Molly Stroyman

Molly has over 20 years of experience working in built environment roles across quality assurance, sustainable landscape, and stakeholder engagement. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary planning, inclusive governance and co-design, supporting communities to have a say in infrastructure changes which directly impact them, while helping project teams to deliver more innovative, ecological and equitable solutions.

As part of the fifth cohort of Public Practice, Molly took on the role of Stewardship and Community Development Officer for East Herts District Council, where she has been working across the Harlow & Gilston Garden Town (HGGT) partnership to progress stewardship S106 commitments for Gilston. She stayed in the role after finishing the Associate Programme and is continuing her work with the five partnering authorities, developers, community and other key stakeholders, to build greater quality and equality into scalable stewardship and governance arrangements.

Her work includes developing the HGGT Stewardship Principles & Objectives that form the basis of all evolving stewardship approaches, including the emerging HGGT Stewardship Charter. Together with the cross-authority team and collaborators, she has also worked on the HGGT Quality of Life social value mapping and monitoring project funded by the DLUHC PropTech Engagement Fund. This work highlights the needs of the local community to inform future approaches to community-led stewardship, masterplanning, and monitoring. She recently presented the project at the House of Commons as part of an update session from the TCPA New Communities Group.

Molly has also established a Stewardship Working Group for local authorities, focused on climate resiliency, social equity, socio-economic benefit, and scaling up impact for new and existing communities.