London Residential & Affordable Housing Review

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 has a great love for cities and the built environment and enjoys working with good people who like to get things done. Thinking strategically is her super-power, and she is not afraid of having an opinion. At Be First, the urban regeneration vehicle for the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, she has transformed the team so that it delivers a planning super service, focused on fast, commercially astute outputs and which ultimately helps to deliver successful places and buildings that are really good at what they do.

Joseph Daniels founded Project Etopia in 2015 at the age of 23 and is the CEO of Project Etopia Group. Motivated with a passion to make a difference his objective is to build the smart connected eco cities of the future that work towards solving the global housing crisis, whilst having a positive impact on climate change. He aims to do this by combining various energy, construction and intelligent technologies, through invention or collaboration, to build the highest performing buildings. His ambition was fuelled by the lack of security he faced as a young man and continues to drive his motivation to create a better tomorrow. Joe has been recognised across various industries for his innovative approach to technology and real estate, most recently he received the accolade of Forbes 30 under 30 in the manufacturing and industry category, as well as a feature in the United Nations 75th anniversary book for his contribution to climate change.

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.

Architect, design and development strategist Brendan Geraghty is a recognised Build to Rent (BTR) thought leader who has been active in the sector since 2011. Brendan is known for actively championing the integration of consumer culture in BTR with a ‘brand before building’ approach. Brendan combines deep generalist and broad specialist knowledge, creating structured development and consumer centric BTR strategies, integrating consumer culture principles with investment requirements. He has spent 16 years in senior roles, including with Centred Architecture, Optim and Geraghty Taylor Architects, before becoming CEO of UKAA (the UK Apartment Association) in 2022. Spearheading the UKAA’s leadership through high quality knowledge and research, Brendan will be supporting the organisation to serve as the voice of the Build to Rent sector in the UK. He will also explore new relationships with others in the residential sector with an interest in Build to Rent including housing associations, co-living investors and operators, contractors and house builders as well as pressing ESG issues such as Net Zero Carbon.

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.

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.

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.

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.