Heather is a Planning Partner. Her experience has been honed over three decades working at the interface of planning and design at the strategic scale, advocating for long term spatial planning and placemaking. She takes a creative approach to projects, using her background in geography to shape new growth locations, her analysis and narrative skills to prepare compelling planning strategies and her practitioner's experience to ensure high-quality development is delivered in sustainable places.

In addition to heading up the promotion, planning and delivery of new settlement scale growth at Peterborough and in locations across the Ox-Cam corridor, she led the practice’s public sector award-winning MK2050 Strategic Growth Study and the PAS Toolkit for Effective Delivery of Strategic Sites. She has advised on national policy through the APPG on Health and New Towns as well as representing public and private sector clients at Examination and Inquiry.

Specialisms

• Strategic Planning

• Spatial Visioning

• New Settlements and Garden Communities

• Planning Applications and EIA

• Planning Promotion and Advocacy

Roles

• Academician, Academy of Urbanism

• Expert Witness