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Join Paul Higgs, an experienced property developer with 40 years of experience, as he launches the "Inside Property Development" podcast. This first episode sets the stage for an insightful journey into the complexities of the housing market and property development. Paul aims to bridge gaps, foster collaboration, and unravel the challenges facing the industry. With a focus on supporting SME developers, this podcast promises to be an essential resource for anyone interested in creating better homes and spaces!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The housing market faces significant challenges, including affordability issues and a complex planning system.
• Collaboration between all stakeholders in property development is crucial for solving industry problems.
• SME developers and smaller house builders are declining due to the increasing complexity of the planning system.
• Paul aims to provide insights from various industry professionals to improve understanding and cooperation.
• Paul emphasises the need to support and train SME developers to navigate the current challenging environment.
• The show will explore ways to create good quality, sustainable housing in the right locations.
• Understanding different perspectives within the industry is key to overcoming confrontational attitudes.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

"I'm really interested in helping get the housing crisis solved. The way to do that, I believe, is to get inside, behind and all around property development to understand how it really works and therefore what the problems are and how we can all solve them together."

"There shouldn't actually be any sides in this. I believe we should all be working together in order to help get good housing and commercial space as well and places and spaces created."

"Just being a good builder was no longer and still is no longer good enough. You also now have to be an absolute expert on planning and getting through all of the Red tape and complications that you have to deal with nowadays."

"We'll learn together how we can collaborate rather than fight and by working together we can all help create better places, spaces and homes and a much more beautiful world."

"I'm going to be talking to developers of all sizes and all of the other people involved in the process."

ABOUT THE HOST 

Paul Higgs is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor with 40+ years' experience in land, planning and development and a 100% success track-record in winning planning consents.

Paul undertook his first refurb project when he was just 17 and then worked his way up from labouring on building sites to becoming Head of Land for renowned plc housebuilder, Barratt Developments. He managed to escape the corporate world in 2002 to set up what is now a multimillion-pound award-winning property development company, Millbank Group.  

In 2013 Paul founded the Millbank Land Academy, the UK’s first training company dedicated to property development, to teach established and aspiring developers the insider secrets the big housebuilders don’t want you to know! 

Paul is also a founding investor and former board director of the industry-leading PropTech Co, LandTech, and has lectured on Advanced Development Valuations on the MSc Property Development at London South Bank University.

CONTACT METHOD

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-higgs/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2F&originalSubdomain=uk 

Millbank Land Academy: https://www.millbanklandacademy.co.uk