2385 Gideon Amos

 

Constituency : Taunton  And  Wellington  2024-?

Gideon  easily took  the  redrawn  seat  of  Taunton and  Wellington  from  the  Tories. He  contested  the  previous  seat  of  Taunton  Dene  in  2017 and  2019  coming  second.

Gideon was  born m  Somerset and went to Wells Cathedral School. He  studied  architecture at Oxford  Polytechnic. He  qualified as  a  chartered  architect. He  worked in  the  private  sector then became  a director of Planning Aid for London in 1997. In 2000 he  became  chief  executive  of  the  Town and  Country  Planning  Association. He  sat  on  advisory  committeses  of  the  Department  for  Communities  and  Local Government. In  2010  he  became  a  commissioner  of  the  Infrastructure  Planning Commission. He  co-founded  the  planning  consultancy Amos  Ellis  Consulting in 2015. In 2009 he  was awarded  an  OBE.He  has  also  served  in  the  Territorial  Army.

He  serverd  on  Oxford  City  Council from 1990 to 1996