ABOUT THE BOARD
The purpose of the Board is:
- to provide strategic leadership and oversight to the Garden Town project
- to set and steer the project’s direction and to monitor progress
- to review the project’s direction and objectives on an annual basis
- to have responsibility and authority for the overall delivery of the project through the project workstreams
- to ensure there is effective community and stakeholder engagement in accordance with the consultation framework
- to resolve issues and enable progress to be made
- to agree proposals and make the decisions needed to progress the project
- to make recommendations through the formal decision-making process of the various organisations represented on the Board
- to ensure that appropriate resources are in place to deliver against the plan, programme and priorities. It is also to co-ordinate the public-sector contribution to the delivery of key elements of the programme including the use of available GT capacity, or other relevant funding.

CLLR NIGEL BEDFORD
Voting Member
Epping Forest District Council

CLLR CHRIS WHITBREAD
Observer – Deputy Member
Epping Forest District Council

CLLR JOHN PHILIP
Observer – Deputy Member
Epping Forest District Council

CLLR MICHAEL HARDWARE
Voting Member
Harlow District Council
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CLLR ANDREW JOHNSON
Observer – Deputy Member
Harlow District Council

CLLR LINDA HAYSEY
Voting Member
East Herts District Council

CLLR ERIC BUCKMASTER
Observer – Deputy Member
East Herts District Council
CLLR STEPHEN BOULTON
Voting Member
Hertfordshire County Council

CLLR JONATHAN KAYE
Observer – Deputy Member
Hertfordshire County Council
CLLR LESLEY WAGLAND
Voting Member
Essex County Council

CLLR TOM CUNNINGHAM
Observer – Deputy Member
Essex County Council
JOHN McGILL
Voting Member
UK Innovation Corridor

CLLR JOHN EVANS
Advisory
Uttlesford District Council

ROB TINLIN
Advisory
Uttlesford District Council

CLLR LEWIS COCKING
Advisory
Broxbourne Borough Council

CLLR TONY SIRACUSA
Advisory
Broxbourne Borough Council
JEFF STACK
Advisory
Broxbourne Borough Council

GUY NICHOLSON
Independent Chair
The Members are supported by the following senior officers:
NAISHA POLAINE
Harlow & Gilston Garden Town
BRIAN KEANE
Chief Executive
Harlow District Council
GEORGINA BLAKEMORE
Chief Executive
Epping Forest District Council
RICHARD CASSIDY
Chief Executive
East Herts District Council
MARK DORAN
Head of Sustainable Growth
Essex County Council
COLIN HAIGH
Assistant Director Growth & Place
Hertfordshire County Council