Steve is an Executive Director, National Head of LSH’s Planning, Regeneration + Infrastructure (PR+I) division, and also leads the Town Centre & Economic Regeneration team.

Steve has over 30 years’ experience providing planning, regeneration and commercial property consultancy advice on a wide variety of retail, town and shopping centre issues for regional planning bodies, local planning authorities, developers, investors and operators.

His expertise ranges from the preparation of evidence-based town centre visions, action plans and regeneration strategies - informed by wide-ranging stakeholder & community engagement - to securing funding and permissions for major mixed-use schemes.

Steve and his team have recently advised on the preparation of Town Investment Plans (TIPs) for his clients to help unlock funding from the Government-backed Towns Deal Fund. He has also advised on Future High Street, Welcome Back & Levelling Up bids. Since 2020 the team has helped secure over £300m for critical town centre regeneration, infrastructure, place-making and cultural/ creative projects.

Steve is a member of Revo (he sits on their Strategic Board and Regeneration Committee); an Expert Adviser to the Government’s High Street Task Force; and a member of the Association of Town & City Management (ATCM) and Institute of Economic Development (IED). He also chaired the annual RTPI conference on retail and town centres for over a decade.