RBT Housing Commission

• Dame Kate Barker CBE (former chair), chair of the 2004 ‘Barker Review’ on Housing Supply and the subsequent review on Land Use Planning (2006); author of Housing: Where’s the Plan (2014); deputy chair of the independent New Towns Taskforce and former member of the National Infrastructure Commission
• Lord Richard Best, social housing leader and member of House of Lords Built Environment Committee
• Richard Blyth, head of policy at the Royal Town Planning Institute
• Paul Brocklehurst, chair of the Land, Planning and Development Federation and former head of Catesby Estates
• Tom Chance, CEO, Community Land Trust Network
• Rick de Blaby, CEO, Get Living 
• Melissa Mean, director at WeCanMake, a community-based project to create affordable homes by unlocking micro-sites for development
  
  

• Alexandra Notay (chair), internationally recognised expert on housing, placemaking and ESG, and independent member of the Government’s Geospatial Commission
• Elsie Owusu OBE, founding chair of the Society of Black Architects
• Vicky Pryce, chair of Radix Fellows and leading economist
• Ben Rich, CEO, Radix Big Tent and former secretary to Lord Rogers’ Urban Taskforce
  
• Dr Catriona Riddell, expert in strategic planning issues working with local authorities
• Jackie Sadek, director at Urban Strategy and urban regeneration expert
• Andrew Taylor FRTPI, group planning director at Vistry Group
• Lisa Tye, partner and living sector co-head at Shoosmiths
• Doreen Wright, commercial director at A2Dominion Group

David Boyle has been writing about new ideas for more than a quarter of a century. He is former editor of Town & Country Planning, co-director of the New Weather Institute, policy director of Radix UK, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, has stood for Parliament and is a former independent reviewers for the Cabinet Office.

He is the author of Alan Turing, Scandal and Before Enigma, as well as a range of other historical studies.

Lesley Yarranton is a former journalist, television researcher and translator. She and David co-produce the (usually) annual Radix Festival ‘Big Ideas’ report and they have co-written and researched several Radix papers, including Tickbox Infrastructure on the construction industry.

She was one of the first western journalists to live in and report from East Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She has since worked in Paris and Washington DC. Publications she has written for include The Times, The European, the Mirror and the Evening Standard. She has also been a freelance contributor to the French business magazine Challenges, the financial pages of the Mail on Sunday and EuroProperty.