The joint venture between Henley and Camland, which specialises in preparing complex sites for development, bought the 665-acre site from Landsec for £66.8m and then agreed to sell land for 2,600 homes to a partnership formed by Countryside and Clarion Housing Group, and land for 300 homes to Barratt Homes.

Henley chief executive Ian Rickwood (IR) and Peter Nelson (PN), managing director of Camland and project director for the Eastern Quarry, tell Property Week about their plans for Ebbsfleet and their ambitions to rapidly grow their pipeline of projects over the next two years.