All Big Interviews articles
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InsightStreet-level drive for regeneration
Andy Street, mayor of the West Midlands, tells Property Week why he’s confident the region will deliver on its 2031 housing targets and what lies behind its success in securing billions of pounds from developers.
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Building connections: Big interview with BPF’s Melanie Leech
British Property Federation chief executive Melanie Leech explains to Property Week why building relationships at a local, regional and national level is the key to future development.
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The pick of the bunch
Wates Residential’s executive managing director Helen Bunch tells Property Week what steps the development business is taking to improve diversity across the board.
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Be brave, be sustainable: interview with Lucy Townsend, head of sustainability at BDP
To make progress towards net zero targets, the property sector needs to explore new solutions to seemingly intractable problems, Lucy Townsend, head of sustainability at architecture practice BDP, tells Lem Bingley.
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The £500bn portfolio plan
Selling off £1.5bn of publicly owned buildings by 2025 is just one small aspect of a much larger task involving a vast portfolio of assets, as government chief property officer Mark Chivers explains to Property Week.
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Big interview with author Hashi Mohamed: “We can fix the housing crisis”
Successive governments have failed to implement the reforms needed to solve the UK’s housing shortage. Hashi Mohamed, author of a new book analysing the housing crisis, tells Property Week what needs to change.
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Big interview: Human Nature’s chief exec discusses its sustainable new development
Human Nature is hoping to build the UK’s most sustainable new development. Chief executive Jonathan Smales tells Property Week about its bold plan.
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The Climate Crusade: big interview with Grosvenor Property's James Raynor
Grosvenor Property UK chief executive James Raynor warns that short-term, cyclical upheavals should not mean we abandon long-term thinking about sustainability.
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No stone unturned: interview with John Tonkiss
McCarthy Stone chief executive John Tonkiss tells Andy Hillier how the later-living specialist bounced back from the pandemic with a strategy based on affordability, flexibility and choice
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An address to impress: interview with John Caudwell
Billionaire John Caudwell made a fortune selling his business Phones4U back in the noughties. Now, he is creating one of the world’s most exclusive residential developments in London. Andrew Saunders reports.
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Bloom and grow: A big interview with the founders of I&L start-up
Two 30-year-old university friends are shaking up London’s industrial and logistics market with their ultra-urban warehouse firm Bloom. They tell Andy Hillier what sets them apart from the competition.
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Interview with LGIM’s Bill Hughes: Strange new worlds
Bill Hughes, head of real assets at Legal & General Investment Management, says patience is a virtue when exploring new territory.
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Big interview with the Vita Group COO: ‘We’re a consumer-focused brand’
Vita Group chief operating officer Max Bielby tells Andy Hillier how focusing on quality and lifting the customer experience have helped to set the student specialist apart in a fast-growing market
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Making a northern powerhouse
Andrew Coombs, chief executive of Sirius Real Estate, tells Andy Hillier why the business park operator has its gaze fixed on the north after the purchase of BizSpace.
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Big interview with Julie Hirigoyen: ‘We need urgent climate action’
Julie Hirigoyen, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, tells Ifeoluwa Taiwo about its new 2025 strategy for the property sector and reveals what the government needs to do to close the policy gap.
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Kajima: The quiet giant is not just big in Japan
Kajima’s European property arm has kept a low profile despite building a portfolio spanning many countries and sectors. Managing director John Harcourt tells Property Week why the business likes to fly under the radar.
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Big interview with the founder of flex office start-up infinitSpace
Wybo Wijnbergen, founder of flex office start-up infinitSpace, tells Property Week how the lessons he learned at WeWork helped inform his white-label flex space service for landlords.
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LCR Property CEO discusses post-Covid life and future plans
Peter Hawthorne is CEO of LCR Property, which brings forward land near railways for redevelopment. He tells Property Week how he plans to unlock and de-risk a pipeline of 300 sites across England and Wales.
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Legal & General homes in on modular housebuilding
It got off to a slow start, but Legal & General’s modular housebuilding arm is now motoring ahead. Its CEO gives Property Week a tour of the factory and reveals how it will disrupt the way the industry works.
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Big interview with Interim Spaces founder
Interim Spaces founder Dan Simon tells Property Week how a decade of squatting in central London inspired a charity that transforms vacant property into temporary workspace for tenants in the creative industries.
