Property people: Caddick Group and Fox Lloyd Jones

West Yorkshire-based Caddick Group has welcomed new solicitor Lucy Welch in the latest appointment to a growing in-house team, following Helen Gardner taking up the new role of head of legal earlier in the year.

Coming from Knights plc, Welch is bringing over 10 years of experience in residential development and will be working across the extensive Caddick Group portfolio.

Having completed her training at a law firm in Westminster which specialised in housebuilding, Welch’s catalogue of experience includes working for larger law firms including Addleshaw Goddard, Shulmans and Knights, with clients comprising of housebuilders of all sizes as well as housing associations.

She now moves in-house with Caddick for the first time, as part of the growth of the legal team and wider business.

The team she is joining will work on projects across the network of companies.

These include Caddick Developments – the Yorkshire headquartered developer with a 16 million sq ft pipeline of industrial and logistics projects and a pipeline of 11,000 new homes; Moda – the national build-to-rent specialist active in many of the UKs core cities; and Oakgate Group – which focuses on combining finance, development and assess management in and around historic cities.

Welch said: “I was attracted to Caddick Group because of its impressive portfolio of landmark projects, particularly high profile schemes such as Angel Gardens in Manchester and SOYO in Leeds.

“As a property business that involves several different elements from Land, Developments and Construction teams, it’s exciting to be involved with a company that creates genuinely transformative projects from start to finish.

“Moving in-house will allow me to be much more hands on and allows me to get fully embedded in the projects and what they mean.”

Helen Gardner, Caddick Group’s head of legal, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Lucy to the legal team, and wider Caddick Group.

“She represents the latest in a series of exciting appointments. Her expertise in residential development will prove invaluable to our partners, stakeholders, and portfolio.

“We will continue to build our in-house legal team to help ensure the Group’s needs are met at this time of significant growth, whilst positioning ourselves for exciting future opportunities.

“In the meantime, we look forward to the progress that Caddick will be able to make with Lucy on board.”

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Multi-disciplinary property agency, Fox Lloyd Jones, has appointed Josh Wedge as development surveyor.

Wedge, a RICS registered valuer with a degree in Real Estate and Planning, joins the Leeds-baseed company from property regeneration consultants, AspinallVerdi.

In his new role he will be working alongside founding director Paul Fox and the agency & development team, as the company continues to service demand for development consultancy work.

Fox said: “Post lifting of restrictions in the summer we have seen a positive uplift in activity in the commercial property market in and around Leeds City Centre, where we are very active.

“We are delighted to welcome Josh to the team to help us progress a number of schemes to meet market demand.”

Wedge said: “I am really excited to be joining Fox Lloyd Jones, as it has a great reputation in the city and some high-profile clients.

“I am looking forward to working closely with the team on acquisitions and disposals, and its development agency work, whilst building on the development consultancy skills gained in my previous role where I was involved in financial viability work, masterplanning/feasibility studies and preparing business cases to secure funding for regeneration projects.”