Elisabeth Pywell

Associate Director

BA (Hons), MSc, MRTPI

+44 (0) 20 7261 4240

Birmingham

Beth joined Nexus Planning as an Associate Director in 2025. Before joining the Team, Beth was an Associate Director at CBRE where she worked across the Midlands and South West. She has eight years of planning consultancy experience across a range of sectors. 


Beth is an Award-Winning Planning Consultant, having won the WATC Rising Star Award in 2020 and the Midlands PROPS Rising Star Award in 2023. Her experience includes advising on and preparing Estate and site specific planning strategies; preparation, management of and coordination of major and minor planning applications; advising on the planning potential of sites and, land promotion through the preparation and submission of written representations to emerging Local Plans. She works with a variety of public and private sector clients on sites of varying scales across the UK, with a particular focus on the Midlands.


Beth has extensive experience of working with residential and education providers including Calthorpe Estates, Spitfire Homes, Clifton College and the University of Southampton. Other recent clients include industrial and infrastructure providers: Arvato, Manchester Airport Group, Network Rail and HS2.


Alongside, a number of high-street banks including Lloyds, TSB and HSBC.


Alongside her role at Nexus Planning Beth is a member of Women in Planning's National Mentoring Committee and is a former chair of the West Midlands Branch. Beth is also an RTPI APC Assessor.


Beth has been a Chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 2019.