Theo Plowman

Great opportunity for members in Greater London to be one of up to 30 Mayor’s Design Advocates (MDAs) Mayor’s Design Advocates Salary: £500 per day (PAYE) Grade: N/a Contract type: Fixed term Reference: MD2021 Interview date: w/c 31 January and 07 February 2022 Application closing date: Wednesday 15 December 2021 at 23:59 GMT You will be one of up to 30 Mayor’s Design Advocates (MDAs) - independent built environment experts, with a breadth of expertise and skills across built environment disciplines, who will support the Mayor, to deliver his pioneering Good Growth by Design programme. Good Growth is the Mayor’s guiding principle for the built environment and sets the direction of the London Plan and all related Mayoral decisions, investments, strategies and policies. More details here.

As part of his levelling-up announcement the PM just released a small policy paper here on the renewal of high streets. It's odd that there's no mention of the High Streets Task Force or the work that has been done by them. Having looked through the paper it doesn't seem to directly point to recommendations of the task force, but proposes a vast array of policy interventions. I was wondering if anyone here knew if the authors of the paper consulted with the HSTF? Happy to chat about the details of it more broadly too!