New Community Planning

Released on 15 April 2011

Northstowe Eco Town and University of Cambridge urban extension

Launched and managed a project to establish the strategic needs for a new sustainable (Eco) town including children and young peoples services, transport, waste, libraries and  cultural services.

Established and maintained relationships with a wide variety of public and private and voluntary organisations, to support the delivery of infrastructure and housing. Facilitated and managed an innovative approach driven by a vision for enabling high quality design and the wellbeing of future residents.

Managed and coordinated a corporate response to a major planning application with a hundred internal stakeholders, for a new town of 25,000 population, in partnership with a wide range of public private and third sector organizations.

Managed the risk for £100,000,000  of public liability for a Local Authority. Provided project and risk management  support for the University of Cambridge development to the North West of Cambridge.

Managed with partners a wide variety of stakeholder and community engagement campaigns and events.

“I worked with Ed for four years on major development sites around Cambridge. Ed represented Cambridgeshire County Council on a number of multi-disciplinary teams that I led, working with a wide range of stakeholders on planning and delivering large scale new urban extensions to Cambridge. This is a complex task requiring a high level of professional and technical skill, and Ed brought a creative and ‘can-do’ attitude to the challenges that we had to face, particularly in relation to community engagement. He always managed to bring a fresh perspective to the problems that we had to solve, and he was a valued member of our team.”

Peter Studdert , Director of Joint Planning, South Cambridgeshire District Council