people

Richard is a Chartered Surveyor with a Masters in Business Administration and an Architectural Technology Degree. He is based in London and Brighton and has 32 years of experience in client side property development and has undertaken mixed use and single sector projects covering industrial, office, residential, retail, leisure and period properties UK wide. His development track record exceeds £1 billion in value.

Prior to bloc Richard worked for the Valuation Office and development companies including Capital and Counties plc, Miller Developments and Lynton plc (BAA plc). Richard has also set up tax efficient SPVs (single purpose vehicles) and has been a director of both pub and restaurant businesses. Having set up bloc in 1997 with Nicola Tindale, Richard has concentrated on formalising relationships with key partners to take forward the bloc development partnership niche.

Following on from the successful multi-award winning Edinburgh Quay project, ongoing joint ventures have been set up with the Canal and River Trust (British Waterways), Scottish Enterprise, Hanover Housing and Network Rail.

He worked for Turner and Townsend Cost Consultants for seven years before moving into main contracting – working for major national and multi-national contractors. He has also worked in housebuilding for the Dandara Group delivering large scale projects, and for a small trading property development business.

Scott’s experience is practical and widespread and therefore perfectly fits the bloc portfolio and he is based near Nottingham.

Vicky qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and has through the course of her career, increasingly focussed on property matters with a particular specialism in property joint ventures. Previously Vicky was Senior Finance Manager for British Waterways (latterly Canal and River Trust) joint venture businesses and also worked for Intu Properties.

Edwina started working in the property sector as a secretary at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, in both the Communications and then the Quantity Surveying departments. She then worked for DTZ in both their London and Manchester offices, as a PA to Directors for the Investment and Professional departments.

Edwina works flexibly both from home and in the bloc office in Fitzrovia. With the different joint venture partnerships at bloc she enjoys the diversity of challenges, roles and people that each of these JVs bring. She has worked for bloc for 13 years.

James leads on Buccleuch Property’s finances which involves oversight of the entire business, funding of projects through a number of key banking relationships, treasury management, corporate and joint venture arrangements together with statutory and management reporting. A qualified Chartered Accountant with a law degree, James relocated to Edinburgh from London after completing his accountancy training with Arthur Andersen, and has over 20 years’ experience in the commercial property industry. He worked with Miller Developments before joining Buccleuch Property in 2006.