Emma Grima
Property & Commercial Director

As Property & Commercial Director of Palace Green Homes, Emma brings significant skills in leadership and a strong background in local government. Emma is a dedicated, motivated and resourceful leader. Prior to joining Palace Green Homes, she worked at a number of District Councils in the region and has expert knowledge of strategic planning, infrastructure, local community and economic redevelopment.

Nigel Ankers
Finance Manager

A Certified Accountant, Nigel brings considerable experience to Palace Green Homes and manages all aspects of the finance function, from accounting to strategy costing and funding plans. Nigel has also spent time as a non-executive Director for a local assistive technology and disability service company as well as a Business Mentor for The Prince’s Trust.

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Amber Gordon
Finance Assistant

Amber’s role is to support Nigel with the accounts and act as office manager for Palace Green Homes. She brings a good knowledge of Community Land Trusts to the company, excellent administrative skills and a strong connection to the local region.

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Jon Soar
Technical Design Manager

Jon’s remit is to procure surveys and reports to inform concept design and planning submissions, to interpret and critically assess detailed designs and liaison with utility companies and approval bodies. With experience gained in consulting engineering and multi-discipline design practices, Jon brings a keen interest in sustainable construction to his technical design management role with a focus on where value can be added to development projects across the whole life cycle.

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Jo Alderson
Sales & Customer Care Manager

As the principal contact between Palace Green Homes and its customers, and our professional selling agents, solicitors and contracts, Jo is the dynamo that transforms our houses into homes. She brings over 20 years estate agency experience to her role at Palace Green Homes and boasts enviable local knowledge and contacts. Jo also organizes a range of marketing events and sales support activities, from school visits and receptions to open days.

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Derwyn Hardwick
Project Manager

Derwyn joined the Palace Green Homes team from a challenging commercial management role in property development where he ran bespoke sites including a 79 unit CLT project. Derwyn is an accomplished Project Manager with a proven record in high-quality build quality and team leadership. He is responsible for the planning, procurement and execution of key projects at Palace Green Homes and is a skilled negotiator and mentor.

Amy Jeal
Management Accountant

Working closely with the Finance Manager, Amy handles all aspects of the day to day accounts. She liaises with suppliers, internal accounts colleagues and banks in order to complete monthly reconciliation work.

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Lisa Leonard
Community Housing Manager / Customer Care Coordinator

Lisa joined to offer tenancy, property and estate management services to community-led housing groups, to manage their completed affordable homes and offers a comprehensive estate management service. Guiding CLT’s through from collecting initial expressions of interest, applying CLT Allocations Policies, managing completions, handovers, and post occupation defects, rent and service charge collection, ensuring fire safety compliance and ongoing tenancy management.

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Paul Elliott
Site Manager

Bringing a wealth of practical trades experience to his Site Manager role, Paul spent the last two decades managing construction and refurbishment projects in the Cambridgeshire area. Paul oversees the day-to-day running of our Haddenham site at West End Gardens, managing materials deliveries, supervising site workers and co-ordinating works to ensure key deadlines are met. Paul’s role also involves liaison with sub-contractors and keeping local residents updated with onsite works as the project progresses.

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Toby Elliott
Construction Trainee

Toby is based on the West End Gardens site in Haddenham, and his role as a Construction Trainee means no two days are the same. Toby makes a positive difference to the site – and is learning all aspects of residential construction site work under the guidance of the Site Manager, working closely with other team members and liaising with sub-contractors and suppliers.

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Christopher Rudd
Snagging Foreman

Chris is a dedicated and versatile skilled site operative representing Palace Green Homes at our West End Gardens development site. Performing a customer-facing role, Chris is often the front line of our client services with an emphasis on communication and customer satisfaction. Chris coordinates the sub-contracted tradesmen as necessary and directs and manages this service to be as seamless as possible, using excellent organisational and persuasive skills to fulfill this role. At times, Chris fills in for tradesmen to undertake works where appropriate, so he has a flexible attitude and a good understanding of each trade within the construction process.

Jacek Chojnacki
Telehandler

Jacek is the telehandler for Palace Green Homes at our West End Gardens development site. We rely on Jacek’s coordination of our sub-contracted tradesmen on site to ensure everyone has the right materials in the right place, and at the right time, to facilitate their works. This role is critical in the operation of the site, managing our build programme and maintaining good working relationships. Also SSSTS (Site Supervision Safety Training Scheme) trained, Jacek is a certified site supervisor and assists in maintaining good standards of site management.