Eleanor is a Chartered Town Planner with over 12 years’ experience in private sector consultancies. During that time, she has gained a wide range of experience working on projects to deliver large-scale residential, retail, commercial, and institutional developments. She has experience of dealing with complex planning issues including housing delivery, the need for specialist housing, Green Belt review, retail store delivery and EIA development; as well as advertising consents and other development control matters.
Clients that Eleanor has worked with include a range of public and private sector organisations: housebuilders, national retailers, care home providers, affordable housing providers, land promoters and Government bodies from across the UK. She has a particular interest in strategic promotion of sites for large-scale development through local plans, as well as assisting with the subsequent preparation of planning applications and appeals for such schemes. Her experience includes promoting sites for landowners, land promoters and housebuilders; overseeing the progress of site from promotion to allocation, to outline permission and securing detailed consents that can ensure delivery.
Whilst at Claremont Planning, Eleanor has assisted in the promotion of land through the Local Plan process, including representing landowners, promoters and national housebuilders at Local Plan Examination hearings and participating in Mineral & Waste Plans. She has prepared applications for redevelopment of sites in the Green Belt, produced Environmental Statement Chapters for an EIA residential development, as well as regularly preparing application documentation for full applications and reserved matters submissions.
Eleanor is also adept at housing supply calculations and has undertaken reviews of housing land supply for various authorities to provide a regional perspective. This has enabled strategic advice to be provided to clients at a regional level alongside the implications of the Housing Delivery Test in relation to under-performing authorities.
