Birmingham:
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Paul
Rouse BSc (Hons) MRICS
Director
Paul Rouse heads the Planning Consultancy division of
Savills’ Birmingham Office. Paul has 10 years
professional experience, advising: landowners, occupiers,
developers and financial institutions. Areas of practice
include: planning appraisals, planning applications
and appeals, expert witness, economic and retail need
and impact assessment, site search and sequential site
assessment, strategic advice, policy representations
and general advice with regard to planning law. Paul
provides commercially focused advice with an emphasis
on maximising the value of property for clients.
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Bristol:
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Nick Matthews MA MTCP MRTPI
Associate Director
Nick is an Associate Director and the Head of the Bristol Planning Team. Having joined from the Planning Inspectorate, Nick has extensive experience of national, regional, strategic and local planning policy, guidance and procedures. Since joining Savills, Nick has been involved in the preparations and submissions of a number of high profile planning applications including an outline planning application for the regeneration of Millbay Docks at Plymouth on behalf of English Cities Fund. He has also submitted representations on a range of policy matters and has appeared at the South West Regional Spatial Strategy Examination in Public and a number of Local Development Framework Examinations on behalf of various clients.
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Cambridge:
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Garth
Hanlon (Hons) MSc MRTPI
Director
Garth is a Chartered Town Planner and heads the Cambridge
planning team. He provides planning advice to a wide range
of clients throughout the country on a broad range of
planning matters and is Head of Planning in Savills Cambridge
office. He has extensive experience of strategic projects
and undertakes application and appeal work on behalf of
major development companies and landowners. Recent projects
include masterplanning for the expansion of Sudbury in
Suffolk and new hospital developments and redevelopments
on behalf of NHS Trusts.
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Transport planning - Cambridge:
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Mike Horsfall BEng (Hons) CEng MICE FIHT
Head of Transport Planning
Mike Horsfall is Head of Savills Transport Planning based in the Cambridge office. A Chartered Civil Engineer, he has over 30 years experience of working in the transportation profession, in the UK and overseas. He is both a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Institution of Highways and Transportation. Mike has worked extensively on major transport and development projects in both public and private sector, involving all primary modes of transport, including maritime and aviation. He has extensive experience in all aspects of the analysis of transport impacts, traffic modelling and technological innovation in the transport field.
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Cardiff:
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Chris Potts BA (Hons) MRTPI
Director
Chris has over 18 years experience in town planning consultancy, providing development advice to the private and public sectors. He is a chartered Town Planner with broad experience across most development sectors. His main areas of work include sports developments, major regeneration proposals and retail schemes. Chris is Head of the Cardiff office, although his work is UK-wide.
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Geraint John BSc (Hons.) DipTP MRTPI
Director
Geraint has a significant track record in co-ordinating multi-disciplinary teams assembled for large scale food and non-food retail and other development projects in urban and other locations. Geraint has sound experience in providing tactical advice and the making of representations to both the development plan process and planning applications. He has expertise in complex or high profile sites and environmental impact assessment and experience in the project management of the planning system, taking schemes through each stage of the development planning process from preliminary advice and appraisal to planning application submission and monitoring. Geraint has extensive public sector development control and forward planning experience gained in varying environments. Geraint is Head of Planning in Cardiff.
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Exeter:
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Edward Heynes MA MRTPI PGCM FRSA
Director
Edward has over 20 years experience of the planning process both within local government and private practice. He has particular experience in development control, dealing with a range of projects including housing, employment, leisure and sports related development and acts for both developer and public sector clients. Ed also has experience of the development plan process dealing with large-scale greenfield housing and employment sites.
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Glasgow:
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Alastair Wood MA (Hons) AIEMA MRTPI MRICS
Director
Alastair Wood heads the Planning Consultancy division for Savills in Scotland. Alastair has over 12 years of professional experience working in both consultancy and client side development. Alastair has led a number of development projects across all property sectors from small scale residential projects to major mixed use urban regeneration schemes. Alastair has worked with landowners, occupiers, developers, financial institutions and public sector bodies. Areas of practice include: planning appraisals, planning applications and appeals, expert witness, environmental impact assessment, economic and retail need and impact assessment, site search and sequential site assessment, strategic advice, policy representations and general advice on planning law. The emphasis of the planning advice provided by the Scottish Planning Team is to maximise added value.
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London (Lansdowne House):
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Roger Hepher BA (Hons) MTP FRICS MRTPI
Director - Head of National Planning
Roger has nearly 30 years experience in Planning and Regeneration with wide-ranging experience in London and the Home Counties, and throughout the UK, for commercial clients of many different types, local authorities and voluntary organisations. He is frequently appointed as lead consultant on development teams, and instructed to give expert evidence at public inquiries and other hearings. Specialist in master planning the development/redevelopment of complex sites, and in retail and leisure development. Roger is head both of the national Planning team, and the London team.
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Mike Derbyshire BA (Hons) MRTPI
Director and Joint Head of Central London Planning Team
Mike is a chartered town planner with 20 years experience. A former head of planning, Mike has brought this experience to bear on a number of high profile Central London projects, focussing on Westminster in particular early. Savills have been retained by the London Clinic to provide planning advice on their quantum leap project, a £100 million remodelling, refurbishment and modernisation of the main hospital and other sites in the Harley Street area. Phase, 1, a new Cancer Centre, is under construction Mike has enjoyed a run of successful applications for Caprice Holdings Ltd, most notably a new private members club above the iconic Ivy restaurant due to open in the summer of 2008. He is advising a wide variety of clients on varied projects in Central London.
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John East BA (Hons)
Director and Joint Head of Central London Planning Team
John has 25 yeas planning, development and regeneration experience. He recently joined Savills from local government where he held a number of senior positions in London planning authorities. Before arriving at Savills he was Head of Planning and Transport at the London Borough of Southwark, which has one of the largest regeneration programmes in the country. He has also been the chief planner at the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames and for four years was the Director of Planning at the London Borough of Brent. John brings with him a wealth of experience of steering through major development proposals in the capital including some of the tallest planned schemes in London, the processing of planning applications for national sports stadia (Wembley and Twickenham) and numerous significant mixed-use, housing and estate regeneration schemes.
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Duncan Parr BA (Hons) DUPI DipTP FRGS MRTPI Cgeog MEWI
Director
Duncan has wide planning and development experience gained over 19 years, particularly most recently in relation to mixed use, town centres, leisure, education and brownfield urban regeneration development. He has successfully obtained planning permission by negotiation and on appeal for a wide variety of commercial clients. He has worked with private clients and public sector bodies in research drafting and implementing policy.
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London (West End office):
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Mary
J Power BSc MRICS
Director
Mary is a qualified Chartered
Surveyor and has specialised in town planning and development
advice since 1994. Mary heads the Commercial Planning
team in London. Her experience includes large scale regeneration
schemes, strategic planning advice and developments involving
up to 5,000 homes, retail and leisure portfolio up to
500,000 sqft, commercial development and advice addressing
listed buildings, conservation areas and environmental
designations including AONB, Green Belt and MOL.
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John
Dyke - MA in Geography, MA in Environmental Planning.
Director
John Dyke gained wide experience
in local government with Westminster City Council. His
role at Westminster involved personal responsibility for
major schemes in Central London, presentation to Council
Committees and managing a multi-disciplinary team.
He joined Savills in 1988.
Since then he has provided planning advice to private
and public sector clients on a wide range of projects.
He is a Director. He has particular expertise in securing
planning permission for complex and sensitive schemes
in London. This stems from his understanding of local
authorities, Central government and other interested
parties.
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Leeds:
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Peter Dixon MA MRICS MIHT
Director
Peter is a highly experienced planning consultant with over 20 years of experience. He is equally at home in a project co-ordination/negotiation role and in acting as an expert witness in the public inquiry process. He has particular experience of infrastructure planning; major Green Belt development; employment and distribution developments; retail planning; and the hospitality/leisure sector. Peter heads the Leeds planning team with additional responsibility for the North of England.
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Richard Serra BSc (Hons) DipSURV MRICS MRTPI
Director
Richard is an experienced, dual-qualified consultant with 12 years experience. He has acted equally for the public and private sectors. In addition to mainstream planning and development consultancy, Richard has developed a specialist expertise in regeneration and in particular, compulsory purchase. Richard’s experience also ranges from smaller schemes involving more detailed development control consideration to larger master planning projects where strategic advice is required.
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Manchester:
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Jeremy
Hinds BA(Hons), M.Sc, Dip TP, MRTPI
Director
Over 16 years experience in
commercial planning practice. Jeremy is retained by
a number of retailers, including Matalan, Pets at Home,
Sports World, as well as having strong working relationships
with other retailers such as B&Q, Toys R Us, Argos,
JJB Sports and JD Sports. He also works with a number
of landowners and funds including Legal & General,
Prudential, Hermes, Henderson, , Rreef, Royal London,
Land Securities and Hammerson.
He is currently advising on
schemes across the country which in total amount to
over 5 million sq. ft. Jeremy is well versed in setting
out strategic advice at the earliest stages in the development
process to maximise the chances of success for major
proposals. He advises on a range of schemes, from individual
retail stores in town centres to retail warehouse parks
across the country. He is asked to advise clients on
tactics before and immediately after sites have been
acquired. This approach helps to ensure that clients
can fully appraise what risks are being incurred, and
make commercial decisions accordingly.
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Milton Keynes:
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Jeremy
Pyatt BA(Hons), M.Sc, Dip TP, MRTPI
Director
Jeremy has over 16 years experience in planning having worked in Local Government for 8 years. He has significant experience at a senior level and has worked for a range of private and public sector clients, gaining particular experience in the educational and residential sectors. Jeremy also has experience of promoting large scale strategic sites and complex mixed use proposals. He has also appeared as expert witness at a number of public inquiries and has experience of promoting schemes through the development plan process.
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Nottingham:
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Nick
Grace BA (Hons) Dip TP MRTPI
Associate Director
Nick Grace heads the Planning
team in Savills’ Nottingham Office. He has experience
working in both the public and private sectors. He has
worked for a range of blue chip clients, including Scottish
& Newcastle Plc, The Murphy Group, MCC, Royal Mail,
The Prudential, Tate and Hardy & Hansons Plc. He provides
advice on a range of development control issues, strategic
planning advice, advice on rent review arbitration and
advice on site maximisation and disposal.
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Oxford:
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Roger Smith BA (Hons) BPL DMS MRTPI
Director
Roger’s expertise is principally the promotion of major residential schemes, both brownfield and Greenfield, including securing land through negotiation with landowners and their agents/solicitors, project management of consultancy teams, overseeing the submission of planning applications, negotiation with local planning authorities and other key stakeholders, and securing planning permissions for both outline and detailed proposals. Roger is now the Head of Planning in the Oxford office which comprises a team
of 12 professionals.
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David
J Jackson MA MRTPI
Director
David Jackson has 14 years experience
in the private sector having first obtained an MA in Environmental
Planning from the University of Nottingham. David is Head
of the Oxford Office, his experience covers a variety of
planning projects including a range of major infrastructure
investment schemes, strategic mixed-use urban extensions
and regeneration projects. Recent experience includes
the promotion of an urban extension to Milton Keynes,
EIA for redevelopment of a former munitions factory, and
proposals for a new railway station.
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Southampton:
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Jonathan
Steele BA (Hons) Dip UP MRTPI
Director
Jonathan is an experienced Chartered
Town Planner who heads the planning and urban design team
in the company’s Southampton office. He has significant
experience at a senior level in both local government
and the private sector and has gained a broad range of
experience and a comprehensive knowledge of current urban
and rural planning issues. Responsible for a range of
planning projects, with work including residential, commercial,
leisure, retail and regeneration.
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Colin
Richards BA (Hons) Arch Dip UP MRTPI
Director
Colin's expertise combines town planning, urban design
and architecture. His understanding of the planning system
and his design ability enables him to deliver masterplans
and layouts which fulfil the aims of the client and meet
the aspirations of the local authority. He has strong
graphic presentational skills which make proposals easy
to understand at all levels. With both a degree in Architecture
and Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Planning, Colin has
worked in both the private and public sectors including
Robert Turley Associates Ltd., NHS Estates and RPS. providing
planning and urban design advice. Colin joined Savills
in 2002 and leads the landscape and urban design team
in the southern region.
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Wimborne:
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Richard
Shaw BA (Hons) Dip UD MRTPI
Director - Head of Southern Region Planning
Richard has over 25 years experience
in town planning, environmental consultancy and development
advice to the public and private sectors. He is a Chartered
Town Planner and urban designer. His specialisms include
master planning, urban design, urban regeneration and
environmental assessment. His work includes mixed use,
major transportation, commercial development, housing,
retail and leisure projects for private and public sector
clients. He heads the Wimborne planning team and manages
the Southern region planning division
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Karl
Cradick BA (Hons) MSc MRTPI
Director
Karl Cradick has a BA (First
Class Honours) degree in geography and a MSc degree in
town planning, and he worked for local authorities in
Hertfordshire and Dorset, before becoming a planning consultant
in 1992. Karl’s specialisms include a variety of
large and complex renewable energy projects, major urban
extensions, airports and urban regeneration. Clients include
English Partnerships, Southern Water and SEERA.
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