The East Midlands Development Company has recruited a team of private sector non-executive directors to help bring forward development of three sites, which between them cover an area the size of three London Olympic parks.
The five new non-executive directors at EMDC, a partnership set up by five local authorities across the region, are:
- Lucy Blasdale, former development director at Homes England, who will shortly be joining Barratt David Wilson
- Gary Colligan, an architect and town planner who founded spatial design business Think Place
- Ben Denton, chief executive of L&G’s Affordable Homes, one of the leading developers and operators of affordable homes
- Imogen Ebbs, head of UK funds for the investment arm of insurance giant Aviva
- Adrian Turner, the former Morgan Sindall executive who heads advisory business Lagom.
They join local authority representatives on an independent board chaired by Chris Haworth, former head of commercial at Carter Jonas.
Haworth said: “With our local authority partners we now have a really experienced team, who come on board at a pivotal moment for EMDC. We have a series of large scale opportunities in front of us, our commercial partner has just been announced, and government has signalled its belief that the development corporation model will play a leading role in levelling up.
“The mix of property, development and investment wisdom we now have alongside our local authority partners will enable us to provide expert guidance to EMDC, as it explores the enormous commercial potential of these sites and the contribution they can make to growing the regional economy.”
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