Michael Kiely

Michael Kiely

Chairman, Planning Officers Society

Mike is a chartered town planner with over 40 years’ experience in local government, most of that in London and nearly 14 years at senior officer level. He is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, formerly president of the Planning Officers Society and now chair of its Board. Mike works closely with government and across the sector to shape planning in England.

During his local government career, he successfully delivered major redevelopment and regeneration projects, including the largest housing delivery programme of any council whilst at Tower Hamlets (nearly 4,000 homes per year) and at Croydon the largest outer London growth agenda (over 7,000 homes in the town centre along with the UK’s largest retail centre redevelopment). His work has been recognised in a series of national awards as exemplars of best practice, including Croydon’s planning service being cited in the Farrell Review (May 2014) “as a case study for what can be achieved and what the conditions are for proactive planning”. In 2014 Croydon won Planning Authority of the Year at mipimUK and Planning Policy Team of the Year at the Planning Awards.

In 2015, he set up his consultancy, Mike Kiely planning + regeneration, to specialise in assisting local authorities to perform better and be more effective.