September 22nd 2017
Creating Homes; Building Communities - North West
Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester
Free Trade Hall
Peter Street
Manchester M2 5GP
Tel: 0161 835 9929
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Event speakers
Tim Heatley
CEO
Capital & Centric
Tim is co-founder of Capital&Centric. In just five years since it started they’ve completed over 750,000 sq ft of development, they spend £1m a week on regeneration activity and have won 15 awards for design and regeneration.
Some of their projects in Manchester include the £30m conversion of Crusader Mills in Piccadilly and the £200m Kampus Project and the recently completed Foundry a 50,000 sq ft creative workspace in Salford.
Having completed 5 developments last year alone the pipeline of projects Manchester stands at £330m. Projects in Liverpool include Littlewoods Film Studios, and the recently completed Bunker, Tempest and Hangar projects. The total development pipeline is in excess of £500m.
Sir Edward Lister
Chairman
Homes & Communities Agency
Sir Edward Lister joined the Homes and Communities Agency as Chairman in June 2016. Sir Edward has considerable experience of the housebuilding industry, in particular infrastructure investment and large-scale developments. From 2011-16, he was London’s Deputy Mayor of Policy and Planning and Chief of Staff at the Greater London Authority, which included serving as Deputy Chairman of the Old Oak & Park Royal Mayoral Development Corporation. He was previously Conservative Leader of Wandsworth Borough Council from 1992-2011. As the longest-serving council leader in the country, Sir Edward made Wandsworth the most successful value-for-money local authority in the country with the lowest council tax charge and top satisfaction ratings from its residents.
In 2016, Sir Edward was appointed as Senior Advisor to the Regeneration and Investment Organisation within UKTI. He is also a consultant for CBRE’s One London team and a Non-Executive Director of Stanhope Ltd.
Eamonn Boylan
Chief Executive
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Eamonn Boylan was appointed Chief Executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in January 2017. He played a key role in the development of the Housing Market Renewal Programme, the Northern Way Growth Strategy and, through his work with the Core Cities Group and the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities, in the emerging policy framework for city regions. Eamonn takes the lead role on Investment and on Planning and Housing for the AGMA Wider Leadership Team.
Claire Nangle
Land & Partnerships Director
Keepmoat Homes
Claire is the Land & Partnerships Director for Keepmoat Homes North West. Keepmoat Homes specialise in working in partnership with local authorities to bring forward residential sites, often in challenging regeneration areas. The company sells homes predominantly to first time buyers and has sites in Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire. Keepmoat have increased the size of sites under development and currently have sites of over 400 new homes as well as redeveloping smaller sites often in former HMR areas.
Prior to joining Keepmoat, Claire was the Head of Strategic Regeneration & Development at Oldham Council and was involved with the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework work and the drive to increase the number of homes built across Greater Manchester.
Andy Burnham
Mayor
Greater Manchester
Andy Burnham was elected as Mayor of Greater Manchester in May 2017.
Prior to this Andy was MP for Leigh from 2001. In government, Andy has held Ministerial positions at the Home Office, Department of Health and the Treasury. In 2008 he became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, before returning to Health as Secretary of State in 2009.
In opposition, Andy has served as Shadow Education Secretary, Shadow Health Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary.
Andy lives in Leigh, Greater Manchester, with his wife and three children. He is a keen supporter of Everton FC.
Chairperson Andrew Pratt, Senior Consultant, Housing Growth Partnership
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