Croydon council has appointed Emma Peters as executive director for planning, regeneration and conservation.
Peters is currently working alongside Sir Bob Kerslake at the soon-to-be launched Homes and Communities Agency, and before that was corporate director of development and renewal at Tower Hamlets.
She will join Croydon at the beginning of December with a brief to bring back together the “currently separate strands of regeneration and planning”.
Peters said: “Moving to Croydon at this stage in my career is a wonderful opportunity. By any yardstick, the town has the characteristics and personality of a city with challenges and openings.”
Peters replaces Phillip Goodwin, who earlier this year announced his intention to engage in consultancy activity after a 30 year career in public sector planning.
He has been Croydon’s director of planning and transportation since 1994.
