September 26th 2019
‘Homes England Roadshow’ Post Breakfast Seminar - North West
Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester
Free Trade Hall
Peter Street
Manchester M2 5GP
Tel: 0161 835 9929
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Event speakers
Adnan Siddiqi
Managing Director
Amstone Developments
Adnan Siddiqi founded Amstone nearly 25 years ago
initially starting in the new homes market. In subsequent years Amstone
have developed a significant commercial property portfolio in the UK and
central Europe. Since 2011 focus has been towards residential development and
particularly the PRS sector.
Amstone aims to become the front-runner PRS developer in the North West with a focus on creating quality urban village environments. That ambition is well on track with their development of a PRS village comprising 614 apartments at Salford Quays. Construction has already commenced & the scheme has been forward funded with Grainger Trust with a transaction value of £98.7m.
Chairperson: Colette McCormack, Partner, Winckworth Sherwood
Event speakers
Danielle Gillespie
General Manager
Homes England - North West
Danielle has over 10 years’ experience in the housing sector. An economics graduate, Danielle has previously worked for a market renewal pathfinder, in private consultancy and for a major housing association. She currently heads up Homes England’s operations in the North West which include around £300m of interventions supporting over 60% of all new homes built in the region. Danielle has supported the development and delivery of a number of Homes England activities including the 2011-15 Affordable Homes Programme and initiatives to tackle empty homes.
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.
Graeme Scott
Executive Director - Development
Trafford Housing Trust
The primary focus of Graeme’s role is the delivery of our development programme, which will see £450m invested over the next 4 years to build 2000 new homes across the North West. This puts him at the helm of end-to-end development, from finding land opportunities to ultimately selling homes. During his 13 years working with the Trust, Graeme has played a pivotal role in our evolution and managed everything from ensuring compliancy with the Decent Homes Standard to establishing our development function.
His biggest challenge to date has been successfully steering the Old Trafford Masterplan initiative. This required demolition of four out-of-date tower blocks and construction of over 300 new homes, including Limelight, our flagship Extra Care health and community hub. As somebody who’s passionate about delivering high quality homes, Graeme is particularly proud of our partnership with L&Q which aims to create affordable housing.
Colette McCormack
Partner
Winckworth Sherwood
Colette leads the national Winckworth Sherwood legal Planning team and has over 25 years’ experience specialising in residential led mixed use development. She provides strategic planning advice and is known for her ability to lead on and deliver complex projects. Colette advises on some of the largest developments across the Country including the iconic Battersea Power Station for Wandsworth Council, Liverpool Waters for Peel and Barking Riverside for the joint venture company between the Mayor of London and L & Q. She is known for being solutions driven and having a collaborative approach to unlocking development.
“Colette McCormack has been an invaluable member of our project team. She has consistently provided commercially focused advice in an efficient and effective manner, with full awareness of our business requirements.” – Legal 500 2022
The Winckworth Sherwood Planning Team was awarded Planning Law Firm of the year in 2020 and is ranked in the top 10 firms nationally by planning Resources. Colette is ranked in the industry directives in the top tier planning lawyers and is also ranked in the top 5 planning lawyers nationally by the industry in the Planning Resources Survey in 2021.
“The Winckworth Sherwood planning team led by partner Colette McCormack are clear leaders in the field of planning law. As planning law/policy becomes ever more complex, they are always ahead of the curve in terms of new law/policy and how it affects local planning authorities and the development industry.’ - Legal 500 2022”
Caroline Simpson
Corporate Director for Place
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Caroline Simpson has worked in regeneration for over twenty years developing strong partnerships across the public and private sector. As the Corporate Director for Place at Stockport MBC she is currently responsible for a growth and place agenda and in particular leading a major £1bn transformation programme to redevelop the town centre. As well as leadership of development, regeneration, planning and transport she is also leading the delivery and reform of frontline place management services. She also has responsibility for the delivery of the Public Health agenda within Stockport and promoting active communities across the Borough.
Previous roles include:
Executive Director of Economic Growth and Prosperity for Cheshire East Council with responsibility for an ambitious economic growth agenda, leading place–based services and corporate property & development functions.
Other roles include the Development Director for a Housing Association; Head of Regeneration and Partnerships for Northwest Development Agency and regeneration based roles at Advantage West Midlands. Her career started in Liverpool delivering community-based regeneration projects with a particular focus on work and skills.