Essex-based housebuilder hires exec as group operations boss to oversee growth push

Essex-based housebuilder Weston Homes has poached Taylor Wimpey鈥檚 London boss Peter Gore to be its new group operations director to spearhead the firm鈥檚 growth across a number of major schemes.

Peter Gore, who has been London managing director at Taylor Wimpey since January last year after joining the firm in 2018, will now work alongside Weston Homes chairman and MD Bob Weston on delivery.

Weston Homes has expanded in recent years, and now claims a 拢2.1bn pipeline of development across outer London and the South east, including 7,500 homes across 20 sites.

Anglia Square, Norwich

Anglia Square in Norwich is being reworked after being refused planning by former housing and communities secretary Robert Jenrick last year

The news comes as 拢177m turnover Weston confirmed its latest land purchase, for a 75-home site in Wood Green, close to the London Underground station, at a cost of 拢7.8m.

The firm said Gore will focus on 鈥減roduct delivery and quality, staff team building and development, exemplary health and safety and customer satisfaction鈥�.

Weston鈥檚 schemes include the 拢350m Abbey Quays urban village in Barking, the 拢60m Cambridge Military Hospital scheme in Aldershot and the 拢500m Lorimer Village project in Goodmayes.

The developer was also behind plans for the controversial 拢271m redevelopment of Anglia Square in Norwich鈥檚 historic city centre, which are now being reworked after former housing and communities secretary Robert Jenrick turned down the scheme on appeal last November.