Planning and Housing Group
This work is vital to ensuring there is adequate infrastructure for good quality of life in the long-term.
Over time we have built up an archive of useful research, publications and media articles – some our own and some from third parties –that serve as a useful resource for our Members, academics, business and other bodies and people interested in the future of Cambridge.
Hannah Hickman is Associate Professor of Planning Practice at the University of the West of England. Hannah joined academia from practice in 2017 after a career as a professional town planner, involving senior leadership roles in both the public and private sectors.
Hannah is passionate about the value of research in achieving change in policy and practice and was selected as The Planner’s “Women of Influence 2022: Academia”. She is chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), Chair of the University of Cape Town RTPI Partnership Board, Vice-Chair of the RTPI’s Partnership and Accreditation Panel, and a UK representative on the Association of European Schools of Planning.
Her research interests include:
Strategic spatial planning; nationally significant infrastructure planning; planning and implementation; and professional practice, ethics and motivation.
Hannah works with a wide variety of public, and private sector organisations on short term and long-term research projects. Her most recent projects have included: the role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land (for the Planning Advisory Service); improving post-planning processes to deliver better places (for the West of England Combined Authority and winner of the 2021 RTPI Sir Peter Hall Award for Research Excellence); project-hindsight: post-decision implementation (for the National Infrastructure Planning Association and winner of the 2024 RTPI Sir Peter Hall Award for Research Excellence); and Strategic Planning in England: Current Practice and Future Directions (for the Royal Town Planning Institute).
She is currently a co-investigator on the ESRC funded URBAN RETROFIT project looking at interventions in the existing built environment to meet carbon net-zero and led by the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence at the University of Glasgow.
News Articles
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Planning and Housing Group Members
Allia*: Martin Clark
Anglia Ruskin University*: James Rolfe
Aviva Investors*: Sheena Desai/ Josh Robins
Bidwells*: Sebastian Corke/ Rob Hopwood/Guy Kaddish
Birketts*: Tom Newcombe
British Land*: Amber Morley
Brockton Everlast*: Dan Brown / Richard Selby
Brookgate*: Jon Wooles
Bruntwood SciTech*: Jessica Bowles
Brydell Partners*: David Seddon
Cambridge Ahead Honorary Members*: Rory Landman, Cambridge Biomedical Campus/ Nick Kirby
Cambridge Building Society*: Fred Holland
Cambridge City Council: Fiona Bryant/ Claire Flowers/ Helen Reed/Sam Scharf
Cambridge Housing Society: Stephen Hills
Cambridge University Hospitals Partnership: Araminta Ledger/ Dr Kristin-Anne Rutter
Carter Jonas*: Colin Brown
First Intuition*: Stuart Brown
Greater Cambridge Partnership: Niamh Matthews
Greater Cambridge Shared Planning: Heather Jones
Hill Group*: Andy Hill/Chloe Houston
Homes England: Damon Smith
Huntingdonshire District Council: Mike Gildersleeves
Jesus College*: Richard Anthony
JLL*: Adam Challis
Kadans Science Partner*: Edward Joslin
Lands Improvement Holdings / Pigeon*: Kathryn Turner
Marshall of Cambridge*: Emile Corkhill
Mills and Reeve*: Alex Round/Peter Seaborn/Andrew Wood
Mission Street*: Artem Korolev
Morgan Sindall*: James Curtis/ Matt Dunkley
Mott MacDonald*: Andrew Rawlings
No. 6 Developments: Richard Oakley
Pigeon Investment Management*: James Buxton
Rapleys*: Angus Irvine
Savills*: Tom Fraser,/Jim Ward
South Cambridgeshire District Council: Julie Fletcher
St. John’s College*: Chris Ewbank
SQW: Bill Wicksteed
The Crown Estate*: Michael Thomas
This Land*: David Meek
Trinity College*: Richard Turnill,/Jamie Trivedi-Bateman
U+I* / TOWN: Jonny Anstead/Mike Bodkin/Sarah-Louise Chitty
University of Cambridge* (Estates Division): Matthew Johnson
University of Cambridge*, Centre for Business Research: Giorgio Caselli / Dr Andy Cosh
University of Cambridge*Dept. of Architecture: Dr Ying Jin
Urban & Civic*: Caroline Foster/Paul Mumford
* Member/Member organisation
Cambridge Ahead: Dan Thorp, CEO, Andrew McGowan, Director of Programmes and Partnerships, Alex Rossiter, Senior Policy Manager, Emma Pritchard, Policy and Research Officer
