He is an urban designer by background and brought a fresh team with him.
“I visited Poole as one of my first site visits when I joined L&G and I immediately walked around and just thought there is a massive amount of opportunity here, not only because of the variety of demographics of people in the area but there was a huge amount of space you could do some interesting stuff to,” he said.
“Kingland was this quite tired street which attached itself to the Dolphin Centre,” he said.
There was, as he points out “quite a bit of vacancy”. Argos had closed, Costa had moved to Falkland Square, and other sizeable units were standing empty.