Fawley Waterside, Ben Pentreath Architects | The working harbour in the heart of the town. New Forest District Council and the New Forest National Park Authority resolved to grant planning permission for the new community known as Fawley Waterside in July 2020.
Over the past 3 years…
Expert in securing permission for complex development projects
John Adams is an experienced Strategic Planning Consultant, expert in securing planning permission for complex £multi-million development projects such as Fawley Waterside, Spinningfields, Dunsfold Park, Aldgate Place, Liverpool One, Southgate Bath, and GreenPark Village.
Key strengths include: building market-leading planning and development consultancy teams, managing multi-disciplinary project teams, motivating and coaching colleagues to fulfil their potential and make proactive contributions to the accomplishment of business objectives and impact on society; building effective partnerships between public and private sector stakeholders, understanding dependencies and priorities to create powerful evidence-based narratives from complex data; formulating strategies for proposals that create long term value for those involved, influencing and interpreting planning policy to secure a basis for urban regeneration, building new communities and transforming city centres; and combining innovation with a commercial approach to steer major development projects through planning systems on behalf of landowners, developers, investors, and local authorities.
Fawley Waterside, Ben Pentreath Architects | View from the New Forest National Park
Fawley Waterside, Ben Pentreath Architects | The Southern Village
Career Highlights
Fawley, Hampshire
Partnered with Sir Howard Bernstein on The Waterside Partnership, producing a strategy for creating a world-class marine economy in Fawley, Hampshire, and leading the planning strategy for Fawley Waterside, a new town in the New Forest National Park.
Dunsfold Park Project
Expert witness for Waverley Borough Council’s Dunsfold Park project, a new community of 2,000 homes and 100,000sqm of business space on the aerodrome famous for Top Gear.
Bath City Centre
Transformed 4ha of Bath city centre, a World Heritage Site, into Southgate, combining planning & compulsory purchase skills on behalf of Aviva & Shearer Property Group and working in partnership with Bath & North East Somerset Council.
“John is without doubt one of the most talented and visionary strategic thinkers I have ever worked with. His sophisticated approach to rationalising growth and environmental priorities, embedding this into a clear and consistent focus on place priorities as they relate to people and business is in my experience unparalleled.”
– Sir Howard Bernstein