Heather is a qualified urban designer and town planner, with a background in geography. Heather has extensive experience of working on large-scale urban regeneration, sustainability, and town centre initiatives. She is currently responsible for directing multiple design advice teams. Previously Heather worked for Glasgow City Council, where she supported local and creative partnerships within Glasgow’s Canal Corridor and helped grow internationally recognised initiatives to activate vacant and underused spaces. She played a leading role in delivering Glasgow’s greener legacy projects for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She has contributed to multiple complex green and blue infrastructure projects in the east end of the city. Heather is a non-executive Board Director for the Academy of Urbanism, Charity Trustee of the Green Action Trust, an affiliate of the UN Habitat’s Planners for Climate Action, former Royal Town Planning Institute UK Young Planner of the Year and featured in the top 50 women of Influence for 2019 and 2020 in ‘the Planner’.