Mactaggart & Mickel heads south

Scottish housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel Homes is moving into the English market, lodging a planning permission for its first English site near Witney in Oxfordshire and with another detailed planning application expected to be lodged in the county in the coming weeks.

The firm, which has been building north of the border since 1925, now plans to broaden its geographical reach to a UK wide audience. The firm says it already has a strong landbank in England and has been involved in strategic land development south of the border since 2008, securing more than 1200 acres across the north west and south west of England, with a further 250 acres under offer.

Ed Monaghan, chairman of Mactaggart & Mickel Homes England, said: “It’s an exciting time for the company and fulfils our long term ambition to expand and become a UK housebuilder. Our English strategic land business has been very successful in identifying and promoting viable sites, so building our own housing developments south of the border is the next natural step.”

Mactaggart & Mickel currently employs 279 members of staff and the firm anticipates this will rise over the coming year as it expands into England. …