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