The founder and former chief executive of Croydon council’s failed housing development company Brick by Brick has been made a senior consultant at Coffey Architects. 

Colm Lacey announced his departure from Brick by Brick last August after six years at the helm of the group, which was criticised as being among the causes of Croydon’s filing for the local-government equivalent of bankruptcy in November 2020.

The arms-length developer is in the process of being wound down and Lacey recently set up his own consultancy, focusing on housing delivery and design stewardship in the public sector.

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