New director of Design Council Cabe announced
The Design Council has named Nahid Majid OBE as new director of Design Council CABE...
Having trained as an urban designer, Majid has worked in urban regeneration for more than 20 years, leading high profile regeneration projects that have included the creation of the cultural quarter around Brick Lane in London.
She was has been a senior civil servant in government, leading on Area Initiatives and Communities and The City Strategy, Localism and Partnership agendas. In 2010, she was appointed director of Programme Development at The Mayors Fund for London, developing evidenced based programmes to combat poverty, aligning funding and commissioning joint services. She was urban renaissance manager for The Prince of Wales Foundation for The Built Environment before joining the private sector as associate director of Regeneration at Turner and Townsend Construction Management. She also won and ran the project to create the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, appointing architect David Adjaye.
David Kester chief executive of the Design Council, said: “We’re delighted to appoint Nahid to head up Design Council CABE. Her excellent track record of running complex programmes in the public and private sector, securing investment, attracting clients and working with leading architects, will be invaluable as Design Council CABE evolves its services to local authorities, developers and communities.”
Commenting on her appointment, Majid said: “I am very excited to join Design Council Cabe at an important moment in the organisation’s development and at a time of major changes in planning and the built environment. I look forward to working closely with the Design Council Cabe team and with government, developers and communities to ensure good design is at the heart of these changes.”
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Hi Reece,I think the key planning gnehcas proposed by the Localism Bill, notably the Neighbourhood Plan process and the Community Right to Build, are meant to work alongside the conventional planning system of Local Development Frameworks, rather than replace it indeed many commentators say that the new processes will work against or in conflict with the planning system, rather than slotting seamlessly in so I’m not sure it’s right to talk of a pre-2010 planning system’. In fact the Local Development Framework system is itself fairly rececent (replacing old style Local Plans in 2004 or 2005, I think) and was itself also intended to make local strategic planning more flexible and accountable to its local community. To be honest I can’t really point you at anything else, as I’m not really a planning specialist; I’m just a humble architect! Perhaps try the RTPI website, or RUDI.netGood luck in your finals and in getting to grips with the current upheaval; join the club!Matt