Simon Wilkes is an experienced Associate Director at Urbis, where responsibilities include providing planning advice to private and public sector clients in Western Australia and New South Wales, focusing on development facilitation, local planning schemes, improvement schemes, and appeal proceedings before the State Administrative Tribunal. Prior experience includes roles as a Senior Planner at the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage, Executive Manager of Planning at the Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale, Corridor Coordinator at the Department of Planning and Infrastructure, and various positions in the City of Gosnells and City of Bunbury. Simon holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Hons.) in Urban and Regional Planning from Curtin University and completed post-graduate studies in urban and regional planning during a student exchange at the University of Oregon.