Penny Norton MA FCIPR Dip CIPR Found. Chart. PR is a public relations and consultation specialist with wide-ranging experience within property, planning, architecture, law and construction.

Penny has worked with many leading developers, property companies, consultancies, commercial developers and both private and social housing clients. Clients have included the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners, Blenheim Estate, Bovis Homes, Boyer Planning, British Land, Broadgate Estates, Capital Shopping Centres, Carter Jonas, CBRE, Chestertons, Crest Nicholson, Essential Living, Glide Property Management, Lanpro, Linden Homes, Lochailort, LRG, Mace, More London, Mortgage Scout, Network Housing Group, O&H Properties, Sainsbury’s and SOWN.

Penny has developed a unique online pre-planning consultation / community relations service, ConsultOnline and run many successful online consultations.

She 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.

Prior to setting up PNPR, Penny worked for a variety of London-based PR consultancies. Penny has a masters qualification in administration and a postgraduate diploma in PR. She is a mentor for the British Property Federation and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and founded the CIPR’s Construction and Property Special Interest Group.

Penny works alongside a team of consultants who specialise in specific areas of the property sector and provide expertise spanning a range of services including media relations, online communications, crisis management, marketing, thought leadership and web development.