John has worked with HLM on projects for more than fifteen years and joined the practice as an associate and masterplanning lead in June 2021. John’s an experienced development masterplanner, urban designer and architectural designer. He has a proven background in the delivery and project management of award-winning, complex large-scale masterplan projects.
Known for his bold and exciting design vision, John has a clear and reliable commercial awareness relating to land and property assets, teamed with extensive knowledge of the planning system. He has experience in providing masterplan leadership to consultant teams for large-scale projects across a range of local authority, residential, new-city frameworks, mixed use, education, government estates, aviation, defence, and other commercial development sectors.
John’s passion lies in exploring the option of reinvigorating towns and villages that we already have, versus building brand new communities. He believes that masterplanning can instigate and influence discussion on how revitalisation of our existing built-up areas can evolve, generating ideas and looking at ways to create exactly what we need. This perspective is critical in the planning of a carbon-neutral future and John finds it heartening to see how HLM can play a part in such crucial collaborations.