General

Chris has worked at BE Group since 2006 and is responsible for regeneration, planning and economic development. His planning work has included policy analysis, the development of planning applications and assistance in the consultation process of local plan development. Chris’s economic development experience covers retail and employment studies, along with detailed reviews of contemporary regeneration programmes and has built a specialism in town centre masterplans and employment land reviews across the country.

At Manchester University, Chris undertook a PhD examining issues of community involvement in the Housing Market Renewal programme. During the course of this PhD, he also obtained a Masters in research, published several academic articles and book chapters and worked part-time as a Research Assistant in the University (taking part in research projects in for national organisations such as the ODPM).

Chris is a Member of North West Royal Town Planning Institute Regional Activities Committee (RAC), and has edited the North West Branch magazine ‘PLANNET’ for the last ten years. Some of the articles he has written and edited have become famous and indeed infamous throughout the North West’s planning community….