Mark Allan

CEO, Landsec

Allan has been CEO of Landsec since April 2020. Prior to that he spent a combined 14 years as CEO of FTSE 250 real estate businesses Unite Group (student accommodation) and St Modwen (regeneration, logistics and housebuilding). As a result of these roles, he has a broad range of experience from across the property sector. Landsec strives to connect communities, realise potential and deliver sustainable places.  As one of the largest real estate companies in Europe, Landsec’s £10bn portfolio spans 23m sq ft (as at 31 March 2023) of well-connected retail, leisure, workspace and residential hubs. Landsec’s aim is to lead the real estate industry in critical long-term issues – from diversity and community employment, to carbon reduction and climate resilience, and to deliver value for shareholders, great experiences for customers and positive change for communities. Allan is president of the British Property Federation.

Helen Gordon

Chief executive, Grainger

Gordon was appointed chief executive of Grainger in January 2016 from RBS, where she had been global head of real estate Asset management since October 2011. Prior to that, she was director of Legal & General Property, responsible for the Main Life Fund and c.8 smaller funds. She was also group property director of Railtrack and managing director of John Laing Developments. Gordon is senior independent director on the board of Derwent London, a non-executive director of Business LDN and is currently vice-chair and a board director of the European Public Real Estate Association. Gordon is a past president of the British Property Federation and was a member of the government’s Urban Centre Recovery Taskforce for post-Covid recovery. She has held a number of non-executive positions and government appointments, including the board of Covent Garden Market Authority, board of British Waterways and as a trustee for the College of Estate Management.

Stephanie Hyde

UK CEO and EMEA CEO, markets advisory, JLL

Hyde joined the global real estate consultancy firm in 2021 to lead the UK business following more than 25 years in professional services. Her role recently expanded to incorporate the leadership of JLL’s EMEA markets advisory business across EMEA as CEO. She is responsible for driving strategy and results for JLL’s leasing advisory and property management businesses, as well as delivering a connected approach for clients across the UK and EMEA region. In the UK, Hyde has ensured JLL has the best comprehensive end-to-end offering. She is also a strong advocate for employee wellbeing and has pushed forward a number of policies aimed at creating a positive and supportive work environment. Under her leadership, the UK business renewed its commitment to its sustainability strategy and goals, with the expansion of its sustainability team and services, alongside the introduction of a new sustainability framework. She is continuing this work across the EMEA region and passionately believes that to achieve net zero carbon commitments, businesses must move beyond words, from strategy to implementation to deliver measurable actions.

Andrew Jones

CEO, LondonMetric Property

Jones was a co-founder and CEO of Metric Property from its inception in March 2010 until its merger with London & Stamford in January 2013. On completion of the merger, Jones became chief executive of LondonMetric. Andrew was previously executive director and head of retail at British Land and served on the main board with responsibilities for shopping centres, supermarkets and retail park investment and asset management. Jones is also a non-executive director of leading electric vehicle charging network, InstaVolt, and was previously non-executive director of Unite for six years – the UK’s leading provider of student accommodation.

Andy Martin

Non-executive chairman and senior adviser

Martin is based in London and has worked in the European property sector for more than 35 years. He started his career at Richard Ellis (now CBRE) and later became a senior partner at Strutt & Parker, where he was also the head of the commercial real estate division. After Strutt & Parker merged with BNP Paribas Real Estate in 2017, Martin became the UK chief executive of BNP Paribas Real Estate and was a member of its European board. He retired from BNP Real Estate at the end of 2020. Martin holds several advisory and board positions. He is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute and the former chairman of the ULI’s UK council. He is also a retained adviser to Stifel Nicolaus Europe, a US investment bank, and he is a member of the advisory board of Hodes Weill & Associates, a leading US placement agent. He has also served as a director of the Investment Property Forum from 2001-2009, during which time he was chairman from 2004-2005.

Simon Murphy

CEO, Battersea Power Station Development Company

Murphy qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand. He was previously a managing director in a division of HSBC. He is now CEO of Battersea Power Station Development Company and a director of a number of private companies, including OPD Group, an investment company with holdings in a number of recruitment businesses.

James Raynor

CEO, Grosvenor Properties UK

Raynor has overall responsibility for Grosvenor Property UK, which owns and manages the business’ historic portfolio in Mayfair and Belgravia, and an expansive regional portfolio including Liverpool ONE, one of the country’s most successful city centre regeneration projects. Beyond London, GPUK also masterplans and delivers a number of large scale, sustainable new communities and manages a growing portfolio of city centre office investments. Raynor joined Grosvenor’s Paris team in 2004, where he led Grosvenor’s international fund management activity. He was then appointed chief executive of Grosvenor Property Europe in 2013 before his appointment to GPUK in 2020. Prior to this, he was the senior director of European Real Estate at Royal Bank of Scotland in Paris and a non-executive director of Nordisk Renting in Sweden. Raynor is a board member of INREV and the Westminster Property Association and sits on the BPF’s policy committee. He was educated at the Universities of Greenwich and Lille, France.

George Roberts

Head of UK & Ireland, Cushman & Wakefield

Roberts is head of Cushman & Wakefield in the UK & Ireland. He leads a team of 1,200 committed individuals who support investors, developers and occupiers in delivering real estate solutions across multiple sectors and services throughout the UK & Ireland. His role in the UK & Ireland is focused on providing strategic leadership to the business ensuring that they deliver highly tailored solutions to our clients in what is fast evolving real estate world. He is a member of the EMEA strategic leadership team whose purpose is to set the strategy for the EMEA business in line with our global business and EMEA landscape. Roberts’ background has been in supporting occupier clients in the development and implementation of real estate strategies across London. Over the years he has been privileged to support clients across multiple sectors in some of the capital’s significant real estate assignments.

David Sleath

Chief executive, SEGRO

Sleath was appointed chief executive of SEGRO in April 2011, having been finance director since 1 January, 2006. Previously, he was finance director of Wagon, the international automotive engineering group, from 1999 to 2005. From 1982 to 1999 he worked for Arthur Andersen, latterly as a partner and head of audit and assurance for the Midlands. He is currently president and a board member of the British Property Federation, and a board member of the European Public Real Estate Association.

Catherine Webster

Chief executive, Thriving Investments

Webster started at Thriving Investments, formerly known as PfP Capital, in January 2023 to focus on increasing funds under management alongside the delivery of social value, augmenting the existing fund management platform across high-quality affordable housing, private-rented residential and urban regeneration strategies. She joined from Quintain, where she was executive director for strategy and investment and chair of the sustainability steering group. Webster has 30 years of real estate experience and has held several leadership roles as an investor or a lender in a wide array of companies including private equity, fund management and investment banking at Hudson Advisors (Lone Star Funds), TIAA & Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate. She holds a BSc in land management from Reading University, an MBA from INSEAD and is a member of the BPF’s affordable housing committee, an RICS member and co-chair for the Creative Land Trust.

James Sparrow

Chief executive, Savills UK and EMEA

Sparrow was appointed chief executive of Savills UK and EMEA business in May 2018. The business comprises 12,000 people in more than 185 offices in 20 countries. He completed a degree at Reading University before joining Savills in 1988. He qualified two years later in 1990 as a chartered building surveyor. He started his career undertaking project management working in primarily commercial property in London. He subsequently set up the affordable housing business at Savills and worked with many of the larger local authorities and housing associations in the UK, the most notable of which was working with Glasgow Council on the stock transfer of its 100,000 properties to a newly formed housing association. He worked on many inner-city regeneration schemes. The business evolved to include student housing, PRS and healthcare. He was appointed on the commercial board of Savills in 2009 and on to the board of Savills UK when it was formed in 2013. Sparrow was responsible for all the professional services businesses including valuation, building and project consultancy, housing, healthcare, lease consultancy, rating, capital allowances and recoveries. He became chief executive of the Savills UK business in May 2018 and chief executive of the Savills EMEA business later that year. He currently chairs the Property Advisors Forum the membership of which comprises the CEOs of all the large UK general practice surveying firms.

Mark Allan

CEO, Landsec

Allan has been CEO of Landsec since April 2020. Prior to that he spent a combined 14 years as CEO of FTSE 250 real estate businesses Unite Group (student accommodation) and St Modwen (regeneration, logistics and housebuilding). As a result of these roles, he has a broad range of experience from across the property sector. Landsec strives to connect communities, realise potential and deliver sustainable places.  As one of the largest real estate companies in Europe, Landsec’s £10bn portfolio spans 23m sq ft (as at 31 March 2023) of well-connected retail, leisure, workspace and residential hubs. Landsec’s aim is to lead the real estate industry in critical long-term issues – from diversity and community employment, to carbon reduction and climate resilience, and to deliver value for shareholders, great experiences for customers and positive change for communities. Allan is president of the British Property Federation.

Denziel Armah

Student, University of Plymouth

Armah is an architecture student based in Plymouth. As a student and person of colour, Armah has gained a valuable insight into creating inclusive spaces in both a work and educational environment. Armah’s unique perspective means he is particularly well-placed to speak to the panel about diversity and inclusion in the real estate industry. 

Clare Bacchus

Global lead, design house, Barclays

Bacchus is the global lead of the design house for Barclays Bank, responsible for developing new ways of working in partnership with technology, HR and CRES for more than 80,000 colleagues. Before joining the bank, her career was focused on customer experience, proposition development and service design for organisations including Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Hotels, PegasusLife, Deutsche Bank and St Modwen. She is passionate about developing a workplace experience that human centric, diverse and drives low-carbon lifestyles to support organisations doing their best work and build advocacy for talent. Her current focus is building a workplace experience which is closer to the businesses strategy and the work that needs to be done.

James Binks

Assistant chief executive, Manchester City Council

As assistant chief executive at Manchester City Council, Binks leads on policy, strategy, performance and reform, as well as directly supporting and deputising for the chief executive. He leads Manchester’s work on public service reform, which means developing whole-person services with partner organisations based on evidence of what works. He worked on the Greater Manchester devolution agreements with the government in the 2010s including the £450m transformation fund investment in health and social care. From 2006-2011 he was a senior adviser at HM Treasury where he led the Total Place whole-area approach to public services and advised ministers on a range of programmes.

Sam Bruce

Head of housing and communities, Centre for Social Justice

Bruce is head of housing and communities at the Centre for Social Justice. His research investigates how public policy can strengthen local communities and repair our social fabric. This has influenced practical public policy and legislation in several areas, including affordable housing supply, rental sector reform, homelessness, high street regeneration, anti-social behaviour, youth services, and sports. He has a background in academic research and holds an MPhil and DPhil (PhD) in politics from Oxford University.

Julian Carey

CEO, Industrials REIT

Carey is the chief executive of Industrials REIT, a specialist multi-let industrial property investment and operating business. He joined the board at Industrials REIT (formerly known as Stenprop) in July 2017, when the company acquired C2 Capital, a private real estate fund management business which Carey co-founded in 2009.  At the time, C2 Capital had built a portfolio of 25 multi-let industrial estates in the UK in joint venture with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investment, which formed the basis of the transaction. Since this transaction, Industrials REIT has revolutionised and refocused itself by recycling more than £600m of assets across Europe into some 100 UK multi-let industrial properties, rebranding and relisting, and changing itself into a technology-enabled industrial operating business. The business was acquired by funds managed by Blackstone in June 2023. Carey previously worked at LaSalle Investment Management and Jones Lang LaSalle. He is a chartered surveyor and chair of the Investment Property Forum’s Tech Futures Workgroup.

Sarah Gillard

CEO, Blueprint for Better Business

Gillard is the CEO of Blueprint for Better Business, a charity that helps businesses to be inspired and guided by a purpose that benefits society and respects people and planet. She is a passionate advocate for making business “more human” – places where people flourish, communities prosper and long-term sustainability is the driving force. She has more than 25 years’ experience leading in fast-paced commercial environments at some of the UK’s largest retail companies, including the John Lewis Partnership, where she was responsible for rearticulating and embedding the organisation’s  purpose so that it continues to be a source of inspiration, innovation, and strategic differentiation. Gillard has a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and is a fellow of the RSA and a trustee of the John Lewis Foundation.

Lewis Goodall

Analysis & investigations editor, Global

Goodall is a co-presenter of the podcast The News Agents alongside Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel. He has produced and presented BBC documentaries and worked as policy editor on Newsnight. Prior to that, he was a political correspondent at Sky News. Goodall joined Global, producer of The News Agents, in 2022 as analysis and investigations editor. He also writes for The New Statesman magazine.

Judi Greenwood

Director of strategy, Regeneration Brainery

Greenwood holds a strategic leadership role at Regeneration Brainery, where she helps bridge the gap between young people in need of guidance, work experience and jobs and industry experts who can inspire, uplift and connect. Through a growing team of mentors, ambassadors and “brainees”, Regeneration Brainery is nurturing a new and diverse talent pool that will be the future of the industry. More recently she has stepped into Future of Greater Manchester as its connector-in-chief, designing, sense-checking and overseeing content, leading on cross-sector networks and connecting Future of GM Leaders as a dynamic force for good places and good work.

Isabelle Hease

Chair, BPF Futures advisory board

Hease is chair of the BPF Futures advisory board. She is responsible for ensuring the network delivers the objectives set out across its four key engagement pillars of influencing, learning, mentoring and networking to its junior-in-career professionals who are passionate about the industry and want to shape its future. With EDI at the heart of the Futures vision, Hease ensures the board’s continuous focus on the topic throughout its activities. She also sits on the BPF technology and innovation committee in her current role as chief executive of Visitor Insights, a geolocation technology business that she launched in partnership with a leading real estate company in 2021. Prior to joining VI, Hease headed up the research and analytics team at Ellandi, where she focused on delivering change through data-driven decision-making across projects in retail, planning and development.

John Holland-Kaye

Former CEO, Heathrow

During his time as chief executive, Heathrow has consistently improved service levels for passengers, while reducing costs, and it is now rated one of the best airports in the world. Heathrow was named Sustainable Business of the Year at the edie Awards and one of the Best Companies to work for by the Sunday Times and Glassdoor. He was responsible for developing the plan for a third runway at Heathrow which secured a cross-party parliamentary majority of 4:1 and successfully led Heathrow through the Covid-19 crisis and subsequent recovery. He has taken a leadership role in the movement to decarbonise global aviation, including the historic agreement at ICAO of a long-term aspirational goal of net zero aviation by 2050. Holland-Kaye is a non-executive director at Thames Water, chair of the governors at Bedford School and a director of King Charles’ Sustainable Markets Initiative. He has previously served as a non-executive director at Thames Tideway, as chair of business in the Community’s Employment and Skills Taskforce and as a member of DEFRA’s Council for Sustainable Business. Before becoming CEO in July 2014, he was development director at Heathrow, responsible for delivering the £2.5bn Terminal 2 on time and on budget. Prior to joining Heathrow, Holland-Kaye worked in housebuilding with Taylor Wimpey, in brewing and leisure retail with Bass and as a strategy consultant with LEK Consulting.  He has lived and worked in the UK, US, Australia and the Philippines. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and has an MBA from INSEAD. 

Andrew Jones

CEO, LondonMetric Property

Jones was a co-founder and CEO of Metric Property from its inception in March 2010 until its merger with London & Stamford in January 2013. On completion of the merger, Jones became chief executive of LondonMetric. Andrew was previously executive director and head of retail at British Land and served on the main board with responsibilities for shopping centres, supermarkets and retail park investment and asset management. Jones is also a non-executive director of leading electric vehicle charging network, InstaVolt, and was previously non-executive director of Unite for six years – the UK’s leading provider of student accommodation.

Nick Leslau

Chairman and chief executive, Prestbury Investments

Leslau has been chairman and chief executive of Prestbury group of companies, which has invested in and managed more than £10bn of property assets since he founded it in January 1998. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and was co-founder and chief executive of Burford Holdings for 13 years until 1997, having created a £1bn net worth company and delivered 1,300% NAV per share growth over a 10-year period as a quoted company. He sat on the board of Max Property Group, which was floated in 2009 and sold to Blackstone for £650m in July 2014. He and his management team floated Secure Income REIT and recently merged the company with LXI REIT, creating a business with £4bn of gross assets, where he continues to be one of the largest shareholders and a non-executive director.

Tamas Madarasz

Vice-president, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Madarasz is a vice-president at JPMorgan Chase &Co, where he leads efforts in the research and implementation of artificial intelligence tools for the International Consumer Bank. He is an experienced AI researcher and practitioner with expertise in natural language processing, reinforcement learning and planning, causal inference and cognitive/behavioural science. Before venturing into the world of finance, he worked as a research scientist at tech companies, developing machine learning tools for applications such as chip design, compiler optimisation and self-driving technology. Prior to his career in industry, he was an academic researcher at the Universities of Oxford and Geneva, as well as performing as a classical cellist for more than a decade. Beyond developing the new generation of AI tools, he is passionate about understanding the societal implications of this new frontier, and the safeguards necessary to ensure its responsible use and positive impact

Samantha McClary

Editor, EG

McClary has almost 20 years’ experience in real estate and business journalism, covering a wide range of topics. Alongside making sure EG delivers the best, most helpful, most accurate and, of course, most interesting content to EG’s readership across all platforms – print, online and audio – she also plays a leading role in enabling and delivering a more diverse environment for the real estate community through EG’s REWIRE and tech initiatives. A keen chair and regular wearer of too bright trousers, she seeks to help keep panel discussions and events lively with audience participation and insightful questioning

Jeremy Myerson

Director, WORKTECH Academy

Myerson is director of the WORKTECH Academy, a global knowledge network exploring the future of work and workplace. He holds the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at the Royal College of Art and is also a visiting fellow in the Oxford Institute for Population Ageing, University of Oxford. An academic authority on workplace design and innovation, Myerson co-founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design – the Royal College of Art’s largest centre for design research – in 1999, which he directed for 16 years. The author of more than 20 books in the field, his most recent titles include Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life (2014) and Life of Work (2015). He has spoken at conferences and events around the world and sits on the advisory boards of design and science institutes in South Korea, Switzerland and Hong Kong. He was named by Wired magazine as one of Britain’s 100 most influential people in digital technology, and in 2016 was awarded an honorary doctorate by the RCA for his contribution to workplace research. 

Geeta Nanda

CEO, Metropolitan Thames Valley

Nanda is chief executive of Metropolitan Thames Valley housing association. She is a board member of the National Housing Federation; former chair of the G15, the group representing London’s largest housing associations; and a Non-executive director of PRS REIT and Redrow. In 2013, Nanda was awarded an OBE for achievements in social housing.

Kate Norgrove

Executive director of advocacy and campaigns, WWF UK

Norgrove leads a team of policy, advocacy, campaign and education specialists to restore nature and tackle climate change in the UK and globally. She has spent the past 25 years working as a campaigner on issues ranging from international arms control to education policy. She has a particular interest and expertise in supporting the development of impactful organisations working to make a difference in the world. 

Tim Oldman

Founder and CEO, Leesman

Oldman is founder and CEO of Leesman – the world’s foremost authority on employee workplace experience. He started his career in 1991 as a designer in the gritty world of transport design but by 2003 had developed a greater interest in the business strategy of workplace. In 2009, while working as an independent adviser supporting several leading global organisations on the alignment of their workplace strategies, he spotted an opportunity to develop a new technique that would test the ability of an organisation’s places to support its employees. More than 10 years later, the Leesman Index is used by industry thought leaders around the world to measure, benchmark and improve the experience of their employees. In March 2020, Leesman launched new tools that would also evaluate the experience of employees working from home. Today it’s the largest employee homeworking experience benchmark dataset of its kind.

Liz Peace CBE

Industry chair and non-executive director

Peace’s career has spanned both the public and private sector. She spent her early career at the Ministry of Defence, playing a key role in setting up QinetiQ in 2001. Peace then moved to the private sector, becoming chief executive of the British Property Federation, where she was instrumental in the creation of the UK’s REIT structure. She was awarded a CBE in 2008 for services to the property industry. Peace now has a non-executive portfolio career with roles at Howard de Walden Estates, Greencore Homes, AEW UK REIT and the Connected Places Catapult. She is chair of the GLA’s Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation and of the University of Cambridge property board. She is also chair of the Churches Conservation Trust, a secular organisation looking after 358 redundant Church of England churches, and of Real Estate Balance, a campaigning organisation working to improve diversity and inclusion in the real estate industry.

James Raynor

CEO, Grosvenor Properties UK

Raynor has overall responsibility for Grosvenor Property UK, which owns and manages the business’ historic portfolio in Mayfair and Belgravia, and an expansive regional portfolio including Liverpool ONE, one of the country’s most successful city centre regeneration projects. Beyond London, GPUK also masterplans and delivers a number of large scale, sustainable new communities and manages a growing portfolio of city centre office investments. Raynor joined Grosvenor’s Paris team in 2004, where he led Grosvenor’s international fund management activity. He was then appointed chief executive of Grosvenor Property Europe in 2013 before his appointment to GPUK in 2020. Prior to this, he was the senior director of European Real Estate at Royal Bank of Scotland in Paris and a non-executive director of Nordisk Renting in Sweden. Raynor is a board member of INREV and the Westminster Property Association and sits on the BPF’s policy committee. He was educated at the Universities of Greenwich and Lille, France.

Yasin Rofcanin

PhD, professor of organisational psychology and human resource management, University of Bath

Rofcanin holds a PhD in management studies from the University of Warwick Business School. He is currently a professor of organisational behaviour and human resource management at the University of Bath School of Management, and is also a director of the Future of Work Research Centre. His research aligns with the topical areas of flexible and new ways of working, proactive employee behaviours, job crafting and the future of workplaces. For more information: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/yasin-rofcanin

Lucia Sanderson

Apprentice surveyor, CBRE

Sanderson enrolled on CBRE’s five-year degree apprenticeship scheme in September 2021. She works out of CBRE’s Manchester office and is studying remotely with the University College of Estate Management to obtain a BSc in real estate management in 2025, before planning to sit her APC the following spring. Sanderson spent her first year working within the office agency department. She has just finished her second year in the lease consultancy team and is starting her third seat in property management imminently. Sanderson sits on the North-West junior board and is part of CBRE’s successful reverse mentoring programme. 

Lynda Shillaw

Chief executive, Harworth Group

Shillaw is chief executive of Harworth Group, one of the UK’s leading land and property regeneration companies. She has worked in the UK real estate sector for over 30 years in both London and the regions. Prior to joining Harworth in 2020, she held leadership roles at BT, the Co-op, Lloyds Banking Group and Manchester Airports Group. Shillaw is also chair of the BPF regional policy committee.

Ian Stewart

Chief economist, Deloitte UK

Stewart is a partner and chief economist at Deloitte UK in London, where he researches the business implications of economic change. Before joining Deloitte, he spent 12 years as chief economist for Europe at US investment bank Merrill Lynch. He previously worked as special adviser to the government and as head of economics in the Conservative party’s research department.

Fons van Dorst

Executive managing director, EDGE

van Dorst is an executive commercial director at Edge. With extensive transaction-based experience ranging from the underwriting, acquisition, funding, structuring and leasing to sales of developments, refurbishments, standing assets and portfolios, he has a deep understanding of value creation in commercial real estate. In 2011, after studying at Sciences Po in Paris and obtaining both an LLM at the University of Leiden and a MSc in business studies from the University of Amsterdam, he joined the largest real estate advisory firm in the Netherlands, where he learnt the fundaments of commercial real estate. In 2013, he joined Edge to work as an analyst, with a primary focus on assisting new acquisitions and the structuring of both joint ventures and individual transactions. Following an appointment as commercial manager and completion of a post-graduate MSc in real estate in Amsterdam, he became responsible for the front-end of both acquisitions and divestments. In 2019, he was promoted to executive commercial director of the UK market after securing Edge’s first project in London: EDGE London Bridge.

Catherine Webster

Chief executive, Thriving Investments

Webster started at Thriving Investments, formerly known as PfP Capital, in January 2023 to focus on increasing funds under management alongside the delivery of social value, augmenting the existing fund management platform across high-quality affordable housing, private-rented residential and urban regeneration strategies. She joined from Quintain, where she was executive director for strategy and investment and chair of the sustainability steering group. Webster has 30 years of real estate experience and has held several leadership roles as an investor or a lender in a wide array of companies including private equity, fund management and investment banking at Hudson Advisors (Lone Star Funds), TIAA & Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate. She holds a BSc in land management from Reading University, an MBA from INSEAD and is a member of the BPF’s affordable housing committee, an RICS member and co-chair for the Creative Land Trust.