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A week in the life of… a lead programme manager
Mike Peeke shares a week in his work life on the development team of Home Group, liaising on grant funding and visiting sites
Monday
Every fortnight, I run our development investment panel. This is where our project managers bring new and existing schemes for capital spend approval. I also go through key performance indicators for the schemes and give an update on our recycled capital grant fund, which we utilise to support our Homes England strategic partnership (HESP).
After the panel, I catch up with one of the regional teams to discuss upcoming projects and their grant requirements. We are at a stage now where we will have started all of our HESP wave one units and we will be bidding under the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) 2021-26.
We are also looking to utilise this on our regeneration programme, which will be a massive boost for Home Group and help accelerate our plans to regenerate estates in line with our customer promise.
Tuesday
At the moment, I’m heavily focused on our compliance audit for Homes England and the Greater London Authority (GLA). I meet with the audit team to ensure the auditors have everything they need.
It’s really important to Home Group that we achieve a green on our audit, as it proves that we are a safe pair of hands to invest public money into to provide new homes.
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Wednesday
Today I catch up with the GLA to discuss a regeneration scheme in Barnet, which the GLA has invested over £36m into.
I visit one of our HESP-funded sites in Teesside. As a former project manager, it was good to put the hard hat on again and go out on site to see the progress of our new homes.
Thursday
I meet with Homes England to talk about our strategic partnership. We track the remaining units we have to start and our completions.
I really enjoy working with the strategic partnership team. They have been really supportive to Home Group and the relationship is a great example of how Homes England can work with providers.
Friday
I have a session with the team from Homes England that are developing the new investment management system. I was invited to test elements of the system and provide feedback.
Finally, to finish off my busy week, I meet with my colleagues in the communications team to discuss the progress of some schemes and identify where we might be able to do some press on our upcoming and active developments. It’s really nice to be able to celebrate our progress and show the quality of the homes we are delivering.
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