Robert Singleton (MRTPI, MCIHT) is a chartered spatial planner with over 18 years in the profession. He has a wide range of experience in the public sector including leading an innovative sustainable design and construction team, acting as planning lead for major regeneration projects and Development Consent Orders, and more recently heading up the National Infrastructure Team at the then DLUHC. Following a move to the DfT in 2019, Robert has established a centre of excellence for engaging with the transport and spatial planning systems for the Department capable of providing expert and specialist input to the full range of modal policy areas. The key driver of the Planning Policy Team at DfT is to foster a step change in the Departments approach to planning and better align the spatial and transport planning systems to drive truly sustainable patterns of development served by the right infrastructure, delivered in the right place and at the right time