Property People: Garness Jones expands; Promotion at surveying firm; and more

Elise Kingston

Garness Jones chartered surveyors has welcomed Elise Kingston on board as marketing executive.

Kingston will be working across the company’s commercial and residential property portfolios, with particular focus on social media and internal communications. She will also support the company’s business development activities.

She said: “This is a new position within Garness Jones and that gives me a great opportunity and a big responsibility to develop it from scratch. The aim is to market ourselves as effectively as we market our clients.

“The business development role is particularly exciting. Our commercial property activities embrace retail, leisure, office and industry and that variety gives us great insight into the economy of the entire Hull and Humber region.”

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Howard Stannard

SLR’s Leeds office has expanded with Howard Stannard joining the team from Bristol office

He joins the 14-strong team based in Horsforth, which provides landscape-led planning, design and assessment, ecology, land quality and environmental impact assessment services across the built environment, power, infrastructure and industry sectors.

Stannard, who specialises in landscape masterplanning and landscape and visual impact assessment, works with developers in the residential, commercial, healthcare, education and leisure sectors providing strategic landscape advice, preparing planning application documents, undertaking detailed design and overseeing implementation for a wide variety of schemes.

Before joining the team in Leeds, he worked at the Bristol office for over 10 years and has worked on high profile projects including several mixed use urban extensions in a variety of sensitive landscapes across the south-west, south-east, the midlands and Wales and the Bristol Airport landscape masterplan progressing the scheme from outline design through to hard and soft landscape implementation on site.

Stannard will work with David Gooch, principal landscape architect and Leeds office manager and Peter Harrison, landscape technical director to extend SLR’s reach with existing and new clients, with particular focus on the built environment sector in Yorkshire and the North West.

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Commercial building surveying firm Malcolm Hollis has promoted Daniel Leaf to the position of senior chartered building surveyor at its Leeds office.

Leaf is experienced in a range of traditional building surveying activities including the procurement and delivery of construction projects for owners and occupiers within the commercial office and industrial sectors.

His areas of work include dilapidations, due diligence surveys, pre-lease surveys, contract administration, schedules of condition, and many others. He is now responsible for managing a broad range of instructions from local clients to national ones. Clients Leaf works with include McDonald’s restaurants and Telereal Trillium.

Malcolm Hollis partner Julian Bisson says: “Daniel is a hard-working individual. His input into the company is greatly valued and we wish him further success at the firm.”

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Planning experts CODA Planning has welcomed an intern to the team at its headquarters in Sheffield.

Owen Weaver is currently completing his Masters year at the University of Sheffield, studying on the MPlan Urban Studies and Planning course, and will be with Coda throughout the coming year, assisting on various different projects in order to gain knowledge of the planning process.

“Owen will make an important addition to our team,” said Coda Planning director Adam Murray.

“At Coda Planning we believe very firmly in learning through experience and during his time with us Owen should be able to develop the skills that could make him a permanent part of the company when he has completed his studies.”

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