Housebuilder The Hill Group promotes land director for South West

By Peter Davison

28 September 2023

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Dan Haines

Housebuilder The Hill Group has promoted Dan Haines to the position of land director to oversee the company’s residential land portfolio and enhance the company’s regional expansion and growth plans.

With 20 years of real estate experience, Dan joined Hill in May 2022 as head of land, spearheading Hill’s growth and expansion in the South West.

During this time, he has been involved in several major projects, including the West Car Park site at Bristol Zoo and Raleigh Road in Southville.

In addition to leading a significant land acquisition in Chipping Sodbury, he has also played a pivotal role in leading bids for the Western region.

In his new role, Dan will build on the legacy and vision set by his predecessor, Keith Parrett, who passed away recently following a short illness.

Dan’s principal focus will be on identifying projects that can achieve planning approval and commence construction within three years. Targeted developments will also align with the company’s sustainability objectives, which include a 20 per cent biodiversity net gain target across all developments.

The Hill Group CEO Andy Hill said: "Promoting Dan to this important role demonstrates the great depth of talent we have within the organisation.

"He brings a wealth of experience as well as an understanding of our culture and strategic vision. Dan has been instrumental in our expansion within the South West region, and I look forward to him building on these achievements at a group-wide level.”

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Prior to joining Hill, Dan spent ten years with Savills' Bristol land department as an associate director. He then joined Sovereign, where he served as commercial development director, followed by Keepmoat, where he was promoted to regional managing director and regional director across the South West and West Midlands regions.

Dan holds a geography degree from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in Real Estate from Oxford Brookes. He is also a qualified RICS surveyor with a specialisation in planning and development.

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.