Coffey Architects hires Brick by Brick founder

The founder and former chief executive of Croydon council’s failed housing development company Brick by Brick has been made a senior consultant at Coffey Architects.

Colm Lacey announced his departure from Brick by Brick last August after six years at the helm of the group, which was criticised as being among the causes of Croydon’s filing for the local-government equivalent of bankruptcy in November 2020.

The arms-length developer is in the process of being wound down and Lacey recently set up his own consultancy, focusing on housing delivery and design stewardship in the public sector.

An economist and urban designer by background, Lacey will work roughly three days a week for Coffey – his first client as a consultant – leading on the development of its public housing and urban research function.

事务所主管菲尔•科菲(Phil Coffey)表示，他认识莱西已经10多年了，很欣赏他“致力于负责任的住房开发和深思熟虑的城市主义”。

Lacey said he was excited to be leading the work of a team on public housing and urban research “at a time when cities are adapting to seismic shifts in land use patterns and urban economics”.