New additions as founding member departs

Planning & Design Practice has welcomed several new additions while bidding a fond farewell to its founding member.

The consultancy, which specialises in town planning, architecture, heritage, and urban design, is continuing its tradition of encouraging and supporting emerging talent, by announcing the addition to the team of three graduate planners – Shaun Hyde, Emily Anderson and Megan Askham.

It has also added a junior architectural technician Scott Williams to its architectural team.

At the same time, Planning & Design Practice has also announced that Jonathan Jenkin, the firm’s former managing director, will be leaving at the end of the year.

Having formed the company in 2002, he has been working for the company in a part-time consultancy role for the last 15 months, providing a smooth transition period for the company.

Jonathan and his civil partner Phil will be moving back to West Cornwall, early next year.

Jonathan was a council planning officer there in the 1980s, and that is where they met.

He said: “I am really pleased at the way Jon Millhouse, Richard Pigott, Michael Bamford, and Lindsay Cruddas are taking the company forward.

“The transition has been smooth, and it is good to be able to leave the company with the business doing well and I wish everyone continuing success.”

Richard Pigott, who has been with the company since 2011 and a director since 2015, said: “We will all miss Jonathan’s bubbly character and enthusiasm for all things planning and architecture, but at the same time, this is a move he has been looking to make for a while and we wish him all the best down in Cornwall.

“Since we took over the company in the summer of 2021 it has continued to evolve and modernise, and we are undertaking some very interesting work in both planning and architecture.

“We now have contracts with Microsoft, NHS Health Trusts and Clowes Developments, to name a few, as well as many local and regional companies and landowners and the future looks bright.”