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11 Jun
Keyland developments announces new director
Keyland Developments Ltd, the property trading arm of Kelda Group and sister-company to Yorkshire Water, has announced the promotion of Luke Axe to Land & Planning Director.
“Luke is an extremely valued member of the Keyland team and has played a key role in putting together our five-year business plan, so it is entirely fitting that he sees it delivered as a Director of the business. We are incredibly proud to be leading from the front on sustainable development through our ‘six capitals’ approach. We have a strong, dynamic team and there are exciting times ahead for the business and the region.”
Peter Garrett,, Managing Director, Keyland Developments
Luke joined Keyland in 2016 to lead the planning team and has been instrumental in maintaining the Company’s successful planning record, bringing forward consents on complex, strategic sites across the Yorkshire region. This has resulted in the sale and redevelopment of hundreds of acres of unused land for new homes and employment space, in turn creating thousands of new jobs.
Luke has been responsible for devising Keyland’s blueprint for sustainable development, which will see it change the way that houses are delivered across the region. Luke’s work with a team of consultants has delivered a UK first, the creation of a pioneering valuation tool to measure direct, indirect and enabled value delivered from its ‘six capitals’ approach to property development.
The announcement follows the recent news that Keyland has appointed Matthew Turnbull as Planning and Development Manager and promoted Beth McQue also to Planning and Development Manager.
“I am delighted to be joining the Keyland Board and look forward to the new phase in Keyland’s lifecycle as we bring forward some ground-breaking schemes such as the Esholt sustainable development. At Keyland we work on an incredibly diverse portfolio and I am looking forward to working with the rest of the team on implementing our approach to sustainable development into our wide-ranging projects.”
Luke Axe,, Land & Planning Director, Keyland Developments
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Keyland’s strategic site forms the primary employment element of the 375 acre City Fields development. The new £33m Wakefield Eastern Relief Road (WERR) which commenced last month will run through the site and is set to complete in early 2017.
The City Fields development resides to the East of Wakefield town centre and seeks to deliver approximately 2,500 houses, a primary school, health facilities, district and neighbourhood centres and employment space. Miller Homes is about to commence on site with the first phase of 500 homes and the majority of the employment space will be within Keyland’s extensive site, which provides immediate frontage to the WERR.
Keyland has instructed the Leeds offices of Bilfinger GVA and Knight Frank as scheme agents to work as part of its professional team in preparing a planning application for the 53 acre site which is likely to incorporate some 700,000 sq ft of employment space with ancillary uses. The proposals, which could generate some 1400 new jobs, are scheduled for submission in late 2015 with a view to the site being development-ready with planning in place when work on the WERR completes.
“The vision for the whole City Fields area has been collaboratively developed over a long period of time and now that work has commenced on the road, we can start to fully progress the plans for our 53 acre employment element. With direct access to the WERR, the site is one of the most strategically placed within the region and we are currently working with our team on the masterplan to ensure that the application reflects the requirements of the local marketplace.”
Peter Garrett, Managing Director of Keyland Developments Ltd
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