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Nick Walkley BA

Member of Council 2025 - 2028

Nick is an experienced Public and Private Sector leader who has been Chief Executive in government organisations at local and national level and latterly in the private sector.

He has been Chief Executive of two London Boroughs. From 2009 he was CEO of LB Barnet where he led a significant programme of public service reform and major regeneration programmes including the creation of a new university campus for Middlesex University.

Nick then joined Haringey Council in the wake of the Tottenham Riots. He led a service improvement programme with a particular focus on educational outcomes for local residents as well as a series of major regeneration and development initiatives in the Borough.

In 2017 Nick joined the Homes and Communities Agency, the government’s housing and regeneration body. He led its organisational transformation into Homes England, delivering new programmes for affordable housing and home ownership. The Agency was responsible for a wide range of major projects and national programmes including the then largest new town project since Milton Keynes at Northstowe Cambridge, the national Affordable Homes budget and the Help to Buy equity programme.

As Principal and President of Avison Young Nick is responsible for a nationwide multidisciplinary real estate business with a particular focus urban regeneration, planning, public/private partnership and investment. He is also a Member of the Avison Young Global Management Team and Executive.

Nick is a Politics graduate (1990) of Liverpool University and it is here that his career long interest in public service and reform began. Nick is also a former University staff member having taught at the University early in his career. He retains a strong commitment to the region. In his last two leadership roles he has been involved in a number of significant place and regeneration projects working alongside the City Council and the City Region on projects including Festival Gardens, Kings Dock and the renewal of the Strand shopping centre in Bootle.