Advisory Panel on Standards
for the Planning Inspectorate

Timothy Corner QC (Chairperson) was called to the Bar in 1981 and practises mainly in planning and other areas of public law. He is a Recorder, Bencher of Gray’s Inn, Vice-Chairman of the Planning and Environment Bar Association, and a member of the Oxford Joint Planning Law Conference Committee.

Robin Dahlberg has worked for many years at Board Member, Chief Executive and Managing Director level in organisations in the private, public and volunteer sectors. For five years he was Vice Chair of a 35 year old community organisation specialising in planning matters in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.  He is also the Vice Chair of the Security Industry Authority and a Commissioner at the Health and Safety Commission.

Pip David is a former Director of Pilkington Tiles with experience in personnel, pensions and employment. She is a serving member of the Employment Tribunal and an advisor for the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service.

Richard Harwood was called to the bar in 1993 and specialises in planning and environmental law.  He was a Councillor for the London Borough of Merton from 1998 to 2006. He is a member of the Planning and Environment Bar Association committee, a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and a CEDR-accredited mediator. He is case editor of the Journal of Planning and Environment Law.

Norma Huddy is a Director of Policy Dimensions Ltd and Governor of Design Dimension. She has 37 years of experience in business, five years in the public sector and her considerable voluntary sector experience includes an appointment to the Women's National Commission and National President of Business & Professional Women UK Ltd. She was the former Head of Government and External Affairs for AstraZeneca UK.

Jeff Penfold has over 25 years experience as a Chief Officer/Director within local government with strategic and operational responsibility for the development, housing, and protection of the environment. For several years he served as Director for a shire district council with management responsibilities that included development control and planning services, the strategic approach to housing provision, property management and environment. He now serves as an interim manager for a wide range of public sector clients.

Anthony Prior is a chartered surveyor and former senior civil servant. Until March 2001, he held a variety of director-level posts with the Valuation Office Agency. His responsibilities there included the development of the Agency’s customer service programme, introducing new quality control and risk management systems and change management. He is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the General Council of the Institute of Rating Revenues and Valuation, and other committees. He has also been an active member of local environmental groups.

Andrew Warner has 35 years experience in the planning and development field. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1972, and has a postgraduate planning diploma. He is a partner of Dalton Warner Davis which is a specialist planning and surveying consultancy. He acts for local authorities and commercial/private clients. He is Chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Planning and Environmental Policy Panel and has been on various steering groups and sounding boards for ODPM.