Roger Tanner

Roger Tanner - Strategic Planning & Urban Renewal Manager

Tel: 01495 235342 e-mail: tannerd@caerphilly.gov.uk

Featuring contribution from David Rosser, Director, CBI Wales; Prof Stephen Hill, Head of Research, Business School, University of Glamorgan; Chris Farrow, Executive Director, North Wales Division, Welsh Development Agency; Dr Helen Phillips, Director, Wales Environment Agency; Roger Tanner, Strategic Planning and Urban Renewal Manager, Caerphilly County Borough Council; Graeme Bunker, Managing Director, Arriva Trains Wales; Bill Simons, Chairman, Welsh Freight Council FTA; Roderic Jenkins, Head of the Gwent Joint Passenger Transport Unit; Neil Crumpton, Transport Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Cymru; Prof Stuart Cole, Wales Transport Strategy Group.

Roger Tanner of Caerphilly County Borough Council is equally concerned ,It is an issues report that avoids all the wicked issues,.

After graduating, Roger Tanner (BSc Politics & Sociology 1971) spent two years in Bangor where he obtained an MA in Politics before falling into a Planning career that he is still pursuing.He stood for election to Parliament in the 1974 general election (two lost deposits).He married Caroline Rees, a solicitor, in 1992 and moved back to Cardiff, where they had girl triplets in 1995.He has two fine grown up sons by a previous marriage.He writes for the monthly planning magazine, the journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute and is the author of City of the Valley, a radical strategy for regenerating the South Wales coalfield.He is currently Strategic Planning and Urban Renewal Manager for Caerphilly County Borough Council.He would love to hear from any of his former colleagues who can remember as far back as 1971.He can be contacted at teulu.tanner@virgin.net