The team

Penny Norton MA FCIPR Dip CIPR Found. Chart. PR has wide-ranging experience of public relations and public affairs within property, construction and regeneration. 

Penny has worked with many leading developers including property companies, consultancies, commercial developers and both private and social housing clients. Clients include the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners, Blenheim Estate, Blenheim Strategic Partners, Bovis Homes, British Land, Broadgate Estates, Boyer, Carter Jonas, Capital Shopping Centres, CBRE, Chestertons, Crest Nicholson, Essential Living, Lanpro, Leaders Romans Group, Linden Homes, Mace, Network Housing Group, More London, O&H Properties, Sainsbury's, SOWN (shared ownership) and Three Sixty Space (BTR).  She has also worked with architects, interior designers, property lawyers and local authorities. 

Penny is the author of three books: Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning: a twenty-first century guide (Routledge 2017), Promoting Property: insight, experience and best practice (Routledge 2020), and Communicating Construction: insight, experience and best practice (Routledge 2021) and contributed a chapter on planning for an academic text book, Regulation of Extractive Industries (Routledge 2021). She has also written the first in a series of e-books People in Planning, commissioned by Bang the Table; contributed to a TCPA guide, People, Planning and Power and written e-learning courses on development planning and NSIP planning applications for The Consultation Institute, of which she is a senior associate.

In 2022 on behalf of Leaders Romans Group, Penny wrote a comprehensive white paper on the future Build to Rent, BTR suburban communities: the next stage in the evolution of Build to Rent.

 Prior to setting up PNPR, Penny worked for a variety of London-based PR consultancies, rising from Account Executive at PPS to Senior Account Director at TTA (a subsidiary of Chime plc).

 Penny has a masters qualification in administration and a postgraduate diploma in PR. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and founded the CIPR's Construction and Property Special Interest Group.

If you're interested in joining PNPR, please get in touch. We're always keen to hear from talented people with a strong interest in property and planning world, especially those with a good understanding of media relations.