Positions
1992 to date - Senior Partner, Lichfield Planning: Urban, Environmental, Development Planning Consultants
1971-1992 - Member, then Deputy Managing Director of Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners, Development Planning, Urban Design, Economics Consultancy
Experience
As an architect and urban planner in partnership with urban economist Professor Nathaniel Lichfield, Dalia specialised in the relationship between physical design and social and economic analysis and planning. She has developed new methods of integrated planning and evaluation that won RTPI awards.
As part of her extensive practical consultancy experience, she has directed major Integrated Planning & Transportation studies and Development Strategies, and has led interdisciplinary teams on a variety of both private and public sector projects
Her consultancy experience includes:
Urban & Regional Development Planning - including integrated development strategies in developing countries, new towns master-plans; feasibility analysis; environmental and community impact analysis, training programmes for local authorities staff;
Statutory Planning UK – planning applications, appeals and local plan inquiries within the UK system;
Urban Regeneration (Residential communities, Town Centres; and industrial areas) including integrated strategies for physical, economic, social and organisational aspects, and project design and implementation. Her approach combines economic viability with community involvement and revitalisation.
Community Impact Analysis – comparing the distribution of benefits/costs of proposed transportation and development options.
Airport related development – masterplans and analysis of transport and development impacts on areas surrounding airports;
Housing - need/supply analysis, master planning and urban design.
Employment - industrial sites, offices, town centres, with access and housing implications and other related Local plan policies.
New planning and development methodsaddressing current issues, Integrated Planning and Environmental Assessment and Dynamic Planning and a new local planning system.
Dalia Lichfield’s consultancy work has been complemented with her extensive list of publications and with her training methods for capacity building on programme/project planning in Nigeria.
Conceptual & Academic
Dalia Lichfield has promoted an integrative approach to planning and developed methods and techniques for it. These include process analysis, collaboration between ‘active’ and ‘passive’ stakeholders of different backgrounds and interests, and public involvement within a rational planning framework.
Her innovative methods which are being used in practice include Dynamic Planning, applied to urban and regional planning, community strategies and regeneration; the award winning method of Integrated Planning & Environmental Assessment which incorporates Community Impact Evaluation, and AirQuIPS (Air Quality Integrated Planning System).
Publications
Dalia is author of numerous publications including:
‘Dynamic Planning – An Integrated concept and Practice of Planning’ in E. Alexander (Ed.) Evaluation in Planning (Ashgate, 2006)
Dynamic Planning in Urban Regeneration – in the UK Parliamentary Yearbook (2007)
The Niger Delta Regional Development Strategy – Paper presented to the Planning Africa Conference, Capetown, 2006
‘Organisation and Management of UrbanRegeneration’, in Peter Roberts & Hugh Sykes (Ed.) Urban Regeneration - A Handbook BURA, (Sage 2000)
‘Integrated Planning for Air Quality’ in Eran Feitelson (ed.) Advancing Sustainability at the Sub National Level (Ashgate 2004) pp. 57-78
‘Measuring The Success Of Partnership Endeavours’in N.Walzer and D. Jacobs (Ed) Public Private Partnerships for Local Economic Development, (Praeger 1998)
‘Community Impact Evaluation in the Development Process’, with Nathaniel Lichfield in Colin Kirkpatrick and Norman Lee (ed.) Sustainable Development in a Developing World-Socio- Integrating economic Appraisal and Environmental Assessment (Edward Elgar 1997) pp.139-154
Urban Regeneration for the 1990's (LPAC, 1992).
‘Alternative Strategies for Redistribution, (Changing approaches to renewal since 1950's)’ Habitat International, Vol. 8, 3/4, (1984)
Projects
The broad range of Dalia’s experience is illustrated in the following sample of typical commissions:
New Town at Wallerfield, Trinidad: Preparing a development strategy and town centre design for a new town, with close integration of economic development, transportation, human resources and needs, housing and institutional structure; based on major Hi-Tech business and industrial parks and university.
Niger Delta Regional Development Masterplan: Preparing an integrated economic, social, physical and environmental strategy for growth and welfare in the Niger delta Region with its 30 million inhabitants. Included in the strategy are guidelines on delivery mechanisms and implementation, as well as capacity building workshops.
Torbay Ring Road Community Impact Evaluation: Analysing the distribution of beneficial and adverse impacts of potential alignments of a regional road, and comparing their impacts on different groups in the community.
Gatwick Airport (UK) Masterplan: Analysing the sub-regional implication of airport expansion in terms of transportation, employment, housing, visual and noise environment, and impacts on surrounding settlements and participating in preparation of the new Masterplan.
Greater Reykjavik development strategy, Iceland: Advising the association of independent local authorities about their mutual interests regarding development of physical and community infrastructure and on ways of creating a collaborative work procedure.
Ashkelon Integrated Spatial Masterplan: Prepared in collaboration with the local authorities as a pilot of the Dynamic Planning system, the masterplan provided a strategy for coordinated efforts of all local authority departments to absorb growth from 100,000 people to 200,000 in approximately 10 years.
Mezzogiorno Region, Southern Italy: Advising the regional administration about regeneration of the region following a massive earthquake, with attention to sustainability of economic and social systems and the historic heritage.
Christ Hospital New Community – planning a large urban community as an extension of Horsham, West Sussex UK.
Other
2001 to date: Chairperson – Land Use Society,
2004 – to date; Member Policy Council: Town & Country Planning Association
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