As CEO of Thakeham, Rob Boughton has over 25 years of property industry experience. He started Thakeham in 2003 and today the business has three significant strands. The Strategic Land Division controls and is promoting over 60,000 plots, the Private Housebuilder delivers via two brands focused on zero carbon community creation. The Partnership division builds exclusively for Housing Associations and Councils and supports them with over 2,500 units in production.
Under his stewardship, the company is consistently growing and was ranked in the Fast Track Top 100 in the UK in 2018 and in the UK’s top 100 best companies to work for in 2020.
In 2020, Thakham started work in earnest with a range of industry experts, partnering with organisations with a long history of championing meaningful change, and producing their 2020-2025 Sustainability Strategy as a public declaration of their responsibility to the communities they serve, to exceed the targets set by government and their competitors, and to recognize that climate change is the most important issue facing us and future generations. This commitment includes their industry-leading Zero Carbon Placemaking approach, demonstrating the collective impact of key topics including redefining transport hierarchies, biodiversity net gain, and creating new community businesses. Thakeham are the only developer of their scale to tackle the next big carbon problem by building zero carbon homes in lifetime operation as well as committing that every Thakeham home will be carbon neutral in production, even including how the materials are made and delivered to the development before construction. As the UK’s first housebuilder to sign the SME Climate Commitment, joining the UN’s Race To Zero Campaign, the South-East based housebuilder, with Rob at the forefront, is clearly going to demonstrate the art of the possible and redefine the communities of the future.
