PROFILE AND EXPERIENCE
Geoff has extensive experience of strategic projects and policy formulation for private & public sector clients, and has many contacts (public and commercial) in the planning world.
In consultancy since 2006:
- Local Plan/Core Strategy/Regional Plan Hearings
- Planning Appeal Inquiries for major developments including urban extensions and mineral extraction
- acting as expert witness at Court and Lands Chamber Hearings
- providing strategic advice on development schemes
In Local Government:
member of Government working parties
- chaired joint working parties for growth areas
- the expansion of Stansted Airport
- chaired the Essex Planning Officers Association for several years
- major urban extensions at Harlow
- the development of Stansted Airport
- Waste and Mineral Plans
- examination of the East of England Spatial Strategy