has addressed major Opportunity Areas in and in public affairs. London for the gla, economic growth locations in the Royal Docks, the East London Green Enterprise District Richard Parker and housing and employment delivery in Thurrock. Richard is the Head of pws’s Housing Finance team. 6 7 He advises Governments, local Authorities, Housing authored thought leadership publications and delivered Associations and private companies on strategy and speeches at industry events on the subject. transactions in the Housing sector. He led the firm’s housing policy review – From Decent Homes to Great Ben Rogers Places – and published a paper on us approaches to Ben is the Director of Centre for London. He is a writer Mixed Communities, entitled Investing in Hope. He also and policy thinker, with a particular focus on cities, co-authored the Hard Times papers that pwc published citizenship, social capital, public service reform, and the with l&q on the future of affordable housing in England. built environment. Prior to joining Centre for London, Richard was a member of the Housing Finance Group Ben was an Associate Director of ippr from 2003–2007 set up by the hca in 2009 to assess the impact of the and subsequently led strategy teams in Haringey Council, credit crunch on the uk Housing market and was a dclg and The Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, where he member of the Mayor of London’s Housing was responsible for producing the cross-government Investment Taskforce. strategy World Class Places. Ben has written several acclaimed books on philosophy and history, published in Heather Pugh the uk and the us, and is an experienced journalist and Heather is a chartered town planner specialising in broadcaster. He is a visiting fellow of the Royal Society strategic planning and implementation. A Planning of Arts, and was a member of the Mayor’s London Partner at David Lock Associates, she has over 20 Finance Commission chaired by Tony Travers. years’ experience in private sector consultancy, with particular expertise in the long term delivery of large- Francis Salway scale development projects throughout the uk. The Francis Salway was Chief Executive of Land Securities, master-planning of sustainable urban extensions is a a ftse 100 company and the largest listed property key element of her consultancy work, working with company in the uk, between 2004 and 2012. During landowners and local authorities to promote sites this period, the company delivered or started £4.8 through the development plan process, secure robust billion of development projects, including £3 billion in planning consents and draw up effective master plans, London.
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