Prior + Partners’ planning team continues to go from strength to strength, with our team currently engaged on major transformational projects across the UK and globe, and the practice recognised as RTPI Planning Consultancy of the Year 2024.
Aligned to this achievement, two members of our planning team have been promoted to Associate Director – this is recognition of their contributions to shaping policy and leading complex applications with a commitment to long-term legacy, whilst also reflecting their active role in supporting our clients and business development activities.
Since joining the practice in 2023, Norma Jean Worden Rogers MRTPI has brought to the fore her strong grasp of policy and project management to navigate challenges and unlock opportunities for numerous large-scale projects. Across each, she has demonstrated a commitment to meaningful engagement, facilitating discussions between stakeholders to gain consensus on complex matters, including a number of residential-led projects on behalf of Homes England.
Norma’s portfolio includes advising numerous local authorities including for Prior + Partners’ work to create a new regional park in Ealing, as well as the delivery of the recently launched Southampton Renaissance. She has built on her historic experience of complex regeneration schemes, continuing to advise Luton Town Football Club through complex land issues at Power Court and supporting their delivery of a new 25,000-capacity stadium and associated development, whilst also working as part of the Prior + Partners’ team preparing a Masterplan Framework for the University of Leeds and a major transport-led scheme to unlock growth.
With a breadth of both private and public sector clients, Thomas Corbin’s work focuses on identifying early-stage infrastructure strategies and requirements which are key to supporting concept design and ensuring projects successfully integrate and provide for future inhabitants. This work demonstrates his significant expertise around delivery mechanisms and Section 106 mechanisms, with a deep understanding of the whole planning and strategic advisory process.
Thomas’ recent achievements including co-ordinating the successful planning applications for Oxpens, one of the largest interventions to take place in the historic city of Oxford, as well as the museum-led waterfront regeneration of Canning Quayside and Dry Docks in Liverpool. Elsewhere, he has supported multiple local authorities in the determination of complex planning applications and brought a particular skillset in the delivery of new communities and site promotion for landowners including The Crown Estate, Berkely Strategic Land, Homes England and Grosvenor.
Congratulations to our colleagues on these well-deserved promotions.
