Property industry leaders join Wykeland Board to support next phase of growth

Mr Millington, who has held senior board positions with the Evans Property Group for 27 years, was appointed as the business delivers a series of major developments across Yorkshire and the Humber.

He is joined on the Wykeland board by a new non-executive director, Richard Dawson, who brings to the business more than 30 years’ experience in senior financial, commercial and strategic roles.

The new appointments bring further experience and expertise to the Wykeland board as the Hull-based business delivers some of the biggest and most ambitious developments in its history of more than 50 years.

They include a £150m retail logistics fulfilment centre, for which Wykeland secured planning approval, and a £100m research and development and manufacturing facility for global medical technology business Smith+Nephew, which is going through the planning process.

Both of these developments are at Wykeland’s Melton West business park, west of Hull.

As well as Melton West, Wykeland’s other developments include the Bridgehead business park close to the Humber Bridge; the £100m-plus Fruit Market urban village in Hull, in partnership with Beal Homes; the £20m Treadmills mixed-use scheme on the site of the former Northallerton Prison in North Yorkshire; Hull’s @TheDock tech campus; the Flemingate retail and leisure destination in Beverley, East Yorkshire; and Europarc, on the south bank of the Humber.

Wykeland managing director Dominic Gibbons said: “We’re delighted that two such highly-respected property industry leaders have joined our board.

“Paul and Richard are well-known figures on the north of England property scene and bring to the board decades of high-level experience which will support our next phase of growth.

“Their expertise will reinforce our excellent executive team and will be important as we deliver existing developments and capitalise upon the many exciting new opportunities we have identified.”

Mr Millington has held a series of senior board level positions with Leeds-based Evans Property Group, a privately-owned property investment and development company with net assets of over £600m.

During his career Mr Millington has worked on around £3bn of transactions, including acquisitions, commercial and residential property developments, joint ventures and private equity investments.

Mr Dawson, a qualified chartered accountant, worked as finance director of Highstone Group and head of family office for the Moore Family in 2007 before becoming an adviser and non-executive director in 2020.

Mr Millington succeeds former William Jackson Food Group chairman Christopher Oughtred as chairman of Wykeland Group, while Mr Dawson replaces Neil Stothard, chief executive of construction products and services specialist Vp, as non-executive director.