Jonathan Freeman is a chartered planner with a specialism in urban design. Over the past 20 years he has worked across the public and private sectors, as an urban design and heritage officer at the L.B. Hackney, a planner at AECOM, a design review advisor at CABE and then the Design Council, and a heritage and townscape consultant at Peter Stewart Consultancy and The Townscape Consultancy. 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, Southwark, Hackney, Newham, Islington, and Tower Hamlets.