Creating better places where people want to live and work

Who are Ashill Land?

Ashill Land Ltd is dedicated to delivering socially and environmentally responsible developments on our existing sites but will not be used as a vehicle for new projects. Two companies have been launched for new projects, Ashill Commercial Ltd and Ashill Regen Ltd, and although there will be ongoing collaboration and co-operation, the three companies will be separately owned, managed and funded.

Ashill Land Ltd is focused on delivering our current strategic promotion projects, with the existing working in partnership with our landowners and local stakeholders to bring forward landmark developments in London and the Southeast of England. Developments that are sensitive to their surroundings and shaped by community engagement.


Examples of current Ashill Land Projects

The Ashill Land Team

Ben Boyce Managing Director ben@ashill.co.uk

Ben joined Ashill in June 2008 from Linden Homes as a Land Manager, and later assumed the role as Managing Director in June 2014. Ben is responsible for the day to day running of the company and oversees all projects.

Steve Lavers Chairman sl@ashillgroup.co.uk

Further to a career working in house building Steve formed Ashill with Philip Davies on the 1st June 2008. When the group was restructured in June 2014 Steve passed the day-to-day running of the business to the Management Team headed up by Ben Boyce. Steve is still very much involved with the management of the business and project strategy.

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Philip Davies Non-Executive Director pjd@ashillgroup.co.uk

From 1982-1990 Philip represented the UK and American Homes Divisions on the PLC board of Alfred McAlpine PLC.

In 1991, Philip left Alfred McAlpine to form Linden with funding from HBoS. The company focussed almost entirely on Brownfield opportunities for residential and mixed use developments.

Corporate acquisitions followed but in 2000 Philip wanted to accelerate growth from all five regions and worked with HBoS to fund a management buy-out. Linden was sold to Galliford Try PLC for £245m in March 2007.

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Steve Forman Director sf@ashillgroup.co.uk 0787 6644 248

Prior to joining Ashill in 2011 Steve spent ten years as a planning consultant working with developers seeking planning permissions for residential and mixed-use schemes across London and the south East. He has been a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 2003.

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Tracy Puttock Planning & Communications tracy@ashill.co.uk 07887761878

Having been a planning officer in local government for 13 years, Tracy moved to the private sector in 2001 to join Antler Homes and then moved to Linden Homes South East in 2004. At Linden Tracy successfully delivered numerous planning permissions for residential and mixed use developments ranging from small scale developments of 12 apartments to large mixed use 'community' developments of 500 homes.

At Ashill Tracy co-ordinates planning applications which involves the management of the project consultant team, interaction with the local authority and statutory consultees, and the engagement with local residents and stakeholders. Ashill takes pride in its commitment to thorough community consultation and understands the importance of listening to local opinion and making changes wherever possible.

Our Development Partners

After the planning and site preparation phases are complete, we work with various Housebuilders and Housing Associations to deliver our developments.