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Our Team

Drawn from a number of different backgrounds, our team brings together a wide range of experience. We have successfully worked with many different types of clients, all with different approaches to their projects, and have a friendly and professional approach to the projects we work on.

Kathleen Dunmore

Director, Three Dragons

Kathleen is an economist with over 35 years’ experience in housing and construction. She is an expert in the provision of specialist older persons housing and affordable housing for the wider community.  Her experience covers the perspective of the private developer, voluntary sector provider and public authority. She worked for many years as Social Housing Consultant for the House Builders Federation (1988-2000) and before that for Milton Keynes Development Corporation and the Building Employers Confederation...read more

Lin Cousins

Director, Three Dragons

Lin is a town planner by background and worked in both the public and private sectors before helping to set up Three Dragons in 1996. With Three Dragons, Lin has worked across the UK and has a broad portfolio of assignments, specialising in affordable housing delivery, planning research, rural housing and Self and Custom-build development...read more

Dominic Houston

Associate, Three Dragons

Working with Three Dragons since 2012, Dominic is an economist and planner who specialises in development viability assessments.  He has been involved in a range of whole-plan and Community Infrastructure Levy viability studies across the country including for the GLA, Ashford, Basingstoke and Deane, East Devon, Canterbury and Herefordshire councils.  Dominic also provides advice on the viability of individual schemes, specialising in the analysis of complex large-scale developments...read more

Laura Easton

Associate, Three Dragons

Laura has over 30 years’ practice in housing economics, policy and research. She is a specialist in research and policy development for Self and Custom-build housing and assessing the demand for this type of housing; also of affordable housing, homelessness and older persons housing.  Laura is retained as policy advisor and secretary to the Retirement Housing Group...read more

Mark Felgate

Associate, Three Dragons

Mark is a chartered town planner and joined Three Dragons in 2017. He has nearly 20 years’ experience, gained from working in local authority planning teams as well as consultancy at Roger Tym & Partners/Peter Brett Associates and Parkwood (as Regional Head of Planning)...read more

Tom Marshall

Consultant

Tom is a chartered town planner whose experience includes projects involving development viability, economic impact appraisals for development activities and for policy and the preparation of funding bids. Tom has been involved in over 20 CIL and/or plan viability studies and has provided evidence at planning examinations. He has also prepared viability appraisals for a number of development sites and masterplans across the UK...read more

Shane Vallance

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Shane is an experienced economic development professional, economist, researcher, appraiser and evaluation practitioner - providing services to public, private and social purpose organisations. Since 2012 he has operated as a freelance consultant and established Moor Economics Ltd in 2019. He provides services to public, private and social purpose organisations. He has strong analytical skills, which have been applied in a variety of environments within the economic development and planning sphere. He has provided analytical support for Three Dragons since summer 2025. read more

Andrew Purves

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Andrew is a Research Fellow at UCL and has worked on a number of projects to facilitate the delivery of affordable housing on Rural Exception Sites, for NHS Hospital Trusts and for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. He has an interest in land value for public revenue, value capture, and older person housing delivery. read more