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David Bird
Director - Transport and Mobility Planning
Europe
Biography
David is a Director at SLR with more than 40 years’ transport and mobility experience in the development industry. He is renowned as being an expert in the UK for combining masterplanning and placemaking with sustainable mobility. Sustainable mobility is at the core of David’s work. He advises developers on the rapidly changing approach to mobility and the implications on contemporary development planning.
David’s areas of expertise include transport masterplanning, advising on transport policy and directing innovative transport approaches to development schemes, in particular new large strategic settlements.
Through bespoke solutions and by challenging the norms, he enables development to be brought forward positively and sustainably, simultaneously optimising commercial value and placemaking to make projects a success.
David is a recognised industry leader and often acts as expert witness at Select Committees, Public Inquiries, Tribunals and Hearings for a wide variety of public and private clients.
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