Camberwell & Metropolitan (CaM)
is a young architecture and urban planning practice, rooted in our neighbourhood but with a London-wide outlook, delivering staggeringly varied projects from a fundamentally interdisciplinary perspective.
Jason Leech
leads a small and growing team of reliable associates.
He has been involved with property all his adult life, first becoming a landlord at 19 before graduating with a BA in ancient and modern history from Wadham College, Oxford in 2004.
His first commercial experience came in running a bookshop in central Oxford as he embarked on pioneering research into imagined memories of the Second World War in Greece which set a new mark record in his new academic base at King’s College London.
He has been called on to speak at various international conferences about Greece and the collective memory of nations, and to schools about entrepreneurialism. He is vocal about politics and first made national waves during the summer of 2012 when he campaigned against the Department for Education's sale of comprehensive school playing fields, making several appearances on the BBC and once contributing to the front page of the Guardian. He is better remembered though for his time on series 9 of The Apprentice.
All the while, he has managed a small property portfolio in Oxford, London and Athens with a variety of tenancies. He has assigned and forfeited commercial leases, managed Houses in Multiple Occupation and prepared bundles for First Tier (Property) Tribunal. He has project-managed several comprehensive residential refurbishments, the latest of which will be CaM's base at 80 Camberwell Road.
His skill lies in articulating material considerations and subjective interpretations which run contrary to standard expectations and determinations.