A RURAL surveyor has returned to her career roots with a new role at county firm, Greenslade Taylor Hunt (GTH).

Joanna Down has rejoined the company as an associate and will be working in the firm’s Yeovil and Langport offices undertaking a range of rural professional, agency and management work.

Joanna, nee Kingman, originally worked alongside former partner and chair Charles Clark in the firm’s Chard office in 2011 and later recently at Sedgemoor.

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She then worked for Somerset Council in its Strategic Asset Management team for several years.

Now, back at GTH, Joanna is bringing her experience as a rural surveyor to undertake all types of rural professional, valuation, agency and estate management work. She is also a RICS registered valuer.

As a farmer’s daughter from Dorset, she understands the challenges and trials of rural life.

“I am delighted to be back at GTH and I am looking forward to meeting old and new clients of the firm, continuing relationships and helping to deliver the high-quality services that GTH offers across the region,” she said.

She graduated from Harper Adams University with a BSc (Hons) in rural enterprise and land management in 2007 and qualified as a chartered surveyor with a national firm of agents in Oxfordshire in 2009.

Outside work she is kept busy with her young family, but when time allows Joanna has a strong interest in equestrian pursuits, and has previously competed in British Eventing Horse Trials.