L&Q to decide on future ‘staffing arrangements’ after major shake-up of sales and development unit

The 105,000-home landlord announced today that it has reorganised the division into four departments, instead of on a dual regional basis as it was previously.

Asked by Inside Housing if this would lead to redundancies, an L&Q spokesperson said: “Over the remainder of the year, we’ll be looking at our current – and anticipated – workload requirements and consulting with our teams before confirming staffing arrangements by early 2022.”

The shake-up comes five months after the group revealed it was cutting its annual housebuilding target of 10,000 homes to just 3,000 in order to cope with growing fire safety costs.

L&Q has already spent more than £100m on fire safety in four years and expects the overall figure could rise to £450m.

The spokesperson added: “Our priority is ensuring we have the right teams, people and resources in place to deliver on our current and future commitments, while delivering a consistent, reliable service to our customers and across all our projects and areas of operation.”

It is the second restructure of the division in the space of two years. In September 2019, the department was split into two regions – London and the counties – based on its operations inside and outside the capital. Prior to this, the division was split between the counties and north, east and south London regions.