DLP Consulting acquires CASS Associates
DLP Consulting Group Ltd (DLP) has acquired Liverpool based planning and design firm CASS Associates, which was established in 1983.
The planning team of CASS Associates will merge with DLP Planning Ltd and form a North West planning team. It will be led by Graham Trewhella, senior director of Cass Associates. The new team will work alongside other DLP Planning offices in London, Bedford/Milton Keynes, Rugby, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds and Bristol.
The architecture, masterplanning/urban design, heritage design and landscape architecture teams will merge with DLP’s design company, BE 1 Architects Ltd, and will practice under the name CASS.
The new CASS design company will operate from offices in London, Liverpool, Leeds and Bedford. It will be led by Ivan Soldo and Richard Roberts, and Selma Hooley will lead the masterplanning team.
Simon James, managing director of DLP, said: “The acquisition of CASS Associates is another very important step for DLP, and follows on from its successful transition to a staff owned company. The Cass Associates team, led by Graham Trewhella will further add to DLP’s well established, growing planning teams, but also creates a new regional presence for the business. Furthermore, it also very considerably strengthens the group’s design offer, and, in particular, adds both landscape and heritage design to its service offer, which also provides architectural, master planning and sustainability engineering.”
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