The Residential Transformation

Diversification + Re-positioning

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  Philip Barnes

  Philip is the Group Land and Planning Director at Barratt Developments PLC. Barratt is the UK's largest housebuilder with brands including Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes, and Wilson Bowden Developments. He represents the group on land acquisition and the promotion of land through the planning process. He is a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Prior to joining Barratt he was a Director (specialising in Housing) for the leading economics and planning consultancy Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners.

  Barratt Developments PLC

  Group Land and Planning Director

  Philip Barnes

  Group Land and Planning Director

  Barratt Developments PLC

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  Justin Thomas

  Justin is Director of Development at NewRiver REIT and is responsible for mixed use development across the portfolio, including repurposing retail assets, reconfiguring shopping centres and the introduction of residential uses. Justin manages the redevelopment of the existing assets on a day to day basis, including leading on one of the Company’s flagship mixed use town centre regeneration projects in Burgess Hill, Mid Sussex. Justin has over 25 years of property management and development experience, having qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1994 with Savills, then subsequently moving to Cluttons land management and valuation team. In 1999 Justin joined specialist residential developer Pathfinder Properties Plc and in 2004 established Maxam Property Ltd, a private development and consultancy company. Maxam carried out residential and hotel development, as well as providing consultancy services in strategic land planning and renewable energy. Justin was a member of the RICS Board of UK Education Standards for over 10 years, providing a link between the property industry and the academic sector.

  NewRiver Reit

  Director of Development

  Justin Thomas

  Director of Development

  NewRiver Reit

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  Chris Darling

  Founder of leading architecture studio Darling Associates, one of the top 25 architecture practices in the UK, whose recent work includes the HMRC hub at 3 Glass Wharf in Bristol for Salmon Developments in Bristol and Lollard Street, an exemplar significant affordable housing development in Lambeth for Canary Wharf Group. He offers vision and leadership over all Darling Associates projects, ensuring the highest of standards are achieved in both design output and client satisfaction.

  Darling Associates

  Managing Director

  Chris Darling

  Managing Director

  Darling Associates

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  Vicky Fowler

  Vicky Fowler is a well-respected planning lawyer recognised nationally for her expertise. Vicky has been recognised in the top rated lawyer list in the Planning magazine and she appears as a Super Lawyer. Vicky is also recognised as a leading or recommended individual in the legal directories with accolades that describe her as "efficient and client friendly" and "a thoughtful and incisive lawyer who has great capacity". Vicky leads both public sector and private clients proactively through all stages of the planning process, from strategic advice on master planning, to advising on the consenting process and securing and the granting of planning permission. Vicky's focus is on delivering solutions rather than problems, mitigating the risk of legal challenge and ensuring that the consents secured are both implementable and fundable. Having secured consent Vicky advises clients on implementation, including the use of compulsory purchase powers for land assembly, securing or granting the necessary highway consents or stopping-up orders and advising on Community Infrastructure Levy. Vicky is frequently engaged by clients on high-profile and complex matters, including nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) and the promotion of development consent orders (DCOs).

  Gowling

  Partner

  Moderator

  Vicky Fowler

  Partner

  Gowling

Fast Forward

Facilitating New Delivery & Partnerships

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  Joseph Daniels

  Joseph Daniels founded modular house builder and offsite construction specialist Project Etopia in 2015 at the age of just 23. His aim was to provide a turnkey solution to solving the housing crisis in the UK and around the world. This ambition was fuelled by the lack of security he faced as a young man, having been made homeless on four separate occasions. Project Etopia creates high-end and affordable smart homes using a panelised build system, which means wall panels are constructed off site in a factory before being transported to site for assembly. Project Etopia’s houses, apartments, school buildings and shanty replacements can be built in under four weeks and at significantly reduced cost compared with traditional building methods. Its designs incorporate pre-installed energy-efficient technology such as solar power, heat recovery, mechanical ventilation and Passive House architectural design features. Etopia also utilises ESmart, a 5G plug-in-and-play smart home system which can be used to control the settings in its homes, including blinds, lighting and music. The serial entrepreneur has been recognised by a number of awards, including a special recognition award in the British Property Federations Tomorrows Leaders Awards.

  Project Etopia

  Founder

  Joseph Daniels

  Founder

  Project Etopia

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  Rodger Till

  Rodger studied a General Practice Surveying degree in Newcastle in the mid-80s and qualified as a Chartered Surveyor just over 30 years ago. He started his career working for English Estates (now Homes England), Greggs the bakers and Vaux Group where he was involved in property management, acquisitions and sales across the whole of the North for all types of commercial property. This was followed by six years as a property consultant where he established and grew a new leisure department for Storey Sons and Parker. Rodger then secured a role as Property Management Director for Able UK where he was responsible for the development and management of a large property portfolio including a series of complex planning applications and the internationally renowned Ghost Ships applications. Rodger then joined the senior management team of a leading Housing Association where, over a period of eleven years he managed the £60million a year new build development acquisitions and sales activity of the group as well as the commercial property portfolio. During this period Rodger was instrumental in the delivery of around 3,000 new homes and attracted over £100million of government subsidy for the schemes. This included four award winning schemes including two that were delivered through the recession; A £24million, 198 unit development within a stone’s throw of the city walls in central York which was acknowledged as an exemplar mixed tenure scheme and 106 “Eco-homes” in Darlington which won a National Award. Rodger was also instrumental in a National Housing Award winning Scheme for vulnerable clients and creating a joint venture with a national contractor to deliver housing for sale alongside older persons homes in Sunderland. Following a short period running his own consultancy business Rodger was sourced by High Street Residential in May 2018 as a Development Manager to deliver a pipeline which currently sits in excess of £1bn. With over 30 years within the property industry, Rodger’s wide-ranging experience and detailed knowledge of the delivery of new build housing for rent will be valuable to the continuing growth and success of the Company.

  High Street Residential

  Director of Acquisitions

  Rodger Till

  Director of Acquisitions

  High Street Residential

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  Caroline Harper

  Caroline is Be First’s Chief Planning Director, having previously worked as JLL’s first female Planning Director in London and prior to that at CBRE. She is a strategic thinker who pays attention to detail, has a great love for cities and the built environment and enjoys working with good people who like to get things done. She has experience working with public and private sector clients on a wide range of projects including residential-led planning applications, planning strategy and risk advice and utilising planning to optimise site value. At Be First, the urban regeneration vehicle for the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, she is growing a planning super service combining public and private to include the core services that you’d expect of a local planning authority (Development Management, Policy, Building Control etc), and planning consultancy.

  Be First

  Chief Planning Director

  Caroline Harper

  Chief Planning Director

  Be First

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  Pamela Wackett

  Pamela has over 20 years’ experience as an architect working on projects in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and South America with a proven track record of design in leading complex projects and working with large multidisciplinary teams. Since joining KPF, Pamela has worked on a variety of projects from commercial, residential, and mixed-use developments to large-scale masterplans with complex urban and transportation issues.

  KPF

  Senior Associate Principal

  Pamela Wackett

  Senior Associate Principal

  KPF

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  Brendan Geraghty

  Brendan Geraghty is one of the founding members of Geraghty Taylor. He brings a broad range of senior level experience drawn from projects in the UK and around the world and received critical praise from the industry for many of his housing innovations. He is a member of the Residential Council of the Urban Land Institute and on the Housing Hub of Build Off-Site. Brendan leads Geraghty Taylor’s work in master planning, residential design and branding, as well as the practice’s ongoing R&D. He has been personally involved in the design and delivery of over 3,200 BTR units across the country along with the creation of BTR Brands and implementation Strategies for several of the UK’s leading BTR providers. Brendan has been instrumental in creation Geraghty Taylors BTR methodology #brandbeforebuilding’

  Geraghty Taylor

  Director

  Moderator

  Brendan Geraghty

  Director

  Geraghty Taylor

Affordable Housing

How To Win The Game

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  Alan Benson

  Alan Benson has been Head of Housing at the London Borough of Haringey, and has been there since December 2016. He leads for the Council on its aim to deliver1,000 new council homes, tackling homelessness, being client side for its ALMO and all housing policy work. Alan has been in the public sector since 1987, working in central, local and regional government. Immediately prior to Haringey he spent 13 years as Head of Housing at the GLA, advising three different Mayors on housing policy.

  London Borough of Haringey

  Assistant Director of Housing

  Alan Benson

  Assistant Director of Housing

  London Borough of Haringey

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  Ben Denton

  Ben Denton is Managing Director of L&G Affordable Homes. L&G Affordable Homes’ set up in 2018 with an ambitious business plan to develop 3,000 affordable homes pa by 2022 alongside building a best in class customer services experience. L&G are investing patient, long-term capital in order to grow the capacity of the affordable housing sector and in so doing, deliver societally important outcomes. L&G Affordable Homes sits alongside L&G’s other housing businesses including BTR, Modular, Cala and Inspired Villages Group. Prior to L&G, Ben held a number of positions in the public and private sectors, delivering residential led development and regeneration.

  Legal & General Affordable Homes

  Managing Director

  Ben Denton

  Managing Director

  Legal & General Affordable Homes

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  Susan Hickey

  Susan joined Peabody in February 2010 and is the Chief Financial Officer. She has responsibility for corporate finance, tax, finance services, governance, legal & assurance and procurement. Susan has over 25 years of leadership in senior finance roles. A qualified chartered accountant (CAANZ Fellow, ICAEW), she has a broad range of experience in accountancy and commerce, including banking and mortgage finance markets, long term residential property ownership, investment and risk management. At Peabody Susan has led her team in significant merger & acquisition work and capital market bond issuance. She has held various non-executive positions inside and outside the housing sector.

  Peabody Trust

  Chief Financial Officer

  Susan Hickey

  Chief Financial Officer

  Peabody Trust

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  Olivia Harris

  Olivia Harris is Chief Executive of Dolphin Living. Dolphin Living is a charity providing affordable rental homes to working Londoners on modest incomes. The charity develops, purchases and manages build to rent properties in London. Previously, Olivia was Finance Director at Dolphin Living. She is a Chartered Accountant and has worked for more than 15 years in the property industry.

  Dolphin Living

  Chief Executive

  Moderator

  Olivia Harris

  Chief Executive

  Dolphin Living