Ian is a planning director with 15 years of experience advising clients across England and Ireland. He has significant experience across a variety of sectors. Ian advises clients through development management and plan making, working within and managing multidisciplinary teams.
Ian has a strong drive for adding social value through planning. He served as the chair of the Northwest Regional Town Planning Institute¡¯s Regional Management Board in 2021 and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) champion in 2022. Ian belongs to our internal EDI group and is helping to develop a planning tool to provide a route for school children from all backgrounds to access planning careers.
Outside of work, Ian can generally be found doing any activity that involves wheels or sliding down a mountain. He is a keen cyclist and motorcyclist and very fond of track days and snowboarding holiday. Ian has recently been embracing middle age with a newfound love of barbequing and mowing stripes in lawns!