The idea for IMPA emerged from a series of discussions between founding members Gerry McLoughlin and Dr Darragh O'Brien about the potential of an organized, funded group to represent community interests in the planning process. The idea quickly grew and was widely embraced by community groups from all over Melbourne's inner suburbs. IMPA was incorporated in January 2104 and is now led by an elected, voluntary Executive Group.
2019-20 Executive Group
President
Dr Ian Woodcock
Dr. Ian Woodcock is Senior Lecturer, Director of Urban Design in the Department of Architectural and Industrial Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. He has over 30 years experience encompassing practice, research and teaching, across government, private and community sector settings. His research focuses on urban change, sense of place, and the use of design as a research method.
Vice President
Gerry McLoughlin
Gerry is a resident of Balaclava with over 20 years’ experience as a registered architect and urban designer, both in private practice and as a senior Urban Designer/Project Manager with Local Government Authorities and a range of State Government Departments. Her experience includes Urban Design Visioning for Sydney Road and Footscray’s Urban Design Framework which is still the blueprint for urban renewal in Melbourne’s western suburbs.Gerry also co-authored the Urban Design Forum CABE Down Under (renamed AUDI Australian Cities and Towns document. As an executive member of the Community Alliance of Port Phillip (CAPP), in 2013 she organised the Fisherman’s Bend Urban Renewal Area (FBURA) Community forum.
Secretary
Marianne Richards
Recently retiring after 38 years in the public service as a town planner in Victoria and South Australia, Marianne has extensive knowledge and experience in port, airport and freight network planning and development issues. In the late 1990s, Marianne was part of the Victorian Government team that negotiated the basis for airport master planning processes for federally privatised airports and later other Victorian airports. Marianne’s interests include application of transport land use planning policy and development frameworks, processes and initiatives to economic, social and environmental issues; and implementing practical outcomes in land use planning policy frameworks for the long term sustainability of airports, ports and freight networks. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Monash University), a Graduate Diploma of Town Planning (South Australian Institute of Technology) and a Graduate Certificate of Business Administration (Mt Eliza Business School).
Treasurer
Rosa McKenna
Committee Member
Doriana Corda
2018-19 Executive Group
President: Dr Ian Woodcock Vice President:Marianne Richards Secretary:Gerry McLoughlin Treasurer: Rosa McKenna Member Ian Wood
Committee Member: Doriana Corda
2017-18 Executive Group
President: Dr Ian Woodcock Vice President: Marianne Richards Secretary: Gerry McLoughlin Treasurer: Tim Naismith
Committee Member: Ian Wood Committee member: Tina Sheldon Commtttee Member Dr Darragh O’Brien Committee Member Rosa McKenna
2016-17 Executive Group
2015-16 Executive Group
2014-16 Executive Group
2014-15 Executive Group
2014 Executive Group
