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In 1986 David Hicken set up David Hicken Associates, run from Wellington House, Maidstone. A few years later in 1988, with four permanent staff David Hicken Associates moved to a converted barn in Loose, Maidstone where they are based for the next 18 years.

 

2006 saw DHA make the move to a purpose built office at Eclipse Park, Maidstone, to accommodate the growing company and provide a modern spacious  environment for our staff and clients.

In 2008, a Design team was created to work alongside the planning team to support the delivery of viable, well designed, imaginative and viable schemes. Shortly after in 2009 Alex Hicken, now our Managing Director founded DHA Transport to allow a multi-displinary team to serve our clients and wide range of projects. By 2010 the Environment team was created due to the increasing requirement to provide sustainable development.

 

In 2015 Alex Hicken was appointed Managing Director of DHA with David Hicken acting as Chairman for the company.

By 2018 DHA opened an office in Crawley, West Sussex, headed up by Jonathan Buckwell to allow us to serve our clients in that area and in 2019, Mark Presland, joined DHA and the Land team was created.

 

Not letting the global pandemic slow down our recruitment, DHA took on a record eight graduates in the Summer of 2020 and our in-house graduate programme, lead by David Bedford and Emma Hawkes was born. Allowed us to provide bespoke training for our Graduates to give them an all rounded training before they begin their Master's to gain their required professional qualifications.

 

January 2021 saw DHA celebrates its 35 year anniversary and in October 2022 our London Hub was created to allow staff to have a London base when working with our London and clients North of the M25 .

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