Background
Desmond was born September 17, 1907, in Burnley, Lancashire, United Kingdom, the son of an architect and surveyor.
Desmond Heap studied law at Manchester University.
Arizona, USA, 22nd April 1971, Sir Desmond Heap (left), Solicitor for the Corporation of London, and Robert P McCulloch Jnr, President of the company that bought London Bridge, stand in front of the bridge in Lake Havasu.
27th March 1973: The Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham (1907 - 2001) and President of the Law Society Sir Desmond Heap, announce the new Legal Aid measures with a logo.
Desmond was born September 17, 1907, in Burnley, Lancashire, United Kingdom, the son of an architect and surveyor.
Desmond attended Burnley Grammar School before studying law at Manchester University.
Heap’s law career began in 1933 when he was admitted as a solicitor after graduating from Victoria University of Manchester.
By 1935, he had been appointed as both Deputy Town Clerk of Leeds, and a lecturer in the law of town and country planning at the Leeds School of Architecture. In 1947, he became Comptroller and City Solicitor of the Corporation of the City of London. He was asked by the Ministry of Town and Country Planning to provide a guidebook to new legislation on town planning then it introduced. The result was the Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice, a loose-leaf work which was constantly updated. He retired from the post in 1973.
He was elected President of the Town Planning Institute in 1955 and President of the Law Society in 1972. He died at home in Kent at the age of 90.