Expert Panels 2025 Summaries

Thursday 15 January 2026

Catriona Fraser

Director
Turley

Andrew Henriques

Director
Buckley Gray Yeoman

Louise Ioannou

Head of Workspace UK
HB Reavis

Craig Tabb

Board Director
DP9 Ltd

Elie Gamburg

Design Principal
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)

Jo Bacon

Partner
Allies and Morrison

Rumi Bose

Placeshaping & Regeneration Consultant
Rumi Bose Ltd

Gareth Atkinson

Director
Civic

Anisha Mayor

Director - UK Head of Healthcare
WSP

Mark Williams

Deputy Chief Executive
Heart of London BID

Camilla Siggaard Andersen

Founder
Occasio Insights Ltd

Cora Kwiatkowski

Associate Director
Stride Treglown

Jo McCafferty

Director
Levitt Bernstein

Stephen Workman

Technical Director and Residential Sector National lead
AtkinsRéalis

Shadi Shekarrizi

Rail Regional Lead Director, London & South East
AECOM

As we kick off our 2026 cycle of Expert Panels, Panel Chairs share their end of year summaries, recommendations, reflections and site visits and debates that shaped their key findings from 2025.

2025 Expert Panel Summaries

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Education Expert Panel

Cora Kwiatkowski champions a reimagined education system centred on youth, community and flexibility, linking learning to place, wellbeing, industry and lifelong opportunity.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Healthcare Expert Panel

Anisha Mayor champions a citywide shift to health creation, embedding nature, prevention and NHS leadership into planning, with tools to empower Trusts and shape London’s future.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Net Zero Expert Panel

Gareth Atkinson highlights London’s shift from Net Zero ambition to action, calling for shared leadership, systems thinking and circular-economy collaboration to accelerate change

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Built Environment Technology Expert Panel

Camilla Siggaard Andersen highlights the panel’s call to treat built environment data as critical national infrastructure, with shared standards and a public body to steward it.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Technical Competency Expert Panel

Stephen Workman spotlights industry shifts under the Building Safety Act, creating new client guidance to clarify duties, competence and compliance across projects.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Culture Expert Panel

Mark Williams reflects on why culture must be embedded in development from day one, calling for shared language, aligned policy and a new Culture & Development Playbook.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Housing Expert Panel

Jo McCafferty highlights the panel’s role shaping policy and practice to unlock quality, affordable homes, grounded in collaboration and real delivery experience across London.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Innovation Districts Expert Panel

Elie Gamburg champions a cross-sector framework for innovation districts, integrating housing, transport, culture and industry to fuel inclusive, innovation-led growth across London.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Planning Expert Panel

Craig Tabb outlines how Spatial Development Strategies can drive cross-boundary planning, urging clear guidance, flexibility, strong engagement and a consistent national approach.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Work Expert Panel

Louise Ioannou calls for workplaces designed for connection, wellbeing and inclusion, shifting debate beyond attendance to spaces that boost health, culture and performance.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Retrofit & Conservation Expert Panel

Andrew Henriques highlights retrofit as a vital climate and economic opportunity, urging clearer policy, better support and joined-up action to overcome cost and heritage barriers.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Tall Buildings Expert Panel

Joanna Bacon champions “virtuous density,” showing how tall buildings thrive when great public realm, retrofit and shared spaces create lively, inclusive neighbourhoods with buzz.

Expert Panel Outputs for 2025: Industrial & Logistics

Catriona Fraser charts how London’s industrial sector is evolving, shaped by occupier needs, masterplans and transport networks and poised to inform policy and the New London Plan.