About MA Planning
Mark Alexander is a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and an experienced planning consultant specialising in retail, leisure and town centre planning matters. He provides clear, practical and commercially focused advice to support planning applications, appeals, site appraisals and development strategies.
Mark has worked in private planning consultancies across England and Wales, contributing to a wide range of planning applications, appeals, retail sequential test assessments, retail impact assessments and town centre planning projects. His project experience includes schemes in Sheffield, Norwich, Thanet, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Chester, London, Romford, Hillingdon, Norfolk and North Wales.
Through Mark Alexander Planning, he provides independent, personalised and accessible planning consultancy services to developers, landowners, operators, local authorities and professional teams. Mark’s hands-on approach allows clients to receive clear, responsive and commercially realistic advice tailored to the specific planning issues affecting each site or proposal.
Away from planning, Mark enjoys following Formula 1 and rugby, and is happiest when spending time outdoors hiking, wild camping or exploring new parts of the UK. He enjoys discovering different towns, cities and landscapes, and has a genuine interest in how places feel, function and evolve over time
Mark-Alexander BSc (Hons) MSc MRTPI
What Our Clients Say
"Can I repeat my thanks for your expertise and speed in the preparation of your report. My only downside is that our paths have not crossed before. I act for a number of clients where your kind of remit has always been dealt with in house but not to the standard and speed evidenced by you. I have added you to our consultants panel and will not hesitate to use you again." - Managing Director, Planning Consultancy
"Omg you have just made my day 💙 thank you for you great appeal put together thank you so much; and I will be recommending you to anyone that will need your assistance 👌👌🤝" - Homeowner, succesfull householder Appeal, Cardiff
"You have been very concice and reasurring whilest getting on the key issues" - Planning Advice to Developer (Norfolk)
“The final version of the Addendum, there was nothing I could usefully add to what is really a very good piece of work: it makes the very most of a difficult situation, is concise and compelling reading, and is, I think, the best that can be done. Thus, unless you would like me to write an Opinion to confirm their approach is correct, I do not think there is anything I can sensibly add.“ - Solicitor regarding a scheme for four dwellings (Rother)
