BALLARAT STATION PRECINCT REDEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MEMBERS BIOGRAPHIES
Surname
First Name
Eade
(Chair)
Rodger
Allen
Peter
Hartigan
John
Biography
Professor Rodger Eade is an academic and former senior manager at Victoria University. Rodger was trained
as an economist and originally taught in planning and economics, after working as a Research Economist at the
ANZ Bank and the Commonwealth Bureau of Roads. After teaching full-time for almost 20 years, Rodger was a
Head of School Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Arts and a series of senior management positions. He is a Senior
Sessional Panel Member at Planning Panels Victoria. Rodger has wide experience in planning, and has been a
member of and has chaired Panels for significant developments including the Scoresby Transport Corridor,
now Eastlink, and Advisory Committees for Logical Inclusions and Standard Development Contributions. He
has held other government appointments chairing significant planning projects. Rodger has been a Director of
the Western Region Health Centre Ltd and Ozford Institute of Higher Education and Chair of the former.
Rodger is an experienced and qualified Company Director.
Peter Allen has over 40 years experience in the planning industry, primarily in management and executive
roles at the state government level. He was one of the architects of Victoria’s statewide planning system and
the Victoria Planning Provisions and played a leading role in Victoria’s ongoing programs of planning system
reform. He is a former Chair of the National Land Use Planning and Building Codes Taskforce and the National
Development Assessment Forum. Peter has also represented Victoria at Metropolis, an organisation of major
world cities.
John is a former senior executive in the Victorian public service. John has extensive experience in policy
formulation, corporate and business planning, risk and issues management, project management and
governance, stakeholder engagement and organisational change. He has extensive knowledge of government
particularly in public transport and roads planning, and in the land management and local government sectors.
John has a degree in civil engineering and a Graduate Diploma in Public Administration. He is now a Sessional
Member of Planning Panels Victoria as well as working as a freelance consultant specialising in transport policy
and planning and project governance and assurance.
Keddie
Ann
Ann Keddie is an architect and urban designer. She was a director of Cunningham & Keddie Architects for 20
years, a firm which specialised in housing, landscape and urban design, with a reputation for participatory
design processes. She sat on the Historic Buildings Council for a 10 year period, was a member of The City Link
Authority and a former member of the Minister’s Priority Development Panel, the Growth Area Authority and
was Chair of the Building Appeals Board. Currently Ann is a Sessional Member of Planning Panels Victoria and
the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (Planning List).