Laurie Lane is the Director of Lane Town Planning.  He commenced his planning career back in 2005 at Sheffield City Council, working in the Local Plans and Development Management teams.  

In 2008 Laurie moved into consultancy where he worked on a range of planning applications and appeals, including for onshore wind projects and a range of residential developments.  

Laurie's experience in residential development led him onto an exciting career with Gladman Developments as a Planning Director in. 2013, where he led a team of planners and project managers, submitting applications and appeals for schemes from 50 homes up to new garden villages of 3,000 homes. During this time, Laurie acted as expert witness at numerous planning hearings and public inquiries.

From 2018, Laurie was approached to set up Concert Homes.  This is a commercial house builder he set up on behalf of the Housing Association, Progress Housing Group.  During his time there as Managing Director, he led and was involved in all aspects of the business, from finding land, to designing the standard house types and securing planning permission, all the way through to sales.  At its height the business sold 50 homes a year and had a turnover in excess of 12 million pounds.

More recently, Laurie has set up Lane Town Planning with a view to applying his extensive planning experience to providing high quality planning consultancy.  Having operated a commercial house builder, Lane Town Planning can offer something many planning consultants are lacking: real world     commercial and development experience. 

Lane Town Planning offers all aspects of planning advice, but is focussed principally at the strategic residential land, residential and renewables sectors.  Laurie is a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.