Pathway to Planning: Improving Diversity and Inclusion within the Planning Profession

This week BAME Planners Network were delighted to premier the ‘Pathway to Planning’ documentary in London at an event sponsored by and RTPIDP9.

The documentary offers insights into the ‘Tomorrows Planners’ PATH Programme which was a government initiative launched in 2003 to increase the numbers of people from BAME backgrounds in planning.  It included in-depth interviews with some of the candidates nearly 20 years on. It raised the question of what similar initiatives are available today and what central and local government and private sector planning organisations are doing to improve representation of BAME planners in the sector.

Attendees heard from an outstanding panel chaired by Ransford Stewart, MBE, and comprising Victoria Hills, CEO RTPI, Joanna Averley, Chief Planner DLUHC and Philip Graham, Executive Director of Good Growth, GLA and the Network’s inspirational founder, Helen Fadipe. They shared their responses to the documentary starting a conversation that continued all evening…