Executive Committee

Joe is a director and co-founder of a specialist strategic land promotion company called Fraser Strategic Land (www.fraserstrategicland.co.uk) and has his own planning consultancy, Highlight Planning (www.highlightplanning.co.uk). With his land promotion hat on he uses his planning skills to find sustainably located land and progresses it through the planning system so it’s ‘shovel ready’ for developers to build out. Through his planning consultancy, Joe provides a full range of planning services to clients from the early appraisal of sites, engaging with local authorities and undertaking community consultation through to the submission and negotiation of planning applications and appeals. Joe is the 2023 Chair of RTPI Cymru Executive Committee and the RTPI’s Design Champion for Wales.

Allan has in the past represented RTPI Cymru on the General Assembly and is a past Chair of RTPI Cymru. Allan has his own consultancy and is based in west Wales.

Robert is a chartered planner with over 13 years' experience in both the Public and Private Sector. He is a Director at C2J Architects & Town Planners and currently heads up the planning arm of the Cardiff and London offices. He specialises in spatial planning, development management and residential development. Robert has been a member of the Management Board / Executive Committee of RTPI Cymru since 2015. He has successfully undertaken the Associate Assessment of Professional Competence Route to chartered membership. He lives in Cardiff and outside of work is a keen golfer, rugby enthusiast and enjoys spending time with his young family.

Aneurin has over 30 years' experience in development management and enforcement, commencing his planning career with the previous Dwyfor District Council in 1987. He currently works for Gwynedd Council as a Planning Enforcement Team Leader. He graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in 1995 with an MSc in Environmental Planning, having previously received a HNC in Land Administration from Liverpool Polytechnic in 1991, and was elected a corporate member of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 1996. He is also a member of the National Association of Planning Enforcement (NAPE). He is the current chair of the North & Mid-Wales Planning Enforcement Officers Group, and chaired the 2022 Wales Enforcement Conference. Outside of work he enjoys golf, mountain walking and travel.

Simon is an experienced planner and environmentalist and works for Mott Macdonald.

Emma is a chartered town planner with over 20 years professional experience in both the private and public planning sectors. She is currently a Director at CarneySweeney and has a wealth of experience in providing advice at all stages of the planning and development process. Emma has particular experience of managing large-scale mixed-use projects involving the co-ordination and preparation of Environmental Impact Assessments. She has been chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 17 years.

Sean has been a Chartered Planner for over 25 years with an extensive career working for a number of the Development Control Planning Departments throughout South Wales. Over the last ten years Sean has been working in private practice working on differing roles and projects.

Sean is now Planning Manager for Dandara Wales & West.

Charlotte is a Chartered Town Planner with over twenty years’ experience in planning, flood risk and strategic environmental assessment within local authority, consultancy and government roles, working on programmes, policies and projects within UK and Europe. Demonstrating an aptitude for complex problem solving and strong values of professional integrity. Charlotte leads on the integration of flood risk management within a new place based operational model across Wales, in her current role for Natural Resources Wales. Strengthening a risk management approach, based on evidence to help demonstrate strategic environmental impacts and benefits. Identifying opportunities for collaboration, governance and new ways of working to delivery, whilst tackling the fundamental issues around communication and understanding within and of flood risk management.

Charlotte was a previous member/volunteer for the RTPI Cymru Policy and Research Forum and RTPI Cymru General Assembly.

Allan provides planning, regeneration, development management and consultation services to public and private sector clients with Arup. He has a comprehensive knowledge of the planning policy landscape and wider legislative framework in the UK. He has worked on policy research, planning and development projects across Europe. Allan has managed the Welsh Government’s largest ever transport appraisal process and associated formal consultation and has developed wide ranging experience in understanding and practically applying the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. He is a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and Institute of Economic Development.

Neil is a Chartered Town Planner and is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University. Neil has also supported Planning Aid Wales by acting as a director for over 10 years, including a year as Chairman of Planning Aid Wales. Neil has advised the National Assembly for Wales in its Inquiry into the Planning System in Wales (2011) and also previously chaired the Welsh Government's stakeholder group on the introduction of Local Development Plans in Wales.

Emma is a Chartered Town Planner with over 22 years experience working extensively in the public and private sectors.  Whilst working predominantly in Wales, she has worked internationally with a short stint in New Zealand whilst on a round the world trip.

Emma now heads up Prospero Planning, which she established in 2012.  Prospero works exclusively with LPAs in Wales to provide planning support where there are short or longer term resourcing issues.  

Emma enjoys being an active RTPI member and championing the role of planners and planning.  She has previously been a member of the RTPI Cymru Executive Committee and was Chair in 2014.  Emma has also been a judge on the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence both for Wales and nationally.

Sarah is a Land and Planning Assistant at Pobl Homes. Sarah’s experience to date has largely focused on forward land planning. She is particularly interested in the creativity surrounding strategic projects and the placemaking and active travel planning policy approach in Wales.

Sarah has an MSc from Cardiff University in Spatial Planning and Development.

In addition to joining the RTPI Cymru Executive Committee, Sarah has taken up the role of Vice Chair for the Young Planners Cymru for the second year running.

Gabriel is a second-year Urban Planning and Development student at Cardiff University, and will be on an industrial placement in the Planning sector in the next year. Gabriel has been awarded the RTPI Cymru Prize for Academic Excellence 2022, and is particularly interested in context-sensitive placemaking approaches and practices through urban design, policy making and regeneration. 

Ffion has a range of experience working on various industrial, retail, commercial and residential projects for national clients. She has worked within the public and private sectors and currently works as an Assistant Planner at Turley. She is particularly interested in planning for inclusivity and co-leads a group on gender inclusive planning within Turley. Since completing her MSc at Cardiff University, Ffion has been pursuing her Assessment of Professional Competence to become a chartered member of the RTPI. At her time in university, Ffion was awarded with the RTPI Trust Diversity Bursary and the George Rich Scholarship.