GPPLANNING - Key Persons


Carrie Gardner-Pett

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • Office Administrator
Carrie has a wealth of experience in office and financial administration along with office and retail management. She joined GP Planning Ltd in January 2013 and since then has worked alongside the management team to establish a consistent invoicing and bookkeeping process and new office management systems. She compiles the client e-newsletter which she urges you to sign up to for the latest planning news relevant to your industry written by our expert planning team. Before working at GP Planning Ltd, Carrie was a Business Development and Educational Consultant at a yarn producing alpaca farm, and prior to this she was the Office Manager at a busy Hampshire based commercial property consultancy. Carrie enjoys spending time with her family, knitting up her alpaca yarn stash, teaching all manner of crafts at a local craft centre to adults and children, horse riding, reading murder mysteries and cooking.

Christian Smith

Job Titles:
  • Director
Qualifications: CMI Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership.

Katrina Doolan

Job Titles:
  • CAD Professional
Katrina is a highly experienced and versatile member of the team joining in 2008 to provide Graphics and Administrative Support to the professional staff. Her experience and skill in AutoCAD and Adobe Graphics Suite are invaluable and paramount to the success of so many planning projects. Prior to joining GP Planning, Katrina spent 17 years working in Financial Services, specialising in Mortgage Broker acquisition. Katrina enjoys running after her children and has always got a story to tell regarding suburban family life. Having recently dusted off her 3 year old Christmas present, a sewing machine (previously used as a doorstop), she attended a sewing machine course with her daughter. Katrina has set herself a challenge to make a Roman Blind by the end of the year, but not confirmed the end of which year!

Maureen Darrie

Job Titles:
  • Director
Qualifications: BSc (Hons) in Town and Regional Planning, Dundee University Maureen has been a Director of GP Planning since 2016. She is a technically adept, commercially aware, results driven Director with extensive experience in minerals and waste planning, waste management and Environmental Permitting and associated projects. She also brings her skills in planning for large mixed use residential and commercial developments, project management, stakeholder dialogue, independent facilitation and extensive expert witness and litigation experience.

Thomas Cox

Job Titles:
  • Principal Planning Consultant