Planning

Our team includes

• Elle Cass Head of Strategic Built Environment Growth - Planning, EIA & Development Consultancy - Europe
  

  Elle is responsible for advising on a number of major planning projects nationally in the UK and has particular expertise in the housing, mixed use, retirement, care and leisure sectors. Elle has extensive experience of the house building industry and the management and resolution of a breadth of planning related issues that arise throughout the development process from pre-acquisition through to post development issues. She has represented clients and negotiated with LPAs across the UK.

• Adrian French Technical Director
  

  Adrian is Planning and EIA Lead for the UK Power Sector. He is a Chartered Town Planner, Chartered Resource & Waste Manager, Chartered Environmentalist, and a Fellow of the Institute of Quarrying. He also a member of the National Infrastructure Planning Association (NIPA) and the Energy Managers Association (EMA). 

  His extensive experience includes complex planning projects including: the masterplanning of business parks, urban extensions and university campuses; renewable energy development (wind, solar photovoltaics and pumped storage hydro), standby generation (gas, diesel, biofuel and battery), waste management facilities, wastewater treatment schemes, mineral operations, vertical farming, and port and marine interface developments.

  With over 30 years’ in local government, in consultancy and in renewables development, Adrian has significant experience managing planning applications and multidisciplinary teams working on power, utility, and infrastructure development projects

• Paul McTernan Technical Director
  

  Paul has over 30 years’ experience in planning and strategic masterplanning, with specialist knowledge of town and city-wide regeneration strategies, rural and urban renewal projects, urban design and masterplanning. Paul also has specialism in tourism and working with Local Planning Authorities and private clients to develop funding streams for heritage assets and redundant sites as part of the masterplanning process.

• Graham Jenkins Technical Director
  

  Graham has nearly 40 years’ experience within the minerals sector. His specialism is in minerals planning, where he acts for a wide portfolio of national and local clients. Graham has been responsible for the project management of over 150 environmental impact assessments for minerals projects throughout the UK, with a very high success rate in terms of securing planning permissions. He also has extensive experience of presenting evidence at public inquiries, including advocacy, and at hearings and Local Development Plan examinations.