Brian Brookman, Chartered Surveyor

Brian was born in Cardiff; his father was an engineer. After a Grammar School education Brian was apprenticed to an engineer at The British Electricity Authority; but after six months, they all decided this was not for him! So he worked for the local authority, before National Service. After this, the authority offered him a job as a trainee surveyor, a job that he was told ‘had a future’. Qualifying after 4 years, he moved to Essex County Council, then East Suffolk County Council for 5 years. He considered private practice, but then saw a job advertised with Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC), which seemed, as he says, ‘a sort of half-way house between local authority and private practice, much more of a commercial organisation’, so he applied.