Springfield Properties announced the appointment of Mr. Colin Kenneth Rae as a Non-executive Director of the Group with immediate effect. Mr. Rae, aged 54, is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with nearly 40 years' experience in the construction and housebuilding industries, specializing in project and development management. From 2002 to 2019, Mr. Rae held leadership positions at Places for People (PfP), one of the development, regeneration, property management and leisure companies in the UK with an asset base of £4.5 billion. PfP designs, builds, and manages large-scale regeneration projects from start to finish, creating sustainable places where communities want to live. Most recently, as Group Executive Development Director at PfP, he managed a UK-wide mixed tenure development programme of c. £200 million, delivering core housing assets for affordable and market rent and sale. This included the development of the 376-home Engine Yard site in Edinburgh, the largest single National Housing Trust development in Scotland. Prior to this, he was Project Director for Scotland, with responsibility for establishing and delivering PfP's strategic development programme in Scotland. In this role, he liaised with private sector partners, the Scottish Government and local authorities and, with a team of 25, achieved annual development turnover of £60 million within five years.