Professor Peter Roberts
Chair
As Chair of the Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC), Peter is responsible for providing effective strategic leadership and is the link between the ASC Steering Board and the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG),
Peter is also Professor of Sustainable Spatial Development at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds and advises Addleshaw Goddard on sustainable communities, regeneration, planning and environmental management.
He is currently Vice-President of the Town and Country Planning Association, Hon. Vice-Chair of the Regional Studies Association, Chair of the Best Practice Committee of the British Urban Regeneration Association, Chair of the Planning Exchange Foundation and an adviser to the Local Government Association.
Peter was awarded the OBE for services to planning and regeneration. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Peter Hetherington
Peter recently retired as regional affairs editor after more than 30 years with the Guardian Media Group. He is a former deputy editor of the Manchester Evening News and has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland.
Peter has chaired a commission on local governance, which reported on ways of strengthening local democracy, and currently chairs a Town and Country Planning Association commission - A Vision for England. He is also a visiting professor at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Deborah Lamb
As Director of Policy and Communications at English Heritage, Deborah seeks to influence government policies that impact on the country's historic environment. She is also responsible for corporate planning and communications and external relationships across the historic environment sector.
Before joining English Heritage, Deborah was Deputy Director of the Government's Women and Equality Unit. Prior to that she worked in the Department of the Environment.
Anne McNamara
In 2002, Anne co-founded FSquared to drive added value results from major capital investment schemes, delivering better social and economic outcomes in capital projects such as hospitals, schools, housing, infrastructure and primary care developments.
Between 1990 and 2000 Anne was involved in setting up and running Blueslate, a chartered building consultancy, which acts as employers' representatives for social businesses and charities. Anne built The Big Issue in the North to a turnover of £3 million in the 10 years of her leadership.
George Martin
George has recently joined Willmott Dixon Construction as Head of Re-Thinking, an initiative that aims to deliver buildings with lower operating costs and lower carbon emissions, while providing healthy, comfortable and productive environments.
George is an Associate Director of the UK's leading sustainable development charity, Forum for the Future, and a member of both the Sustainability Forum and the Sustainable Procurement Task Force. Previously he was Director of Sustainability at the Building Research Establishment.
Kevin Murray
Kevin is a leading urban planner and community consultation facilitator, with more than 25 years' experience in the fields of planning, regeneration, urban design and economic development. He was a director of two multidisciplinary consultancies before establishing Kevin Murray Associates.
Kevin is a past president of the Royal Town Planning Institute, a founding member of the Urban Design Alliance and the Academy of Urbanism and a member of the Egan Task Group on Delivering Sustainable Communities. He was an adviser to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on the Academy for Sustainable Communities.
Paul Spooner
Paul joined English Partnerships in January 2004 where he is responsible for delivering the Government's national regeneration priorities in partnership with local and regional agencies. Prior to this he worked at Birmingham City Council and Portsmouth City Council.
Paul is currently working on projects to develop Kings Waterfront in Liverpool and the New Islington Millennium Community in Manchester.
He is a member of the North West Regional Housing Board, Liverpool Vision, New East Manchester, Sandwell, Central Salford and West Lakes Urban Regeneration Companies.
Juliet Williams
Juliet has had a long career in the management and leadership of business turn-rounds. She has worked extensively in manufacturing and service industries and in public, private and voluntary sectors, specialising in the management of change in organisational behaviour. She founded her own management company in 1991.
Juliet was Chair of the Chairs of the English Regions in 2004/05 and she currently chairs the South West of England Regional Development Agency, the South West Regional Skills Partnership and the Strategic Development Group for Cornwall. Juliet is a member of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform's Industrial Development Board and of the Board of VisitBritain.
Barrington Billings (board advisor)
Barrington has worked in housing since 1983 for local, regional and national housing organisations. His previous posts included Midlands Area Director for the Places for People Group and Senior Stock Transfer Registration Advisor at the Housing Corporation advising on over £2 billion of local authority stock transfers. He became a corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) in 1991 and became President of the CIH in June 2005 and Chairs both the International Board and Professional Conduct Board.
In 2004, Barrington established and became the Managing Director of Glendon Property Services Limited, working mainly on the Government's Decent Homes and community regeneration initiatives. In 2006 he became a Housing Corporation Appointee to the Board of ARHAG Housing Association in London and was appointed a Chair in October 2007. In June 2007 Barrington was appointed as the first Chair of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) / CIH Joint Awarding Body Management Board. He was an External Examiner at De Montfort University and is a visiting speaker at both Warwick Business School and Birmingham City University.
Barrington created Billings Enterprises Limited in 2007, an international business management company providing executive management consultancy within the UK and advising governments within developing countries on their housing & community regeneration strategies.
In January 2008 Barrington was appointed to the board of the Gentoo Group in Sunderland.
