Property People: Law firm adds to real estate team; New role for Willmott Dixon director; and more
The Birmingham office of law firm Irwin Mitchell has recruited another senior lawyer for its real estate department.
Stuart Tym has joined Irwin Mitchell’s planning practice as a senior associate from The Wilkes Partnership where he was a senior associate and head of planning.
He has a wealth of planning experience having advised in-house at both district and county level local planning authorities, as well as having advised in the private sector where he has acted for both developers, funders and private individuals on their planning needs.
More recently, across the Midlands and the North, Tym has drafted Article 4 directions and a bespoke Local Development Order for a Local Authority, advised on a variety of CPO matters including HS2, advised numerous landowners and developers on technical planning law matters, as well as handling a range of s106 agreements and handling criminal planning cases.
He joins a now eight-strong planning team led by national head of planning, Carl Dyer, which covers clients across the UK including Jasper Group, Roffey Homes, Store Properties, Welbeck Land and Westerleigh.
Adrian Barlow, national head of real estate at Irwin Mitchell, said: “Stuart will be a great asset to the national business and to our planning team. His appointment comes hot on the heels of the announcement of Michelle Beaumont who is joining the firm’s Leeds office as a real estate partner, Paula Hanlon who joined the firm’s Manchester office as senior associate in autumn and Tim Rayner, partner and our new joint head of property litigation who joined us in the summer. We will continue to grow our national real estate offering across the UK, from the seven of our UK offices that offer legal services to the business community. We hope to announce further new senior recruits shortly.“
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An expanding construction company in the West Midlands has appointed an operations director as it looks to future growth.
Martin Adie joins mac-group from Willmott Dixon, where he was director of quality improvement, with the remit to lead construction site and delivery teams, support their development and encourage innovation.
He has a background in major contracting, with experience of large, technically challenging projects. During his 11-year tenure at Wilmott Dixon, he used an engineering approach to achieve significant quality improvements through technical upskilling and behavioural change, a new management system, quality audits and improving numbers of defect-free handovers.
He said: “It will be great to re-engage with the Midlands build community, paving the way for the next five years and meeting the challenges that HS2 and the Commonwealth Games will bring to the region.”
Ireland-headquartered mac-group opened the UK construction division in Solihull just over 12 months ago and is rapidly expanding. It is building a 27,000 sq ft retail development and 18,000 sq ft gym in Sheldon for Chase Midland Estates and has been awarded the construction and refurbishment contract for Project Jewel for Unilever at Burton on Trent, East Staffordshire. It is also due to announce further projects in the new year.
