Kelvin MacDonald

Kelvin MacDonald is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Land Economy, Cambridge.  He is the Chief Policy Adviser to the Royal Town Planning Institute and a member of the Board of Trustees of Shelter.  He is a registered Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) Commissioner and a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee, including for its recent inquiry into the abolition of RSSs.  He runs his own consultancy, Spatial Effects Ltd, and is a Planning Aid volunteer.
He has written Planning at the Heart of Local Government, published by DCLG and the LGA, creating low carbon homes for people in eco-towns published by the TCPA and DCLG and Building Blocks, published by Shelter.
He has been the Director of Policy and Research at the RTPI and Director of ROOM, the National Council for Housing and Planning and was a Commissioner on the Westminster Housing Commission.  He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and of the Royal Society of Arts.