Lydia Pravin, MSc, MRTPI, has joined property specialist, Eddisons, as an associate planning director.

Previously working for Brown & Co as a senior associate planner in its St Neots office, Pravin is a qualified chartered town planner and has a masters degree in urban and regional town planning.

Based in Eddisons’ Peterborough office, she will primarily work across the firm’s regional office network in the East Midlands and East of England.

Announcing the appointment, planning director, Kate Wood, said: “Lydia joins us at a time when many local authorities in the region are at key points in their local plan lifecycles and reform of the planning system is, once again, in the spotlight at national policy level.

“With over a decade in the planning profession, Lydia’s senior experience in both private practice and the public sector brings insight and skills to the Eddisons professional services planning offer that will prove invaluable to the firm’s clients.”

Eddisons is an independent firm of chartered surveyors specialising in property, including education and healthcare buildings.