Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust

Dr P Jones
MRICS
External Advisor / Company Secretary

Paul graduated from UMIST, Manchester in 1998 having successfully completed an MSc in Property Investment and Development, and has been a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors since 2004. Since 2001, Paul has worked in the field of urban regeneration and development, acting as the Development Manager on urban heritage regeneration projects including the iconic Midland Hotel in Morecambe, Stubbs Mill and Beehive Mill in Manchester, and Park Hill in Sheffield.

After many happy years working in the private sector, Paul recently set up Jones URC, to act in an advisory and delivery capacity on all aspects of community focused urban regeneration projects to the public sector, and not-for-profit organisations. In 2022 Paul was appointed Company Secretary of the Merseyside Buildings Preservation Trust in order to advise and assist the Trust with progression of not-for-profit urban heritage regeneration projects. In August 2024, Paul was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Baltic Creative Community Interest Company.

In 2017, Paul was awarded a Doctorate in the Built Environment by the University of Salford where the area of research focus was urban heritage regeneration. Paul is also working, on a mostly full-time basis, lecturing at the University of Salford, within the School of Science, Engineering and the Environment. Specialist areas of research and study include Conservation, Urban Heritage Regeneration and Adaptive Reuse, Planning, and lowering the Environmental Impact of Real Estate Activity.