CV
Rural Housing Solutions October 2007 to present
Previous Career History
Current work
- Affordable Housing Technical support and Adviser for ACRE includes:
- Drafting responses to Government consultations
- Organising training for Rural Housing Enablers
- Providing briefings and updates for ACRE Network members
- Revising Rural Housing Alliance's Parish Councillors Guide to Rural Affordable Housing
Recently completed
- Supporting Cornwall Council's response to Government consultations on the Future of the Planning System and Planning White Paper - 2020
- Writing Guidance Notes for CPRE members on rural affordable housing - 2020
- Assessor for Community Housing Fund Hubs Grant - 2019/20
- Compilation of a Guide to Community Led Housing for Planners - commissioned by ACRE - endorsed by RTPI 2019
- Presentation and submission of evidence to House of Lords Select Committee on the Rural Economy - 2018
Examples of past work completed through Rural Housing Solutions
Evaluation and Reviews of policy and practice
- Delivering a Community Led Housing Hub service - commissioned by Power to Change 2018
https://www.struttandparker.com/publications/demystifying-affordable-housing-a-hands-on-guide-for-landowners - Secretariat and drafted report for the Rural Housing Policy Review – chaired by Lord Best - 2014/2015
http://www.hastoe.com/page/772/Affordable-Housing-A-Fair-Deal-for-Rural-Communities.aspx - Feasibility of a Community Housing Alliance – Scottish Rural Housing Partnership - 2015
- Evaluation of the Welsh Rural Housing Enabler Service and establishing new RHE service in North Wales – 2014/2016
- Validation and advice for Devon Rural Housing Partnership 2011
- Evaluation of rural enabling in Worcestershire/North Yorkshire/HARAH 2010 - 2011
Enabling Support
- Part of team supporting Dartmoor National Park develop its housing policies for the review of their Local Plan - 2018
- Drafting bid and campaigning for funding to support Rural Revolving Land Banks in North Yorkshire, Dartmoor/Exmoor NPA and Hampshire 2018/19
- Report into barriers hindering the delivery of rural affordable housing for the Hampshire Alliance for Rural Affordable Housing - 2018
- Range of briefing notes on rural implications of proposed changes to national policy relevant to the delivery of rural affordable housing including:
- “Planning for the Right Homes in the Right Places”
- Housing White Paper“Fixing the Broken Housing Market”
- Revisions to the NPPF - 2018
- Support Local authorities deliver Year One of the Community Led Housing Fund -funded by Nationwide Foundation - 2017
- Part of team assisting Purbeck District Council explore use of Principal Residence policy - 2017
- Part of team supporting Dartmoor National Park revise its affordable housing SPD 2016
- Drafting bid and campaigning for funding to support Rural Revolving Land Banks in North Yorkshire, Dartmoor/Exmoor NPA and Hampshire
- Written Statement as part of West Berkshire and Reading Councils submission for Judicial Review of the Government’s 10 unit threshold policy – 2015
- Drafting SPD for Winchester City Councils policy for cross-subsidy on rural exception sites –2013
- Advising Lincolnshire Rural Affordable Housing Partnership on alternative mechanisms for providing rural affordable housing - 2013.
Research, Evidence, Good Practice Guidance
- Incentivising rural affordable housing through changes to the tax system - for RICS - 2018
- Co-author of
De-mystifying rural affordable housing: A Guide for Landowners’ published by Strutt and parker 2017
https://www.struttandparker.com/publications/demystifying-affordable-housing-a-hands-on-guide-for-landowners - Co-author for report on Access to Social Care for older residents in rural areas - 2017
( launched at Rural Vulnerability event - House of Commons) - Briefing and support for Lord’s amendments to the Housing and Planning Bill 2016
- Part of team involved in Whole Plan Economic Viability Assessment for New Forest National Park - 2017, Exmoor National Park 2016
Other roles
- Vice Chair National Community Land Trust
2013 to 2020 - Director and Vice –Chair Lincolnshire Community Land Trust
2012 – to present
Qualifications
- Post graduate diploma in planning (distinction) University of the West of England
- BSc Econ Planning Studies University College Swansea
- MRTPI
- Mentor for the IDeA Rural Excellence: phase one programme
Commission for Rural Communities
Sept 07 – March 09
Part-time Senior Policy Advisory – rural affordable housing
Defra
Jan 2005 – Oct 2006
Secretariat for Affordable Rural Housing Commission
Head of rural affordable housing team
Housing Corporation
Nov 2004 – Dec 2006
Investment Manager – East Midlands
Regional lead for rural affordable housing
Countryside Agency
April 2000 – Oct 2004
Senior Policy Advisor – affordable housing and social exclusion
Rural Development Commission
Nov 1994 – April 2000
Senior Policy Advisor – affordable housing and planning
