Lucy Bird

Planning Director , Berkeley Ventures

Lucy works for Berkeley Ventures and St William (both part of the Berkeley Group), as Planning Director, where her role focuses on strategic planning for the Berkeley Group as well as complex planning strategies for various large scale developments. 

Her career began in Local Government working in policy and regeneration teams, before moving across to consultancy, specialising in comprehensive regeneration development. This gave her a solid foundation for her role at the Greater London Authority, where she worked on numerous high-profile schemes including estate regeneration and call ins. 

She is currently on the NLA Expert Panel for Planning.