Stiles Harold Williams will be sending a delegation of three to this year’s MIPIM expo, the world’s largest real estate exhibition and conference taking place on the 10th-13th March in Cannes.
Richard Plant, Head of the firm’s Surrey and South London Region based in Croydon and Chair of the Develop Croydon Forum will be joined by Head of the Gatwick / Crawley office Adam Godfrey and Head of Planning Ian Coomber for four days of networking, learning and transaction along with 21,000 participants from 93 countries.
Under Richard’s stewardship SHW have been instrumental in the transformation of Croydon in recent years, responsible for several landmark projects, as well as handling approximately 65% of all the office lettings in the town.
Adam has several significant projects occurring in his area, including the Leonardo Building, a twenty-first century 110,000 sq ft office development in Manor Royal, Crawley, as well as the effects of the potential expansion of Gatwick Airport when the Davies Commission reports after the general election.
Ian has led the application to extend the planning consent for the Brighton Wheel, which has attracted front page attention in Sussex and beyond this week. Richard said in anticipation of the event: ‘’Being based in Croydon and seeing the remarkable transformation from our seventh floor office makes it important for SHW to be at MIPIM because Croydon’s time is now.”
Adam said: “The timing of MIPIM and the much anticipated Davies Commission recommendations on future Runway Capacity at both Gatwick and Heathrow is very timely and a potential ‘game changer’ for the South East occupational and development markets.”
Ian said: “This is my very first MIPIM and I am looking forward to meeting architects and developers with a view to providing future assistance with town planning projects. The housing issue in the UK worsens and is more acute still in the south-east where I manage a dedicated town planning team focused on ‘making property work’.”
