Stronger Together: Delivering Housing Through Public-Private Partnerships
Date & Time: | March 4, 2025 8:00 am | Add to Calendar (.ics) |
Venue: | CBRE |
This panel will discuss the power of public-private partnerships to deliver on Labour’s housing ambitions.
The panel line up includes experts from across the private sector, public sector and everything in between!
This is an opportunity to hear from industry experts about the different partnership models for housing delivery, what good partnership working looks like, the role of public private partnerships in building 1.5 million new homes.
Chair:
Rob Beiley – Partner, Trowers& Hamlins
Rob has over 20 years’ experience advising housing associations, local authorities, developers and institutional investors on a broad range of housing related matters.
For housing associations and local authority sectors, Rob is known as a trusted advisor to a number of leading providers in the sectors, Rob advises on corporate governance issues, including matters concerning engagement with the Regulator, group structures (including housing association mergers and restructures) and participation in trading companies and joint ventures.
For local authorities, Rob advises on the establishment of housing companies, council housing finance matters, housing development, ALMOs, shared services and other structures to facilitate housing investment) and on broader issues associated with different delivery mechanisms for housing (including joint ventures), as well as advising the local authority sector on social enterprise models and their promotion of and participation in charitable entities. More recently Rob has advised a number of the leading new entrants to the affordable housing sector, including advising Legal & General and Residential Secure Income plc on the registration of their For Profit Registered Providers.
Rob is a board member of the Housing & Finance Institute, a government supported body that promotes housing supply and is a regular contributor to leading trade journal Inside Housing.
Rob has featured as an “expert” on BBC Radio 4 on the role of Councils in delivering multi tenure housing developments and the rise of the local authority housing company concept.
Panellists:
Peter Denton – CEO of Homes England
Peter is a real estate Investment committee member at global investment firm Eurazeo, a Council member and Chair of the Finance Committee at Marlborough College and a Global Trustee of the Urban Land Institute. He has worked in a broad range of strategic leadership roles, amassing 30 years of pan-European real estate experience, deployment of related capital and had significant exposure to investors and fundraising, latterly working as a ‘bridge’ between the public, private and third sector.
In 2025 he will step down from his role as Chief Executive of Homes England, the national housing & regeneration agency. Prior to this, he was Chief Executive of housing association The Hyde Group. Before joining the housing and regeneration sector, Peter was a partner at global real estate investment management firm Starwood Capital. Prior to this he spent his earlier career in investment banking holding senior EMEA real estate investment banking roles at BNP Paribas, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Eurohypo and WestImmo.
David Prout – Pro-Vice Chancellor (Planning and Resources) at Oxford University
David Prout has been Pro-Vice Chancellor (Planning and Resources) at Oxford University since September 2017. He has responsibility for the University’s financial and strategic planning, the estates and capital plan and the sustainability strategy, among other things. David is working with Legal and General on a 2,000 home development just north of Oxford.
David was Director General and SRO, High Speed 2, Department for Transport from January 2013 to June 2017.
Other career highlights include:
- Director General, Localism at the Department for Communities and Local Government
- Executive Director for Planning and Borough Development at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- Director of Local Government Policy at DCLG, responsible for the local government white paper
- Principal Private Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott
David is also a Non-Executive Director of Nuclear Waste Services, a government company which is responsible for developing the geological disposal facility for nuclear waste.
Katherine Hosea – Head of Development at London Legacy Development Corporation
Katherine is a chartered surveyor with nearly 20 years’ experience working in the regeneration sector. In Katherine’s current role as Head of Development at London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), she leads a series of complex projects on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, working with LLDC’s development partners to deliver the physical legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Katherine has particular expertise in structuring public-private partnerships and negotiating complex agreements which deliver commercial objectives as well as social value for the local area.
Justin Carty – Executive Director at CBRE Residential Investment Advisory
Justin Carty has over 20 years of experience in structuring public/private partnerships and joint ventures, combining commercial viability, finance, and development expertise to deliver complex residential, retail, and mixed-use schemes. Prior to joining CBRE, Justin spent seven years working for a local authority, advising on area-based regeneration schemes. He then transitioned to CBRE, where he has spent over a decade in Capital Advisors, the real estate finance arm of CBRE, and now operates from the Residential Capital Markets department. This diverse experience has given him a unique understanding of the public sector, funding markets, and residential investment and development.
Justin’s eclectic experience has led him to advise on a range of innovative mandates. He has led CBRE’s advice to Homes England, overseeing financial and viability due diligence on more than £3 billion of funding requests, principally being grant and/or equity, from programmes such as Get Britain Building, Housing Infrastructure Fund, and Brownfield Land Infrastructure Fund amongst others. He has structured several public-private partnerships, including:
- The Hyde Group’s £200m equity partnership with AXA and Homes England aiming to deliver 7,500 homes (50% affordable).
- Sheffield City Council’s JV with Queensbury to deliver the £470m Sheffield Retail Quarter.
- Homes England’s £105 million PRS JV with the Berkeley Group.
- Thurrock Council’s £1 billion, 2,800-home Purfleet Centre JV with PCRL Justin also secured £75 million of infrastructure funding for the project.
- Greenwich Council’s JV with Berkeley in Kidbrooke, which has delivered over 1,900 homes.
- Cardiff Capital Region’s Housing Impact Fund, which has invested £45 million into 12 schemes, unlocking the delivery of 3,000 homes.
Justin is also a passionate advocate for diversity in the real estate sector. In 2016, he founded CBRE’s REACH network, which stands for Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage. He also serves as the Vice-Chair of DiverseCity Surveyors, an organization dedicated to promoting diversity within the surveying profession.