London & Associated Properties Plc announced that Anil Thapar, FCCA, has been appointed Finance Director from 1st January 2015, and will join the Board. This appointment follows the company's earlier announcement that Robert Corry will retire at the end of 2014. Anil will also become Group Company Secretary on 22nd December 2014.

Heather Curtis, the incumbent company secretary, will be leaving the Company on the same date. Anil has worked at LAP as Group Financial Controller since November 2005 and managed the company's finance department since July 2007. Prior to the company, Anil held senior finance positions at Tops Estates from 1998 until that company was sold in 2005, and has held other senior jobs both in industry and in the accounting profession.