Emma Penson

Emma has 13 years’ experience in planning and development consultancy. Emma qualified as a Chartered member of the Royal Institution of Charted Surveyors in 2014 and as a Chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 2015. Emma is a member of the Compulsory Purchase Association and a RICS Registered Valuer.

Emma specialises in advising on planning feasibility, the planning application process, development viability, site acquisition and assembly and compulsory purchase.

Emma advises national and individual clients in both the private and public sector, advising on education, residential, commercial and mixed use properties and development sites, primarily in London Boroughs and the South East. Emma enjoys advising on complex projects that require a detailed understanding of planning and valuation.

Projects range from individual properties, to major school redevelopment projects and to estate regeneration schemes. Emma advises clients throughout a project, from the site acquisition stage, working with clients to unlock sites through to scheme delivery. Both working with and leading project teams on complex planning and valuation matters to overcome development constraints.

Emma has a strong knowledge of planning policy, providing clients with planning strategy advice, feasibility and viability advice and taking applications through the planning process, to secure planning consent. Emma also advises on planning appeals, including acting as a planning expert witness at a Public Inquiry.

Emma also provides specialist valuation and strategy advice to clients on site assembly, site disposal and assessing development viability.