MANAGEMENT

Trafalgar House Business Parks (THBP) was a major subsidiary of the Trafalgar House group, specialising in developing business parks and industrial estates. I was a director of THBP for 4 years from 1990, running a development team and taking responsibility for corporate marketing, 'new business' and projects undertaken jointly with Ideal Developments Ltd.

PROJECTS

• Responsible for construction and marketing of Ancells Business Park at Fleet, Hants., a major 280,000 sq. ft. infrastructure led development, at Ancells Business Park at Fleet, Hants.

• Promotion of 1000 acres of infrastructure led, rail-linked, industrial and freight park at Hams Hall, Birmingham, in partnership with Powergen. This is now home to, inter alia, the BMW Engine plant.

• Responsible for completing and marketing of Southfields Business Park Basildon in a partnership with the Development Corporation (90,000 sq ft). Secured letting of majority to Ford (UK) Ltd.

• Responsible for resolving complex management & legal problems as a precursor to disposals at Merseyside Enterprise Trading Park, Speke, Liverpool (103 acres, approx. 2,000,000 sq ft plus); and at Blackwater Industrial Estate, Camberley, Surrey (112,000 sq ft).

• Responsible for planning, infrastructure and marketing Northavon Park, Thornbury , Bristol (14 acre infrastructure led mixed use scheme), Cherwell Park, Banbury (7 acre office and warehouse scheme) and Trafford Park, Manchester (10 acre industrial development) Also completing and marketing Vanwall Business Park, Maidenhead.

• Responsibility for the rationalisation, marketing and disposal of development sites inherited by Trafalgar House through the takeover of the Davy Group in 1991 (Warrington, Stockton, Billingham, Hartlepool).

IDEAL DEVELOPMENTS LTD

Represented THBP on the Board of IDL, which brought together the residential and commercial arms of the Trafalgar House Group to pursue large, long term strategic schemes, including Portbury Park , Bristol. [Initial layout planning, renegotiation of acquisition, and major motorway junction, road and drainage works for 45 acre commercial scheme forming part of a 400 acre mixed development to be undertaken with Tarmac and Crest]