Shelagh McNerney
head of regeneration, Manchester City Council (in personal capacity)

Shelagh has a long-held interest in and experience of the practice of UK urban town planning, regeneration and development. She has worked across local authorities, private master planning consultancies, within construction companies and think tanks across Northern England since 1980’s.

She is currently working for Manchester City Council on a range of development schemes leading teams delivering new homes, open spaces and local neighbourhood infrastructure. She has led multiple teams of investors, property experts, planners, architects, and businesses. She has written and undertaken research for think tanks, academic institutions, developers, construction and architecture companies and local authorities, mainly in the North of England.

Shelagh is pro development and believes how building comes about is ‘the ultimate form of human self-expression’. Her working life has been associated with city and town plans from policy and ideas with investors and landowners to public/private funding, managing the implementation of specific schemes in local neighbourhoods.

Having seen many policy shifts across the years, she works within contemporary local government structures, investment markets and regulatory frameworks seeking to overcome the many constraints to development.

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