Nigel Hugill appointed as advisor to Homes and Communities Agency
19 January 2009
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The new housing and regeneration body, the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), has appointed leading commercial development expert and former chairman of Lend Lease Europe, Nigel Hugill, as Special Advisor to its chief executive Sir Bob Kerslake.
The three-month appointment will entail Mr Hugill providing advice on the commercial aspects of a range of innovative housing and regeneration development projects and additional support to the HCA in establishing new and flexible financial models for intervention in difficult economic conditions.
Chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency Sir Bob Kerslake said: “He brings a wealth of property expertise, which will be invaluable in supporting our work of maintaining capacity both in the housing and commercial property sector, keeping the market moving during difficult times, and applying our Single Conversation way of doing business with developers.”
Prior to taking up this appointment, Mr Hugill had worked extensively in the commercial development sector at senior level; most notably, this included helping secure Lend Lease as preferred developer for Stratford’s Olympic Village, and for the £1bn regeneration of London’s Elephant & Castle.
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For further information: HCA press office on 020 7881 1653/1054/1615
Note to editors
Nigel Hugill biography:
Lend Lease April 2005 - December 2008, Executive Chairman Lend Lease Europe
Chelsfield plc 1989 - 2005, Managing Director 1992 - 2005
Morgan Grenfell & Co. Limited 1983 - 89: Latterly as Corporate Finance Director
Mobil Oil Company 1980 - 83: Industrial Relations and Strategic and Marketing Planning
Direct involvement with six of the largest, and most value-creating, regeneration project schemes built or under development in London in the past 15 years: Paddington Basin, Bankside, Elephant & Castle, Greenwich Peninsula, White City and Stratford.
- Board member of British Waterways
- Governor of the London School of Economics and Chair of the Estate Management Committee
- Member of the Independent Transport Commission
- Treasurer and Trustee of the Architecture Foundation
- Member of the Strategy Committee of the British Property Federation.
The HCA
The HCA is the single, national housing and regeneration agency for England. We bring together the development and regeneration expertise of English Partnerships, investment functions of the Housing Corporation, and the Academy for Sustainable Communities, with major delivery programmes of Communities and Local Government.
Our role is to create opportunity for people to live in high quality, sustainable places. We provide funding for affordable housing, bring land back into productive use and improve quality of life by raising standards for the physical and social environment.
During the next three financial years the HCA controls a budget of £17.3bn.