Julia pursues positive and trail blazing approaches to planning and master planning successful new places and reinventing old ones, for both public and private sector clients. She leads on big, difficult things; unravelling complexity (or at least making it comprehensible!) and thinking laterally to shape proposals, structure planning consents and safeguard the right outcomes for client and community.  As project director across David Lock Associates’ Urban&Civic portfolio, delivering new communities is a major component of Julia’s project work.

Julia became Managing Partner in 2014, with a clear mission to help steer the practice through transition from a founder/owner business model, into an era of employee ownership.  More than 10 years on, Julia continues to lead the operational management of the business.

Specialisms

• New communities – planning, co-ordination and delivery

• Town centre renewal

• Strategic development strategies and policies

• Effecting design control through consents, guidance and design coding

Roles

• Member of the Raynsford Review of Planning in England Task Force

• Greater Cambridge Accelerator Pilot Project