Jonathan Lager was brought up in Cambridge, but worked in London and its environs for both commercial surveying practices and property development companies. He became a director of the property development division of a multinational company prior to returning to general practice in Cambridge in 1989, where he ran the Cambridge office for a regional practice, before joining Peter Layer in 1997.

Mark Robinson has always worked in commercial property in Cambridge, starting his surveying career in 1978 at the University of Cambridge’s Estates Department, before working for a number of Cambridge firms including Gray Cook & Partners, Januarys and Herring Son & Daw. He co-founded Sumpster Robinson Associates in 1992, which subsequently merged with a regional practice, moving on to establish Robinson Property Consultants in 2002, merging with Layer Associates in 2011.

Peter Layer began his career in Cambridge with a long-established local firm of chartered surveyors before forming an exclusively commercial property practice, Layer Associates, in 1990. He stepped down from being a Partner in 2021, but remained involved with the firm and working for his clients as a Consultant. He has now fully retired and has moved to the south coast to be close to family members, but retains an interest by being a non-practising Consultant to the firm.

Mark Robinson has been involved in our property matters ever since we moved to Harston Mill in 1995 and therefore knows the complexities of our large multi-tenanted campus exceedingly well. ......more

Mark Robinson has been involved in our property matters ever since we moved to Harston Mill in 1995 and therefore knows the complexities of our large multi-tenanted campus exceedingly well. Robinson Layer continue to advise us - in particular on our business rates matters and deal with changing assessments as tenants come and go from the site – and provide a good quality cost effective service.less

Martin Bond, Facilities Manager, Sagentia Group