November 13th 2015
The Big Question: “Developing Edinburgh – What Next?”
The Principal Edinburgh Charlotte Square
38 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh
EH2 4HQ
Tel: 0131 240 5500
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Event speakers
Cllr Frank Ross
Chair of EDI Group Ltd
Convener Economy Committee, Edinburgh City Council
As part of the Capital Coalition, Frank is Convener of the Council’s Economy Committee where he is responsible for taking forward the Coalition’s pledges to ensure Edinburgh’s economic growth and continued prosperity.
Frank is Chair of EDI Group Ltd, Waterfront Edinburgh Limited, PARC Craigmillar and the Capital City Partnership. Frank is also a Director of Marketing Edinburgh. These companies assist in delivering economic growth and development across Edinburgh.
Frank has been a key figure in major Scottish businesses, working in the manufacturing/engineering sector of industry, mainly in Scotland, for a range of blue chip companies such as Racal, Chubb, Tomkins and Motherwell Bridge. An accountant to trade (FCMA) Frank worked his way up to operate at the highest managerial level in these organisations.
More recently Frank has operated as a self employed Interim Manager focusing on Company turnarounds. This allowed Frank to become more politically active resulting in his election to the Council in 2012.
Clive Wilding
Director
Corona Real Estate Partnership
Clive Wilding is the Property Director at Artisan who are responsible for the £180ml mixed use development at New Waverely, with Phase 1 well under way and due for completion in 2016. Other large mixed use schemes the majority of which have a relative large % of residential and mixed creative uses are North Street Quarter, Lewes East Sussex, 16 acre site planned for 417 homes, 130,000 sqft.
Clive comes from an Agricultural Land Management background. He joined UK construction group M.J. Gleeson Group Plc where he soon rose to become Managing Director of Gleeson Homes where the business grew from a £20m turnover company to one with over £220m – constructing over 1200 homes per annum around the country. Clive has forged strong links with local authorities and government and has held founder board positions on the Housing Forum and other Public/Private partnerships.
Over the last 15 years working as Property Director for Raven, and after doing Joint Ventures with Artisan finally joined them in 2014, focusing on focusing on mixed use, city-led residential schemes.
Ed Crockett
Head of Residential
Aberdeen Asset Management
Ed, previously responsible for several residential investments in his role as a Fund manager of a segregated UK account at Aberdeen, was appointed Director of Residential Fund Management in September 2013. Ed’s role is to coordinate all aspects of UK residential investment, bringing together the resources of Aberdeen’s specialist research and asset management skills within the UK and utilising the experience of Aberdeen’s Residential Business in Europe.
Robin Blacklock
Project Director
Grosvenor
Robin has worked in the Edinburgh property market for over 15 years and spent time as an office agent with both CBRE and Savills before joining Grosvenor in 2008 to focus on development opportunities.
His primary responsibility at Grosvenor is the “Springside” development at Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, which is the regeneration of a former brewery site extending to over 9 acres. This has already provided over 200 private residential apartments and 600 bed student residences, and in June this year Grosvenor submitted a planning application for the final phase, based on delivery 400 units into the Build-to-Rent Private Rented Sector (PRS) market. He also has an interest in the role that placemaking and community involvement have in the development process and counts among his successes a mobile community allotment as a ‘meantime-use’ on the future development land at Springside.
In his spare time Robin is a trustee for The Sick Kids Friends Foundation and an eternally optimistic follower of both Heart of Midlothian FC and the Scottish national football team.
Malcolm Fraser
Director
Halliday Fraser Munro
Malcolm Fraser Architects’ work encompassed conservation and new build, often in historic contexts such as Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site, based on respect for the historic built context and the need to build within it in a rooted, confident, contemporary way. Their buildings were multiple award-winning, including eight RIBA awards and various Scottish Buildings of the Year Awards, and a Stirling Prize finalist, while the work demonstrated a consistent philosophical approach to humane, people-focussed space and the integrity of the built environment. The practice ceased trading in 2015, after 22 years of work, and Fraser is now working with architects Halliday Fraser Munro.
Fraser also led and authored the Scottish Government’s Town Centre Review “Community and Enterprise in Scotland’s Town Centres” in 2013, which looked to structural change to bring investment and footfall to all urban centres. The Government’s response included adopting the Review’s recommendation for a “Town Centre First” principle across all its activities.