Dr. Victoria Thomson’s professional background is in town planning and historic conservation: she is a Chartered Town Planner and a full member of the Institute for Historic Building Conservation. She has thirty years’ experience in the planning and heritage sectors, with stints in local and national government, a government agency, academia, and the third sector.
Her work has covered both the strategic and the detailed, with a common theme of finding solutions and ensuring successful implementation. This work has included:
- Local plan preparation and defence
- National planning policy/guidance drafting
- Input to, and implementation of, planning and other legislation
- Drafting and oversight of Historic England’s planning advice notes
- Planning and heritage casework (at local and national level)
- Planning and historic environment research (including site-specific projects and analysis of practice)
- Development and delivery of postgraduate lectures on planning and conservation law
- Provision of training in various aspects of planning and conservation
- Delivery of public consultations on planning and heritage matters
- Oversight of Collections management
- Management of multi-disciplinary teams.
Victoria has experience across a wide range of policy areas (including conservation, retail, housing, employment, countryside, Green Belt, landscape, design, and climate change), and across a similarly broad range of historic environment designations, from World Heritage Sites to non-designated heritage assets (with a particular interest in the protection of historic parks and gardens). She is happy to discuss any or all of these topics in talks, articles and blog posts.
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