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Stephen Oakes
Regional Director for London and the Thames Gateway
Stephen Oakes is a Chartered Surveyor and qualified Structural Engineer. He has over 25 years’ experience in land and property, particularly in the planning and delivery of large, complex regeneration sites for the public and private sectors.
Before joining English Partnerships he spent a large part of his career at a leading property organisation, delivering and enabling retail, residential and commercial schemes across the UK, the majority of which were on brownfield sites.
In 2002, Stephen joined English Partnerships in Milton Keynes and soon after became an Area Director when the London and Thames Gateway region was first set up within the agency. In 2005 he also took on the responsibility of Project Director for the £1bn London-Wide Initiative, an affordable housing delivery programme.
Stephen is a Director of Barking Riverside Limited, a joint venture between English Partnerships and Bellway Homes Limited that will deliver a new community with over 10,800 new homes on one of the largest brownfield sites in the Thames Gateway. He is also an advisor for the CLG’s Decent Homes Programme and was recently a member of the London Mayor’s Intermediate Housing External Reference Group which contributed to the Mayor’s Housing Investment Strategy for London.
