Jonathan Freeman is a chartered planner and specialist in urban design. Over the past 19 years he has worked across the public and private sectors, as an urban design and heritage officer at the London Borough of Hackney, a planner at AECOM, a design review advisor at CABE and then the Design Council, and a townscape consultant at Peter Stewart Consultancy and The Townscape Consultancy. Since becoming a townscape consultant in 2014, he has authored townscape and visual impact assessments and historic environment reports for a wide range of development proposals. These include masterplans for major mixed-use developments in east London, new residential and office developments in Westminster and Camden, and tall buildings in the City of London, and the London Boroughs of Southwark, Hackney, Newham, Islington, and Tower Hamlets.