Urban&Civic has appointed Matt Soules to the newly created role of head of development management. Soules comes from Savills, where he had been director since 2020, delivering projects across a variety of sectors, specialising in corporate occupier and life sciences developments from the ground up. Prior to that, Soules spent five years with asset manager Currie & Brown.

In his new role, Soules will focus on the expansion of Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, South Cambridgeshire.