team
Viv Collie is a professionally qualified town planner with a business degree and a professional marketing qualification. She also has facilitation and mediation skills qualifications, and has worked on projects in the UK and Northern Europe. Over the last ten years Viv has worked with a variety of sponsors and clients, and is familiar with their different needs and expectations. She has a good understanding of the work of the public sector and its partnership organisations, and uses her specialist knowledge and expertise to provide advice on a variety of partnership and town centre projects.
Joyce Hartley is a professionally qualified town planner with over 30 years of experience working in the public and private sectors. In addition to her wealth of up-to-date experience in statutory planning in both sectors, Joyce has managed major research commissions, puts together planning conference programmes, and organises and co-ordinates planning events for a number of providers. Recent projects include analyses of local plan consultation exercises for a Scottish local authority.
Karol Swanson has had more than 20 years experience working in the voluntary sector and has worked with community groups across Scotland. She ran award-winning community capacity-building programmes with Planning Aid for Scotland before recently training as a planner. A trained and experienced community mediator, Karol is committed to community participation in planning. She has an MSc in town planning, is a member of the Scottish Mediation Network and a Planning for Real facilitator. For more information see www.karolswanson.co.uk
Nick Wright is a professionally qualified planner as well as a trained facilitator and mediator, and a member of the Academy of Urbanism and a Director of Planning Aid for Scotland. Nick has worked with communities on projects from city visions to waste recycling, and is particularly interested in ways of engaging residents and businesses from the outset – to understand their aspirations, enable them to understand other stakeholders’ perspectives, and then work with the client and design team to build better places. For more information see www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk