Our team

Jenny Raggett

Jenny Raggett

Director (Project Coordinator)

Jenny’s career has been as a technical author working in computer research and development. For many years she has, however, also been a campaigner for sustainable transport and better planning. So when there was an opportunity to start a project bringing planning and transport together, it was irresistible, and thus Transport for New Homes was born. Jenny believes that an important part of campaigning is explaining to the non-specialist how the system works in plain language and concepts. That way non-specialists can see where and why things are going wrong and properly appreciate how they can be put right.

Stephen Joseph

Stephen Joseph

Policy Consultant

Stephen Joseph is a transport policy consultant, specialising in urban and local issues and in smart transport. He was appointed a visiting professor at the University of Hertfordshire in December 2018, having received an honorary doctorate from the University in November 2010. At present, Stephen is a trustee of the Foundation for Integrated Transport and is on the steering group of the Foundation’s Transport for New Homes project. He chairs the Smart Transport programme board for Bauer Media and is an adviser to the Rail Devolution Network. He is also chair of the Liverpool City Region Bus Alliance Board. He was Chief Executive of Campaign for Better Transport (formerly Transport 2000) from 1988 to 2018. During that period, he led campaigns to reduce major road building, to increase rail investment including in new/ reopened lines and stations, and to highlight the importance of buses and the impact of cuts in bus services. He was awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1996 for services to transport and the environment.

Tim Pharoah

Transport and Urban Planning Consultant

Tim Pharoah has more than 55 years’ experience of transport, land use planning and urban regeneration in local authorities, private consultancies, and the academic sector. He is a keen advocate of planning for vibrant urban communities through integrated planning, low-impact accessibility, and public realm design. In 2017 he received the Urban Design Group’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Details of his work can be found on his website.

Steve Chambers

Director (Sustainable Transport Campaigner)

Steve is an urban planning and sustainable transport consultant, lecturer and campaigner. He has fought to reduce the cost of rail travel, have better bus services outside London and to get more people walking in more liveable cities.

Geoff Hobbs

Director

Geoff is director of public transport service planning for Transport for London, responsible for planning, development and justification of ideas to change service patterns and frequencies.  A part of this is to both catalyse house building in the first place and to react to usage changes as a result of the city’s evolution. An economist by background, he has thirty years’ experience in public transport having previously worked in various strategic, planning, policy, project, marketing, operational and general management roles. He lives near London and uses public transport more or less every day.

Alice Ridley

Communications Coordinator

With over 20 years in the charity communications sector, Alice has worked on national fundraising and awareness campaigns helping to bring key issues into the public eye and provided a platform for local activists, campaign groups and members of the public to have their stories told on a national stage.