DAVID LOCK ASSOCIATES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate Urban Designer
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- Media and Communications Co - Ordinator
Andrew very much shares the aspirations of his colleagues to create special places in which people want to live, work and enjoy leisure; and which deliver the objectives of DLA's clients. The challenge of managing complex projects, including preparing planning applications for large-scale developments which require the coordination of work by sizeable teams, is something Andrew thrives on. He enjoys making the high-level case for a project through writing a Planning Statement or speaking at a Local Plan Examination just as much as he appreciates the opportunity to wrestle with the detail of draft chapters of an Environmental Statement or the minutiae of policies in an emerging Local Plan.
At the heart of Arwel's work is the belief that good geography translates into good places and that planning is about delivering the essential components of society. This includes logistics, large-scale mixed communities, urban regeneration and minerals. His experience includes promotion through all levels of plan making and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, preparing applications (including for EIA development) and securing permission. Beyond planning permission, he advises clients on disposals and implementation and provides ongoing strategy advice.
Job Titles:
- Senior Planner / Urban Designer
Job Titles:
- Business Manager
- Company Secretary
Francesca has over 15 years of planning practice, strengthened by her early career in the public sector. She has a diverse set of skills which is reflected in her broad range of project work from strategic site promotion and visioning for new employment-led mixed-use communities; leading on outline planning and EIA for some 2,500 homes at North East Cardiff; and her recent work with Councils in North Essex and South West Herts to help explore constraint and capacity as part of place-shaping strategies and growth studies. Her rounded knowledge, inquiring mind, and strong client relationships support her creative and collaborative approach; always with a motivation to deliver best outcomes for clients and communities. Francesca shares DLA's commitment to help nurture creative and critical thinking practitioners, she supports DLA's recruitment and collaboration with university networks and has shaped DLA's Mentoring Strategy.
Heather has combined her extensive experience in planning and delivering large-scale development with her interest in geography, long term planning and placemaking to develop a specialism in spatial planning at the strategic scale. Heather takes a creative approach to consultancy commissions, finding new ways through the planning system to make sure projects are grounded in best practice. She uses her geographer's background to shape locations for new growth; her analysis and narrative skills to prepare compelling planning strategies; and her practitioner's experience to embed high quality development at the heart of sustainable places.
Helen's expertise, developed over 15 years at the forefront of strategic planning and regeneration, encompasses work at a variety of scales from the promotion of strategic scale development to the negotiation of the finer details of an infrastructure scheme, and everything in between. In recent years she has taken particular pleasure in witnessing the new places and communities she has helped shape and secure permission for be implemented. A key example of this is the Houlton scheme in Rugby, which Helen has had a lead role in planning since its allocation in 2011, which is now a thriving, growing community. Helen is driven by the desire to contribute to the effort to build more homes and a pride in helping to deliver new and improve existing communities. Helen's approach to planning is centred around the belief that collaboration and communication, with clients, local authorities, stakeholders and the public, is imperative to delivering positive outcomes. Balanced with a keen commercial understanding, Helen enjoys providing solutions led planning advice to clients. Helen's current focus is on balancing the provision of planning advice to master developer clients on major long term schemes, to the contrasting challenges of public sector commissions, including spatial strategies and town centre masterplans in new and different parts of the country.
Joanne is a qualified planner and urban designer responsible for a varied portfolio of projects ranging from large-scale urban extensions, including the 4,000 dwelling expansion of Canterbury, to the production of strategies for complex regeneration challenges, such as the Bradford City Plan. Her focus is working closely with clients and co-consultants to deliver intelligent, creative and practical solutions for more sustainable and attractive places. With over 25 years of professional practice, Jo is still motivated by the idea that new and necessary development can enhance rather than detract from the quality of life in our towns and cities. Her combined skills allow Jo to focus on how, through the processes of planning, design and development, we can achieve better and more sustainable places, delivering great results for future users and for DLA's clients.
With over 25 years of consultancy experience, Julia has engaged in a vast array of planning and masterplanning work. Still, she relishes the challenges that arise on a near daily basis and remains driven by the desire to create and reinvent places in a way that enlightens and lifts the heart. Julia has prepared a number of innovative development frameworks including award-winning strategies for the creation of a new town centre at Brierley Hill/Merry Hill and the transformation of the Renfrew Riverside in Glasgow. The recurring theme is complexity and scale: Julia's focus now is on managing large-scale, mixed-use projects with a focus upon regeneration and invention of commercial opportunity.
Job Titles:
- Accounts Manager
- Executive
Job Titles:
- Digital Visualisation Specialist
Partner at DLA since 2003, Nick brings a committed and commercially aware approach to the delivery of client and public authority objectives. His record is one of strong client relationships and facilitating implementation; as an experienced expert witness, he has a strong record of appeal success. His present accomplishments embrace the planning and delivery of major, large-scale housing and mixed use developments across the country - which include the new town of Cranbrook in Devon, a national exemplar of infrastructure-led delivery and the Swindon New Eastern Villages.
Robert fervently believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to have a decent place to live, work and enjoy and that positive planning can help deliver this for a better society. He specialises in providing both strategic and detailed advice to global investors, property companies and local authorities, advising on commercial, industrial, logistics, medical and residential schemes. His advice ranges from conception to submission through to negotiating legal agreements and implementation. His expertise also encompasses promoting schemes at appeal and where appropriate at High Court.
Job Titles:
- Senior Development Surveyor / Planner
Job Titles:
- Associate Urban Designer / Planner
Simon is an urban designer and chartered landscape architect whose work encompasses conceptual thinking and visioning for the largest scale strategic projects, site master plans and development frameworks, through to the production of design codes and detailing for implementation. By approaching projects with an open mind and a lateral perspective, Simon articulates complex design challenges into development proposals which are creative, innovative, robust and deliverable.
Simon's fundamental motivation is to ‘deliver the vision;' not just to produce quality master plans and concepts, but to engage with stakeholders to ensure delivery of quality places for people. Most notably, Simon is heavily involved in strategic scale spatial masterplanning within the NIC Ox-MK-Cam Corridor, and several very large-scale Garden Community proposals for both public and private sectors.
Since qualifying as a chartered architect and urban designer, Stephen has accumulated over 20 years of development experience gained through his time in private practice, local authority and consultancy. His work has spanned brownfield and greenfield development; from designing large-scale master plans for urban extensions and new settlements to developing ambitious and imaginative regeneration strategies for some of the UK's major towns and cities. He feels privileged to be involved with projects being delivered on the ground to see the positive impacts these can have on people's lives.