About Us

Dr Tony Smith (Partner)

Over a professional career of more than 30 years, Tony Smith has become an acknowledged expert in contaminated land assessment and remediation. Following a Doctorate at the University of Liverpool, he carried out contract research for Central Government, including developing and carrying out the first national scale survey of contaminated land sites. He was a founding director of the RPS environmental science consultancy before establishing Smith Grant in 1994. He has worked on vast range of environmental assessment and remediation projects, advising on some of the most problematic sites in the UK.

Katrina Hawkins (Partner)

Katrina has over 25 years professional experience in technical consultancy and business management, dealing with all aspects of the environmental impacts of development and operational activities. With a degree in Chemistry and Masters in Environmental Pollution Control, her career developed at a leading international environmental consultancy, and she ultimately managed the global due diligence team. Katrina joined Smith Grant in 2004, becoming a Partner in 2005, and specialises in air quality and contaminated land consultancy. She has managed projects world-wide for clients including developers, engineers, planners, international corporations, banks, venture capitalists, lawyers and government bodies. Recent projects include air quality and odour assessments of landfill sites, energy from waste plants, waste transfer stations along with extensive residential developments.   Katrina has appeared as an air quality  expert witness at many Public Inquiries.   She is a Chartered Environmentalist, Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment and a Member of the Institute of Air Quality Management.

Dan Wayland (Partner)

Dan commenced his environmental career in the oil and gas industry following completion of his undergraduate studies in Environmental Forensics and his Masters in Environmental Pollution and Protection. He later joined Smith Grant in 2010 as a Consultant specialising in contaminated land investigation, risk assessment and remediation and became a Partner in 2018. Dan is involved in all aspects of the contaminated land business and has experience on working on a wide variety of brownfield sites including former chemical works, metal mining sites, hospitals and petrol stations. His primary role is the implementation and supervision of intrusive investigations, production of remedial strategies and overseeing the validation of remediation works. Dan is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management and is a Chartered Water and Environmental Manager.

Louise Stock (Associate)

Louise has over 20 years’ experience as a geo-environmental specialist and project manager within environmental consultancy having worked in both large multidisciplinary consulting engineers and smaller consultancy environments. Louise is involved in all aspects of contaminated land assessment and the associated project management having experience of an extensive portfolio of projects on a wide variety of heavy industrial sites, petrol filling stations, landfills and MOD bases and airfields, to name but a few. Louise is a Chartered Scientist (CSci) plus a full member of the Institution of Environmental Sciences. Her studies have gained her a BSc (Hons) in Natural Environmental Science and a Masters degree in Environmental Assessment and Management. Louise Joined the Smith Grant Team in May 2023.

Scott Miller (Senior Consultant)

Following the completion of his undergraduate degree in Environmental Biogeoscience, Scott begun his career gaining experience in a number of environmental sectors including renewable energy, waste recycling and environmental sustainability. Joining Smith Grant LLP in 2014 as a Consultant specialising in contaminated land investigation, risk assessment and remediation, Scott has gained experience in a wide range of the Partnership’s contaminated land business. This includes working on numerous brownfield sites such as former chemical works, a decommissioned paper mill and an area historically associated with metal processing. His primary role is the implementation of extensive soil, gas and water monitoring and sampling schemes, along with undertaking site walkovers, overseeing intrusive investigations and producing Stage 1 and 2 contaminated land reports. He also carries out gas membranes inspections and topsoil validations across the North West for a number of house builders.

Meg Jones (Consultant)

After completing a degree in Environmental Science in 2017, Meg went on to do a Master’s in Environmental Pollution at the University of Reading. She then joined the company in late 2018 as a Graduate Consultant before progressing to Consultant. Currently, she is involved in a wide range of contaminated land investigation projects undertaken by the company. She is involved in all aspects of the business, ranging from the production of quotes, site investigation works, routine sampling and monitoring and report writing. Meg is also responsible for the preparation and production of Material Management Plans.

Caitlin McHugh (Graduate Consultant)

Caitlin joined Smith Grant LLP in late 2022 as a Graduate Consultant after completing her BSc (Hons) degree in Environmental Management at the University of Manchester. Caitlin specialises in contaminated land consultancy within the company. She is responsible for conducting routine soil, ground water and surface water sampling, carrying out ground gas monitoring programmes, producing Phase 1 Desk Studies for a variety of sites to support and satisfy Planning Conditions and carrying out routine validation inspection visits. Caitlin also assists in the remediation of brownfield sites which has included full-time supervision over a period of several months. She is a Graduate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).

Emma MacDonald (Graduate Consultant)

Emma joined Smith Grant LLP as a Graduate Consultant in 2023. She has an undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Nottingham and a Master’s degree in Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution from Imperial College London. Emma specialises in air quality consultancy. Since joining Smith Grant, she has worked on a wide variety of projects investigating and assessing dust, vehicle and industrial stack emissions. Recent projects include quarry operations, waste management facilities, proposed housing developments and industrial plants.

Claire Landsborough (Accounts and Office Administrator)

Claire joined the team in January 2017, as the Accounts and Office Administrator, and will typically be your first point of communication when contacting Smith Grant LLP. Since starting her career, over twenty-five years ago, as a junior receptionist, Claire has gained a vast knowledge of office and financial administration in a wide range of industries. Having achieved many qualifications in customer care and administration, Claire understands the importance of maintaining good business relationships with customers and suppliers and will always endeavour to resolve any queries you may have, regarding any aspects of the administration process, efficiently and effectively.

Dewi Lloyd (Associate)

Dewi holds a degree in physics from Imperial College and a Masters in Air Pollution Management and Control from the University of Birmingham, making him ideally qualified as our leading atmospheric pollution modeller. After an early period of working as an environmental consultant at the Univeristy of Liverpool, Dewi followed a varied and highly successful career, including posts as a reactor physicist with Nuclear Electric, consultant with Cap Gemini and systems manager with Unilever Research. Dewi became a Smith Grant Associate in 2001, and carries out air dispersion modelling for pollution assessments including proposed energy from waste plants, roadstone plants, quarries, composting facilities and landfills.