Croydon Council’s development company Brick by Brick has appointed former U+I creative director Martyn Evans as its non-executive chair.
Evans, who has worked in the property sector for more than 20 years, replaces Jayne McGivern at the local authority’s arms-length housing delivery outfit.
The company has more than 1,200 homes in development and a pipeline of sites that could see it deliver 500 residences per year from 2022.
Evans spent almost 17 years in a string of roles at mixed-use developer Cathedral Group – culminating as board-level creative director – followed by six months at its successor company U+I.
For the past two years he has been estates development director at the Dartington Hall Trust in Totnes, Devon, running a programme of regeneration on a medieval estate that was re-invented in 1925 as an experimental rural community.
Evans is also deputy chair of the London Festival of Architecture and co-founder, alongside former RIBA president Jane Duncan, of the Young Architects and Developers Alliance.
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