Philip Smith
Philip Smith is a Chartered Town Planner and Principal of Land Use Consultants. His main areas of expertise are: strategic environmental planning; green infrastructure planning; and environmental impact assessment.
Philip is the lead contributor on the waste theme for this website
Philip has contributed to national guidance on waste planning, regional waste strategies and joint waste development plan documents. He has also advised on the development of regional and local planning policy for renewable energy, most recently in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets (RTPI Planning Award Commendation 2008). Philip’s experience of environmental impact assessment includes a major windfarm in the Outer Hebrides.
Philip’s green infrastructure work includes producing guidance for Natural England officers, a GI Framework for the South East Region, sub-regional and local green infrastructure strategies, and a major project on biodiversity and climate change adaptation in London (for the London Biodiversity Partnership).
Cutting across these strands is Philip’s interest in the concepts of environmental capacity / limits and how they can be addressed through spatial planning. On behalf of the East of England Regional Assembly, Philip and an LUC team developed and tested a methodology in the Haven Gateway sub-region.
