About the author

Ruth Reed is an architect and academic with a distinguished reputation in planning issues. She has experience as a planning inspector and a lobbyist on planning matters for the RIBA. She is currently a partner at Green Planning Studio Limited, a planning consultancy with an enviable record in winning planning appeals. Ruth previously set up Reed Architects in 1992, where she rapidly won a reputation for gaining planning consents. Much of the practice’s work was in the self-build sector and Ruth joined and became a director of Associated Self-Build Architects.

Ruth was elected as the first female president of the RIBA in 2009. As president, her policy focus was on architectural education and on planning reform. Once her term ...

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