Tony Burton CBE
Free range consultant - community, planning, design & environment
Tony works free range on community, design and environmental projects. He is a neighbourhood planning examiner and convenes Neighbourhood Planners.London as a volunteer. Tony is Chair of CPRE’s Policy and Campaigns Committee, Power to Change (supporting community business) and TCV Chestnut Fund (providing grants to community groups looking after local green space).
Tony is a trustee of Nationwide Foundation and mySociety and a former Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth. Tony chaired the National Lottery Community Fund during the pandemic. He was Design Advisor to the National Infrastructure Commission and is Vice Chair of HS2’s Independent Design Panel. Tony chairs Community Review Panels in Old Oak & Park Royal and Dacorum and is a member of many Design Review Panels. Tony founded Civic Voice in 2010 as the national charity for local civic societies and has been a Director at both Design Council and National Trust. He can be found on X as @Tony4Place