Housebuilder Vistry has changed plans and appointed the former interim joint boss of Countryside to the executive leadership team of the combined business.

The firm said in a statement to the city that it had decided to make Mike Woolliscroft group business improvement director and London divisional chair, despite previously saying that he would leave the business in May this year, once last November’s £1.1bn takeover of Countryside by Vistry had bedded in.

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