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    Fisher German expands planning team: implications for UK infrastructure projects

    April 13, 2026|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    Fisher German expands planning team: implications for UK infrastructure projects

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    Fisher German is expanding its infrastructure planning capability with the appointment of strategic planner Evie Poxon, formerly planning policy officer at Nottinghamshire County Council and later planning enforcement lead at Erewash Borough Council, and assistant planner Nick Wroe from Broxtowe Borough Council’s development management team. The hires target growing workloads linked to new government housing targets and planning reforms, particularly major infrastructure and strategic land projects. The firm is continuing to recruit, signalling increased demand for planning consultancy capacity on complex schemes.

    Technical Brief

    • Strategic planner Evie Poxon brings direct experience of local plan preparation at Erewash Borough Council.
    • Her previous enforcement lead role adds practical understanding of planning condition compliance and breach risk.
    • Earlier work as planning policy officer at Nottinghamshire County Council gives county-level infrastructure policy exposure.
    • Assistant planner Nick Wroe has four years’ casework in Broxtowe Borough Council development management.
    • Wroe’s background in development management supports handling complex applications, reserved matters and discharge-of-condition submissions.
    • Both recruits have moved from local authority to consultancy, strengthening insight into council decision-making behaviour.
    • Fisher German’s infrastructure planning team is identified as a distinct unit, indicating dedicated resourcing for major schemes.

    Our Take

    Erewash Borough Council’s recent approval of Fassa Bortolo’s 170,000 sq ft HQ and factory at New Stanton Park signals a pipeline of complex industrial and training-led schemes in the same local authority area that Fisher German’s expanded planning team is now positioned to service.

    Within our 807 Infrastructure stories, local authority-facing planning roles in the United Kingdom are relatively under-reported compared with contractor awards, so Fisher German’s hires with experience at Broxtowe and Nottinghamshire councils point to consultancies trying to de-risk consent routes rather than just delivery capacity.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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