Appendices

Appendix 14 - Project Management

The scope of the Regional Development Strategy goes well beyond conventional land-use planning principles. Whilst work in preparing the Strategy has been undertaken by a Project Team in the Department of Regional Development, a number of important checks and balances were put in place to ensure a comprehensive approach was adopted.

The work of the Project Team has been overseen by an Inter-Departmental Steering Group, chaired by the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Regional Development, Mr R B Spence CB. The Department is grateful for the assistance of this group which ensured that matters such as agriculture, education, the economy, the environment, health and social issues have been given due regard.

An international Panel of Experts, chaired by Sir George Quigley, provided advice and guidance on 'best practice' in regional planning matters. The membership of the international Panel of Experts comprised:

Sir George Quigley Chairman
Ulster Bank Ltd., Belfast

Ms Henriette Bastrup-Birk
DG XVI, European Commission, Brussels

Professor Alan Artibise
Cascadia Planning Group & University of British Columbia, Vancouver Professor

John Darby
Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity, Londonderry

Professor John Hendry
Department of Town & Country Planning, Queen's University, Belfast

Professor David Lock
David Lock Associates, Milton Keynes

The Project Team based in Regional Planning Division in the Department for Regional Development comprised:

Dennis Glass, CBE, BSc, DipTP, MRTPI (Project Director)
John Cleland, BA,MRTPI*
Ian Raphael, BSc, MRTPI* *Joint Project Managers
Dean Blackwood, BSc
John Cummins, BA, DipTP, MRTPI (Manager)
Barbara Elliott, BSc, MSc, DipMS, MRTPI
Trevor Gordon, BA, MSc, MRTPI
Stephen Graham
Mark Gregson
Jim Hetherington, BSc, DipTP
Angus Kerr, BA, MScTP, DipMS
Clifford McIlwaine, BA, DipTP, MRTPI
Kieran McQuaid
Deirdre McSorley, BA, MRTPI
Billy Robinson, BSc, MSc MRTPI