Chris started his career as a Graduate Quantity Surveyor in Construction and joined the Crest Nicholson Group in 1988, after graduating from Reading University with a Masters Degree (Distinction) in Development Project Management. After 21 years with the Company, he is now a Group Board Director with responsibility for the Group's £3bn regeneration and strategic land Portfolios.
Following a four year initial period during which Chris assumed responsibility for several of the group's significant office developments, he became Development Director on Portishead Quays, a £450m mixed use urban regeneration project South-West of Bristol.
Chris soon headed up Crest Nicholson Projects, a team specifically focused on the acquisition, master planning and development of large scale mixed use, urban regeneration projects including Ingress Park, a 30 Ha brownfield development of 1,000 dwellings within Kent Thameside and Park Central, a £250m estate renewal project in Birmingham.
In October 2002, Chris was appointed Managing Director of Crest Nicholson Developments and assumed responsibility for the profitable delivery of many of the Group's landmark and award winning developments.
Appointed to the Group Board in 2007, Chris is now Regeneration Chairman overseeing a £1.5b mixed use and urban regeneration portfolio including Bristol Harbourside, Park Central, Bath Western Riverside, Woolston Riverside (JV with SEEDA) and Oakgrove, a 1,300 dwelling new community in partnership with the HCA in Milton Keynes.
Responsible for Crest's progressive Sustainability and Climate Change policies, Chris is committed to the need to reduce the environmental impacts and carbon footprint of development. Mindful also of the viability challenges facing the industry however, particularly in the wake of the credit crunch, Chris has also been leading the HBF's working group into the economics of development and the cumulative impact which the burden of regulation and policy is likely to have on housing delivery if not checked.
