Carter Jonas has expanded its planning expertise with the acquisition of Hertfordshire-based planning, urban design and development consultancy JB Planning Associates.
Established in 2002, JB Planning comprises 11 people, including eight planners and urban designers. All 11 will join Carter Jonas’s existing planning and development team in Cambridge (pictured). JB Planning’s managing director John Boyd will join Carter Jonas as a group partner, while Paul Atton, James Rennie and Jeremy Pyatt will all become partners.
Carter Jonas has grown its planning and development team significantly in recent years and it now works nationally from six regional hubs, including Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, London and Oxford. This latest acquisition boosts its existing team of planning and urban design professionals to more than 100.
Colin Brown, head of planning and development at Carter Jonas, said: “The addition of JB Planning provides us with an ideal platform to strengthen our national team and continue the expansion of our development and planning services across the eastern region, reinforcing our status as the go-to experts.
“Like Carter Jonas, JB Planning has a strong track record of working with major housebuilding and development companies, estate landowners, businesses, and individual land and property owners, and is recognised for its high standards of care and quality professional advice. I look forward to working with the team over the coming months to achieve greater synergy, utilising our combined knowledge, expertise, energy and values to deliver a more innovative approach for our clients.”
Boyd said: “Joining Carter Jonas’s established planning and development team is an exciting opportunity for us to grow this part of the business. Our planning and urban team have achieved a diverse client base and established a strong track record in delivering high-quality masterplans and place-making urban design solutions, planning permissions and site allocations on complex sites throughout the South East and other parts of the country.”
This is the fourth in a series of acquisitions by Carter Jonas of planning and development businesses. In 2017, Carter Jonas acquired Kemp & Kemp, an Oxfordshire planning and development consultancy. This followed the earlier acquisitions of New Square Holdings, which included Cambridge-based commercial and planning consultancy Januarys, and London-based planning consultancy, Planning Perspectives.
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