Ryan moves to Savills in Cardiff

Will Ryan has joined the Cardiff office of consultancy Savills as director in its planning and regeneration team.

Ryan joins the firm from SLR Consulting, where he spent more than 10 years after establishing and managing the Cardiff office as technical director

He brings experience ranging from large scale mixed-use developments through to energy projects, and will focus on minerals, waste and energy proposals in his new role.

Tim Gent, head of Cardiff planning at Savills, said: “We see excellent growth prospects in the Cardiff team and Will's skills in large mixed-use brownfield regeneration projects will also be instrumental to this.”

Ryan has previously worked at small Cardiff consultancy Wyn Thomas Gordon Lewis and as head of planning at construction firm Cemex Properties. He started his planning career at West Sussex County Council.

Ryan, who is MRTPI qualified, gained a bachelor’s degree in town planning from Coventry University.

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