Patricia Cuervo Uría, Regional Delivery Manager at Binnies in the UK, Chartered Planner and fellow member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) discusses her experience in planning for flood risk and discussing the impending challenge of mental health in relation to climate change. With over 18 years of experience in delivering local government services and implementation, we reflect on some large-scale infrastructure and small scale sustainable drainage projects across London and delve deep into the limits to planning and the power of stakeholder engagement.

Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Starsky by Alex Keren (Check out more of his tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vZ3lENfDLjkln8scBJ8mW)

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:59 Guest Intro and a London Walk
5:07 From Biology to Planning
13:37 London's Water in Context
15:46 Flooding and Flood Risk in London
23:26 The Thames Tideway Tunnels
29:46 Stakeholder Involvement in Planning
36:30 From city council to consulting - a change of hats
39:37 What about SuDS?
47:48 Empowerment from the Grenfell Tower Fire
56:15 Mental health and climate change
1:00:09 Patri's current endeavours
1:04:06 Q&A Start
1:04:54 What is innovation?
1:06:32 Key Event, Book person
1:09:22 If you had a magic wand?
1:10:50 Time management
1:12:44 Favourite childhood memory
1:14:43 Advice for young professionals
1:16:48 What would you like to be remembered for?
1:19:21 Where can people reach you?
1:20:05 Final Message
1:20:39 Outro

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