Charles Rafferty joins the team from Redrow Homes
Cala Homes’ Cotswolds arm has announced the appointment of Charles Rafferty as land director.
He will lead the business and planning team to help deliver a pipeline of 1,600 new homes across Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Solihull.
Rafferty has a decade of land and planning experience having most recently been land director at Redrow Homes.
His main focus over the next four years will be to support the existing Cala Homes land team to expand the business from its former Midlands-focused operating area.
The business recently relocated its head office from Solihull to Oxford Technology Park.
“I’m delighted to be joining the Cotswolds team at such an exciting time and look forward to drawing on my local knowledge and connections in the area to drive our regional expansion,” Rafferty said in a statement.
“With our focus on land opportunities within Oxfordshire and our wider regional patch, we’re looking for sites in towns and larger villages where, through our value-add approach and industry-leading design, we can deliver high-quality and sustainable homes for new and existing communities.”
Andrew Dicker, managing director at Cala Homes Cotswolds, said: “Charles… has strong experience and knowledge of our target areas, which will support our growth and delivery across our larger patch.”
Elsewhere in the business, Sam Taylor has been promoted to area land director, Becky Pull has joined the business as senior planner, and Luke Alexander joins as a land buyer.
Since 2016, Cala Homes Cotswolds has delivered more than 2000 new homes in the region.
It is currently working on a new phase of 287 homes at our popular Nobel Park scheme in Didcot.
At its Fernleigh Park development, in Stratford-Upon-Avon, it is the lead developer on the first phase of 400 homes of the proposed garden village.
A development in Alderton, Gloucestershire, is the company’s first wholly timber frame scheme in England.
The Cala Group has been wholly-owned by Legal & General Capital (L&G) since 2018. Last month, Cala Group reported it had seen “encouraging” signs of recovery following a dip in reservations in the wake of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s “mini-Budget” in autumn 2022.
Cala chief executive Kevin Whitaker said the firm had seen a reservation rate of 0.64 sales per site per week in the first seven weeks of 2023, down from 0.85 in the same period in 2022.
Parent company, L&G announced in May that it was to cease production at its flagship modular housing factory in Yorkshire following £174m of losses over seven years.
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