The first lesson my fellow undergraduate coursemates and I were
taught at university was that 'planners do not plan towns'.
A useful clarification, but what followed was arguably more
noteworthy. It was explained that we had picked an exciting time to
be involved in planning, even if we were not to be gifted a blank
slate on which to design new settlements.
The significance and excitement of planning has only become more
apparent to me since joining Deloitte Real Estate in September
2016.
My decision to study planning at university was, in hindsight, a
slight jump into the unknown. It was only when completing work
experience at a private sector consultancy just before starting
university that I began to first understand the planning process.
What first attracted me to planning, however, was my love of human
geography, as well as a long-standing interest in cities and the
buildings and streets which form them. From a young age I always
enjoyed seeing the
