Mark joined Cassidy + Ashton in 2022 and is a highly skilled chartered building surveyor with a wide range of experience working in the education, healthcare and commercial sectors.

He has successfully delivered the annual schools surveying programme for several dioceses across the North West and plays a key role in expanding Cassidy + Ashton’s presence into new sectors, including a growing network of multi-academy trusts and Lancashire local authorities.

Since joining Cassidy + Ashton, Mark has strengthened the practice’s position as one of the leading church surveyors to the Diocese of Blackburn. He also represented Cassidy + Ashton as the lead building surveying consultant on the year-long restoration and repair of Blackpool’s iconic Grand Theatre, which was completed in February 2025.

In April 2025 Mark was promoted to associate. The appointment is in recognition of Mark’s hard work and commitment to the practice in particular his role in developing its building surveying team’s graduate surveyors with their Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) APC training.

Mark has a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in building surveying, from the University of Central Lancashire in 2010 and gained his Chartered membership in building surveying with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor (RICS) in November 2019.

In 2020 he qualified as an Incorporated Member of the Association of Project Safety (IMaPS), a valuable qualification that enables Mark to provide Cassidy + Ashton’s clients with support on the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and with general health and safety advice.

In his spare time, Mark is often out and about scaling rock faces in Wales and the Lake District.