Artemis Ansell

Multi award-winning and recipient of the prestigious national industry awards: The RTPI and BAME Planners Network for Excellence in Mentoring and Role Model 2024, and, The Planner’s: Woman of Influence 2023, in the public sector. Recently shortlisted in the National Leadership Awards 2025. Artemis is now one of the most sought-after and considered as one of the Country’s leading authorities in transformation, service improvements and delivery, Artemis is a seasoned Director of Planning and Regeneration with over 25 years’ experience – passionate about best practice and promoting great place-making. Having pioneered the Clearance drives to tackle Local Authority backlogs, Artemis has overseen the clearance of over 5000 backlog applications in the last 4 years alone. More recently, in the last 3 years, having been influential the promotion of planning apprenticeships and working closely with universities and placing and introducing over 40 Planning Apprentices into planning departments, across the UK.

Artemis is currently employed in a dual-hatted role as Director of Planning and Regeneration, on behalf of Lichfield District Council and Lichfield West Midlands Traded Services (LATCO of the Local Authority). Artemis is revolutionizing how planning and local authorities function with semi-privatizing functions by creating income streams to re-enforce and support the self-efficiency of statutory function of the Local Authority and able to offer bespoke service delivery functions to other local authorities across the U.K. 

Her sought-after knowledge and experience have seen Artemis in demand to speak at national events on all planning and regeneration-related matters and is one of the government’s foremost voices of influence in setting and navigating national planning policy.