abstract:Sir Michael Edward Pitt DL is chair of the Infrastructure Planning Commission, which has the role of considering planning applications for national infrastructure projects under the Planning Act 2008, and was appointed Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate from 1 April 2011.
The Environment Agency said Exercise Watermark was England and Wales's biggest emergency planning exercise, and was one of the recommendations made by Sir MichaelPitt in his review of the summer 2007 floods.