
Lee joined DPP in 2018 after completing a Masters in Town Planning at Newcastle University, progressing from Assistant Planner to Principal Planner in our Newcastle office.
During his time at DPP, Lee has represented a diverse portfolio of clients across a range of development sectors including healthcare, residential, leisure and culture, commercial, and education. Lee has significant experience in preparing Site Appraisals, Planning Applications, Planning Statements, and Statements of Community Involvement. Lee is also responsible for managing large planning applications through to decision stage and project manages the consultant teams responsible for preparing documents required for a planning submission.
Lee acts for many clients across complex projects where DPP forms a central part of multidisciplinary teams. This includes sites such as Northumberland College (Ashington) or for the North East NHS Trusts where timescales and meeting planning submission deadlines are critical to the success of the projects.
Lee is a detail-oriented and astute project manager and can handle large teams of many disciplines to ensure deadlines are met and the right information is provided. Lee leads on the preparation of planning programmes, hosts weekly progress meetings and can communicate in a calm yet direct way across the whole design and technical team. Lee is the client liaison on several major projects and develops strong relationships and trust across the board.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT LEE
Lee is responsive, personable and helpful with clients, and is able to provide a full planning service in order to achieve planning permission on challenging and complex schemes.
Lee provides sound and commercial planning advice from project inception to planning condition discharge stage.