I am the owner and Managing Director of RENEW Planning Limited, a planning and development consultancy formed in December 2011 and based in Holland Park, London. With 20 years experience in the profession and private practice, I am a highly respected practitioner providing commercially-focused planning and development advice across all sectors of the property market. During the course of my professional career I have acted for some of the UK's principal developers, occupiers, land-owners and pension funds and continue to be held in high regard by clients for the honesty and integrity of my advice and ability to deliver optimum planning outcomes.My core areas of expertise consist of providing pre/post-site acquisition feasibility advice, site planning appraisals, planning strategy advice, preparing/submitting planning and related applications, certificates of lawfulness, development plan representations, third party representations, enforcement issues, project managing multi-disciplinary consultancy teams through the planning process, stakeholder and local community consultation strategies and engagement, acting on planning and related appeals (including appearing as expert planning witness at public inquiries), negotiating s106 heads of terms and negotiating optimum planning permissions generally. I also give PADHI advice on the planning implications of developing in the vicinity of major hazardous installations.