Urban & Civic to join our OxCam Growth Corridor forum next month

Image: Nigel Hughill - courtesy of Urban + Civic.

Future Cities Forum is delighted that Nigel Hughill, Chief Executive of Urban & Civic, is contributing to our March forum at the offices of Milton Keynes City Council with Leader Cllr Pete Marland. The forum will discuss the future potential of housing sites in the Growth Corridor, which have the potential to support employment clusters while being well connected to infrastructure.

Nigel is responsible for the development and achievement of Group objectives and strategy, as approved by the Board of Urban & Civic. He ensures effective communication with stakeholders.

Nigel has held numerous senior positions within the property and regeneration industry over a career spanning over 35 years, including serving as special policy adviser to Sir Bob Kerslake at the HCA. He was chief executive officer of Chelsfield plc from 1992 to 2005 and executive chairman of Lend Lease Europe from 2005 to 2008, having joined the company through the joint acquisition of the residential developer Crosby. Nigel was a founding director, along with Robin Butler, and executive chairman of Urban&Civic Limited, which was established in 2009 and was a precursor to Urban&Civic plc.

He was presented with the Estates Gazette Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the London School of Economics in 2020.

Urban & Civic writes:

'We were founded on the dual belief that it was impractical to meet housing requirements without an increased contribution from large sites and that it was possible to deliver high quality, locally endorsed and sustainable large sites. From private equity backed start up, to public company and now wholly owned by the Wellcome Trust, over the last 15 years, our business has delivered on this belief and become trusted as the leading Master Developer of large-scale Strategic Sites.

'We are the UK’s leading Master Developer having been specifically created 15 years ago to disrupt the established approach to the promotion and delivery of large scale residential led Strategic Sites. Owned by the Wellcome Trust since 2021, we are committed to delivering on our purpose, vision and values and achieving our strategic objectives.

'Serviced land is our product. We convert large blocks of unconsented raw land for which there is an extremely limited market into oven ready parcels of fully serviced land for which there is both a mature and growing market.'