Kate Goodwin

Planning Assistant

Kate is an experienced Planning Assistant currently working towards chartered membership of the RTPI.  With over 5 years’ experience in planning consultancy in Central London, Kate now assists the Spawforths team on wide range of planning matters including preparing applications and supporting statements; writing letters of representation and inputting into planning appeals; and managing elements of projects. 

Kate has experience with various issues including design, heritage, case law, Green Belt, and Permitted Development, and is capable of putting together a case and liaising with the Local Authority to overcome them.  She has undertaken work for a range of clients including private individuals, private care homes, SME housebuilders, landowners/estates, and commercial/industrial organisations, working at all scales of development.  These range from complex householder issues or appeals, small bespoke housing developments, and commercial changes of use, through to agricultural buildings and conversions, solar farms, large industrial units, and major mixed use developments and urban extensions.