Dean
Swann

Group Technical Director, Land, Development and Communities

About Dean...

Dean Swann is Group Technical Director in the Land, Development and Communities Group at Brookbanks. He leads technical input on the environmental and infrastructure issues that shape whether land can be developed, covering air quality, ecology, flooding and drainage, ground conditions, highways, noise, utilities and waste, including nutrients and water usage.

Dean co-leads the Brookbanks nitrates and phosphates team and is recognised for his work on nutrient neutrality. He presented ‘Achieving a Nutrient Neutral Development’ for the Home Builders Federation in 2022, delivered a nutrient neutrality CPD at the HBF conference in Birmingham in 2023, and supported Brookbanks’ research with the HBF on the contribution of new housing to nutrient pollution. From that reporting Dean has continued his work on this particularly matter of nutrients with the HBF to the present with recent work extensively in the south of Wales for clients who have recently been caught up in Nutrient Neutrality there. His team assists with approved nutrient neutrality schemes across the country, including wetlands, fallowing, SUDS reductions and credit schemes.

Featuring in the Brookbanks podcast on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and Environmental Delivery Plans, Dean has also been assisting the HBF at recent government roundtables and cross party policy groups on improving water efficiency and reuse in new development.