Land and Natural Resources

David Sandbrook FRICS

Director , Sandbrook Land & Minerals Limited

David Sandbrook is a chartered surveyor and chartered planner with over 35 years’ professional experience gained within commercial property and the specialist mineral, waste management and renewable energy sectors. David is a Director of Sandbrook Land & Minerals Limited advising mineral & waste operators, landowners, infrastructure providers and financial institutions on estate management, valuation and planning matters, with particular specialism in compulsory purchase and severed mineral interests. He is a RICS Registered Valuer, an Accredited Expert Witness and APC Assessor. David lives in Derbyshire, where he is a Trustee and operational Member of Derby Mountain Rescue Team. He is also a Director of the Katherine Martin Charitable Trust, supporting NSPCC, Barnardo’s and RSPCA.

Grace Dixon MRICS

Acquisitions Lead (Land and Property), High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd.

Grace Dixon MRICS is a Compulsory Purchase and Infrastructure specialist. Grace studied at the Royal Agricultural College before qualifying as a surveyor and Registered Valuer in 2017. Over the last 9 years, she has worked in both private and public sector roles acting for acquiring authorities and affected parties alike. She also has extensive experience in utilities, having acted for gas and electricity distribution and transmission networks throughout her time in private practice. Grace currently works as an Acquisition Lead for High Speed Two Ltd, where she oversees a program of acquisition and settlement of compensation. Grace is passionate about helping to ensure that we have a profession fit to deliver the needs of the huge amounts of infrastructure required in the UK over the next 25 years.

Faraz Baber FRICS

Operations Director – City Planning & Development, RPS Group PLC

Faraz is currently the Operations Director for City Planning and Strategic Communications at the global consultancy firm RPS Group. He is charged with helping to support the growth of the company's market leading interdisciplinary planning and environmental practice and assist clients to successfully deliver on their development opportunities which includes providing them strategic advice on planning matters and market intelligence to navigate complex projects. His day to day responsibilities includes financial performance management; overview and sign off for contracts/procurement & risk review/management; people management, staff performance/ capability reviews & oversight of talent acquisition across the Team. Faraz’s previous role was working as an equity director at the planning and design consultancy Terence O’Rourke which has offices in London, Birmingham and Bournemouth. He led on planning policy, stakeholder engagement, business development as well managing large scale resi-mixed used schemes for the company. Prior to joining Terence O'Rourke, Faraz served as Executive Director for Policy at Business LDN for over five years. He led on all activity relating to property, planning and development and was directly responsible for managing the real estate accounts and related commercial activity. Previously, Faraz was Policy Director at London Councils where he managed a large multi-disciplinary team. His work experience also includes senior policy and public affairs roles at Surrey County Council, British Property Federation (BPF) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). A highly experienced and multi-skilled professional with extensive knowledge within the property sector, Faraz has successfully delivered on a number of high profile policy led campaigns and large scale planning projects. He is a dual qualified chartered surveyor (FRICS) and chartered town planner (MRTPI). He was a member of the Department of Communities and Local Government Planning Sounding Board which provided industry advice to Government. Faraz was a Board member of the RICS P&D Professional Group and also served as Chairman on the RICS Planning Policy Panel. He currently serves as a member of the BPF Planning Policy Committee and is an advisory member of APPG on Housing Delivery. Faraz was appointed on a five year term as a Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL in 2014. He also served as the Vice-Chair of the Governing Body and Chair of the Estate's Committee at John Hampden Grammar School in High Wycombe.

Kevan Carrick FRICS

Chairman, JK Property Consultants LLP

Advises on acquisition, disposal, development, construction of joint ventures, land/development options, valuations, dispute resolution, commercial lease renewal and rent reviews, and housing development land values. A mixed and varied experience, contributing to consultation on government and regional policies impacting on the use and development of land and property.

Davina Fillingham MRICS

Partner, Dee Atkinson & Harrison

Mark Hurrell MRICS

Associate, Carter Jonas

Initially specialising in utilities and infrastructure, Mark acted for large utility companies and worked on some of the largest utility projects in the country, gaining experience of statutory process and technical knowledge along the way. Mark has also worked on Development Consent Order projects and Compulsory Purchase Order schemes acting for both acquiring authorities and claimants. Mark gained initial experience in telecoms working in business rates and rateable values for telecoms sites throughout the country. He has been further involved in telecoms since the introduction of the Code in 2017 acting for both operators and landowners alike. Mark was heavily involved in fibre broadband rollout across Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and the Westcountry during the Covid-19 pandemic supporting alt-net providers during high demand for connectivity. Mark provides strategic telecoms advice to clients on lease renewals, new sites and, owing to his CPO/DCO experience, development matters including DCO schemes and the special regime for the removal/relocation of telecoms apparatus under Part 10 of the Code. Mark has also assisted and supported the conception of telecoms strategy guidance for a number of London boroughs and represents them on telecoms matters across their estates portfolio. He also provides advice for other local authority clients throughout the UK on telecoms matters across their portfolios.

David Inman, FRICS CEnv PCQI PIEMA TechIOA

Chartered Environmental Surveyor, DIEM Ltd

David Inman FRICS CEnv is a Chartered Environmental Surveyor and Chartered Environmentalist (via the RICS accreditation scheme) working for DIEM Ltd based in Formby, UK. He works on the environmental and energy management of a diverse range of assets through the whole real estate lifecycle from minerals extraction to investment, construction, strategic and tactical facilities management and waste management. From working with NYSE and FTSE listed Clients, to the public sector to SMEs, he is pragmatic in his approach, including implementing the requirements of ISO 14001, ISO 50001 and ISO 9001, with the view to improving Clients’ performance and using management systems as tools for improvement as well as compliance. Having delivered work across real estate assets on six continents, he always enjoys meeting other RICS Professionals from different backgrounds and finds our RICS membership gives us a common bond of friendship. He has been actively involved with RICS for many years from being the local Chair of Matrics and then the Local Association in Lancashire, to sitting on UK Education Standards Board and more recently serving 9 years on RICS North West Regional Board. Also, he is an APC Assessor, Chair and Auditor, being a strong supporter of the APC process. He is a trustee director of the Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust, an environmental charity set up in 2010 to promote the conservation, protection, and improvement of the environment across a 1600 hectare area of the Upper Mersey Estuary running all the way from the Silver Jubilee Bridge, to the RICS Award winning Mersey Gateway Bridge and up-river, as far as Warrington. When not at work or enjoying time with his family, he can be found at Ewood Park where he is a Blackburn Rovers season ticket holder or in his garage constructing a model railway that has more less realistic completion date than HS2.

Poppy Martin MRICS

Associate Director – Rural, Savills (UK) Ltd.

Poppy is a chartered surveyor in the south west, working across the south of England and south Wales; specialising in rural estate management. Poppy studied at the Royal Agricultural College before qualifying as a surveyor with Savills. She has a broad range of experience in estate management related work including property management, leasing and letting, landlord and tenant, sales of land and property and providing strategic advice to clients. Poppy is a former winner of the RICS Young Surveyor Award - Land (Urban & Rural) Category, former committee member of Bristol Matrics and judge of the RICS Surveyor of the Year Awards. She looks forward to her involvement with the Land and Natural Resources PGP and is particularly interested in developing the Next Generation and looking at how we can implement technology into our roles.

Duncan Moss FRICS

Geospatial-Intelligence and Land Administration Consultant, Ordnance Survey

Duncan has almost 40 years of experience working in the geospatial industry for Ordnance Survey. He has worked across a number of UK and internationally based roles during that time. My currently role is focused in supporting the UK public sector to get increased value from OS data and services. He has been a Chartered Land Surveyor since 2002 and have a strong track record of serving RICS and our profession across; standards development, the APC process, representation at the European level, as well as serving on various RICS professional panels and groups. He is delighted to be part of the newly established Land & Resources Professional Group Panel and look forward to working together collaboratively to driving forward our agenda.

Mike Pearson MRICS

Portfolio & Partnerships Manager, Yorkshire Water

Mike has worked in land and resources related roles across the North of England since 1977 and now helps Yorkshire Water achieve its compliance and legal obligations that arise as one of the largest private landowners in England. In addition to the Company's protected sites, forestry, recreation and visitor safety activities, Mike is actively working with partners ranging from the National Trust to the Major Landowners Group delivering protected site targets for Government.

Julia Stolle FRICS MAE

Chartered Land Surveyor and Director, Stolle Surveys Limited

Julia has exclusively worked in the field of boundary demarcation and dispute resolution in England and Wales since 2006. She provides reports for the legal profession on boundary and right-of-way matters. Julia also benefits from her knowledge about the cadastral system in Germany. She contributes to the boundary matters section in the RICS-isurv building surveying and co-chaired the revision group for the 4th revision of the RICS Professional Standards (2021) “Boundaries: procedures for boundary identification, demarcation and dispute resolution in England & Wales”. Julia is a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors accredited Evaluative Mediator and a member of the Academy of Experts. Julia graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with an MSc in Civil Engineering (Diplom-Ingenieur in Geodesy & Surveying) in 2000. Her further work experience includes projects in Cambodia, Germany and the UK.

Theo Till MRICS

Land Manager, Wheeldon Brothers Ltd.

Theo is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor and specialises as a Land Manager at Wheeldon Brothers Ltd where he is responsible for identifying, valuing and negotiating the purchase of development land with or without planning permission across the Midlands. He also manages the promotion of land interests through the planning system in the UK. He is an RICS APC Counsellor and has a passion to support those joining the profession. In May 2022 Theo accepted an invitation to become a Visiting Fellow at Nottingham Trent University in the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment. He also enjoys returning to NTU as a guest lecturer on land acquisition, negotiation and appraisal. Theo was proud to serve as the RICS Matrics UK Chairman from November 2021 - April 2023 closely working with the RICS Executive and leading on areas including governance, finance, strategy and operations in the UK and overseeing the work over nearly 30 local groups.

Kate Young MRICS

Associate Director of Minerals Surveying, Wardell Armstrong LLP