Charles Raven
Principal Planner
Charles is a Chartered Town Planner with over twenty years’ development management experience predominantly within the public sector, most recently leading on numerous major mixed use urban regeneration schemes.
Charles relishes a challenge and has an excellent track record of negotiating positive changes through developing creative and bespoke planning solutions and is an advocate of innovative and exceptional design with place making being at the heart of development. He has a demonstrable history of collaborative working with local politicians, development professionals, statutory agencies, and other stakeholders, finding solutions to deliver successful place shaping.
Charles not only has excellent project management skills, but under his previous role, also managed and mentored a team of professional planners through some of the toughest times faced in local government.
Background
Charles started his career with Exeter City Council as an Assistant Planner, moving over to Newport City Council for a similar role. He then secured a Planning Officer role with Bournemouth Borough Council, where he quickly progressed to Senior Planning Officer and subsequently stepped up to take on a role as a Development Management Team Leader. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Councils merged to become BCP Council and Charles continued his role as Team Leader in both the Bournemouth and Poole offices. Charles has been lead officer on almost three thousand planning applications and has a broad range and wealth of knowledge across the development industry.
Future
Charles is ambitious and client focused. He is looking forward to applying his extensive skillset in support of our client’s developments and taking lead on numerous projects with Axiom Planning.
Quotes about Charles.
“I have known Charles for a number of years whilst he was working as a senior officer at BCP Council. I have always been impressed by Charles’ integrity, passion and genuine desire to make and deliver better places through the planning system, which he has put into practice through delivering various high profile planning permissions in his career to date. Charles is technically excellent, a pragmatic and progressive problem solver and a pleasure to work with on any project.”
“Our architectural practice has worked with Charles for over 15 years whilst he was at the local authority and always found him to be very approachable, consistent and fair during the numerous applications we worked with him on.”
“I worked with Charles over several years on a number of major projects in Bournemouth and found him to be professional, proactive and committed.”