Sally Ormiston (Chair)

Sally Ormiston is Head of Consulting at Rural Solutions, one of the UK’s leading planning, design and consultancy practices helping landowners to create remarkable spaces and enterprises in the countryside. Having worked in ‘place making’ in one guise or another for more than 20 years, Sally works with clients looking to generate value from land and property assets through development and diversification, shaping strategies and projects to deliver a range of rural development outcomes from individual schemes to large scale masterplans. With projects from housing, to leisure and tourism, renewable energy, nature based solutions, commercial, agriculture, sport, and more, Sally and the team at Rural Solutions have helped to deliver hundreds of successful diversification projects across the UK.