Birmingham Development Plans 2015

FOUR of Birmingham’s leading development figures will be presenting their development/investment plans for the next couple of years!

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Event Format

• 1530 – 1600; Registration
• 1600 – 1645; Networking with Wine, Beer and Soft Drinks
• 1645 – 1815; Speaker Presentations
• 1815 – 1900; Networking with Hot Food, Wine, Beer and Soft Drinks
• 1930 – 2200; After Event Dinner (INVITE ONLY)

Speakers

Jonathan Wallis; Director, Miller Developments

Having spent 13 years as an agent, first with DTZ then with JLL, Jonathan joined Miller Developments in 2006 to look after their office and industrial sector developments and investment portfolio in England and Wales.

Miller Developments was established over 50 years ago and is a division of the Miller Group, one of the UK’s leading property development companies. In the past 12 months Jonathan has led a team responsible for the pre letting and forward funding of over 1 million sqft of logistics space at Omega, Miller’s flagship out of town development in the north west.

In the Midlands he is responsible for the delivery of Arena Central which is set to be the next major office scheme in Birmingham City Centre with planning permission for over 2.1 million sqft of mixed use, office led development .  In his spare time he is a keen rugby coach and triathlete.

James Howarth; Managing Director, Sterling Property Ventures

James Howarth has over 15 years’ experience in land and property, specialising in the planning and remediation of complex development sites. James co-founded Abstract Land Limited in 2004, which has been responsible for various developments such as Colmore Plaza, Birmingham and various land assembly deals in the south east.

Prior to this, he worked extensively in the West Midlands and is known for the development of 5 St Philips Place and for Spectrum in Birmingham. In addition to the acquisition and subsequent funding of the former IMI Headquarters, Birmingham and the former TRW Headquarters in Solihull.

Richard Cowell; Development Planning Manager, Birmingham City Council

Alan Chatham; Director, Chatham Billingham Investments

Alan Chatham started his career in property development more than 25 years ago working on some of the UK’s most innovative schemes.

Alan’s specialism and passion for “mixed use” began as Development Director for the award-winning Brindleyplace scheme which became a catalyst for the multi-million pound canalside regeneration in Birmingham city centre.

Alan’s ambition and vision escalated after he teamed up with Mark Billingham in the late 1990s to purchase the former Royal Mail sorting office and adjoining derelict canalside properties.  The Mailbox was the result of the conversion of more than one million square feet of space creating prime residential, retail and leisure space which attracted key household brands into the city for the first time, including Harvey Nichols, Armani, BBC and Virgin.

The final phase of The Mailbox project before the sale of the scheme (to Brockton Capital) in 2011, was the construction of The Cube, an iconic development designed by Ken Shuttleworth of “Gherkin’ fame.

Chatham Billingham’s latest project is the redevelopment of the former Birmingham Post and Mail printing works of which Phase 1, a state-of-the-art car park, is due to open to the public later this year.   Phase 2 of the development will be office and residential use.

Chatham Billingham have also diversified into a wide range of business investments.