Prior to joining TRP, Ben worked in London-based town planning consultancies for five years. Some of the projects he worked on include:

The regeneration of a former industrial site, delivering over 800 new homes as well as industrial, commercial and retail floorspace in central London; The project included navigating the London Plan’s complex policies relating to industrial reprovision and co-location, as well an extensive engagement programme with the local community and key stakeholders such as the Environment Agency, the East London Waste Authority and  Greater London Authority;

An affordable housing development which delivered 145 new homes, retail and employment floorspace over 17-storeys, as well as a new public riverside walk and public realm improvements; The project involved the redevelopment of a landmark plot to act as a catalyst for the wider regeneration of one of London’s key Opportunity Areas;

The development of a new school for a public sector client; The project included co-ordination with a multi-disciplinary team and long-term engagement with pupils, teachers and parents to develop an inclusive internal design to accommodate the special education needs of pupils, as well as a quality external design to integrate effectively into the built environment of the neighbourhood.  

An 80-bed specialist care home with dementia provision, co-located alongside 10 family homes on a greenfield edge-of-town site; The project involved extensive engagement with the Council’s ecology and placemaking teams to develop a proposal which enhanced the town’s pedestrian network, and delivered an ecological corridor to protect the habitats of protected species identified on the site.

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