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Councillor for Hove Park
Conservative Group Spokesperson on Health and Welbeing

Professor Samer Bagaeen was elected to Brighton and Hove City Council in May 2019. Samer is a Chartered Town Planner, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

 

He is employed by the RICS in London as the ‘Thought Leadership Relationships Manager’ working with corporates, government and with the NGO sector on sustainability, resilience and the future of the built environment professions. He is Founding Professor of Planning & Urban Resilience at the University of Kent in Canterbury, and before that, he worked with 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation as Associate Director with the City Relationships team where he delivered cross-cutting urban resilience strategies for Amman, Ramallah, Rome and Byblos.

 

Samer established the urban planning school in Brighton in the UK in 2008 with cross sector and professional body support and before that worked at the universities of Aberdeen and Strathclyde.

 

Samer was born in Amman, Jordan, where he completed is O-Levels at the Bishop’s School, an Anglican organisation, before moving to Hove in 1988 to sit for his A-Levels at Davies’s College on Cromwell Road where he held a King Hussein of Jordan Scholarship.

 

In the late 1990s, he served as the training programme and master plan coordinator with the Geneva based NGO, the Welfare Association’s Old City of Jerusalem Reviltalisation Programme. He was based in Jerusalem for two years. He returned to Jordan served as Director of Urban Studies at the National Resources Investment and Development Cooperation with responsibility for master planning former military sites. He went on to write 2 books on social sustainability in gated communities and 1 on the brownfield regeneration of former defence estates.

 

Samer has served as Trustee of the Town and Country Planning Association, the world’s oldest town planning charity in London, and of Resilience Brokers, a UK-based global impact movement. He had previously served as a Trustee of the Royal Town Planning Institute in London.​

 

He currently sits on the governing body at Cardinal Newman Catholic School in Hove having previously served as a governor for 8 years at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Kemptown.

 

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Councillor Samer Bagaeen is the Councillor for Hove Park ward

Samer Bagaeen

Councillor for Hove Park
Conservative Group Spokesperson on Health and Welbeing

Professor Samer Bagaeen was elected to Brighton and Hove City Council in May 2019. Samer is a Chartered Town Planner, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

 

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Overgrown verges in Hove Park

Rise in pet injuries cause for concern

Saturday, 30 July, 2022

A sharp rise in pet injuries from the city’s weed-strewn verges and pavements has been reported by veterinary clinics in Brighton & Hove - providing another indication that the council needs to reconsider its policies on weeding.

 

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Cllr Samer Bagaeen's written question: Black Rock

Thursday, 7 July, 2022
Hove Park Ward Councillors Vanessa Brown & Samer Bagaeen

Focus on fixing issues in Hove Park

Saturday, 14 May, 2022

There have been issues to fix at our much loved Hove Park, with a twice-vandalised defibrillator, bins that are too small and increasing collisions on a shared path at the forefront of residents’ concerns over recent months.

 

Conservative Candidate for the Rottingdean Coastal by-election Lynda Hyde at The Undercliff Walk

Lynda Hyde announces plan to upgrade beach infrastructure along Undercliff Walk

Wednesday, 6 April, 2022

5km popular coastal walk needs strategy to bring facilities up to standard;
Lynda Hyde puts forward proposal for strategic plan for the Undercliff to instigate improvements, if elected on 5th May;

Conservative Councillor Samer Bagaeen

A ‘D’ for Denial, not Disclosure

Tuesday, 2 November, 2021

At a Full Council that was unfortunately cut short on 21 October, when asked about how the Green administration and the Council were measuring climate transition risks and mitigating their impacts on the residents of the city, the Leader of the Council mounted an attack on factual claims the Coun

Conservative Group Leader Steve Bell

'Green' Council given 'D' for climate change performance

Saturday, 21 August, 2021

In recent weeks there has been plenty of talk from Brighton and Hove City Council’s Green Administration on the topic of climate change, particularly following the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report.

 

Cllr Nick Lewry and Cllr Dawn Barnett with their petition at Stapley Road Hangleton

Finally, a victory for Conservative common sense

Thursday, 22 July, 2021

Conservatives celebrate quadruple win at key active travel meeting; say common sense has prevailed at last.
Wins on Old Shoreham Road; Westdene Park & Ride; Stapley Road and A259 extension cap a good night for the local party

Hove Park Ward issues update with Cllr Samer Bagaeen!

Thursday, 10 June, 2021

Latest TV News Editor, Mark Walker, speaks to the Conservative Councillor for the Hove Park Ward, Samer Bagaeen, for an update on Brighton and Hove City Council, including with climate change issues, recycling and cycle lanes.

TV Interview with Councillor Samer Bagaeen

Friday, 18 December, 2020

Latest TV News Editor, Mark Walker, speaks to the Conservative Councillor for the Hove Park Ward, Samer Bagaeen, in this Christmas Special programme about the COVID-19 Tier System in our city during the coronavirus pandemic.

TV Interview with Councillor Samer Bagaeen

Saturday, 14 November, 2020

Latest TV News Editor, Mark Walker, speaks to the Conservative Councillor for the Hove Park Ward, Samer Bagaeen, about the second lockdown in our city during the coronavirus pandemic, the closure of gyms and other amenities as a result of COVID 19, as well as a local update on the Hove Park Ward,

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Room G84, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ
07562 437606
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