Leadership and Governance

Delivering public services with high-quality governance is key to planning and delivering a transformational TIP and projects. We are here to support you in optimising organisation, ways of working, and service and technology design, ensuring that the services you provide, and the delivery of your plans are future-ready.

The type of support we can offer includes:

• access to self-assessment tools for organisational maturity assessments

• review or design of delivery plans and associated capacity building

• leadership development for your Board, officers or project leads

• learning bursts, workshops and seminars designed and delivered online

Service Lead: Jane Healey-Brown

Jane Healey Brown is a Director and leads Arup’s Planning business in North West and Yorkshire.  In the first phase of the Towns Fund Delivery Partner work, she led the Towns Team North, providing focused support for 45 of the towns.  She also provided oversight of the more intensive support packages across all 101 towns, including liaison with CLGU.  She worked with Town Deal Boards, local authority officers and CLGU Area Leads in developing proactive programmes to support towns in achieving successful Town Investment Plans and project delivery programmes.

Jane is a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute, Planning and Housing Commissioner for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool and a Non Executive Director of a housing association. She specialises in policy, planning and support for local and combined authorities.

Planning, Social Impact & Public Sector Equalities Analyses

Many projects will require wider planning considerations, and this will need to be translated within your business cases, as well as considered during project delivery. We are here to support you in planning strategies, delivery requirements, land value and delivery models and process of planning applications. The team also has expertise on EqIA and social impact and can support you with analysis and assessment, ensuring equitable and inclusive outcomes. Our advice can help bolster your approach to Public Sector Equalities Duty and help consider the programme-level impacts from individual projects.

The type of support we can offer includes:

• review workshops on planning-related issues with written feedback and outcomes

• hands-on assistance and review of relevant planning issues

• training on social impact and EqIA

• review programme plans and Business Cases to help ensure they are realistic in timescales for planning-related activities

• support with data collection and analysis to ensure the Public Sector Equalities Duty are discharged

• learning bursts, workshops and seminars designed and delivered online

Service Lead: Chloe Salisbury

Chloe is an experienced town planner who specialises in the preparation of plans, strategies and masterplans, and developing implementation strategies for development projects. Her work typically involves undertaking complex stakeholder engagement, critically analysing data and policy to inform decision-making and facilitating and influencing the views of multiple parties.

Chloe has worked for both public and private sector clients, including a recent secondment to Epping Forest District Council to support them in the preparation of their Local Plan. Her work has also focussed on how aspirations for places can be realised, including assessing the suitability of different governance and delivery models (e.g. development corporations, the role of local authorities) and in devising planning strategies to unlock and deliver developments. This includes providing planning related inputs for business cases.

Whilst based in London, much of Chloe’s work is based outside of the capital including, for example, in the Thames Estuary, Bucks/Berkshire, Essex, the East Midlands and Liverpool. She therefore brings a good understanding of the complexity of different places and the importance of developing tailored and place-focused strategies.