Henry Boot to build £1bn of developments after launching new joint venture with investor

Henry Boot is set to build industrial developments worth £1bn across the UK after forming a joint venture with an investor.

The group’s Henry Boot Development (HBD) has formed the partnership with Feldberg Capital which will be known as Origin, with the Yorkshire firm taking a 25% stake, amid moves to become a leader in the development of ‘mid box’ industrial and logistics schemes.

Origin will be seeded with an initial portfolio of three sites, in Walsall, Welwyn Garden City and Markham Vale – a development pipeline worth £100m. At the Spark scheme in Walsall, Henry Boot will create a 13-acre development site with a £53m gross development value )GDV), just off the M6. Spark has full planning consent for phase one, which comprises two units totalling 270,000 sqft.

In Welwyn Garden City the firm will work at Inter, a three-acre development site with a £27m GDV near Junction 4 of the A1(M). The site has detailed planning consent for a 71,000 sqft scheme.