Philip Grover BA (Hons), BTP, Dip Arch Cons, MRTPI, IHBC
A built heritage professional with extensive experience, Philip has worked as conservation specialist in 3 English local authorities, higher education and consultancy.
- Philip Grover has worked as an urban conservation professional for over thirty years.
- His wide ranging experience includes appointments as a conservation specialist in three English local authorities, including Gloucester City Council where he took a leading role in the revitalisation of the city’s historic docks, and Newark and Sherwood District Council where he led a number of innovative conservation led regeneration projects.
- Before moving into consultancy he was for ten years Director of Postgraduate Studies in Historic Conservation at Oxford Brookes University, and was instrumental in developing the institution as one of the leading centres for conservation education and research in the UK. Philip’s extensive consultancy commissions include work for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, English Heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund, Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) and British Waterways.
- He has built up a reputation for successfully mediating on behalf of clients with local planning authorities and English Heritage. He regularly provides expert heritage witness evidence at public inquiries. Philip is a founder member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC.) and a full member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).
