Planning application communications, stakeholder engagement, community consultation and neighbourhood planning support services

Our team

Chelgate Planning key executives include:

 

Nick Wood-Dow

Nick is Chelgate's deputy chairman and has been with the company for 22 years. He also heads Chelgate Environment and is deputy chairman of the Environment Council. He has handled many controversial and complex projects including housing, energy, leisure and commercial. he led the team for Center Parcs at Longleat, and then subsequently in Bedfordshire more than 10 years later. He also led the stakeholder engagement programme for the £16bn Severn Barrage.

Nick is a former councillor, sitting on the planning committee, and a former Parliamentary candidate for Bolton.

 

Michael Hardware

Michael has approaching 25 years' experience working in planning and planning communications. His early career was working for a property developer in the South East handling developments such as Chatham Historic Dockyard, Docklands Innovation Centre, Old Portsmouth Marina, Croxton Village, Cambridgeshire, and the Regent's Park villas.

 

His subsequent consultancy experience is extensive, working with many of the top developers and housebuilders, including a spell seconded to Wilson Connolly, then the UK's fifth largest housebuilder, as head of external affairs. He also handled the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial and the remodelling of Trafalgar Square, the latter receiving a commendation for best use of PR.

 

Michael stood for Harlow District Council in 2011, and was lined up to become portfolio holder for either planning or regeneration, but lost the election by 126 votes. He is standing again in 2012.

 

James Darley

James has been with Chelgate for over 22 years and has worked on a significant number of assignments for developers, and also opposition groups. He was behind the defence of The Light Bar in Islington against a proposed Hammerson development which wanted to replace it with a 50-storey office block. He is also behind the the promotion of the Cattle Market redevelopment in Malton, North Yorkshire, in competition with a district council-promoted development, which has seen significant editorial in the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Yorkshire Post.