Steven Butler

Forged over a decade-long career at Bidwells, and with prior public sector experience, Steven is an all-rounder with a specialism for residential planning. He is actively working on projects ranging from strategic-scale developments in the Green Belt, to enabling development to secure the conservation of heritage assets.

Based in Chelmsford, Steven’s local market knowledge has rendered him an expert in the Essex area, achieving planning consent for multi-award-winning projects like City Park West, several projects for Essex Housing incorporating specialist accommodation and being the retained planning advisor for a portfolio of local and national housebuilder and promoters’ sites across the patch.

He leads the identification of planning strategies that include the promotion of sites through the development plan process and the preparation of major planning applications, recognising the need to ensure viability and deliverability.

A keen cyclist, Steven actively experiences environments at the human scale - he knows what sustainable development should look like and how it should be planned.