David is an urban development specialist and founder of Rivington Land. He currently provides strategic advice to Cheshire West & Chester, Swansea and Newcastle City Council’s on major mixed-use regeneration and placemaking projects. He has also recently advised and assisted Land Securities, Patrizia, AEG Europe and Nuveen on projects in London, Aylesbury, Edinburgh and Salisbury. Notably, David led the CPO and land acquisition teams in both Edinburgh and Chester, including standing as an expert witness.

Previously he spent 14 years at Centros, becoming a Board Director in 2009. In that period he delivered two Revo Gold Award winning retail led/mixed use schemes – Weavers Wharf, Kidderminster and Arc, Bury St Edmunds; 125 residential units as part of mixed-use schemes in Epsom and Bury St Edmunds and asset managed Houndshill Shopping Centre, Blackpool on behalf of the administrators and the bank. David sat on the Revo Advisory Board from 2006 to 2012 and was the founding chair of the New Generation Committee.