Architectural and landscape design studio Fereday Pollard Architects is celebrating over 30 years in practice by rebranding as Fereday Pollard & Partners (FP&P), to reflect the long-standing commitment and contribution of its team. The practice has also announced the opening of a new location in Liverpool to establish a permanent presence for the London headquartered practice in the North West.
The rebrand reflects the collective contribution of FP&P’s leadership team, architects and landscape architects, whose work is central to the delivery of complex, civil engineering-led infrastructure projects. The practice, which formed in mid-1995, now comprises a team of 45 architects and landscape architects, led by Managing Director Chris Pollard, with the support of four key Directors, Jan Kroes, Clare Donnelly, Chris McCarthy and Jennifer Dixon.
FP&P’s expansion to the North West with a new operation in Liverpool, is designed to expand its capacity to deliver more projects in the region, while continuing to contribute to nationally significant transport and infrastructure programmes across the UK. This follows a series of major infrastructure and regeneration projects in the region for FP+P, including Bradford Interchange and the city centre pedestrianisation masterplan. The practice developed a bespoke scheme tailored for the 2025 City of Culture, comprising a new interchange entrance, ticket hall and plaza as well as a pocket park which together form a much-improved gateway to the city.
Chris Pollard, Managing Director at Fereday Pollard & Partners, said:
“Following our 30th year celebrations and a series of major project completions for our practice, including Beaulieu Park Station in October 2025 and the opening of the remainder of the Thames Tideway Tunnel surface sites in 2025/6, we are looking firmly to the future with a new brand and growth plan. While our setup has grown and changed, we stand out in our sector by being an independent, privately owned firm without ties to a parent company, able to be agile and responsive.
“We are a practice that seeks to ‘humanise’ infrastructure design. The common denominator in our work is understanding how vast transport and infrastructure programmes impact the individual and their environment, and how thoughtful, human-focused design can mitigate this impact and create new opportunities for communities.”
Jennifer Dixon, Director of Growth & Communications at Fereday Pollard & Partners, said:
“Through a successful generation of infrastructure and rail projects FP&P has proved that the addition architects’ and landscape architects’ skillsets to civil engineering-led megaprojects at the earliest stages not only sets up the opportunity for good design and placemaking – more fundamentally, it can also enable the process of engagement and consents, creating increased delivery certainty, unlocking significant dividends in terms of cost and programme.
“Having established a robust and proven technical practice base over 30 years, we are excited by the prospect of taking this experience into wider geographies within and beyond the UK over the next five years.”