Senior development manager

Alex leads the land and planning function at Retirement Villages Group, a leading operator in the Later Living sector with 15 operational villages and a development pipeline of over 1,000 homes. Beginning his career as a valuer, Alex transitioned into development and has spent the past decade securing planning consents for complex, residential-led schemes across the UK. He specialises in balancing the often-competing priorities of development viability , customer needs, and design ambition — delivering schemes that are both commercially sound and meaningfully designed for later life living.