• Health & Wellbeing/Active Design
• Sport England

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Roy is currently a Planning Manager for Sport England and lead of all planning work in Essex. This includes delivering Sports England’s statutory consultee role on planning applications affecting playing fields, providing advice on a range of planning applications as a non-statutory consultee such as major residential developments and new sports facilities, responding to local plan consultations, supporting local authorities to provide an evidence base for sport through the provision of playing pitch and sports facility strategies, promoting the use of our tools and guidance including Active Design. Roy has around 26 years experience in planning including 11 years working for three local authorities and a planning consultancy.