Property people: Savills and AspinallVerdi

International real estate advisor, Savills, has expanded its northern planning team with five new recruits across its Leeds and Manchester offices.

Matt Burrow will be based in the Savills Leeds office at Wellington Place as an associate planner following eight years in planning at Persimmon Homes.

Sophie Moore and Will Rogers have both joined the team as senior planners. Predominantly based in the Savills Leeds office, Rogers joins from Harrogate-based Planning Potential. His experience covers a broad range of projects, particularly in the leisure, healthcare and residential sectors.

Based in the firm’s Manchester office on Booth Street, Moore joins from Berrys where she was a planning consultant. She has worked on a wide range of planning applications across a number of sectors including, residential, agricultural and commercial schemes.

The team has also recently recruited two new graduates, with Ben Parkes joining the Leeds office having completed an MPlan degree at the University of Sheffield, whilst Alex Wylie has joined the Manchester office following completion of his Masters degree in Planning at the University of Manchester.

The news follows the recent appointment of Matthew Gibbs who joined the firm as a director in the northern planning team November last year, working across Yorkshire and the North West.

Adam Key, director and head of planning at Savills Leeds, said: “We have a strong presence across the north of England and Matt, Sophie, Will, Ben and Alex have joined us at an exciting time in the team’s evolution as we continue to grow our services.”

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Matthew Scott

A trio of Matthews at property regeneration consultants AspinallVerdi have qualified as members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Despite enduring a longer than anticipated wait to sit their final assessment because of the pandemic, Matthew Scott, Matthew Olive and Matthew Wroe have all become chartered surveyors.

Associate director Scott, based at the head office of AspinallVerdi in Leeds, is also a chartered town planner with experience of advising on planning and development for determination of site-specific planning applications and evidence-based work at area-wide level.

He advises public and private-sector clients on affordable housing viability and provided feasibility studies for key town-centre regeneration sites in Tamworth, Flitwick and Hucknall. His experience also includes area-wide strategies such as a masterplan for Park Royal Centre.

Matthew Wroe

Wroe, a senior consultant also based in Leeds, joined AspinallVerdi in April 2016 and subsequently graduated from the University of Salford with a Master’s degree in Real Estate and Property Management. He began his career with the firm as a property research analyst assisting colleagues in data collection and market analysis.

He has a wide range of experience, providing property market advice and the preparation of development appraisals for a Development Framework on Guernsey to preparing a plan viability assessment for Northumberland National Park.

More recently, he advised Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council by undertaking independent viability assessment reviews on schemes submitted by developers and assisted landscape architects and transport engineers on a masterplanning/feasibility study in Malton and Norton.

Matthew Olive

Based in the London office of AspinallVerdi, senior consultant Olive joined  in January 2019 after graduating from University College London with a Master’s degree in International Real Estate & Planning.

He has advised a public and private-sector clientele across the UK, specialising in viability (site-specific and plan-wide), masterplanning, town centre regeneration, business needs assessment, strategic consultancy and policy appraisal.

Atam Verdi, chairman, said: “Despite the lengthy delay in being able to sit their final assessment caused by the pandemic, qualifying as members of the RICS is testament to the hard work, dedication and commitment of our three Matthews and I join everyone at AspinallVerdi in congratulating them on their well deserved success.”