We’re really excited to welcome experienced transport planner John Myatt as an Associate Director at our Birmingham Office.
John will lead and grow our public sector transport planning offer in the Midlands, to meet growing client demand following the launch of the government’s post-Covid Levelling up and Build Back Better initiatives.
John joins us from Birmingham City Council, where his most recent title was Transport Planning and Investment Manager. In that role his projects included the delivery of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games as well as the city’s Covid response using the government’s Emergency Active Travel Fund. He previously held transport planning posts at Staffordshire County Council and Walsall Council.
PJA’s relationship with John stretches back several years, having worked together on Langley Sustainable Urban Extension, Peddimore Strategic Employment site and several masterplanning projects.
He brings extensive experience of the development and management of local authority capital programmes and transport strategies and has worked closely with developers and other stakeholders to bring forward large and complex sustainable urban extensions.
Mike Edwards, Director of our Birmingham office, said: “The Midlands is seeing huge investment through the government’s levelling Up and Building Back Better initiatives with new infrastructure projects and the development of a low carbon transport network to serve a growing and changing economy.
“Public sector demand for our services is growing, so we’re delighted to have John on board to head up our offer.
“He understands how to deliver projects in a public sector political environment and has extensive experience of working with partners and stakeholders across the public and private sectors – making him a great fit.”
John added “I have over 13 years’ experience of working in a political environment, working closely with key organisations, developers, businesses, politicians at all levels.
“This is a really exciting time to join and develop the PJA public sector offer, building a team that can offer both public and private sector clients the expert advice they need to deliver schemes in a public sector environment. PJA’s solution-led attitude to transport and development planning will be key to solving the challenges of building back better across the region after Covid-19.”
Get in touch with John: [email protected]
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