Joanne is a MRTPI Chartered Town Planner and MRICS Chartered Surveyor and a Senior Associate in the Newmark Planning and Development team. She has over fifteen years’ experience providing strategic and property specific advice to a wide range of landowners, developers, and potential occupiers in both the private and public sectors.
Joanne has a thorough understanding of planning matters affecting the London property market alongside well-established connections with officers of various London local planning authorities as well as with the GLA. These strong relationships are particularly important as they allow her to proactively engage with officers early on in projects on behalf of her clients.
Working across a wide range of mixed use, commercial and residential development proposals she has considerable experience working with multi-disciplinary teams on long term complex projects. She identifies her clients’ objectives at the outset of each instruction, and project manages the full planning application process to ensure objectives and deadlines are met.
Joanne specialises in advising on Purpose Built Student Accommodation schemes and has a detailed understanding of the key issues facing this sector. She sits on a cross-discipline group which brings together experts from across Newmark to develop holistic strategies for our clients operating in the sector. She advises operators and universities themselves on student housing matters including policy application, scheme design and planning applications and obligations. Clients have included Campus Living Villages, University of Goldsmiths, University of Kingston and Unite Students.
Joanne also has expertise advising on heritage projects and has significant experience dealing with historic buildings and development in sensitive settings. Having experience in advising private individuals on significant residential development proposals in Central London through to Large Country Estates. This has included obtaining planning permission and listed building consent for the restoration and extension of 1 Palace Green, a Grade II* listed building and applications to restore and sensitively extend and refurbish Grade I listed houses, often including development within Registered Parks and Gardens.
The foundation of her experience in dealing with historic buildings, comes from experience advising large Estates such as The Church Commissioners, Cadogan Estates and Grosvenor. In addition to advising on development proposals across their portfolio of properties (the majority of which involve heritage issues), work for these clients includes helping to set and develop overarching strategies looking at the Estate as a whole and building relationships with key stakeholders and advising and commenting on emerging policy.