Mr Ashley Parry Jones

Biography

Occupation: Director – Environment Employer: Mouchel Memo: Ashley is the divisional director of the environment division of Mouchel. He leads and provides technical direction to a team specializing in gaining in land, environment and planning consents for development projects in the UK and beyond. This team comprises geographers, surveyors, GIS professionals, IT specialists, a range of environment, planning and sustainability professionals and rights of way experts. Ashley has a BA in Geography from University of Kent and a BSc in Estate Management from Heriot-Watt University and became a Chartered Geographer in 2002. He has been working in the land information management field in UK, Ireland and elsewhere for over 17 years, principally in the site assembly and provision of the necessary powers for a variety of infrastructure and development schemes. Major projects he has been involved with include Crossrail, Thameslink, Thames Tideway Tunnels, West Coast Route Modernization, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (HS1), the Discovering Lost Ways project for Natural England and a wide variety of other rail, light rail, highways, utilities and development projects. He has also recently provided land registration advice in the UAE. He is a Final Assessor for the RGS’s Chartered Geographer programme and is also a validator for the Geography & Development Department’s courses at Chester University. Geog Club: Member since 2011. Proposed by Rita Gardner, seconded by Alasdair Macleod.