General Education:
Silver Street Infants School, Wythall (1953)
Ruckleigh Preparatory School, Solihull, (1954-1959)
Greswold Junior School, Solihull (1959)
Tudor Grange Grammar School for Boys, Solihull (1959-1964)
 

Professional Education:
Army Apprentices College, Chepstow (1964-1967)
3 Training Regiment Royal Engineers, Aldershot (1967)
School of Military Survey, Newbury (1968-1969)
School of Military Survey, Newbury (1970)
 

Brief Career Details:
Served in Royal Engineers between September 1964 and
January 1973. Carried out land surveying in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Germany, Holland and Belgium.

With Cartographical Services Ltd, Worcester (1973-1979)Carried
out land surveying in England, Scotland, Wales and Iraq.

With Laser Surveys, Worcester (1980-1982) Carried out land
surveying and major construction setting-out in England and Wales

Established Powell & Robinson (now David J Powell Surveys Ltd), Ringwood (1982-present date)
Controlled land surveying, building measurement surveying, setting-out, boundary dispute/demarcation and consultancy, in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Eire, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Antigua, Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados.

 
Particular Area of Expertise:
Boundary Dispute Resolution and Boundary Demarcation… Probably the country’s leading expert in the field of Boundary
Dispute Resolution.  Member of the Land Registry Rules Comittee. Prepared well over 2,500 reports, given oral evidence in Court
on over 100 occasions, author of books and published articles on the subject, regular broadcaster, appeared in
BBC TV’s “Neighbours at War” series, gives talks throughout the World on “boundary disputes”, “neighbours at war”, “running a small professional practice”, “nuisances” as well as light-hearted after-dinner speeches.  He is a past Chairman of the Geomatics faculty
of the Royal Institute of chartered surveyors and has recently updated "Anstey's Boundary Disputes" book.

Hobbies and Interests:
Reading anything and everything, fact and fiction
Fine wine
Doing as little exercise as possible
Listening to the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Following West Bromwich Albion and England football teams