RCS - Boot(Henry) PLC - Henry Boot completes sale of 632 plots to Vistry

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09/01/2025 07:00

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RNS Number : 6545S  Boot(Henry) PLC  09 January 2025

Henry Boot completes the sale of 632 plots in Coventry to Vistry

 

 
 

Henry Boot announces that its land promotion and planning business, Hallam
Land (Hallam), has completed the sale of 632 residential plots at Pickford
Gate, Coventry to national housebuilder Vistry Group PLC ('Vistry'). The sale
resulted in an ungeared internal rate of return for Henry Boot of 28% p.a.

 

The completion of the sale to Vistry follows news released by Henry Boot on 12
December 2024 that the group had exchanged contracts to sell c.600 plots in
the Midlands. The disposal meant Hallam achieved its 2024 financial target
with sales of c.2,800 plots last year. While this was marginally below
Hallam's sales target of 3,000 plots for 2024, the sale of 52 acres of
employment land in Coventry to Royal London in November 2024 offset the volume
reduction.

 

Hallam secured an initial planning promotion agreement with the landowners to
promote the wider 'Pickford Gate' site in 2015. A planning application was
submitted in 2018 which secured outline planning consent in 2021 for the
52-acre employment land parcel, as well as 2,400 homes, of which at least 25%
are proposed for affordable housing along with a primary school, district and
local centres, green open spaces, community facilities and playing fields.

 

This is Hallam's fourth sale at Pickford Gate. The previous transactions
include the sale of 250 plots to the UK housebuilder Countryside Partnerships
in March 2023 and the sale of 491 plots to David Wilson Homes in September
2024 as well as the 52 acres of employment land sold in November 2024. Hallam
retains 1,027 plots for future sale on the site.

 

Newton LDP and Shoosmiths LLP advised Hallam on this sale.

 

Tim Roberts, CEO at Henry Boot, commented: "This sale to Vistry is a
significant transaction for Hallam, executing the phased sale of the wider
Pickford Gate site according to plan, which will create thousands of much
needed new homes in the area. It also highlights the continued demand for
prime sites from leading national housebuilders."

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Notes to editors

Henry Boot is one of the UK's leading land, property development, home
building and construction businesses - and we've been transforming land and
spaces since 1886. Listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1919, we're
renowned for quality, expertise, delivery and a partnership approach across
the group - which comprises, Hallam Land, HBD, Stonebridge, Henry Boot
Construction, Banner Plant and Road Link.

Operating across the UK, and employing over 500 people, we focus on three key
markets: urban development, industrial and logistics and residential. Hallam
Land has facilitated 52,000 new homes since 1990, managing one of the top five
largest land portfolios in the country, with the potential to facilitate over
100,000 homes. HBD manages a development pipeline of £1.3bn, the equivalent
of 7m sq ft of developments across our key markets, while maintaining a £113m
investment portfolio, of which 73% of the properties have an EPC rating of 'C'
or higher. Stonebridge, our jointly owned home building business, manages a
land portfolio capable of delivering 1,500 homes, with an ambition to deliver
up to 600 new homes a year.

Henry Boot Construction has extensive experience in both the public and
private sectors, including major projects such as the £200m regeneration of
Barnsley town centre, and The Cocoa Works, a £57m residential development in
York. For over 65 years, Banner Plant has supplied construction products and
services, operating from seven regional depots in the North of England.

We have also developed an ambitious Responsible Business Strategy to help us
meet our aim of being Net Zero Carbon by 2030, and to deliver, by 2025,
charitable, community and education work valued at £1m.

From land promotion, property development and investment to home building,
construction and plant hire, Henry Boot is where great places start.

 

henryboot.co.uk (http://www.henryboot.co.uk/)

 

Enquiries

 

FTI Consulting

Richard Sunderland/Giles Barrie

07894 797067 / 07798 926814

henryboot@fticonsulting.com

 

Henry Boot PLC

Tim Roberts, Chief Executive Officer

Darren Littlewood, Chief Financial Officer

Daniel Boot, Senior Corporate Communications Manager

07825 088807

dboot@henryboot.co.uk

henryboot.co.uk

 

Deutsche Numis

Joint Corporate Broker

Ben Stoop / Tom Philpott

0207 260 1000

 

Peel Hunt LLP

Joint Corporate Broker

Ed Allsopp / Pete Mackie

0207 418 8900

 

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