LCP, the national commercial property and investment company, has expanded its Bristol office with two strategic appointments following a year in which it has doubled in size.
Gemma Aldridge and Alec Turner join the team as the firm’s asset management portfolio in the South West and South Wales continues to grow. 
Gemma joins as an assistant property manager after nearly 16 years in the Bristol office of commercial property firm Workman, where she held a similar role and managed more than 30 commercial properties, including industrial units and garden centres.
As well as working full time, she is also studying for an MSc in real estate at the University College of Estate Management.
At LCP she will look after a range of industrial and retail properties, focused on the South West and South Wales.
Alec Turner, who has 20 years’ experience in the building surveying profession, joins LCP as a building surveyor from Cheltenham-based Evans Jones, where he worked in the building consultancy team providing building surveying, project management and planning consultancy advice.
He will support the asset management function across the region by overseeing all outsourced dilapidations instructions and undertaking project management of capital expenditure projects.
LCP director and head of Bristol office Adam Martin said its portfolio had doubled in size over the last 12 months, with about £225m of assets now under its management.
“We’re pleased to welcome Alec and Gemma to the office. Gemma joins with a wealth of experience in property management and tenant liaison, while Alec has a solid 20 years of building surveying experience,” he said.
“The LCP ethos is to provide best-in-class property for local occupiers, which is achieved through active, hands-on asset management. The skills that Alec and Gemma bring will certainly aid the group in achieving this goal.”
Established in 1987 and headquartered in Kingswinford in the West Midlands, privately-owned LCP is one of the UK’s largest private owners and managers of retail, leisure, industrial, office and residential property and handles property management in key locations throughout the UK, Germany & Poland. It opened its Bristol office in Great George Street in 2019.
Pictured: LCP’s new joiners Alec Turner and Gemma Aldridge
