Kelvin MacDonald FRTPI FRSA
1994Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
1992Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute (FRTPI)
1974Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI)
1972B.Sc.(Hons) Town & Country Planning: Heriot Watt Univ/Edinburgh College of Ar
2002 - 2007Director, Policy & Research & Chief Policy Adviser, Royal Town Planning Institute
1995 - 2002 Director: ROOM, the National Council for Housing and Planning
1995 Planning Policy Officer (on secondment): Association of District Councils
1991 - 1995 Principal Lecturer: School of Urban Development & Planning, Westminster Univ.
1991 - 1995 Consultant Planning Adviser, British Marine Industries Federation
1987 - 1991 Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer, School of Urban Development & Planning, P.C.L.
1984 - 1987 Principal Planning Officer, Brighton Borough Council
1979 - 1984 Assistant Director, Town and Country Planning Association
1974 - 1979 Senior Planning Officer, Department of the Environment
1972 - 1974 Senior Planning Assistant (Research), Westminster City Council
2007 - date Chair, Partnership Board, South Bank University 2007 - date External Examiner, M.Phil. Spatial Planning, Bartlett School, UCL 2006 - date Member of the Editorial Board of Town Planning Review 2004 - date Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridg 1998 - 2003 Visiting Professor in Urban Development & Regeneration: Univ. of Westminster 2000 - 2002 Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s Education Commission 1994 - 2002 Member of the Steering Committee of the Department for Education and Employment Discipline Network in Town Planning and Regeneration
1993 - 2002 Member of the Accreditation Panel of the Royal Town Planning Institute
1996 - 1998 Specialist Assessor for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
1987 - 1992Visiting Lecturer: Dept. of Geography, Birkbeck College, University of London
2007 Judge for the UK Housing Awards 2007 Policy Direction Sounding Board of the Callcutt Review of Housebuilding Delivery 2007 - Policy Council of the Town and Country Planning Association 2007 CLG Planning Reform Sounding Board 2006 - 2007 Sounding Board for the National Planning Framework for Scotland 2006 - date Organising Committee of the Oxford Planning Law Conference 2006 - 2007 RIBA Planning Group 2006 Chair of the CLG Sounding Board of Planning Together: LSPs & Spatial Planning 2006 Advisory Board for Making Planning Work, ITDG Publishing 2005 - 2006 Commissioner on the Westminster Housing Commission 2004 - 2007 CLG Planning Advisory Service Steering Group
2004 - 2005 ODPM Ministerial Advisory Group on Planning Contributions 2003 - 2006 Management Board of the CLG Planning Research Network 2003 - 2006 CLG Planning for Housing Advisory Group 200I - 2004 South East of England Regional Assembly Housing Advisory Group 2000 - 2007 Editorial Board of Regeneration and Renewal 2002 - date
Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee for its inquiries into Planning for Sustainable Housing and Communities and into Affordable Housing 2000 - 2003Adviser on Urban Policy to the Guangdong Provincial Council, China
2007 Management of land supply for the delivery of affordable housing for the Chartered Institute of Housing, funded by the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships 2007 Using the performance framework to drive improvement in planning for the Local Government Association, funded by Communities and Local Government 2007 Effective Democracy for Sustainable Communities funded by the I&DeA 2007 Planning for Housing Policy and Process for Hawksmere, funded by the Housing Corporation 2002 Skills for Spatial Planning funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2001 Master Planning for New Osbaldwick funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2001 Speeding up the housing development process funded by the House Builders Federation and the Greater London Authority (with University of Westminster) 2000 Urban sprawl and open land protection funded by the British Council and the Guangdong Department of Construction, China (joint with Dr. H. Walker) 2000 Training and Support Networks for Regeneration Partnerships funded by JRF 2000 The Relationship between Housing & Regeneration funded by Housing Corporation 1999 2002 The Positive Planning Project funded by the Dept. of Envir, Transport & Regions
2009 Why Plan? Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming) 2004 (contributor) Intelligent Approaches to Housing, Chartered Institute of Housing, Local Government Association and the RTPI 2003 Member Training for Planning, I&DeA and Local Government Association 2003 (contributor) Planning for Housing the potential for sustainable communities, Chartered Institute of Housing, and the RTPI 2003 Sustaining Networks: How Regeneration Partnerships Learn and Develop, JRF 2002 (contributor) Future Housing Provision: Speeding Up Delivery, the GLA 2002 Regeneration and Housing Associations, Housing Corporation 2002 (contributor) Masterplanning a New Community, Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2001 (contributor) Defining the Education and Training Needs for the New Urban Agenda, Centre for Education in the Built Environment 1995 'Controls over Marine Recreation in the Coastal Zone', pp. 239-250 in Whitmarsh, D. (ed) Management Techniques in the Coastal Zone, Portsmouth Univ. 1995 Nick Bailey with Kelvin MacDonald, Alison Barker, Partnership Agencies in British Urban Policy, pp. 246, UCL Press, ISBN 1-85728-069-5 HB 1992 Michael Edwards, Kelvin MacDonald, Peter Newman and Andy Thornley 'A Vision for London', pp. 185-201, in The Crisis of London, Andy Thornley (editor), Routledge, ISBN 0-415-06886-x 1990 (contributor) Tourism and the Inner City, pp. 86, HMSO, ISBN 0 11 752271 6 1989 (contributor) Regeneration: New Forms of Community Partnership, Civic Trust 1983 Proceedings of the Town and Country Planning Summer School, (editor) RTPI
2008 Planning and Climate Change: EcoBuild Exhibition and Conference 2008 Key Planning Issues in 2008: CLG/RTPI Conference 2008 Place Shaping in Practice: LGA Conference 2007 Grand Plans for Grand Designs: Grand Designs Live 2007 Planning taking the lead on Climate Change: EcoHomes 2007 Sustainable Communities and Home Ownership: CIH Home Ownership Conf. 2006 The Local Government White Paper so much for planning: LGA Cllrs Conf. 2006 The 1944 Greater London Plan Lost opportunities?: The Museum of London 2006 An outsiders View: the DCLG Select Committee Study Day 2006 Democratic Exclusion TCPA Fringe Meeting, Labour Party Conference 2005 Spatial Planning in Practice: Slovenian Association of Spatial Planners; Ljubljana 2004 Delivering the Housing: Northern Development Summit 2005 The Case for New Housing: Planning Summer School 2005 Planning for Housing: Chartered Institute of Housing Annual Conference 2005 Transforming Neighbourhoods through Design: Sustainable Comms Summit 2004 Integrated Regional Policy: Northern Development Summit 2004 Housing Delivery: Sweet and Maxwell Planning Law Conference 2004 Defining the spectrum of housing requirements and solutions: Foundations for Effective Regional Housing Strategies, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Symposium 2004 Planning for Housing - Possibilities and Pitfalls: CIH South East Conference 2004 Future Planning in the South East: All-Party Parliamentary Built Environment Grp. 2003 Sustainable Communities Plan Planning and Politics: Planning Summer School 2001 The Private Rented Sector and Key Workers: British Property Federation 2001 Planning for Development in a U.K. Growth Region: International Symposium on Urban Development in the 21st Century Xiamen, China 2000 A National Overview: Housing Corporation Planning & Affordable Housing Conf. 2000 Good Practice and Positive Planning: LGA Best Practice Seminar 2000 Housing, planning and regions: can policy makers respond to diversity? LGIU
Columnist Planning (1982 1990, 1995 2002 and 2007 - date);
Town and Country Planning (1982 - 1983);
Municipal Engineering (1980 - 1982)
regular contributor to:
Housing & Planning Review (1995 - 1999),
axis (1999 - 2004)
and RTPI News (2002 2007)
Contributor Architects' Journal, The Builder, Building Design, EG, Estates' Gazette, The Guardian, Housing Today, Inside Housing, Investors' Chronicle, Local Government Chronicle, Local Government News, London Housing News, Municipal Journal, New Start, the Planner, Public Service and Local Government, the Surveyor, Regeneration and Renewal, Roof, Vole and others
Media Don’t blame planners for high house prices: The Guardian, 29 January 2007,
Home Truths: The Guardian, 13 June 2007;
You and Yours and Phone You and Yours (Radio 4);
Marcus Brigstocke: Safe as Houses (Radio 4);
The Today Programme (Radio 4);
BBC News 24; Newsnight (BBC1);
Dispatches (Channel 4);
The Truth about Property (BBC2),
Channel 4 News
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