Joshua Harding-Jones

Josh is a Senior Consultant at Hardisty Jones, and has been involved with  economic development consulting since 2015.

Josh’s expertise includes EIA, with a focus on assessing the potential socio-economic effects of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects and regeneration development schemes. Josh has also supported planning applications and strategic allocations by delivering evidence on the economic and social benefits of development. Josh’s experience also includes contributing to economic research, analysis, and evidence informing local and regional economic strategy and planning policy development. Josh has appeared as an expert witness at planning examinations. 

Josh’s areas of expertise includes:

• Project management.
• Economic impact of energy infrastructure.
• Economic impact of strategic employment and residential development.
• Economic strategy and planning policy development.
• Socio-economics Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
• Data analysis.
• Stakeholder consultation.

Josh has worked on projects on behalf of private developers, pan-regional partnerships, local authorities, public-public and public-private partnerships, giving him an understanding of infrastructure, land, property, and spatial development elements of economic development.