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Fiona Jones, BSc(Hons), BTP, MRTPI

Cameron Jones Planning is based in Ascot, Berkshire, and was established in 2012 by Fiona Jones BSc(Hons) BTP MRTPI, a chartered town planner with over 20 years experience within the planning profession. Fiona’s career has been within the public and private sectors across all aspects of the planning spectrum.

Fiona gained full membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 2000.

Career History

Senior Planning Officer

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

January 2014 – August 2015

Instructed by the Royal Borough’s planning team to help with determining planning applications while two members of staff were on maternity leave. Fiona also dealt with a significant number of major, minor and other applications and appeals (including public inquiries) across the Borough.

Deputy Team Leader, Development Control Team

London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

April 2001 – Sept 2006 and May 2008 – Dec 2012

Deputy Team Leader at The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames working within the appeals and enforcement team and becoming Deputy Team Leader of a planning application team, reporting applications to the Councillors and working on major schemes within the Borough.

Managed a team of planning officers and was also involved with over-hauling and upgrading the Council’s Planning website pages.

Fiona’s final role at Richmond upon Thames was to work within the Appeals team, acting for the Council at Hearings and Public Inquiries.

Principal Planner

GVA Grimley

Sept 2006 – May 2008

Employed by GVA Grimley to expand the Planning, Development & Regeneration team’s public sector

skill and knowledge base. The role was to lead on negotiations and planning applications for major corporate and private developers. This involved attending and promoting schemes at public exhibitions, negotiating S106 agreements and gaining planning permission for high profile projects across London and the south-east of England.

Projects ranged from new car showrooms for Lexus, the change of use of the John Lewis department store (Caleys) in Windsor to the Macdonald Hotel (listed building and conservation area issues involved) and 28 storey tower schemes with over 200 residential units for Ballymore Properties Ltd plus residential and mixed schemes for a variety of small scale developers.

Also worked on the extension to the National Physical Laboratory and power stations for EDF Energy and lectured to under graduates at Westminster University studying Planning, Housing and Urban Design.

Planning Enforcement Officer

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

July 1999 – April 2001

Gained excellent experience dealing in planning law, enforcement investigations and formal legal action. Co-wrote the Council’s enforcement procedures manual but also processed planning applications and undertook appeal work.

Planning Heritage Officer

Bayside City Council, Melbourne, Australia

January to April 1999

Whilst travelling for a year, Fiona worked near Melbourne in Australia within the planning department of Bayside City Council. She provided listed building advice on planning applications, was responsible for overseeing the first heritage listing of properties within the municipality and organised the Public Panel Hearing.

Planning Policy Officer

Bracknell Forest Borough Council, Berkshire

September 1997 – October 1998

Team member during preparation for the Public Inquiry for the Development Plan Review: summarised and evaluated responses to the public consultation; prepared alterations to policy and proposals map; wrote proofs of evidence; presented evidence for the Council and was cross examined at the Public Inquiry.

Wrote policy observations for planning applications; undertook retail policy analysis and prepared of development briefs.

Cameron Jones Planning

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Jon S

12:51 23 May 23

Achieved a smooth successful retrospective planning application. Simple engagement process; trustworthy and transparent in terms of work needed and pricing; responsive when questions raised; and adaptable.

Edmund Jeary

23:29 22 May 23

Fiona helped us to get full approval for plans to carry out an extensive refurb of our conservation-area property, which included front, rear and side extensions. We appointed Fiona on the recommendation of our architect, after we received advice at pre-planning stage that permission would not be granted on a number of grounds. Fiona provided extremely efficient support, advising us (time poor and completely new to the planning process) on the risks and merits of different approaches to our appeal - low versus higher risk design options. She drafted a compelling appeal statement, that successfully addressed all grounds for refusal at pre-planning and planning stages. Thank you Fiona!

Katie shapley

13:38 15 May 23

Cameron Jones get the right results. They give good advice and take the time to understand the issues and recommend a workable solution for all parties. We recommend their services.

Peter Spratt

13:36 15 May 23

Cameron Jones Planning were very responsive, professional and value for money. Fiona and Kevin Jones worked seamlessly together, covering for each other as necessary. They took time to understand our wishes and sought proactive solutions where others had defaulted to easier, and unsuccessful, approaches. They also brought in other disciplines as required (legal and architects) to ensure our application withstood scrutiny from all angles. It was a pleasure to work with them.

Jennifer Hall

12:59 07 Nov 22

Fiona has been fantastic in this process. Highly professional and on the ball with our case 100% of the time.Fiona's contribution to the project resulted in successful approval of our planning application.

V G

14:44 05 Nov 22

Highly recommend Fiona - she worked on our successful planning application to Richmond council. She always responds quickly and was able to get access to documents not available online that we needed to support our application. Would use her services again

Debbie Cullen

16:30 03 Nov 22

Fiona at Cameron Jones Planning managed to turn, what appeared to be, a hopeless situation into something we could work with. Her diligence and tenacity have given us the opportunity to see the original plans for the project take shape. Fiona works across a number of projects for us, she is always clear about what she feels is achievable and what is not. I value her services greatly and have no hesitation in recommending Cameron Jones Planning.

Martin Dent

14:54 03 Mar 22

We would highly recommend Fiona and her team. We were apprehensive as to where to start with our particular planning problem but from the beginning Fiona offered us straight forward easy to follow advice. The fee that was discussed at the beginning was clear and transparent so we knew at each stage what the cost was going to be. She submitted the application on our behalf after careful consideration of the best way forward and we are happy to say we had a positive conclusion without any hitches at all.

Liz Boycott-Brown

07:59 28 Jan 22

Fiona at Cameron Jones Planning was excellent. We had a really tricky case - an old building, a non designated heritage asset- she worked skilfully and efficiently with the council and through an appeals process. She was so clear with us so we knew what was going on all the time. We truly felt in capable (and the best) hands. We are thrilled to now have planning when there were times it seemed like we may not ever get it! Massive thanks Fiona

Linda Wigmore

07:55 15 May 21

Cameron Jones recently supported us with our planning application after our first was refused. Fiona submitted a 20 page document including our revised plans, photos and detailed information around the planning policies. Throughout the process Fiona was in correspondence with the planning department and us, guiding and advising where necessary. Our plans have now been granted but we feel Cameron Jones knowledge and expertise in their business helped immensely to the plans being permitted. A Highly experienced and professional team, thank you!