Heather is one of the founding directors of Williams Gallagher. She is an experienced town planning practitioner with particular expertise in promoting sustainable town centre, retail and mixed-use development schemes.
She is an advocate of the town centres first approach and utilises her retail expertise to deliver innovative and creative planning solutions to promote town centre vitality and viability across the length and breadth of the UK. She also has a significant track record in advising on the formulation of strategy, planning appraisal, retail impact assessment and supporting statements, town centre strategy and masterplanning advice, the preparation of evidence for planning appeals and the submission of planning applications.
Prior to setting up Williams Gallagher, Heather was employed by Savills and, prior to this, Deloitte Real Estate, where she worked with a diverse range of private and public sector clients across a variety of different sectors. Previous clients include Universities Superannuation Scheme, Grosvenor, ASDA Stores Ltd, Taylor Wimpey, L&G and Royal Mail Estates.
In addition to her planning work, Heather is responsible for the day to day running of the business and has played a significant role developing the company’s brand, setting up and managing the company’s accounting systems and devising the company’s marketing collateral.
Outside of the office, Heather is the proud owner of the honorary office dogs – Geoffrey and Ralph the Cavapoos – and enjoys spending her free time by the sea with her husband Paul.
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