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Lindsey A. Richards (she/her/hers)

President
Royal Town Planning Institute
Northampton, England, United Kingdom

Lindsey is a chartered town planner with over 30 years’ experience in planning, design and delivery. She has extensive background primarily working in the public sector, in Local Government and a Government Agency. She is experienced in community engagement and bringing together multi-disciplinary teams to deliver key housing projects. Lindsey’s previous roles include leading the planning team at Milton Keynes Partnership which was a Delivery Vehicle for the exapnsion of Milton Keynes and which introduced the first roof tariff for the forward funding of key infrastructure. Lindsey moved to a Head of Area role within English Partnerships (now Homes England) in 2009 to head up the delivery team in the Midlands. THere she was responsible for land acquisition, disposal and affordable homes programme across the Midlands.

Lindsey’s last role was Head of Planning at Homes England where she worked in a consultancy role providing specialist advice to Homes England delivery teams, worked closely with UK Government on planning policy formulation and was Head of Profession.

Lindsey stepped down from her role at Homes England in April 2023.

Lindsey became a Fellow of the RTPI in 2018 and became RTPI President in January 2024.

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