Claire Bennie in conversation with Isabel Allen

Interrailing in middle age, learning from life on the continent, the joys of 1930s mansion blocks and a proposal to give architects the skills required to write a decent brief and be an effective client. Claire Bennie is a former development director at Peabody and the founder and director of Municipal, a consultancy that works with visionary public landowners to  improve the quality of our housing and neighbourhoods.