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Enforcement and landowner action can tackle waste crime
Enforcement and landowner action can tackle waste crime

LAND JOURNAL

Enforcement and landowner action can tackle waste crime

With criminals taking advantage of the cost-of-living crisis to undercut legitimate waste management firms, the Environment Agency is helping landowners deal with waste crime

Steve Molyneux 17 April 2025

Trees and dams help manage flooding in Yorkshire
Trees and dams help manage flooding in Yorkshire

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Trees and dams help manage flooding in Yorkshire

The National Trust has partnered with Yorkshire Water on a landscape-scale tree-planting and damming project to reduce flooding and increase resilience to climate change in Yorkshire

Carol Prenton MRICS, Catriona Cormack, Jess Yorke, and Kate Divey-Matthews, Maddi Naish MRICS, and Sarah Warwick 10 April 2025

Data sharing can effectively automate planning process
Data sharing can effectively automate planning process

LAND JOURNAL

Data sharing can effectively automate planning process

Sharing and automating the processing of geospatial data and using inference to fill gaps, the preparation of planning applications can be made much more efficient as one software developer shows

Phillip Ridley 03 April 2025

Legislating Scottish land reform requires balancing act
Legislating Scottish land reform requires balancing act

LAND JOURNAL

Legislating Scottish land reform requires balancing act

The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill includes important reforms for the tenanted sector, but views on compensation for resumption and rent reviews are divided, the tenant farming commissioner says in the second of two articles

Rob Black 27 March 2025

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RICS Land Journal Editorial Advisory Group members

 

Isaac has more than 20 years' professional experience in higher education, and is Dean, Faculty of Business Education at the University of Education, Winneba and Dean at the Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development in Ghana. His research and consultancy interests include coastal engineering, climate change adaptation, and applied coastal and fluvial geomorphology. Isaac has been involved in RICS and FIG activities since 2006.

 

Angela is a rural chartered surveyor, a lecturer, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has many years' experience of teaching rural estate management at the University of Reading's Henley Business School , and previously taught at the Royal Agricultural University. She is a South East regional judge on the RICS Social Impact Awards, and a member of the South East Rural Market Forum.

 

Gordon is a senior advocate for geospatial, hydrospatial, hydrography, Surveying, geoscience and geodetics. He is passionate about the conservation, management and sustainable use of oceans and the marine natural capital and is the owner of Venture Geomatics.

 

James is a chartered surveyor and chartered geographer.

 

Fiona is a senior specialist in land and resources at RICS. She originally worked as a management accountant in oil and gas and other sectors before changing career.

She has led the production of standards and guidance for the rural and environment professional groups, as well as RICS work on natural capital. She has presented at a range of UK and international events, representing RICS on a range of stakeholder groups. Fiona also leads on compulsory purchase for RICS.

 

Chris is senior lecturer real estate, planning and development and built environment at Sheffield Hallam University and specialises in lease renewals and rent reviews for high-street retailers, working client-side to advise on portfolio strategies.

 

Tony Mulhall is senior specialist, RICS. A chartered surveyor and town planner he has worked in a range of areas of planning and property in the public and private sectors. 

 

Claire qualified as a rural practice surveyor in 2010 and has advised clients in a variety of areas including planning, commercial property and valuation. She joined the UK Country Land and Business Association (CLA) as a rural surveyor in 2013, and moved from CLA East to CLA South West in February 2020.

RICS Land Journal Editorial Advisory Group members

University of Education, Winneba
University of Reading
Venture Geomatics
RICS
RICS
Tim Horkins UK
RICS
CLA (Rural)