
DHA are leaders in the education sector, working with a wide range of contractors, Local Education Authorities, Schools, Trusts, Universities and the Department for Education to deliver a large number of projects across the country.
In the last 5 years alone, DHA have helped secure over 40,000 new primary, secondary and SEN school places alongside new nursery and university provision. Our Planning and Transport teams are well versed in the particular issues that education schemes can encounter and always look to work collaboratively with stakeholders to identify solutions and deliver valuable social infrastructure.
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Case studies in this sector
On behalf of Tilbury Douglas for the Department for Education, DHA’s education team has recently secured permission.
School ties Cable Wharf community together
Work can get under way on the partial demolition and rebuilding of Wrotham Secondary School after DHA secured planning permission.
New teaching block in Wolverhampton
To include a nursery and 210-pupil primary academy, to support the Trent Basin Waterside residential development
Safe drop-off zone for primary school pupils plus a new 40 space car park
People who work in this area
Adam is an Associate in our Transport Planning team leading our small to medium sized projects as well as taking an active role in helping to deliver our larger Transport projects.
Alex has worked at DHA for over 15 years and became Managing Director in 2016. As well as the day to day running of the business, Alex remains passionate about planning and development and enjoys getting out and about meeting clients and discussing the various options how DHA can maximise the value of their land.
Holly is a Senior Transport Planner in our London team.
Jonathan is a Director heading up our Crawley/Gatwick office. He joined DHA in 2005 and has 25 years experience in planning consultancy, having previously worked on major regeneration projects, including the Emirates Stadium, with Hepher Dixon (now Savills) in Milton Keynes and London.
Laura joined DHA in 2004 as part of our original Graduate intake. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) Degree in Geography and Sports Science from Loughborough University, and an MA in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Westminster. She is also a member of the RTPI.
Mathew joined DHA as one of our original graduate intake in 2004. He has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Westminster, having previously studied Geography at the University of Birmingham.
Bex applied for the role of Graduate Planner at DHA after working for a Local Authority, in the Regeneration Team for 18 months, where she gained experience on large town centre regeneration projects and project management. Prior to this, she graduated from the University of Greenwich in 2019 with a BSc (Hons) in Geography and has now graduated from the University of Westminster with an MA in Urban and Regional Planning.
Sectors you may be interested in
DHA have market leading experience in creating new communities. This is evident in the scale and success of the projects worked on across the country.
Services we work in
DHA's Transport and Infrastructure Team specialise in creating robust and cost-effective transport planning solutions to optimise development projects of all sizes.
DHA's Design team combines a wide range of design skills to offer the high level of experience and knowledge necessary to deliver viable, well designed, imaginative schemes which satisfy the needs of the client as well as the community.
We are a specialist team who provide advice on development viability, the impact of affordable housing as well as other planning policy contributions which might be payable by landowners, housebuilders, developers and registered providers.
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