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New Senior Directors and Leadership Team appointments amidst promotions drive

We have promoted three new Senior Directors and appointed two new members to our Leadership Team.

The move comes as we make a number of promotions across our business.

Angela Reeve, Peter Lawson and Jeff Richards have all been promoted to Senior Director roles as we expand our distributed leadership across a number of offices and services.

Midlands-based Angela joined Turley in 2014 and will continue her role as Head of Planning for the region while advising on high-profile projects for national clients. Her role as Senior Director will help shape the growth of the company with a focus on providing strategic advice and developing deeper client relationships.

Peter, who oversaw the opening of our Reading office in 2015, and growing its South East operations, will help us expand our focus on investor led residential and mixed-use schemes across the wider South East and Eastern regions. Sara Dutfield will step into the role of Head of Planning South East.

Bristol based, Jeff, who has led the South West and Wales planning teams since 2016 will now focus on collaborative business development and work across the South West, South East and the Midlands to grow client relationships and access new markets. Huw Jones is promoted to Head of South West and Wales. Huw is supported by the appointments of Director, Owen Francis to Head of Planning Wales and Director, Phil Jones to Head of Planning South West.  

We have also bolstered our Leadership Team with Katy Lightbody, Director in the Heritage, Townscape and Landscape team, and Joanna Turner, Finance Director, joining.

Dave Trimingham, Chief Executive said: 

“I am delighted to announce these well-deserved promotions to valued members of our leadership. It reflects their contribution to our significant growth over recent years.

“As an 100% employee-owned business, we are particularly proud to support career progression at all levels. The wealth of experience and extensive knowledge of the regional and national markets that Angela, Peter and Jeff bring, reinforces our position as a UK and Ireland -wide consultancy offering insightful advice, smart strategy and expert delivery to our clients.”

Elsewhere, our Ireland offices also saw further distributed leadership with Angela Wiggam being promoted to Director, Head of Planning Belfast and Brian Kelly becoming Head of Planning Republic of Ireland & City of Derry~North West.

Meanwhile, John Davison is promoted to Head of Strategic Communications, Ireland. The move follows our successful expansion and growth in the Republic of Ireland since establishing a presence in 2019.

Given the rapid growth and prominence of our national EIA service, we have established a new role with Director, Andy Ricketts becoming Head of EIA.

Marc Timlin takes on the role of Head of Heritage, Townscape and Landscape.

Business Cases and Funding specialist Bindu Pokkyarath is promoted to Director in the Economics team.

Andrea Kellegher is promoted to Director in the Strategic Communications team.

Further Director-level appointments in Planning teams see Kate Donald, Rosie Cotterill and Freya Turtle promoted in the Scotland, Midlands, and London teams respectively.

Elsewhere in the business the following have progressed amongst a bumper round of promotions:

• Alison Maguire, Associate Director, Planning, Scotland
• Carol Darling, Associate Director, Design
• Ella Murfett, Associate Director, Planning, Cambridge
• Kate Dowdall, Associate Director, Landscape, Townscape & VIA
• James Banks, Senior Consultant, EIA
• Jessica Cronin, Senior Consultant, Sustainability
• James Wall, Senior Planner, Scotland
• Hannah Munro, Senior Planner, Scotland
• Laura Eimermann, Senior Planner, South West
• Sarah Hockin, Senior Planner, South East
• Thomas Lord, Senior Planner, North
• Vicky Madden, Senior Planner, Birmingham
• Alice Jones, Consultant, Strategic Communications
• Ryan Simpson, Consultant, Strategic Communications
• Tomasz Jakubiak, Urban Designer

This network of professionals allows us to combine national experience with local market knowledge to offer clients a quality service and unrivalled expertise. 

Speaking about the company-wide promotions, Chrysta Poppitt, Senior Director of HR said:

“I want to congratulate each of our co-owners on their much-deserved promotions. These promotions demonstrate our commitment to nurture and recognise talent, develop and invest in our future leaders and, as a business, grow, diversify and evolve.

“As a purpose driven and employee-owned company, we create a people-focussed culture. The last two years have been challenging for everyone and it’s great to see positive news and progressions which benefit our co-owners, clients and our company. It is critical to our success and future that we foster an inclusive culture where people of all backgrounds feel valued and can build thriving careers”.

1 June 2022