Independent advice, led by an experienced Chartered Town Planner
Mark works directly with developers, landowners, occupiers, homeowners, public sector bodies and multidisciplinary consultant teams who need planning input that is proportionate, practical and grounded in the decision-making process.
His experience ranges from advising on individual sites and planning appeals to leading and managing planning inputs for major residential, mixed-use, infrastructure, education, commercial, retail and leisure projects. Clients benefit from direct senior-level involvement throughout, from an initial appraisal and planning strategy through to submission, negotiation, determination or appeal.
Extensive planning experience
Mark's wider career includes senior positions in large national and multinational businesses together with earlier roles at specialist planning consultancies. This has given him experience of working with clients of very different scales, from homeowners, landowners and small developers to local authorities, nationwide housebuilders, public sector bodies and major organisations.
He has led and supported planning work for residential schemes comprising hundreds of homes, major mixed-use development, utilities and infrastructure programmes, policy-constrained sites and complex planning inquiries. His experience includes coordinating consultant teams, engaging with local planning authorities and statutory consultees, resolving technical and policy constraints, and presenting robust planning cases.
Experience across public and private sectors
During his wider career, Mark has provided planning input for organisations including the Department for Education, the Ministry of Justice, the University of Lancashire, utilities and infrastructure operators, local authorities and national commercial operators. He has also acted as quantitative lead on retail and town centre studies for local planning authorities, analysing expenditure patterns and future retail and leisure floorspace requirements.
His work spans planning applications, pre-application advice, appeals, site appraisals, development strategy, permitted development, planning policy, retail impact and capacity assessments, Green Belt and other sensitive locations. Across every instruction, the aim is to identify the principal issues early, explain the available options clearly and build a credible, evidence-led planning case.
Professional background
Mark is a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and holds an MSc in International Spatial Planning from Newcastle University and a BSc (Hons) in Planning, Environment and Development from Birmingham City University.
“Clear planning advice should make a project easier to understand, easier to manage and easier to direct.”
Mark Alexander MRTPI
