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Helen spent a number of years with Railtrack establishing a strong internal property development team and extensive development pipeline obtaining many highly valuable consents and forming major joint ventures with the likes Of Gazeley, Pillar Property, British Land and others. On the demise of Railtrack this was well demonstrated by the sale of its assets to the market at significant added value.
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