St. Modwen has appointed the former Legal & General and Cala Homes executive, James Lidgate, as senior director - Strategic Land & Planning, to support the ongoing development of major residential schemes and drive future initiatives.
Starting on an initial 12-month contract, Lidgate will join the board of St. Modwen’s dedicated Strategic Land & Regeneration business unit.
Lidgate was most recently CEO of Legal & General Homes, Regional Chairman of Cala Homes’ Chiltern and South Home Counties business as well as being responsible for Legal & General’s Strategic Land and Major Projects business. He also worked on developing L&G’s Build to Rent platform and helped to shape its approach to modular construction.
Before this, he worked at Bellway Homes as a Land director, managing the acquisition of all land opportunities and was previously in roles at St George and Berkeley Group.
Sitting alongside St. Modwen’s other industrial and logistics and housebuilding businesses, Strategic Land & Regeneration focuses on promoting and master-developing new residential communities, including releasing land for house-building and other housing tenures, as well as delivering transformational regeneration projects.
Over the past five years, St. Modwen has prepared over 1,600 acres of land for development and completed over £400 mln of residential land sales.
