Directors
Larry King
Larry King
Business Development Director
Larry has than 40 years experience in helping developers achieve Building Consents. He founded the company and now co-ordinates our in-house plan checking team and external professional consultants.
Glyn Thomas
Glyn Thomas
Managing Director
Glyn has been a Building Control practitioner for 40+ years and has also spent a decade in Ukraine working for an American real estate company. Now UK based he heads up the site inspection services of the business and leads a team of professional surveyors.
Trevor Jacklin
Trevor Jacklin
Technical Director
Trevor has been working in construction industry for over 40 Years. Originally training with an electrical engineering company he has gained a broad spectrum of experience from onsite construction and installation, before moving to design and then onto becoming a regulator working for Local Authority Building Control. He has worked on a broad spectrum of projects including high rise housing, Schools, and colleges (including residential facilities), Hospitals and care homes and general commercial units. He has an outside of the box approach and aspires to deliver clients with options and avoid the obstacles on their path to compliance.
Alongside his role here, Trevor is involved with developing standards as a committee member at the BSI. He is also proactive at a regional level with the CABE (Chartered Association of Building Engineers) who work across a wide range of disciplines, to share knowledge, raises standards and develops professionals, enabling them to meet the highest standards.
Trevor has been recognised for his contribution to CABE by being one of the first members to be awarded the CABE Gold Service Award, which is presented to members of the Association who have promoted the ideas and values of the Association to support the advancement of the Association.
As a personal challenge at 40, Trevor took part and completed the Devizes to Westminster canoe race, the race starts in Devizes, Wiltshire, finishing at Westminster Bridge in central London, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Taking place over the Easter Weekend, it's a gruelling course is 125 miles long and includes 77 portages.
Surveyors
Raghbir Kang
Raghbir Kang
Principal Surveyor
With over 25 years’ experience in local government and now in the private sector, I have gained a wealth of experience.
Building up a portfolio of clients, dealing with a wide variety of projects from domestic to commercial to industrial. Including schools, HMO’s, flats and individual house builds.
Over the years, I have had the fortune of working with experienced surveyors, and passing my knowledge to the next generation of surveyors.
I’ve enjoyed working in the construction sector, and continue to learn something new each day.
Outside surveying, I enjoy walking, and have embarked on learning to play the guitar.
James Dunne
James Dunne
Surveyor
I have been the leading Surveyor for the Queensway project, a development of 324 flats from start to finish of the 2 ½ yearlong project. Excellent project management has been key to the successful delivery on time and in budget.
Lead surveyor for all Co-operative projects undertaken. This includes plan checks through to project completion enabling surveyors to provide Final Certification to the customer.
Lead Surveyor on Collinson Construction projects based in Gloucester and Battersea.
Lead Surveyor on all One Stop Retail Projects from new build to Fire improvement works included 246 retail premises.
Projects that I have taken through to completion include, EE Retail, Superdrug, Clarks and Greggs.
I manage my own workload and produce my own site reports, plan assessments, and approval notices. I carry out the building control function on a variety of schemes ranging from small domestic to large commercial and industrial developments. I currently administer schemes throughout the country.
Something not many people know about me: You don’t want to know.
Carl Williams
Carl Williams
Surveyor
Married to Anita, we have 4 children and 5 grandchildren.
My father (who was a builder) encouraged me in my teenage years to pursue a career in a profession other than working as a trade on a construction site.
At the age of 17 I gained employment with the local authority as a trainee assistant maintenance surveyor. I continued with the local authority for 33 years by which time I had progressed through college, university and my chartership.
I changed careers with in the council a couple of times and gained experience in – Surveying, design quantity surveying and site management. For the last 18 years I have been I Building Control Surveyor.
Something not many people would know about me…..
I am a great, great uncle
Gabriel Clarke
Gabriel Clarke
Junior Surveyor
Hello, my name is Gabriel Clarke, I joined Building Consents in March 2021 after graduating from Liverpool John Moores University with an honours Bachelor of Science degree in Building Surveying. I am now working toward gaining full professional status with CABE and becoming a chartered building engineer. Something that not a lot of people know about me is that it is my dream to learn how to play the piano.
David Potter
David Potter
Plan Examiner
David has since he left school spend his entire career within the construction industry.
First as an apprenticed carpenter and joiner for a small local based builder and then joining the local council building control team as a Trainee, then progressing up through the ranks to lead a team of 23
He has in excess of 40 years construction experience with over 35 years within the Building Control sector, he has developed a specialism for hospitals and schools over the years which lead him to become involving in overseeing a large number of diverse projects ranging from small hospital operating theatre extensions to the provision of large secondary schools
In his spare time he enjoys running and building his garden railway complete with full scale Signal Box and levers.
Craig Coates
Craig Coates
Plan Examiner
Craig has over 40 years’ experience within the industry spanning across both the public and private sector
Mubarak Ali
Mubarak Ali
Surveyor
My name is Mubarak Ali. I enjoy working in challenging environments as part of a team or as an individual. Having started my career as an Architect upon graduating from Nottingham Trent University with a BArch (Hons) degree in Architecture (RIBA Part 1), I have been fortunate enough to experience working within the UK as well as abroad. Seeing how construction projects in different parts of the world come together has been one of the influencing factors in studying to become a chartered Building Surveyor.
I am currently studying an MSc in Real Estate Management/Surveying (RICS) at Birmingham City University, which I will complete in September 2022. To aid in consolidating my learning, I have also had some hands-on experience working as a Quality Checking Assistant for a Local Construction Company.
Away from work, I enjoy travelling, cooking, and spending time salvaging/restoring classic cars.
Operations / Accounts
Maria Nuttall
Maria Nuttall
Operations Manager
I am currently the operations manager for Building Consents, I have been with the company for eight years and thoroughly enjoy my job.
I am currently studying towards a degree in Business and Management with the Open University.
A fact you may not know about me is that I have had lunch with several members of the Royal Family and was presented with a bouquet of flowers by the Duke of Kent.
Maxine Cromack
Maxine Cromack
Operations Assistant
Maxine is the Operations Assistant at Building Consents and has many years’ experience in this field. She works closely with the Operations Manager, Directors, and Surveyors whilst ensuring administration duties and clerical tasks are completed to help streamline the day-to-day business operations of the company
Maxine loves to travel and in particularly enjoys a road trip. She has driven the famous Route 66 from Chicago to LA. She has also touched the Opal Glass on the inside of Big Ben!
Sjaak Breederveld
Sjaak Breederveld
Accounts Administrator
My name is Sjaak and I’m an accounts administrator at Building Consents. I do not have a background in building or construction and used to work as an English teacher. I love learning new skills and after several years of teaching I wanted to try something completely different. A fun fact about me: The name might have given it away, maar ik ben een geboren en getogen Nederlander. Ik woon sinds iets meer dan een jaar in het VK (I am from the Netherlands. I’ve lived in the UK for a little over a year now).
Claire Carter
Claire Carter
Administrator
I have always had an interest in architecture and 6 years ago I began my journey in Building Control.
I started as an Administrator and became a Senior Building Control Compliance Technician and becoming the Line Manager for members of my team.
With building myself professionally, I have become more and more interested, in the technical side of Building Control and have recently been accredited with my Associate CABE with a view to becoming a full CABE member in the future.
Sara Johnson
Sara Johnson
Administrator
I started my building control life over 10 years ago on the admin side of the function, moving up to managing a BC admin team and being responsible for building control compliance.
Though I always felt a pull to the technical side of building control and obtained my Associate CABE membership. I’m now working towards full membership and I’m enjoying developing my technical skills.