Meet the Team

Our experts approach all opportunities with impartiality but with a clear remit on behalf of our clients.

Robin Hughes

Robin is a chartered surveyor with a diversified property investment and development background having run major property portfolios for investors and corporates such as Abbey National, Norwich Union, AVIVA investors and property strategies for Network Rail and Cable & Wireless.

In 2006, Robin purchased and restored England’s highest railway station at Dent on the Settle – Carlisle Line into award winning holiday accommodation – and then extended the project to include derelict platelayer’s huts to recreate Snow Huts which are additional accommodation. The project has been covered extensively by the media and won a national railway heritage award and a RICS enterprise award.

Robin is extensively involved in a series of mixed use urban regeneration projects including retirement villages and has been involved in the strategic regeneration strategy of Network Rail land holdings at VNEB (Vauxhall Nine Elms and Battersea) which is one of the largest regeneration areas in London since Kings Cross. Robin is a board Member of Vauxhall One Business Improvement District, CEO of Retirement and Care Village Partners Ltd which is the lead development partner in a £37 million care village in Windsor town centre, the largest of its kind in the Thames Valley. Robin is also a judge on the National Railway Heritage Awards.

Please contact Robin on robin@railwaypropertyregeneration.com

Mervyn Allcock

Mervyn is highly regarded within the railway industry since he led the efforts to save Barrow Hill Roundhouse near Chesterfield in 1998. His farsighted plan to reinvent the former BR depot into one of the UK’s centres of excellence for railway engineering is a business model that has since been used by several other organisations.

The original buildings have been completely restored whilst navigating listed building requirements and surplus land has been imaginatively developed with the construction of new buildings for use by commercial and heritage organisations. Barrow Hill provides facilities for several major railway companies including DRS, GBRf, Freightliner and Colas, is a base for the railway research company NewRail, part of Newcastle University, a railway infrastructure training centre for Doncaster-based Intertrain and the home of the Deltic Preservation Society.

Mervyn’s excellent operational and planning capabilities combined with his diverse commercial experience will be a great asset to Railway Property Regeneration’s clients.

Please contact Mervyn on mervyn@railwaypropertyregeneration.com

Alexa Stott

Alexa worked in one of the top merchant banks in the City of London for several years before setting up her own business specialising in project and event management. An administrator of the highest calibre, she has worked with companies in the railway and manufacturing business sectors on a broad range of projects.

She is also well known in the railway community for her involvement with Barrow Hill Roundhouse and The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust where she has taken a leading role in organising and marketing major events for both organisations.

Please contact Alexa on alexa@railwaypropertyregeneration.com