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

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.

Planning

08 April 2025

Fifth cycle of the NLA Expert Planning Panel

DP9 Board Director Craig Tabb reflects on the NLA Expert Panel on Planning's first meeting of the year, where they focused on spatial strategies, community engagement, density, and more.

Culture, Education & Health, Housing, Industrial & Logistics, Net Zero, Planning, Technical, Transport & Infrastructure, Work

14 January 2025

Expert Panels 2024 Summaries

As we kick off 2025 Expert Panels, panel chairs share summaries, recommendations, reflections and key findings from across the 2024 meetings, visits and debates.

Expert panel member