Nick James

Expertise

Planning, policy and review
Landscape planning
National parks and protected areas
Access and greenspace
Community regeneration
Strategic environmental assessment

Professional bodies

Member, Royal Town Planning Institute

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Geography, University College London
MPhil town planning, University College London

Contact

nick.james@landuse.co.uk
0141 334 9595

Profile

Nick James, Principal, is a chartered town planner, based in our Glasgow office.  Nick has extensive strategic planning, policy and research experience in areas such as green infrastructure, access and recreation, landscape, community regeneration and the historic environment.

Nick’s planning work has included the review of the National Planning Policy Guidelines which informed the Modernising Planning agenda in Scotland and the development of planning guidance covering issues such as air quality, soils, green infrastructure and woodland and forestry.  Nick has led a series of ground breaking green infrastructure projects in Scotland and has completed a wide range of landscape planning projects dealing with settlement expansion, wind energy development, forestry and perceptions of landscape change.  His work on the historic environment includes the definition of buffer zones to protect Hadrian’s Wall, Stonehenge and the Antonine Wall World Heritage Zones.  Other key projects include the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Scottish Forestry Strategy and a series of development frameworks for communities across the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.

Nick’s clients include Scottish National Heritage, Historic Scotland, Forestry Commission Scotland, the Scottish Government and Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Green Network Partnership.