Keynote speaker for TPS' 23rd Annual Dinner announced as Victoria Hills

We’re delighted that Victoria Hills, Chief Executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute, has agreed to speak after dinner at the 23rd TPS Annual Dinner. 

Victoria has over 24 years in senior roles in planning, transport, organisational leadership and development. Working for all three Mayors of London, she latterly led the UK’s largest regeneration project at Old Oak, setting up the Old Oak and Park Royal Mayoral Development Corporation.

Tickets are still on sale for our 23rd Annual Dinner, which will be held on:

Thursday 13th July 2023, 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm

DICKENS INN, ST KATHERINE DOCKS, E1W 1UH

For further information/queries and to book your ticket(s), please contact Sarah McSharry, TPS Business Manager at businessmanager@tps.org.uk 

Early booking is recommended to avoid disappointment!

Read more about Victoria Hills, MRTPI, FICE, FRSA:

Using the convening role of the Royal Town Planning Institute, she makes the case for resourcing planning and advocating the important role of putting planning at the heart of government delivery for the quality places that people want to live in. She is driving forward delivery of the RTPI’s Corporate Strategy for the 27,000-member strong RTPI, focussing on raising the profile of planning, elevating the value of professionalism, and promoting a more diverse and inclusive profession to ensure genuine representation of the society in which we work.  Victoria has overseen an 8%  growth in membership since joining the RTPI in 2018.

Victoria is also serving as a Commissioner on the Essex Climate Action Commission, chairing its Net Zero Innovation Network and sits on the Advisory Board to the Government’s Office for Place. Victoria recently joined the Greener Transport Council, whose purpose is to oversee the delivery of a ‘Manifesto for Decarbonising Transport’ by Greener Transport Solutions, and is on the Steering Group for the ‘Future Transport Visions Group’, an annual competition incentivising early career professional so generate innovation. Victoria is also an external examiner to the post graduate town planning courses at the University of Newcastle. Outside of work, Victoria volunteers as a safeguarding assistant to her children’s rugby team.