Husband and wife combine skills to open dental business
A husband and wife have opened the doors to a dental practice in Husbands Bosworth – the first in the village near to Market Harborough and Lutterworth.
Dentist Dr Carmen Jimenez has launched the high street private practice and her husband Harry Leak, through his company KIO Developments, has led on the development of the property.
The new dental surgery will serve the growing population in the village, with an existing catchment area of more than 4,000 people.
Foxbury Dental will create jobs in the village with two nurses, a receptionist, a second and third dentist and a hygienist.
The venture is part of a wider development on the high street by KIO Developments. The firm has also purchased two other properties and will be creating five flats and renovating an existing cottage.
Jimenez said: “There is a great community feeling here in the village and that has only grown with the support everyone has shown each other during the pandemic.
“Our family is part of that community and we believe this new surgery will be a valuable resource to other people living in and around Husbands Bosworth.”
Leak added: “We have been living here for a few years now and identified there was an opportunity to open a practice.
“I set up KIO Developments and started looking to acquire premises. We went on to buy three properties on the high street and will be creating new homes for the village too.
“There will be two flats above the practice. Then two doors down we bought another two buildings, one to be converted to three flats and other to be turned into a two-bed cottage. We are glad to be playing our part in the development of the village.”
While preparing to open the practice the couple took advice from accountancy firm Burgis & Bullock.
Grant Howard, partner at Burgis & Bullock, said: “It’s not usual that a developer’s first project is a joint one with their other half but Carmen and Harry have fantastic drive and a real desire to improve the community they live in.
“We look forward to working closely with them both as they continue to grow both the dental surgery and the property business.”
