Craig Tabb

Board Director

Expert panel member

Craig is a Board Director at DP9 and has over 20 years of planning experience in the private sector. His experience is wide ranging but has focused on strategic plans and large-scale regeneration and masterplanning projects in London.

Craig has played a critical and lead role in achieving planning permissions for some of London’s most significant development proposals. This has included Battersea Power Station and Earls Court. Currently he is leading the planning strategy and advice for Brent Cross Cricklewood Regeneration (for Argent Related), Wood Wharf (for Canary Wharf Group), and the over-station development masterplan at Euston (for Lendlease).

Craig has been heavily involved in the formulation of policy and guidance documents to assist in facilitating strategic scale regeneration and development. This has included several Opportunity Area Planning Frameworks and similar planning briefs. Aside from area or project specific policy work, Craig is active more widely in debates and thinking related to policy-making. He sits on the British Property Federation Planning Committee and is a member of the London First Planning and Development Forum.

Latest contributions

Raising the Bar: What the revised NPPF must get right for housing delivery

Housing, Planning

24 March 2026

Raising the Bar: What the revised NPPF must get right for housing delivery

Miranda MacLaren and Craig Tabb outline how a revised NPPF must take a more nuanced approach to density, sustainability and housing need to deliver better homes.

Built Environment Technology, Conservation & Heritage, Culture, Education & Health, Housing, Industrial & Logistics, Innovation, Net Zero, Planning, Retail & Hospitality, Tall Buildings, Technical, Transport & Infrastructure, Work

15 January 2026

Expert Panels 2025 Summaries

As we kick off 2026 Expert Panels, panel chairs share summaries, recommendations, reflections and key findings from across the 2025 meetings, visits and debates.

Planning

17 September 2025

A review of the NLA's Planning Expert Panel

Craig Tabb, DP9's Board Director, shares the most recent update from NLA's Planning Expert Panel, including their discussions around the topic of Spatial Development Strategies.

Expert panel member