Montagu Evans appoints new commercial planning team head

Montagu Evans is continuing its growth drive with the appointment of Tim Price as Equity Partner and new head of Commercial Planning.

Tim joins from Savills, where he led a nationally focused commercial team and was a Planning Board Director. He works for a range of institutional investors, developers and operators with specialist expertise in retail, leisure and all employment uses, including offices, industrial & logistics and data centres.

Montagu Evans’ 20-strong commercial planning team focuses on retail & leisure, industrial logistics, data centres, roadside/F&B and town centre/mixed-use regeneration. The department’s four other planning specialist teams are Housing & Land, Historic Environments and Townscape, Central London and Scotland.

This is the 14^th recruit to the Planning department in this financial year and the fourth Partner appointment to Montagu Evans since the start of 2026, reflecting the business’s ongoing growth strategy centred on its four conviction areas: Residential, Public Sector, Central London and Industrial & Logistics.

Craig Blatchford, Head of Planning at Montagu Evans, said: “This appointment further invests in our growing commercial planning team with a high-calibre, well-recognised expert who can drive growth, enhance our capability and support clients with complex planning challenges. We welcome Tim to the partnership – the first of a number of Partner appointments in the year ahead.”

Tim Price, Partner at Montagu Evans, said: “This is a very exciting opportunity at a pivotal time for the partnership. Montagu Evans is a go-to name in commercial planning with significant potential. As well as continuing to work with clients, I am looking forward to leading the team, supporting clients across a broad range of uses and helping them to capitalise on specific growth areas, from out-of-town retail and foodstores to urban logistics and data centres.”