Gerry Hughes
Associate
Gerry is an experienced planning, urban regeneration and development consultant with over 35 years’ experience across the UK, Ireland, Continental Europe and North America. He is a qualified planner and development surveyor, and his career expertise has largely focused on setting strategy for and enabling the delivery of large-scale regeneration programmes, mixed-use development and new settlement schemes.
Gerry is renowned for his vison setting capabilities and as a skilled leader of multi- professional teams in place-making- both in an urban regeneration and new settlement context, from preparing strategy (master planning), through to delivery. He is an expert in the utilisation of public-private partnership delivery vehicles and the creation of innovative financial structures to enable the delivery of complex projects. He can step into a leadership role on major projects from scheme inception through planning to implementation. He is also adept at the deployment of technology and the digitisation of the process of scheme formulation, planning processes, scheme delivery and stewardship.
Before taking on the CEO role at GVA (now Avison Young), Gerry led the firm’s Planning, Development and Regeneration business comprising regeneration specialists, urban planners, economists, development consultants and finance specialists.