Sarah Townsend
Avison Young’s Manchester-based planning principal Jon Suckley has left the company to launch an independent planning consultancy, and Richard Barton is now heading up the department.
Barton, also a planning principal in the Manchester office of the property services firm, has assumed full responsibility for the planning division, which Avison expanded with the acquisition of GVA in February 2019.
GVA in turn had acquired boutique consultancy HOW Planning the previous year, and many of Avison’s current and former planning staff, including Barton, Suckley and principal Gary Halman – who remains in post – originally worked at HOW.
Suckley is launching his own independent practice