Yorkshire property business celebrates 20 successful years and looks forward to the next 20

Leeds based developer, Wilton Developments, is celebrating 20 years of property development and investment which has delivered hundreds of millions of pounds of value into the north of England.

Owned by the George A. Moore family, Wilton Developments has, and continues, to bring forward many major regional projects and buildings, having already created the potential for 6,000 jobs generating £470m per annum into the regional economy.

Within the Yorkshire region, the company is famed for industrial and logistics developments such as the first schemes in the Leeds Enterprise Zone at Connex 45 and Kinetic 45, Latitude Park at Castleford, and Enterprise 36, near Barnsley.

Within its extensive Leeds office portfolio, the team has managed investment at the BCO award winning 10 South Parade, 2 Bond Court, 16-17 Park Row, Gallery & Phoenix House and Hepper House, which was awarded a blue plaque. Its mixed-use developments include the 20-acre former MoD site at Water Lane in York, which has been regenerated to provide more than 220 much-needed homes, a supermarket, care home and modern self-storage depot.

The company is currently bringing forwards Leeds 500, which is the largest industrial and logistics site with detailed planning consent in the city, and the 3.35 million sq ft Doncaster North scheme, which boasts the UK’s largest single unit Reserved Matters consent at 1.15 million sq ft and is the largest individual employment scheme in the Northern Powerhouse.

Jason Stowe, Managing Director at Wilton Developments, said: “We are celebrating 20 successful years with the people who matter most; our team, shareholders, consultants, tenants, supply chains, institutional investors, stakeholders and local authority partners, all of whom have helped make the delivery of some of the region’s most exciting schemes possible.

“We have over this last 20 years developed in excess of 320,000 sq ft of in, and out of town, offices, over 1.5 million sq ft of industrial and logistics space and around 330,000 sq ft of out of town retail.

“The future looks very exciting with some regionally important schemes coming forwards, including Leeds500, DoncasterNorth, and Dynamo Park in Stockton. Our Industrial & Logistics programme alone is over 3.3 million sq ft of consented ready to go plots, with a further 1.7 million sq ft on land we own to come forward over the next 24 months. Alongside this we have exciting city centre office and residential projects in ownership and going through their planning and design phase. These future schemes have the potential to create upwards of 8,000 job opportunities in our region.

“We, and our shareholders, look forward to the next 20 years and remain committed to delivering the same highest quality developments, delivering investment and job creation opportunities and helping to boost the vitality of the local communities in which they are located.”