NIPA - Key Persons
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- Member of the NIPA Board
- Director, Aeos Infrastructure Planning
Ali is a planning and consents specialist at Aeos Infrastructure Planning, with seventeen years experience leading consents for major infrastructure projects. She has been involved in the DCO regime since its inception, being involved in the analysis of consultation responses on the Planning White Paper back in 2007. She has led DCO applications from project inception through the application, Examination and post consent stages. She is passionate about the delivery of high-quality infrastructure and improving the regime that supports its delivery. Ali also leads complex cross boundary major infrastructure projects consented through the Town and Country Planning Act and the Electricity Act.
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- Member of the NIPA Board
- Technical Director, WSP
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- Director
- Member of the NIPA Board
- Treasurer
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- Member of the NIPA Board
- Strategic Planning Adviser, Pinsent Masons
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- Member of the NIPA Board
- Solicitor and Partner With Burges Salmon LLP
Julian is a solicitor and partner with Burges Salmon LLP.
Julian has specialised in infrastructure consenting for over 20 years. He has advised on over 20 DCO schemes since 2009 mostly advising promoters, but also local authorities and affected parties. His experience covers transport, energy and major regeneration and housing schemes. He is regularly involved in complex EIA, Habitats Directive and compulsory acquisition issues, and appears as advocate at DCO hearings. He frequently speaks at industry conferences on infrastructure consenting. He is Chair of the RenewableUK Offshore Consents and Licensing Group.
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- Member of the NIPA Board
- Planner
- Senior Director, Quod
Matt is a chartered town planner with 13 years' experience in the private sector advising on large-scale regeneration and nationally significant infrastructure projects. He has worked throughout the key stages Olympic and Legacy development project, including the initial Bid stage, associated compulsory acquisition of the site and the work that has led to the planning permissions that will deliver the Olympic Legacy development. Matt has extensive experience in major infrastructure projects, including Hinkley Point C Development Consent Order, Thames Tideway Tunnel, Sizewell C and a range of rail projects on behalf of Transport for London.
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- Member of the NIPA Board
- Interim Board Member, EIA Director ( Infrastructure and Energy ), LDA Design
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- Member of the NIPA Board
- Board Secretary and Director Partner, Head of Infrastructure Planning and Government Affairs, Pinsent Masons LLP
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- Member of the NIPA Board
- Head of Stakeholders and Market Development ( Consents ) Within the Wind Power Department at Rsted
Sarah is an environmental professional with extensive experience in the areas of environmental impact assessment (EIA/ESIA), lender compliance and transboundary impacts/ESPOO. Prior to her current role, she worked as an environmental consultant on large-scale mixed-use regeneration developments across London as well as a wide range of major infrastructure projects. She has experience working within several consenting regimes across various sectors including energy, mining and oil and gas. Notable projects include Hornsea Three offshore wind farm, Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipeline, Thorpe Marsh gas pipeline and Istanbul New Airport. She is currently an environment and consents specialist within Ørsted (previously Dong Energy), working on their offshore renewables portfolio.
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- Member of the NIPA Board
- Board Chair / NIPA Board Chair, Thames Water