Aiden qualified as a town planner from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1994, with the qualifications of BSc(Hons), PG Dip, MIPI, and has since worked in the public and private sector in the UK and Ireland. His initial experience was in various London regeneration bodies/Local Authorities, latterly the London Development Agency, where he was the principal officer on major mixed use brownfield land redevelopment projects in East and West London, including the Wembley Stadium and Environs Regeneration project. Aiden relocated to Cork, Ireland in early 2004, and was Director of RPS Planning and Environment overseeing a number of infrastructure, residential, retail and tourism projects. In February, 2010, he co-founded Coakley O’Neill Town Planning Ltd with Dave Coakley, and has since advised on commercial, infrastructural, residential, educational, retail and brownfield land redevelopment projects, including SID, LRD, SHD and arbitration cases, of varying scales across the country for a public and private sector client base.

Alan graduated from University College Cork with a Masters in Planning and Sustainable Development (M.Plan) in 2021 and joined the company the same year, initially as a Planning Intern, then a Graduate Planner, and was then promoted to his current role as an Assistant Planner in April 2023. Alan has since supported the company in the delivery of a number of residential, commercial, industrial, retail, educational and sporting projects for clients across the Country. Alan has gained excellent experience in the preparation of Development Plan submissions, submissions of various types of planning applications, Section 5 Declarations, Site Appraisals, Feasibility Reports, and Planning Compliance. He has also provided inputs for Retail Impact Assessments and various types of First and Third Party appeals to An Bord Pleanála.