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Quod has worked on Gilston Park Estate since its inception. We have collaborated with Places for People and East Hertfordshire District Council to shape the project into something we are all truly proud of. This is a significant milestone for the government's new towns vision and boosting housing supply for the UK. Thank you to a tireless client team, consultant team and local authority team. This was a multi-disciplinary project at Quod involving many of teams and all of our specialisms. Services delivered include strategic site promotion; planning policy and engagement; strategic case and economic analysis; outline planning application coordination & submission; Environmental Impact Assessment coordination; and housing and community infrastructure advisory. Quod will now continue to assist with the rest of the development. The team was led by: Philip Murphy, Rachel Godfrey, Aisling Webb, Elin Fradgley, Alistair Walker, Tom Dobson, Andrew Hunt, Chris Wheaton, Ryan Wells and Sasha Gordon.

We are delighted to announce a number of promotions to start the new year. It has always been an important part of Quod’s philosophy to nurture talent and grow from within, which is even more important as an employee-owned business. These promotions are awarded in recognition of the outcomes these individuals deliver for our clients and their role in growing our business. In light of succession and the hard work of these individuals there have been seven promotions from Associate to Associate Director: Adam Cornish, Anjuli Schiele, Alexander MacGregor, Ewan Grunwald, Gregory Blaxland, Neil Wells and Rebecca Sanders. More information on these individuals can be read on our new story on the link below. Congratulations to the above individuals which strengthens Quod’s offer, in addition to these the following people have also been promoted. Congratulations to all and thank you for your contribution to Quod. Alexandra Higgin – Associate Becky Hartley – Associate Hannah Swainston – Associate Maddy Truman – Associate Alex Hamlet – Senior Planner Jane Drumm – Senior Planner James Newitt – Senior Consultant Matthew Rudge – Senior Consultant Eleanor Wright – Senior Consultant Eve Warwick – Planner Sophie Butler – Planner Johnathan Welton – Planner Sam Baggaley – Planner https://lnkd.in/eXiBa72p

#QuodWrapped. As we start 2025, we have taken a look back at Quod in 2024. There were so many highlights and achievements both as a company and as individuals on behalf of Quod, from our biggest permissions and submissions, to raising money for Great Ormond Street Hospital, and to leading the debate through our thought leadership. Our 2024 Quod Wrapped highlights a few of our key achievements last year (thanks to Spotify for the inspiration). Thank you to our amazing colleagues at Quod who make everything we do possible, and deliver the best for our clients and communities we work in. We look forward to working with you in 2025!

From everyone at Quod we want to wish our clients, friends, and colleagues a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are looking forward to working with you all and seeing what 2025 has in store.

Some of the Quod team are attending the Accessible Retail Annual Christmas lunch today, catching up with clients and industry friends alike. Quod has been a sponsor for 14 years running and the team look forward to the event each year. Accessible Retail, which Senior Director Tim Rainbird sits on the Board is: ‘One Voice for Out of Town Property – offering networking & educational opportunities for the out-of-town property sector.' #accessibleretail #sponsor #propertysector #development

A great charity who does amazing work throughout the Yorkshire region, which Quod have supported throughout the year, please help to support them this Christmas with there festive gift appeal. The post below and link has more details of how you can get involved. Yorkshire Children's Charity https://lnkd.in/e7fmxkUU

Another big one! Our 130,000 sqft, mixed-use repurposing of a redundant office building in Elephant & Castle received unanimous consent from London Borough Of Southwark last night - maintaining our 100% planning track-record. Our 283-bed Purpose-Built Student Accommodation-led (PBSA) scheme unlocks a site on the Walworth Road, that has laid derelict and largely empty for far too long, bringing forward a rich mix of uses that puts the area’s diverse communities at its heart. Demonstrating that student accommodation can meaningfully address and respond to the needs of local people. While also supporting students and other new residents to become active and productive community members. Our dramatic remodelling of the building will transform an unloved eyesore into a positive landmark on the high street – centred on community, food and nature. The ground plain will be given over to community – pretty much in its entirety: 🌳 A new community courtyard garden at the heart of the site provides green respite from the busy high street 🚶🏽♀️➡️ A new pedestrian route transforms its permeability, signposted with welcoming entrances lined in tactile glazed brick 🏬 New high street shops will drive footfall 👩🏽🍳 A new Community Kitchen, with local charity Pembroke House, will use the power of food to bridge existing communities and new residents, tackle social isolation, connect young and old, improve access to healthy, fairly-priced food and support emerging local food businesses. 🏡 And critically, we’re delivering 35% affordable housing on site – 23 new homes for Walworth, all of which will be for social-rent. Our plans prioritise the natural environment too. The all-electric scheme reuses the entire structure of the Walworth Road building. Air-source heat pumps and extensive rooftop PVs will significantly reduce energy demand. And nature is being reintroduced on a significant scale. 22 new trees and enough green and blue roofs to cover an Olympic swimming pool. We’ve got to this point through extensive input from the local community. What they’ve told us and the relationships we’ve built, have fed directly into our plans. And the scheme is all the better for it. Huge thanks to them all. And of course our incredible project team. Howells I Quod I Elliott Wood I Arup I Harris Bugg Studio I Gardiner & Theobald LLP I eb7 ltd I Citydesigner I Turner & Townsend alinea I Caneparo Associates I StudioFractal I Homes for Students #PBSA #Reuse #Repurpose #StudentAccommodation #ElephantAndCastle #Walworth #HighStreet #AffordableHomes #Community

🗣 The Art of Public Speaking 🗣 Following the success of running seven public speaking masterclasses and meeting over 100 professionals across the Built Environment sector this year, we are pleased to announce more dates for 2025. Having run sessions across London and Birmingham this year, we are now coming to Leeds on 22nd January 2025! Taking place at Quod's Leeds office, we welcome professionals from the city and neighbouring areas, to join us for this session. The masterclass will focus on understanding nerves, the art of storytelling and how to prepare for and deliver your best for panel discussions. We started offering these sessions after hearing from professionals how keen they were to speak at events but didn't quite have the confidence or right knowledge to put themselves forward. Let's change this. If you're ready to level up your public speaking game, please sign up for this session. Hosted by our founder, Priya Aggarwal-Shah, who has years of experience speaking on events, presenting, speaking in the media and more. More details in the link in the first comment. P.S. We're also running another session in London, on 12th March 2025, kindly hosted by Grayling. Tickets will go live soon for this, but if you're keen to join this one, please email hello@preachinclusion.com to register your early interest. Photo from our Birmingham session hosted at Turley in September.

The Quod Graduate Programme 2025 is now open. If you aspire to work for an employee owned consultancy at the cutting edge of its field, this could be your opportunity to start and grow your career with one of the UK’s leading planning, development and socio-economics consultancies, with over 120 people across our two offices in London and Leeds, delivering many of the UK’s biggest and most complex projects.   Please read our graduate programme brochure for more information, and submit your CV along with a personal statement of no more than a single side of A4 at the link below: https://lnkd.in/eC8C_Evq   The closing date for applications is 30th of November 2024. If you are shortlisted, you will be invited to an open day assessment in our London office in early December. #graduateprogramme #planning #development #economics #environmentalplanning

A new vision for Lewisham. LandsecU+I's hybrid planning application submission for the redevelopment of Lewisham Town Centre will transform the town centre. If consented the 17-acre masterplan will deliver - 1,700 new homes, including a minimum of 20% affordable housing, alongside 445 co-living residences and up to 660 student rooms, 300% increase in biodiversity thanks to hundreds of new trees and thousands of new plants and create thousands of new jobs and opportunities resulting in an estimated £160m boost to the local economy in Lewisham. This project has been about the community from the outset, and community engagement has been at the heart of the project, with over 2,500 community members visiting the engagement hub, over 500 pieces of feedback, and close collaboration with a group of 16 local Design Champions. Quod provides advice on a range of matters including, planning, retail, town centre regeneration, development economics, affordable housing, socio-economics, public benefits, equalities and CIL. Ben Ford, Matthew Sherwood, Matthew Small, Chris Wheaton, Tom Dobson, Barney Stringer, Sasha Gordon, Lucy Dean, Andrew Hunt, Adrian Fox, Ewan Grunwald, Arslan Iqbal, Zachary Bacon, Joshua Skyers and Lauren Clark. Details of the scheme can be found here https://lnkd.in/efSysz3n and https://lnkd.in/eS7PEC_k #MoreThanAPlace #Lewisham #CommunityEngagement #UrbanRegeneration #SustainableDevelopment #Planning