Officers
President : Dave Wetzel
As well as being President of the Labour Land Campaign, Dave Wetzel FRSA FCILT is Managing Director of 'Transforming Communities' the consultancy he founded in 2008. For eight years he was the first Vice-Chair of Transport for London and was also Chair of London Buses and TfL's Safety, Health and Environment Committee.
His career has included working as a student engineer with Wilkinson Sword, as a London Bus Conductor, Driver and Inspector, as a Manager for Initial Services operating a small fleet of vans in East London, in aviation with British Airways and as Editor of Civil Aviation News (an Airport Workers' monthly paper).
A Fellow of both the Royal School of Arts and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Dave has also been Chair of the GLC's Transport Committee, Leader of Hounslow Council, a founder member of a radical housing association, chair of Hounslow Council's Planning Committee, Director of the transport disability campaigning charity DaRT (Dial-a-Ride and Taxicard Users), President of London University's Transport Studies Society and Vice-Chair of a local Chamber of Commerce in Cornwall.
Secretary & Treasurer: Carol Wilcox
Carol is a software engineer by profession but with a degree in economics. It was whilst studying at Essex University in the early 80s, disappointed that there appeared to be no satisfactory solutions to economic ills, that she first read about land value taxation. From that time she was puzzled why 'the only tax which meets all the criteria for a good tax' was ignored by policymakers.
By good fortune she discovered the Labour Land Campaign at the 1996 Labour Party Conference and embarked on her 'real economics' education. She is also Secretary of Christchurch Labour Party.
Honourable Founder Member : Alan Spence
Former LLC Organiser, Alan Spence's involvement with the 'Land Question' stemmed from his involvement in community activity to thwart property speculators' ambitions in Covent Garden during the early 1970s. The community's alternative proved successful and saw Covent Garden renovated whilst retaining its character of being of a human scale for housing, business, entertainment and culture.
Prior to that, Alan had been involved in the trade union movement in the engineering sector of the aircraft industry, and was the Communist Party candidate for the constituency which includes the City of London in the 1983 General Election.