Biography
Kelvin is a Senior Departmental Fellow.
He is the Specialist Adviser on planning policy to the House of Commons Levelling Up, Housing, Communities Select Committee.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Town Planning Review and is a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Brighton.
He is Chair of the RTPI Partnership Board at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
He is Chair of the Board of Brighton Housing Trust, having previously been a member of the Board of Trustees of Shelter for six years.
He was formerly an Examining Inspector dealing with major infrastructure projects for the Planning Inspectorate and previously Director of Policy and Research and then the Chief Policy Adviser to the Royal Town Planning Institute.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, of the Royal Town Planning Institute and of the Royal Society of Arts and he is a 'Distinguished Professional' Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.
Research
- Planning history
- The interface between planning and politics
- Ethics in planning
- The boundary between state control and individual freedom in planning
- The relationship between planning theory and planning practice
- Planning law
- Planning for infrastructure, particularly airports
- Land value capture
