Speaker Details
Philip Singleton
Assistant Director, City Centre Development and Design, Birmingham City Council
Philip Singleton is an Assistant Director in Birmingham City Council, within Planning and Regeneration, and leads the City Design Team. His remit is to work both within the Council and with external developers and designers to develop and promote a design vision for Birmingham - working in the city core and all of its neighbourhoods to reflect its international standing. Since 2007, Mr Singleton has had an additional role in managing the newly formed City Centre Development Team of 30 people, overseeing the Big City Plan and delivering the strategy for the next 30 years of development. This includes a regeneration team, a project management team and the Jewellery Quarter and development planning teams. Mr Singleton was the architectural advisor to Birmingham's bid to be named European Capital of Culture 2008. Mr Singleton is an architect by training and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). From 2002 to 2005, he was a Director of MADE, a regional organisation set up to advocate better places, spaces and new thinking. Previous to that, he was in private practice for 13 years designing award-winning buildings, such as the Birmingham School of Jewellery and the Drum arts centre. In 2004, Mr Singleton launched the City Design Forum, a UK network of senior Local Authority officers. He is the vice chair-Urban Policy, for the Birmingham district of the Urban Land Institute.
