Desmond Heap

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Sir Desmond Heap (17 September 1907 – 27 June 1998) was a British

town planning
law.

He was born in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of an architect and surveyor, and attended Burnley Grammar School before studying law at Manchester University.[1]

By 1935, he had been appointed as both Deputy

Leeds School of Architecture
.

In 1947, he became

Corporation of the City of London. He was asked by the Ministry of Town and Country Planning
to provide a guidebook to new legislation on town planning then it introduced.

The result was the Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice, a loose-leaf work which was constantly updated. In his role in the

Second World War, and for the sale of London Bridge to a company in Arizona.[2] He retired from the post in 1973.[1]

He was elected President of the

President of the Law Society
in 1972.

He was knighted in the 1970 New Year Honours, and awarded the Royal Town Planning Institute Gold Medal in 1983.[1]

He died at home in Kent at the age of 90.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Man who sold London Bridge dies", Lancashire Telegraph, 1 July 1998. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
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