KELVIN MACDONALD FRTPI FRSA Associate (Spatial Planning)
Kelvin is a planner by profession and policy consultant working with, amongst others, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Housing Corporation, English Partnerships, the Local Government Association, Shelter, the States of Jersey and the I&DeA.
He is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Land Economy, Cambridge University and a specialist adviser to the House of Commons’ CLG Select Committee. He is on the Editorial Board of Town Planning Review and the organising committee for the Joint Oxford Planning Law Conference.
Before joining theplaceteam he was the Director of Policy and Research and subsequently Chief Policy Adviser for the Royal Town Planning Institute. He was Visiting Professor at Westminster University
and was Commissioner on the Westminster Housing Commission. He has been a member of a number of government bodies including the CLG’s Planning Reform Advisory Group. He was on the Policy Council of the Town and Country Planning Association. He has been an adviser to the Guangdong Provincial Government in China and was a specialist assessor for the Higher Education Funding Council. He is an External Examiner at the Bartlett School, UCL.
He was previously the Director of ROOM, the National Council for Housing & Planning, and has worked for the Association of District Councils, Westminster University, as Assistant Director of the Town and Country Planning Association, for local government, for the British Marine Federation and the Department of the Environment