Nick is a Director and Head of Land at WSP. He also chairs the Management Committee for the Society of Land ReferencersNick is a qualified project manager with 30 years’ experience in delivering land information management services to promoters of infrastructure and development schemes to assist them in gaining powers to acquire the necessary rights to make their projects possible. He has worked on a number of major infrastructure projects across many sectors including Rail (including High Speed 1 and 2; Crossrail; Thameslink Programme; and West Coast Route Modernization), Highways (including A1; M74: and A5), Water (The largest DCO project to date in Tideway), Energy (CCUS pipelines, solar farms, wind farms and pylon renewal programmes) and Aviation (Heathrow and Luton Airport) across the UK. He set up the land business within WSP having successfully doubled the size of the team he led at Mouchel. The service now includes Land Referencing, Negotiation, Valuation, Wayleaves, Surveying services and an in-house digital capability which has developed a state-of-the-art web-based database and associated tools to help efficiently deliver all of the above services. He specializes in: Statutory processes and engagement under Planning Act/Development Consent Orders (DCOs), Parliamentary bills, Transport and Works (TWA), Gas, Highway, Water and Planning Acts; land registration; compulsory purchase (CPO); rights of way; business leadership and development; change management; staff engagement; project governance; and operations.