Martyn Evans said it was time to ‘look for some new opportunities’
Martyn Evans is leaving Landsec after five years as creative director at the developer, Building’s sister title Building Design can reveal.
Evans will leave the firm at the end of March 2027 but will continue his roles as chair of the London Festival of Architecture and senior advisor to New London Architecture.
Evans said “it felt like the right time to look for some new opportunities”.
He had been creative director at U+I since 2019 before the firm was acquired by Landsec in 2021 and has continued in the same role under a Landsec title.
He had previously spent 17 years at Cathedral Group, which became U+I following a merger with Development Securities in 2015, before leaving to spend two years as development director at Darlington Hall Trust prior to rejoining U+I as creative director.
Major projects Evans has worked on at Landsec include the Mayfield scheme in Manchester and MediaCity in Salford.
He said: “I’ve been at Landsec for nearly five years following their acquisition of U+I. Over that time we integrated our team successfully into the wider Landsec business, created a new capital projects team and shepherded a portfolio of key regeneration projects to successful planning conclusions.”
Evans’ planned departure comes as Landsec scales back its pipeline in London with the developer announcing last month that its development expenditure had shrunk to just £185m and it had “no plans” to add any further schemes.
The firm has offloaded two major London schemes in the past year, the stalled Red Lion Court scheme which it sold to a Stanhope joint venture and a site near the Barbican called 140 Aldersgate which it sold to JP Morgan. The latter is due to be refurbished by Gensler.
Landsec also said it would start on a series of residential schemes “no earlier than late 2027” and only if “we are able to secure viable returns on these projects”.
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