Leicester Development Plans 2016

Attend this event to hear the Leicester Development Plans – Informing you are FOUR of Leicester’s leading development figures who will be presenting their investment/development plans for the next few years!

Join us at the City Rooms in Leicester on Monday 21st November to hear the Development Plans for Leicester over the next few years and network with peers from the Construction & Property Industry!

In attendance will be Architects, Surveyors, Engineers, Project Managers, Business Development Managers, Solicitors, Lawyers and many more Construction and Property Professionals, there to hear about the Leicester Development Plans and network with like-minded individuals.

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Leicester Development Plans 2016 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 Speakers Dinner (VIP TICKET HOLDERS ONLY)

Leicester Development Plans 2016 VIP Tickets

We have an exciting new opportunity for you – buy a VIP ticket to this event and come to dinner straight after the event with the speakers who have accepted an invitation, see below.

Great food, good wine and excellent conversation.

Leicester Development Plans 2016 VIP Ticket Privileges

• FREE attendance at Speakers Dinner
• Reserved seating in the front two rows at the event
• Guaranteed tickets at Sold-Out events
• Only 15 VIP Tickets available at each event
• VIP Name Badges
• Maximum two VIP Tickets per Company

Leicester Development Plans 2016 VIP Dinner Venue – Chutney Ivy

Come to dinner and join:

• Mike Webster – University Hospital Leicester

Leicester Development Plans 2016 Speakers

Professor Andy Collop, Deputy Vice Chancellor; De Montfort University

Professor Andy Collop was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor in February 2015. He joined De Montfort University (DMU) as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Technology in September 2011 before becoming Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation in 2012.

After completing a BEng in Mechanical Engineering (Council for National Academic Awards) and a PhD in Mechanical/Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Andy was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Nottingham in 1996. He progressed rapidly through the academic ranks to a personal Chair in Civil Engineering in 2004, and in 2006 was awarded a DSc from The University of Nottingham for his research into pavement and rail track engineering. He has been an investigator on research grants and contracts worth in excess of £15 million, has published more than 180 journal and conference papers and is a member of many editorial boards and technical committees.

While at Nottingham, Andy held a number of managerial roles within the Faculty of Engineering, including Head of the Department/School of Civil Engineering, Associate Dean for External Relations and Internationalisation and Associate Dean for Infrastructure and Information Services.

Involved in many external activities, 2008 saw Andy chair a panel on technology for the built environment for an international research assessment exercise undertaken at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden. In 2011 he was appointed a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Urban and Rural Construction and Transport. With commercial experience principally through links with Scott Wilson, Andy was also director of a joint venture with The University of Nottingham and Scott Wilson Pavement Engineering Ltd.

On a personal level, Andy enjoys equestrian activities including eventing and show jumping; a passion that he shares with his wife and one of his two children. He also likes keeping fit through swimming and aerobic sessions at the gym.

Mike Webster, Head of Estates & Property; University Hospital Leicester

Mike has 40 years’ experience of working in all areas of estates and facilities operational and strategic estate management across both the private sector and NHS Trusts within the UK.

He commenced working in Leicestershire in 2011 as Associate Director of Estates & Facilities for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and now manages a significant property portfolio for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) and the wider health economy of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Mike has responsibility for developing the estates strategy for UHL and is a member of the Trust’s Reconfiguration Board, which is delivering a significant programme of service re-design and its associated impact on the transformation of the estates across the three acute hospital sites in Leicester.

Hannah Milne, Head of Regional Portfolio; The Crown Estate

Hannah joined The Crown Estate as Regional Portfolio Manager in January 2011 from Knight Frank, where she was a partner in their West End Capital Markets team, having spent the earlier part of her career with BNP Paribas. Since 2011 she has taken a leading role in delivering major transactions and investments including The Crown Estate’s purchase of Fosse Park in 2014, the largest in our history, an agreement to forward fund Banbury Gateway shopping park and, most recently a conditional agreement to forward fund LXB’s Rushden Lakes development.

Our regional portfolio, valued at £2.2 billion, includes 17 shopping and leisure parks and three shopping centres; Oxford’s Westgate Centre, Exeter’s Princesshay and Worcester’s Crowngate Centre. We are the UK’s fourth largest owner of directly owned shopping parks and our dominant regional retail holdings are valued at circa £1.8 billion.

Ian Barker, Interim Director of Estates and Facilities Management; University of Leicester

Ian has more than 20 years experience in Higher Education having worked as Director of Estates at the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham.  He joins the University of Leicester on an interim basis with a brief to “help the University define and prioritise the Capital Programme for the University”.

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