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PRP boosts Townplanning & Landscape Architecture

13.01.2006

PRP Architects Ltd, has today announced two key appointments in Milton Keynes. Town Planner, James Rawlings, and Landscape Architect, Richard Hodgetts, join PRP’s team of 40-strong professionals in Milton Keynes. The appointments enhance PRP’s practice wide expertise in planning and landscape design and reinforce the Milton Keynes office as one of the largest multi-disciplinary practices in the government’s identified key growth area.

Richard Hodgetts joins PRP as Senior Landscape Architect with 15 years’ experience in urban regeneration, masterplanning, landscape planning, EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) and landscape architecture. He has also worked in the Middle East where he ran the Landscape department for Shankland Cox Ltd Architects for three years. Richard has worked across the commercial, residential and mixed use sectors and notable schemes include the Vodafone World Headquarters in Newbury, Elvetham Heath Urban Expansion in Fleet and the Telford Millenium Village.

PRP Director, Robert Coles, says: “Designing sustainable communities on green field and brownfield sites lies at the heart of our work. Richard’s extensive urban design and landscape experience helps to put clients at ease. His ability to offer these skills helps clients to approach a project from a whole new perspective. Our clients really appreciate having someone who can help them understand and navigate what is a complicated and often undervalued part of the design solution.”

Chartered Town Planner James Rawlings has over eight years’ planning experience across the residential, commercial and mixed use sectors. He gained his experience working for a number of planning consultancies and local planning authorities including Pegasus Planning Group, RPS and Chapman Warren. His expertise encompasses project conception through to site promotion, which involves plan monitoring, representations and Development Plan Inquiry work. He is also adept at project delivery, involving the submission and negotiation of planning applications and Environmental Statements, and is particularly experienced in project managing the design and negotiation of large-scale development proposals.

Robert Coles, concluded: “Having someone like James identify planning related design and policy considerations at an early stage in the design process helps us to avoid potential problems, and gives us the best chance to get over the planning hurdles.”