2025 Promotions
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 – Adam continues to work across a range of sectors and securing valuable consents for clients. Some of his live schemes include bringing forward over 100,000 sqm of industrial and logistics floorspace in Suffolk, a 20,000 sqm mixed-use development in Liverpool, as well as advising on and submitting applications on a number of retail parks up and down the country.
▪ Anjuli Schiele – Anjuli is advising on life science projects in Cambridge and developments across London, including housing-led mixed-use regeneration, the redevelopment of railway arches, stations and car parks to provide new homes and commercial uses. Projects include the East Wick and Sweetwater communities in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and interim-use developments.
▪ Alex MacGregor – Alex has recently led a range of applications, encompassing estate regeneration schemes in London, offshore wind farm projects, and life science developments in Oxford and Cambridge, as well as residential urban extensions in the Green Belt. Alex is a significant part of Quod’s infrastructure offer.
▪ Ewan Grunwald – Ewan advises many of Quod’s high-profile residential developers on some of the most complex and constrained sites across London securing several planning consents including over 8,000 new homes in Ealing, and 1,007 new homes in Barnet.
▪ Gregory Blaxland – Greg’s promotion caps off a year in which he has been involved in securing grant for a battery storage facility on appeal, a Development Consent Order to allow the extension of the generating capacity of the Rivenhall IWMF, and unanimous resolution to grant to deliver 1800 new homes and the expansion of Begbroke Science Park on behalf of OUD.
▪ Neil Wells – Neil is currently advising on several high-profile residential developments in London. He has recently played a key role in securing planning permission for over 3,000 homes across the capital, on sites within Barnet, Haringey, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, and Sutton. Neil has also been working closely with clients seeking to develop commercial development within both Westminster and Islington.
▪ Rebecca Sanders – Rebecca is currently involved in several high-profile strategic mixed-use schemes including the strategic promotion of Cambridge Airport as a new urban quarter for Cambridge and the submission and management of an outline application for an Intergenerational Continuing Care Community development in Hertfordshire.
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.
▪ Alex 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
