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Thursday 27 February 

12pm – 3pm 

Fazenda Rodizio Bar & Grill Birmingham, 55 Colmore Row,
B3 2AA

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Tickets

£47.50pp + VAT

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Sponsors

Join us to hear about the resurrection of the £35m affordable housing scheme at Port Loop.

Keon Homes is now on site delivering 124 units in partnership with sister company Cameron Homes and housing association Midland Heart.

Hear from Richard Williams, managing director of Keon Homes and Joe Reeves, executive director of finance & growth at Midland Heart on its partnership that restarted the stalled scheme, after two previous developers collapsed into administration.

To kickstart the development, a joint venture between Cameron Homes and Midland Heart was created to buy the site out of administration from Ilke Homes.

Two, three and four-bedroom homes will be delivered on the brownfield land, alongside a small apartment block that straddles the canal corner. All homes will be zero carbon ready, incorporating electric heating, hot water heat pumps and generating localised electricity through solar panels.

Joe Reeves joined Midland Heart in July 2013 following 15 years at PwC working in both public sector audit and advisory, and corporate finance infrastructure and government teams, having qualified as a Chartered Public Finance Accountant (CIPFA) in 2000.

As the Executive Director of Finance and Growth, Joe is responsible for the housing development strategy, commercial projects, strategic planning, audit and risk, finance, treasury, procurement and external affairs functions.

As a Director at PwC, he acted as lead commercial advisor on major economic and social infrastructure public-private partnership projects for Government across the UK with a combined value of £1.5bn.

Richard Williams is one of the construction sector’s rising stars, having built Keon Homes from a start-up business six years ago into one of the UK’s fastest-growing providers of affordable housing and Extra Care schemes.

The trainee site engineer cut his teeth in the commercial construction sector, a role that took him overseas to work on high-profile projects in Dubai, before returning to the UK two decades ago to focus on residential housing.

2024 will see Keon Homes turnover pass £50m for the first time and recent successes have included instruction on the iconic Port Loop development in Birmingham and appointment to Wolverhampton Council’s new Housing Development Framework.

What to expect at the lunch:

🤝 Time for networking with the West Midland’s property community

🍴 Welcome drink & two-course lunch at Fazenda

🗣️ Hear from the £35m affordable housing scheme at Port Loop