Sarah Young

Sarah is a chartered town planner with 25 years’ experience and sits on LUC's Company Board. She has extensive expertise in strategic policy development and preparing planning applications.

Sarah has led planning studies for Government, Government agencies and local authorities, covering a range of policy issues. Her specialisms include green infrastructure, strategic growth options, renewable energy and climate change.

Sarah is a leading authority on Green Belts, having led Green Belt studies for over 50 local authorities and commissions for private developers. She has represented numerous local authority clients at Examination as their Green Belt expert. She is currently leading on a number of Green Belt/ grey belt studies up and down the country including the London Green Belt assessment for the London Plan

Sarah was named an RTPI Women of Influence in 2020.