Mr Wilding’s departure from his operational role heralds an expansion of the company’s UK-wide business network, in accordance with the company’s succession planning. This includes strengthening its market position in Scotland with key additions to its regional management team as the developer moves forward with ambitious investment plans focusing on sustainable commercial and residential city-centre regeneration.

The Scottish regional operation will now be headed up by David Westwater who has been promoted to regional development director. His appointment is further boosted by several key additions to the regional management team - including urban regeneration specialist, Alastair Bain, who joined Artisan in 2021 as the Scottish regional commercial manager supported by Sean Ferguson as assistant commercial manager. The Scotland team has been further strengthened by the promotion of Christie Turner to regional sales manager.

The new appointments will help take forward Artisan’s ambitious plans to progress low carbon housing development with mixed-use regeneration across prime city centre brownfield sites in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Artisan has witnessed a significant expansion of its home-building operation in Scotland during the past 12 months.

In 2021, the developer began construction on Rowanbank Gardens an industry-leading, sustainable residential development delivering 126 high-end apartments in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh. The development, on a former brownfield site, provides smart energy-efficient design geared to achieving low to zero carbon ratings whilst responding to the rapidly changing requirements of home buyers and the wider community following lockdown.

Artisan’s first residential development in Scotland, the 179-apartment Canonmills Garden overlooking the Water of Leith to the north of Edinburgh city centre, has now sold most of all available properties as it approaches completion. Artisan also has a number of high-profile mixed-use commercial redevelopment projects across Scotland. Construction work on the £80 million transformation of the Custom House building in Glasgow overlooking the River Clyde continues apace with a four-star, 294-bed Clayton Hotel and a 162-bedroom Adagio Apart-Hotel set to create a vibrant riverside quarter when it opens later this year.

Welcoming the expansion of its Scottish operation, David Westwater, Artisan’s Scottish regional director, said: “As Artisan is expanding development activity across Scotland in 2022, so we are investing in the development of our team north of the border to further establish a strong local market position. During the last year, Artisan has doubled its head count in Scotland, strengthening its team to vertically integrate with the development process. We have a very exciting residential pipeline and are actively identifying and securing new opportunities across Scotland’s major city centre areas – a process which will be hugely boosted by our expanded dedicated residential and commercial Scottish operation.”

Clive Wilding, who for the last 13 years has been the driving force behind Artisan’s evolution into one of the UK’s most progressive and respected commercial and residential developers, is retiring after 46 years in the property industry. Having stepped down from the board in March 2022, he will continue to support Artisan in an advisory capacity for the remainder of the year.

Jaco Jansen, Artisan’s chief executive officer, added: “Artisan has enjoyed spectacular UK regional growth since the company was established in 2009 as an independent, entrepreneurial, values-led property developer and investor. Since day one, Clive has been instrumental in driving forward this success, identifying and delivering pioneering complex mixed-use developments which have transformed cities across the UK - and made a fundamental difference to how people live their lives.

“We are now building on this remarkable legacy and significantly expanding our regional presence in Scotland, strengthening and investing more in a local, experienced team. This is a direct response to the very positive market opportunities that Scotland offers - especially in large-scale sustainable residential and mixed-use development in sensitive city centre environments.”

Mr Wilding’s tenure at Artisan incorporates some of the most significant and award-winning city centre developments delivered anywhere in the UK over the last decade. This included Edinburgh’s New Waverley, a £250m transformation of the heart of the city’s historic Old Town into a thriving mixed-use community, the regeneration of Glasgow’s famous Custom House building into a riverside hotel complex and the conversion of the Everards Print Works in Bristol to a vibrant hotel, residential and commercial quarter.

He also helped drive Artisan’s sustainable low carbon residential development agenda, incorporating strong guiding principles which set new best-practice benchmarks for sustainable housing developments in the UK – now being delivered in Rowanbank Gardens and Canonmills Garden in Edinburgh.

Speaking of his time at Artisan, Clive Wilding said: “I have been immensely fortunate to have been involved in some truly memorable and development projects during my time at Artisan. I am especially pleased to have shone the development spotlight firmly on high-quality city centre regional development. It is fitting that our regional offices now have the right platform to build on that legacy and continue to deliver transformational development to the benefit of our people, our cities and our wider environment.”