Lovell is giving a graduate trainee from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) the chance to gain hands-on experience of the housebuilding industry through a training placement.

Paul Dever has joined Lovell on a three-month secondment from the HCA, the national housing and regeneration agency for England. Paul, 30, is a member of the HCA's graduate development programme which sees trainees spend two years with the organisation, learning about all aspects of housing and regeneration. As part of their studies, HCA graduate trainees are also required to undertake placements with a private, public or voluntary sector organisation.


"I studied economic development at post-graduate level at university and have done some volunteering in both supported housing and community development which got me interested in sustainable communities and regeneration," explained Paul. "Lovell is involved in some of the highest-profile regeneration schemes in the north west so the company seemed the ideal choice for my secondment."

For the first part of his placement, Paul has joined the Lovell site team at Garston under the Bridge, Liverpool, where the company is carrying out a £38 million, 314-home development in partnership with South Liverpool Housing, Liverpool Housing Trust and Liverpool City Council. He will then move to Gilead Street in Kensington where Lovell is working on a major regeneration scheme led by housing association Riverside – one of the first projects to be awarded funding through the HCA’s Kickstart initiative.

Lovell was recently appointed by the HCA to its new Delivery Partner Panel, giving the company the opportunity to work on a range of HCA projects in the north west over the next three years.

(CD/GK)