Mark Krassowski joined the Knutsford office as a director in June 2009 and became joint owner of the Walsingham Planning with Stephen Brooker in 2011.
Mark has over 30 years’ experience as a planning consultant, having worked previously for Town Planning Consultancy Ltd in London and Glasgow and RPS in Manchester, where he set up and ran a successful planning team.
He has wide experience of planning matters and advises both private and public sector clients on retail, leisure, education, residential and commercial development projects. He specialises in retail and leisure developments, including out-of-centre food stores, retail warehousing and sports and tennis clubs. In recent years he has successfully negotiated planning permission for a large number of mixed use developments across the UK, including Sandbach, Nottingham, Wembley, Hexham, Maidenhead and High Wycombe.
Mark regularly gives evidence at planning inquiries and is experienced in instructing planning counsel. In 2012 he was instrumental in a successful appeal for 280 new homes on a greenfield site in Flintshire. He also gave evidence at a public inquiry in support of a 450-unit residential scheme without any affordable housing on a heavily contaminated site in Maidenhead, helping to secure planning consent from the Secretary of State.
Outside of work Mark’s main passion (apart from his wife, children and dogs) is mountain biking. He can regularly be found blasting up and down the hills of the Peak District or competing in trailquest events (orienteering on mountain bikes). Mark’s enthusiasm for the outdoors also extends to rock climbing, mountaineering, walking and fell running.