THE INTERVIEW: Persimmon boss Mike Farley has high hopes that house building market is on way back up | Mail Online
Many adults would relish the chance to revisit their old school and knock it down. And Mike Farley, chief executive of Persimmon, Britain’s biggest housebuilder, did just that this weekend.
His company has acquired the land in Hornchurch, Essex, on which Hylands Secondary Modern, which became Edwin Lambert Primary School, was built. Farley plans to build 35 new homes there.
Farley, 48, has fond memories of the school he attended more than 30 years ago and where he excelled as a chess player, competing for Essex. But he was happy to return with sledgehammer in hand to set in motion its transformation into ‘exclusive’ homes under the group’s upmarket Charles Church brand.
‘The memories will live on, even once the building has gone,’ he says, as he takes several vigorous swings at the brickwork.
Farley’s home life in Harold Wood, Essex, was relatively modest – his mother was a secretary in the City while his father was a printer in Fleet Street
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