Lucy Bird

Lucy has been a planner for 20 years and currently works for Berkeley Ventures (part of the Berkeley Group), as Planning Director, where her role focuses on strategic planning and policy for the Berkeley Group. Her career began in Local Government working in policy and regeneration teams, before moving across to consultancy, specialising in comprehensive regeneration development. This gave her a solid foundation for her role at the Greater London Authority, where she worked on numerous high-profile schemes including estate regeneration and call ins. She is currently on the NLA Expert Panel for Planning.