"I met Mark in 2014 as part of the award winning Ambition Broxbourne initiative. It became clear very early on that the Your Town initiative had a critical role to play in shaping and driving effective community engagement in the plans to improve Hoddesdon and surrounding area.

Four years on the Your Town initiative is as relevant as ever and I consider that it has a central role to play in taking forward the agenda around town centres and in particular how they can be reimaged and reinvented for 21st Century living."