The ODA Planning Committee

Cllr Terry Wheeler

Terry Wheeler is the London Borough of Waltham Forest Cabinet Member for Enterprise and Investment. He has longstanding interests in planning and regeneration. Previously Deputy Leader of the Council, he has also chaired Planning, Personnel, Education and Housing Committees and Leytonstone Community Council. He has also served on Local Government Association and Association of London Government committees. He is a board member of the Thames Gateway London Partnership and the North London Strategic Alliance, Corporation member of Waltham Forest College and Director of the Migrant Training Company and Ascham Homes. Prior to concentrating on his responsibilities as a senior councillor he was an industrial relations and personnel manager in the construction and manufacturing sectors and local government. More recently he has been a further education lecturer.




Cllr Geoff Taylor

Geoff Taylor was first elected to Hackney Council in 2002, and has been chair of both the Planning Committee and the Education Scrutiny Committee. He was Speaker of Hackney Council, 2004-2005 and is currently the Council's Historic Environment Champion. He wrote 'A Parish in Perspective' (2002), a history of south Hackney parish. He is a former local secondary school teacher and BT manager and has lived in Hackney since 1971. He has led a number of redevelopment and regeneration projects in south Hackney.




Cllr Rofique Ahmed

Rofique Ahmed has represented Mile End and Globe Town Ward in Tower Hamlets since 2002. Currently Cabinet Lead Member for Culture & Leisure at London Borough of Tower Hamlets, he was formerly Chair of the Development and the Strategic Development Committees for three years. He was also the Chair of the Licensing Committee and the Standard Committee for Tower Hamlets and Lead Member for the Association of London Government Grant Committee and Lead Member of Asia Urbs, a regeneration project.




Cllr Conor McAuley

Conor McAuley has been a member of Newham Council since 1982. His roles have included: Deputy Leader of the Council, Chairman of Environment & Planning Committee and board member of the London Docklands Development Corporation. He is currently the Operational Executive Adviser on regeneration issues to Newham's elected Mayor, Vice-Chair of the Thames Gateway London Partnership and a member of the board of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation. Conor led Newham's successful campaign for an international passenger station on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link at Stratford. He is also a non-executive director of the Newham Primary Care Trust.

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