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About Us

Quality design and effective planning. Straight up.

As well as being design obsessives and planning perfectionists, we have all got one thing in common at nineteen47. A desire to do things differently. A modern approach in a traditional industry. Fresh ideas in a sometimes prosaic profession. Contemporary design backed up by old-school values. Everything we stand for ensures outstanding results for you. And we are honest too. If we don’t think you will achieve permission for a project, we’ll tell you. If we think something isn’t commercially viable, we’ll be straight with you. It’s one of the reasons our clients stay with us.

 

Big or small

From individual land owners and private clients, to local, regional and national developers, you will get the same, high level of director-led service, whatever your project. The only difference is your objective.

 

Together or apart

Our planning and urban design services go hand in hand. And some clients use us for both. But, we’re an independent bunch (and we’re not joined at the hip) so we understand that you might have your own architect, designer or planner. Our services can be used together or apart to suit your project requirements.

 

Local or national

We work nationally throughout England, Scotland and Wales, and we know our local authorities well too, so we can build relationships wherever you are developing.

 

“A knowledgeable and professional team that have delivered a 100% success rate for our brand and stand out as being extremely client focused. Highly recommended.” 

 Duncan Costin, Pure Gym 

 

Don’t take our word for it, read our case studies in our company brochure.

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Meet Our Team

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Richard Walshaw

Director

Richard Walshaw

Director

Meet Richard. Urban designer and co-founder of nineteen47, Richard is always thinking about design. Happiest when challenged to deliver on a client brief and create something striking, Richard loves working with house builders and land owners throughout the UK.

Richard is partial to a detour onto a new residential scheme, much to his family’s displeasure! On a recent trip to the Lake District, he spotted Whinlatter Drive in Kendal, and just had to inspect the impressive street trees, wide hedges, natural swales and stone walls. He was even taken with the headwall for the drainage!

When he’s not dreaming about design, the father of four can be found on the football field, running a community youth group and football team in his hometown, Sheffield. His party trick is that he can speak Zulu from his time in South Africa (but only ask him about that if you have 2 hours to spare!)

Email: [email protected]

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Jamie Pyper

Director

Jamie Pyper

Director

Meet Jamie. Planning consultant and fellow co-founder, Jamie started his career in Local Government and has spent the past 19 years working in private consultancy. Happiest when trying to unpick a problem and find solutions, Jamie loves navigating planning obstacles for a diverse range of clients from large PLCs and establishments to SMEs and individuals.

One of Jamie’s favourite projects was achieving planning permission for a new animal care and equine college campus in the Midlands. He got to meet (well, stand relatively close to) Princess Anne at the opening ceremony (they’ve not kept in touch).

When Jamie isn’t scaling mountains of planning paperwork, he enjoys hill walking, and has been climbing the Scottish Munros for a number of years. He’s done 52 so far, so only 230 to go (not that we’re counting).

Email: [email protected]

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Ben Williams

Director

Ben Williams

Director

Meet Ben. Qualified Urban Designer and Recognised Practitioner, Ben spent the early part of his career in the technical team at a National Housebuilder. He also worked for a large architects’ practice, with project work across employment, distribution and retail sectors.

Spending much of his earlier life travelling (pre-children!), one of Ben’s favourite architectural experiences occurred when wandering the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). He was struck by the French colonial villas set out along the now bustling and vividly coloured grid-structure street network.

When he’s not dreaming up new designs, Ben enjoys a round of golf (when Dad’s Taxi commitments allow) and is especially fond of “the Links”. Annual society weekends over 15 years have enabled Ben to play most of the highest ranked seaside courses in England and Wales.

Email: [email protected]

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Carl Stott

Director

Carl Stott

Director

 Meet Carl. An experienced Chartered Town Planner and project manager, Carl leads on a range of major multi-disciplinary applications, appeals and local plan promotions across the residential, commercial, leisure and care sectors.

With 25 years of industry experience, including the last 15 years in consultancy, he provides commercially astute advice to clients and delivers planning permissions in a timely manner.

Carl is also an Associate EIA Practitioner and has coordinated and prepared Environmental Statements for numerous major development schemes.

When he’s not planning new developments, Carl can be found trying to increase his Parkrun tourism or watching Peterborough Utd on a cold away terrace with a cup of hot Bovril.

Email: [email protected]

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Clare Plant

Director

Clare Plant

Director

Meet Clare. Clare is a Chartered Planner and Development Surveyor with over 17 years industry experience. Passionate about the built environment, Clare is always considering how she can positively influence the world around here and bring people together to benefit project delivery.

Taking a holistic approach, Clare is passionate about her adopted county of Yorkshire (all four parts of it). She is particularly proud to have been involved in the ongoing delivery of the Sheffield Heart of the City project. This complex £480m mixed-use regeneration project comprises 8 blocks of development, including new buildings interwoven with retained historic spaces. Clare has enjoyed working with an extensive and diverse development team to deliver long term enhancements, that can be enjoyed by all sectors of the community.

When she’s not supporting new development, she is planning her next craft ale, as part-owner of a Midlands micro-brewery and micro-pub group (which our clients tell us is rather tasty!)”

Email: [email protected]

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Tim Stanton

Associate Director (Design)

Tim Stanton

Associate Director (Design)

Meet Tim. A qualified Product Designer with a Masters in Design, Tim is all about 3D design and visualisation. With extensive urban design experience and a passion of Arch Viz, Tim is particularly passionate about 3D design and has produced large architectural visualisations for a diverse group of land developers.

Tim’s favourite project was Swindon Technology Centre, built from the ground up as a 3D model to showcase the proposed design along with existing buildings and surrounding areas, all within a real time rendering engine.

Tim enjoys a challenge and when he’s not knee-deep in designs, he loves performing in a band and family time.

Email: [email protected]

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Georgina Hallam

Associate Director (Design)

Georgina Hallam

Associate Director (Design)

Meet Georgina. An urban designer with a degree in Architectural Technology, Georgina is happiest when designing detailed housing layouts and planning application packs for small or large scale developments.

Starting her career with a National Housebuilder, Georgina loves seeing the end result of a design project and is partial to a peek of a show home. She enjoys visiting architectural buildings and well-designed places all over the world but her favourite place is Singapore for its modern approach to urban design.

When she is not busy designing, Georgina enjoys long family walks with her dog.

Email: [email protected]

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Matthew Mortonson

Associate Director

Matthew Mortonson

Associate Director

Meet Matthew. Experienced Planner and Chartered Member of the RTPI, Matthew started his career in Local Government and has been working in private consultancy since 2015. Throughout his career, Matthew has developed significant experience and a great understanding of the planning system and is therefore extremely well placed to advise clients on any query that they might have.

A member of the York team, Matthew enjoys that each site and project brings its own unique set of challenges. Matthew enjoys being able to find solutions to overcome those challenges whilst striving to meet the needs of the client at the same time.

When he is not planning, Matthew is always looking for the next adventure to test himself. Having completed both the Yorkshire Three Peaks and National Three Peaks Challenges, Matthew wonders what the next test will be….

Email: [email protected]

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Sarah Wills

Associate Director

Sarah Wills

Associate Director

Meet Sarah. A Chartered Town Planner with extensive experience of managing regeneration and residential development projects. Sarah’s design background means she is always keen to understand how the different layers of the urban fabric stitch together. She applies this understanding to support the participation of community groups, national housebuilders and regional developers in the planning process, appreciating and anticipating the views of stakeholders to achieve positive planning outcomes.

Sarah is heavily involved in Women in Property and was the 2020/21 chair of the Yorkshire and North East region. She continues her position on the committee and is involved in mentoring and organising events throughout the calendar year.

When she is not visiting new places and reading ever changing planning regulations, Sarah is most likely found on the side of a hockey pitch, running track or gymnasium, trying to keep up with her two young boys.

Email: [email protected]

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Louie Sneddon

Principal Planner

Louie Sneddon

Principal Planner

Meet Louie. An experienced Planner and Chartered Member of the RTPI. Louie is passionate about place making and the important role planning plays in meeting the needs of communities and helping shape the way towns and cities develop.

Louie has experience working in both residential land promotion and the development sector. She loves how every scheme is different and she enjoys the challenge of finding solutions to complex planning issues.

When she’s not planning, Louie enjoys spending time with family and friends in her former home of Northern Ireland and going for walks in the Irish countryside.

Email: [email protected]

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Emma Allard

Principal Urban Designer

Emma Allard

Principal Urban Designer

Meet Emma, a qualified Urban Designer with a degree in Interior Architecture and Design. With a keen eye for detail, Emma enjoys the more detailed elements of design whilst also finding joy in the high-level aspects of Urban Design. Emma loves the variety in work that nineteen47 brings and loves nothing more than seeing a plan come to fruition.

Emma’s passion for the detailed and high-level aspects of her role reflects in her skills beyond house type design, encompassing everything from masterplans, feasibility layouts, detailed layouts and Design and Access Statements.

Away from the drawing board, Emma finds inspiration in exploring places both in the UK and abroad and especially loves visiting traditional villages, towns and cities which she can draw inspiration from in the workplace.

Family, friends and sports hold a special place in her heart and Emma can mainly be found enjoying the outdoors, exploring new places and supporting her local sporting teams.

Email: [email protected]

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Ellie Squiers

Principal Urban Designer

Ellie Squiers

Principal Urban Designer

Meet Ellie. Qualified Urban Designer with an undergraduate degree in Product Design before undertaking a master’s degree in urban design whilst working alongside the design team. Ellie joined nineteen47 in 2017 and hasn’t looked back since.

Ellie’s favourite project is Chesterfield Waterside, a flag-ship development for Avant Central. With the scheme so close to home, Ellie loves seeing the build progress on her drive into work and on canal-side dog walks.

When she’s not helping with the preparation of masterplans and feasibility layouts, Ellie loves exploring new cities.

Email: [email protected]

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Rebecca Beardsley

Senior Planner

Rebecca Beardsley

Senior Planner

Meet Rebecca. Experienced Planner and Chartered Member of the RTPI, Rebecca is passionate about the importance and impact of planning for prosperous communities.

A member of the Midlands team, Rebecca previously worked at a private consultancy where she honed her in-depth knowledge of the planning process. Rebecca loves the challenge of a complex planning project but when she’s not planning developments, she’s planning her next adventure with her young family.

Email: [email protected]

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Joseph Warren-McCoy

Senior Planner

Joseph Warren-McCoy

Senior Planner

Meet Joe. An enthusiastic, personable, and hands-on planner, who joined nineteen47 in January 2024. Joe has experience in working across sectors including residential, leisure, retail, and heritage, amongst others, and his dynamism and wider approach to consultancy is something which is held in high regard by clients and peers alike.

Joe is an active volunteer on various RTPI Committees, and is an active alumni at University of Liverpool, where he had previously graduated with a degree in MPLAN Town and Regional Planning. His voluntary work, alongside his private practice, also led to him being awarded RTPI Yorkshire's 'Young Planner of the Year' Award for 2023.

Outside of work, Joe is a keen gym goer, and loves running and generally keeping active, which is necessary given his keen eye for food! A season ticket holder at Everton, Joe often questions whether following the team is much of a hobby, especially given their more recent history!

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Joshua Foster

Senior Urban Designer

Joshua Foster

Senior Urban Designer

Meet Joshua. After seven-years serving as a Royal Engineer in the British Army, Joshua decided to pursue a lifelong ambition as a designer.

After completing an Undergraduate Degree in Product Design and Creative Innovation, Joshua gained a passion for urban / residential design, and upon completing his Postgraduate Degree in Urban Design, he joined nineteen47.

Outside of work, Joshua enjoys being active and healthy at the gym, trying his best at golf, and keeping up to date with his favourite basketball team.

Email: [email protected]

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Honor Dickens

Senior Urban Designer

Honor Dickens

Senior Urban Designer

Meet Honor. A member of our Urban Design team, Honor started her career after gaining a construction management degree from Liverpool John Moore University.

Having worked for a national housebuilder, she joined nineteen47 to be more involved in the end-to-end planning and design process. She loves to give character to schemes, creating attractive street scenes and gaining the satisfaction of seeing the end result delivered.  

When Honor is not busy planning developments, she enjoys exploring different countries and spending time with family and friends as well as staying active

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Niamh Adams

Senior Urban Designer

Niamh Adams

Senior Urban Designer

Meet Niamh. Having completed a Degree in Design and Innovation, Niamh began her career as an Architectural Technician for a national housebuilder, before moving to layout design. Niamh loves creating detailed layouts and putting together planning packs and she enjoys seeing a project from start to finish. 

When she is not designing new housing schemes, her hobbies include CrossFit, spending time with her family and friends and walking her dogs.

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Mary Diaz

Urban Designer

Mary Diaz

Urban Designer

Meet Mary, an Urban Designer with a degree in Architecture.

She is an integral part of the 3D Visualizations Team and occasionally collaborates with the Design Team.

She has previous experience having worked on Bespoke Residential, Commercial and Hospitality projects in both Mexico and the UK. Currently delving into the realm of Urban Design, Mary’s keen eye for detail shines through in her production of models, visuals, and House Type Packs.

Outside of her professional pursuits, she finds joy in exploring European cities during short getaways or returning to her roots in Mexico, indulging in film watching and competing with her colleagues in Mario Kart.

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Sophie Gibson

Urban Designer

Sophie Gibson

Urban Designer

Meet Sophie. She gained a degree in Interior Design from the University of Northampton before transitioning to the urban design sector.

Sophie loves working on a variety of different projects and visiting project sites. She is passionate about biophilic design and is interested in how patterns and attributes of nature are integrated into architecture, in order to enhance people’s health and wellbeing.

Outside of work, she enjoys travelling and exploring new countries such as Bali and Singapore which inspires her in her project work. She also loves to learn new skills and hobbies, no matter how obscure.

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Emilia Ashton-Foreman

Urban Designer

Emilia Ashton-Foreman

Urban Designer

Meet Emilia. An Urban Designer with a degree and master’s in architecture.

Emilia has previously practiced as an Architectural Assistant involved in a range of residential projects. Emilia now produces the planning pack drawings, which has helped her to gain experience of detailed layout design.

Outside of work, Emilia prioritises fitness and wellbeing. She is an avid gym goer and practises yoga and meditation. An interest in fashion and anything creative also comes a close second in terms of her hobbies and interests.

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Abi Pegg

Graphic Manager

Abi Pegg

Graphic Manager

Meet Abi. Abi has a wealth of experience communicating information visually. She has previously worked as a freelancer creating educational resources, web design and user interface as well as logos and branding strategies.

As a strong creative thinker, she utilises design technique effectively to capture the reader’s attention and spark their curiosity. She is passionate about communicating ideas and visually translating information in a way that is accessible for all. Communicating a clear understanding of the world forms the foundation of her work.

In her own time, Abi enjoys reading, climbing with her family and assists as a disability advocate within the community.

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Joshua Barks

Architectural Visualiser

Joshua Barks

Architectural Visualiser

Meet Josh, a passionate 3D Visualiser.

Josh enjoys the creative element of projects and keeping pace with new technology to use in his workflow, and helping projects come to life with 3D models and visuals. He enjoys working as a team and collaborating to develop different skills and finding new ways to approach tasks.

In his spare time, he enjoys catching up with friends, walks and travelling when possible, and getting involved with anything food/drink related.

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Beth Justice

Graduate Planner

Beth Justice

Graduate Planner

Meet Beth. Her passion for places and planning developed during her time at both the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, and as you might have guessed, she is a Sheffield Wednesday fan!

Passionate about working on local projects, Beth has loved being involved in schemes in her home city of Sheffield, excited to be a part of the city's evolving urban narrative.

Outside of work, she is a keen seamstress, knitter and enjoys visiting art galleries - weaving creativity into both her professional and personal pursuits.

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Nathan Rillie

Graduate Planner

Nathan Rillie

Graduate Planner

Meet Nathan. Having gained an interest in planning through his studies at Newcastle University, Nathan took some time out to work in hospitality and how now made the switch from managing a bar/restaurant and making cocktails to writing Planning Statements and undertaking site appraisals, some may argue that the same juggling skills are involved in both careers!

Nathan loves working across a range of different projects and undertaking site visits. He has a keen eye for detail and has developed an understanding of the importance of place-making and stakeholder engagement.

Outside of work, Nathan spends his weekends exploring new places and watching crime documentaries, as well as cheering his beloved Liverpool FC.

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Helen Burchell

Finance Manager

Helen Burchell

Finance Manager

Meet Helen. With 20 years of experience under her belt, Helen has worked in the private sector as well as the third sector and as a self-employed bookkeeper.

She particularly enjoys creating and improving procedures to support the wider team at nineteen47 to function efficiently, working closely with her colleagues in our Business Support team.

Outside of work Helen enjoys reading, weightlifting and obedience training with her dog Flint.

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April Hollingworth

Finance Assistant

April Hollingworth

Finance Assistant

Meet April. Having worked in Finance for over a decade, April brings her extensive and well-rounded understanding of the figures to our Business Support team.

She is always seeking ways to streamline her role to make it as efficient as possible and enjoys working with her colleagues to keep us ahead of the game financially. 

Outside of the office, she enjoys baking, playing piano and taking long walks with her family and Bruce the dog.

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Polly Hallam

Business Support Manager

Polly Hallam

Business Support Manager

Meet Polly. Always smiling and supporting our team, Polly has lots of experience in administration business management and is happiest when things are nice and organised.

Polly really likes to create a happy and fun environment for everybody to work in and loves to support her colleagues and bring some laughter to the team.

In her spare time, she likes to explore different cities (perhaps a future planner or urban designer in the making!). She’s a talented singer, accompanied by her dad on the guitar, and loves to spend time with her family and little sausage dog, Cydney.

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If you’re a Chartered Town Planner, Urban Designer, Architect or Technician that likes to do things differently, we’d love to hear from you. We’re always on the lookout for ambitious graduates and students too. Send your CV to [email protected] and tell us why nineteen47 needs you!

 

 

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