People: Inspired Villages; Savills

Retirement villages operator Inspired Villages, which has an office in Edwalton, Nottingham, has enhanced its planning team with the hire of Nathaniel Raimi as planner and the promotion of Ellen Pearce to planning mnager.

Raimi has over three years’ experience as a planner, having worked for local authorities, a housing association, and most recently at multidisciplinary design firm HTA Design.

Pearce joined Inspired Villages from property consultancy Savills in 2020 as a planner and has supporting numerous planning applications for sites across the country.

Stuart Garnett, land & planning director at Inspired Villages, said: “Inspired Villages aspires to be a world-leading operator of retirement villages, and we know that hiring and nurturing the best talent is key to achieving that goal. I’m therefore delighted to promote Ellen to planning manager, it is a well-deserved promotion that is a testament to her skills and dedicated work ethic.

“I’m also pleased to welcome Nathaniel to the team, he brings a lot of relevant experience to the company. Our enhanced planning team will allow Inspired Villages to grow its pipeline of sites even further and help address the critical need for more age-appropriate housing in the UK for our rapidly ageing population.”

Rob Clark

Savills has added to its residential sales team in Nottingham with the re-hire of Rob Clark as an associate director.

Clark joins the team with over 20 years’ experience in the East Midlands property market, having worked most recently for an independent local agent. He has experience in selling property across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.

He said: “I am very pleased to be returning to Savills and I am looking forward to working within the well-established team to continue to grow the Nottingham office’s offering in both its mainstream and prime property markets. Having grown up in the Vale of Belvoir and now living in Ruddington, the East Midlands is a part of the country I am particularly fond of, and I look forward to drawing upon the incredible national and international reach Savills has to help our clients sell their homes.”