Principal Consultant
Christine Sarris is a senior planning consultant. She recently joined us from the Government Office East Midlands. Christine has been guiding authorities in Northamptonshire to look at new ways of working effectively. This led to the establishment of the first Joint Planning Committee in the country. She has since been working with North Northamptonshire to deliver a joint core strategy and further joint working in West Northamptonshire. This work has influenced the national approach by CLG in encouraging local authorities to work together.
Christine has closely liaised with local authorities and agencies to look at water and highway infrastructure phasing against housing trajectories. She has encouraged key partners to work together to identify funding for infrastructure and to put in place a delivery plan as part of core strategy. Christine is very focused on finding ways to enable sustainable development and has been responsible for reviewing the performance of local authorities in both forward planning and development management. She has spent several years as a team leader managing city centre development in Leicester and Nottingham.