At Hollins, we are experts in promoting and realising development opportunities. We have an excellent track record in solving planning and other technical land based problems. The team is experienced and are passionate about dealing with the complexities needed to achieve development on individual sites.
Mark has worked in planning, development and strategic land buying for over 18 years, primarily generating significant land and development
revenues through the early identification of land, property and mixed use opportunities and subsequent promotion through the planning system from
conception to disposal or development.
Mark has held a number of long-term senior positions where his management of multi-disciplinary planning and development teams delivered tangible
and notable results throughout the UK.
Stephen has over 25 years' experience in commercial and residential property. He has been involved in all the major city centre property
developments in Manchester including Barborolli Square, Spinningfields and Havelock Mills.
Stephen is amongst the elite of development lawyers having advised a number of the North west's leading property developers and house
builders.
Paul is a Chartered Town Planner with over 12 years' experience in UK strategic land which ranges from acquisitions to providing strategic planning advice for a wide range of interests including national house builders, key pension funds, investment companies and individual land owners. He has a demonstrable track record of securing planning consents on a range of sites from small scale developments to large scale urban extensions across England. At HSL, Paul is responsible for securing both 'immediate' and 'strategic' land acquisitions across the UK and under his direction ensuring successful outcomes are achieved across HSL's land portfolio.
With over 30 years of experience in leading planning and development delivery teams across all property sectors, most recently at Board Director level in one of the largest volume divisions of Barratt Homes, Jeremy has successfully completed many significant residential, retail, leisure, commercial and industrial projects. As Director, Special Projects, he is closely involved with landowners, agents, consultants and our in house teams in growing the operations of the Hollins Strategic Land and Hollins Homes businesses through targeted planning promotions, land acquisitions and disposals.
Christian graduated with a Masters degree in Town and Country Planning from Manchester University and was
recruited by Hollins Strategic Land to join their land and planning team. Having moulded a role in
strategic land as a graduate, Christian quickly progressed within the company having helped deliver
planning consents and a number of land deals.
At HSL, Christian’s role includes the planning and financial appraisal of new land opportunities,
acquisition, management of projects through the planning system, landowner liaison and land disposals.
In additional, he also dabbles in some of the company’s design work. Christian has overseen the completion
of a number of projects from initial planning opportunity through to obtaining planning consent and
selling the land.
Matthew is a chartered town planner with over 9 years’ experience. As Planning Manager, he takes the lead role on the management of HSL planning applications
and promoting sites through the development plan process.
Before joining HSL in 2015, Matthew was an Associate at Sedgwick Associates, a planning consultancy based in Bolton. In that role, Matthew provided a comprehensive
range of planning advice across a variety of sectors and covered the entire development life cycle, from long-term strategic land promotions through to the
completion of the development.
After finishing a placement at Hollins whilst studying for his masters, Peter joined full-time as a Land and Planning Assistant in June 2017. Building on a range of experience gained both inside and outside of planning, he now working towards RTPI chartership. Peter is currently working with the team on a number projects, assisting on land searches for residential development, site appraisals and planning applications.
Mark is the Director responsible for Hollins Homes and also provides Commercial and Technical input into Hollins Strategic Land. He has over 25 years’
experience in housebuilding and construction and has worked for all sizes of Housing Developer across projects ranging from 2 bed starter homes to city-centre
mixed-use multi-storey schemes. Having trained initially as a Quantity Surveyor, he then progressed through to Directorship at the age of 29 and ultimately
to Managing Director status.
In his current role, he primarily oversees the daily management of Hollins Homes.