Alan Clark
Alan Clark has been an elected member of Nottingham City Council
for the last 19 years and is currently tasked with bringing
together housing and planning in a single portfolio for the first
time.
Alan has been a member of the development control committee for 19
years, and was a tenants’ and residents’ activist in the 1970s, and
a member of housing committee in the 1980s. The committee's policy
thrust is to ensure a good range of comfortable homes are provided
with a wide mix of tenures, alongside the building of decent
neighbourhoods, some of which need to be transformed.
With plans already laid for Joint Service Centres in three
communities and Building Schools for the Future schemes in several
others, Alan is charged with making sure these fit in
with, rather than conflict with or ignore, other aspects of
physical transformation.
At ward level, representing an outer area, Alan is currently
engaging with a range of communities exploring, through a
questionnaire, what they perceive their neighbourhood to be, and
how they feel about it.
As a governor of three inner-city schools, Alan
is working hard on raising aspiration as well as achievement
in Nottingham's very diverse communities. He also spent
27 years as a teacher in further education.