The City of London Corporation has selected a new chairman for its planning and transportation committee.
Christopher Hayward, who is deputy leader of Hertfordshire County Council, will succeed Michael Welbank with immediate effect to oversee some of the most significant planning applications in the capital.
Alastair Moss, who is a partner at law firm Memery Crystal and has previously served as planning chairman at Westminster City Council, has been elected as deputy chairman.
Hayward has been churchwarden at St Margaret Pattens and the chairman of the Trustees of the Friends of St Margaret Pattens.
He is also a past chairman of the Broad Street Ward Club, a member of the Candlewick, Coleman Street and Farringdon Ward Clubs and serves on the council of the City branch of the Royal Society of Saint George and the Court of the Guild of Freemen.
He is also a former master of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers.
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