About – Lone Star Land

Lone Star Land strives to excel in the fields of land promotion, planning and development. Whether landowner, consultant, planning officer or immediate neighbour, Lone Star Land believes that everyone should be listened to and treated respectfully. This is our minimum pledge to you and whilst we cannot guarantee that we can incorporate everyone’s needs and requests, we will certainly try and provide reasoned justification if we are unable to do so.

Lone Star Land prides itself in building a strong personal relationship with clients based on open and honest first-class communication. This assists with providing a smooth transition through the complexities of the planning process. The objective is to reach an agreeable and successful outcome expeditiously.

In all our projects, be they residential or employment led, the businesses modus operandi has been consistent: to offer a “best in class” service with the overriding aim being to ensure that landowners, consultants and Local Planning Authorities want to work with Lone Star Land again. To achieve that aim, the team realises that people work with people and not companies.

Because we are not driven by volume, every site within our portfolio is a top priority; by tailoring the service to each new situation, combining this with technical capability, and offering an endless source of energy and enthusiasm, Lone Star Land stands out from the rest of the competitors. Our approach to effective consultation with key stakeholders is beyond compare. This is evidenced by the number of planning permissions that are gained locally, through extensive discussions with Parish Councils and Local Authorities. This approach means that the uncertainty and cost of the Appeal route is not usually necessary.

Throughout our processes, we are very mindful of embracing modern day Environmental, Social and Corporate governance, and ensuring that we adopt an ethical and sustainable approach to our business.

Key People

Andy Wilkins

CEO

Andy Wilkins

CEO

Founder of Lone Star Land, Andy has amassed a wealth of experience and expertise working within the housebuilding sector. Under Andy’s guidance and leadership Lone Star has grown consistently, with quality not quantity being the main emphasis of site selection. This has allowed the business to remain private and independently funded with a ‘hands on’ approach adopted therefore Andy can enjoy the job of land promotion rather than just running the business side of things. In the last three years consents have been achieved for over 1000 dwellings, care home, employment and retail development.

Email: andy@lonestarland.co.uk

Richard Burke

Managing Director

Richard Burke

Managing Director

Richard has over 20 years experience within the development industry, having worked within the housebuilding and strategic land promotion sectors.

His strong track record includes the identification, securing and delivery of several large scale residential and mixed-use development schemes.

This has included multiple land assembly and overcoming complex technical issues in order to bring projects to fruition.

Richard’s philosophy is to adopt a ‘win-win’ approach with landowners and developers to unlock and deliver opportunities.

Email: richard@lonestarland.co.uk

Reuben Bellamy BA (Hons) MA MRTPI

Planning Director

Reuben Bellamy BA (Hons) MA MRTPI

Planning Director

Extensive planning knowledge having over 20 years of public and private sector experience. Recent successes include the inclusion of Long Marston Airfield as a 3500 homes Garden Village in the Stratford-upon-Avon Core Strategy.

Email: reuben@lonestarland.co.uk

Jerry Cahill QC

Non-Executive Director

Jerry Cahill QC

Non-Executive Director

Mr Cahill who recently announced his retirement from the Bar, enjoyed a long and extremely successful career as one of the country’s pre-eminent planning barristers having taken silk in 2002. Jerry led the Planning Group at No.5 Chambers and regularly featured in Planning Magazine’s list of top-rated barristers.

During his 42 year career at the Bar, Jerry has successfully represented many of the UK’s leading housebuilders, promoters and developers having successfully obtained planning permissions for more than 10,000 dwellings.

Clearly Jerry’s planning expertise is beyond compare and thus will be a very useful asset to Lone Star as we move forwards and promote land throughout the UK.

Neil Ramage

Financial Director

Neil Ramage

Financial Director

Neil provides bespoke financial and taxation support to Lone Star Land allowing the team to concentrate on the day to day running and growth of the business.

Jack Casey

Senior Land Manager

Jack Casey

Senior Land Manager

Jack first joined Lone Star in 2017 as a placement year student from the Nottingham Trent University. With a family involved in housing development, Jack demonstrated a good knowledge base and a willingness to learn. We was so impressed during the placement year that Lone Star sponsored his final year where he studied a BSc (Hons) in Property Finance & Investment. Jack duly responded and graduated with a First Class Honours Degree and has joined Lone Star as our new Land Manager. His skills will help support the team and assist in growing the site portfolio.

Email: jack@lonestarland.co.uk

James Retallack

Chairman

James Retallack

Chairman

Former Senior Partner at Edge Ellision and Main Board Director of Aggregate Industries James brings a wealth of experience to the Lone Star team ensuring that appropriate governance and procedures are in place to achieve it’s strategic objectives.

Email: james@lonestarland.co.uk

Rachael Wilkins

Director

Rachael Wilkins

Director

Having previously worked at Knight Frank and Connells, Rachael brings New Homes Sales and Marketing input to the team, ensuring that layouts and product mixes meet the target markets needs.

Fernhill Heath

18 months from start to finish represents a very polished Promoter. The Lone Star team made this possible through a meaningful local consultation process that resulted in a positive planning decision being forthcoming 13 weeks after submission. Reuben’s direct and regular communication with the landowner and their advisors ensured that everybody knew what was happening and when and contributed significantly towards a very satisfactory result.

Anthony Champion
Landowner’s agent at Fernhill Heath

Fernhill Heath

Reuben handled the planning application very professionally whilst keeping in very close and regular contact with me as landowner. We live adjacent to the site and therefore being part of the community it was incredibly important to us that we realised the right planning permission. Lone Star achieved this and whilst working with our Agent a swift disposal was realised and is now being implemented.

Lynne Bowen
Landowner, Fernhill Heath

AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES

“Utilising the services of Lone Star Land has been a good addition to Aggregate Industries business. Some of our significant land holding across the UK has development potential and through bolting on Andy’s development experience to our mainstream business, we are now in a position to start realising potential from a non-core area of our business. Andy provides regular feedback and updates as to the implementation of his recommended strategy, which in turn enables me to dovetail this into delivering our overall property business plan.”

Hugh Lucas
Head of Planning and Estates

PARK HOLIDAYS UK

“Having employed Andy as a consultant for several years now, he is without doubt an expert within his field. Andy has an unerring ability to simultaneously juggle various issues whilst keeping his overall focus and the team’s objective on realising our Business Plan. He can co-ordinate, manage and drive an extensive multi-disciplinary team with aplomb”

Matt Purdom
Land and Planning Director

GLENN HOWELLS ARCHITECTS

“I have worked with Andy on several significant regeneration projects over the last 10 years. Over this period he has impressed me through his keen development skills, leadership and ability to communicate. This has enabled him to drive maximum value from development opportunities and lead each project to a successful outcome. Andy has an instinctive appreciation for the importance of each element of complex mixed used projects that allows him to maximise site potential. He achieves this through focus and persistence whilst at all times getting on with everyone involved with the project through his enthusiasm and enduring sense of humour.”

Glen Howells
Director

Hawkesbury Upton

Lone Star were very straight forwards to deal with at the transaction stage and accomplished when dealing with the planning process. With a sensitive Cotswold village site, situated within the AONB and adjacent to the Conservation Area, Lone Star dealt with a potentially tricky scenario with great skill and care. They quickly realised an excellent planning permission on a politically challenging site and kept both myself and the landowner fully informed along the way. A first class service.

Chris Glover, Land Agent acting for the landowner

Salford Priors

Lone Star made the entire process of gaining planning permission and selling the land both efficient and enjoyable. As a landowner I wanted to try to maximise my benefit from the land but by working with the local community rather than force a development upon them. Lone Star worked hard with the NDP committee and soon they had reached accord and entered a positive public consultation process. This resulted in a stunning outline permission with local community support.

Lone Star helped me source Fisher German and held my hand throughout the process of sale and completion. I took on a team of experts but I have ended up with a team of friends. I can not recommend Andy highly enough, their hard graft and endeavour on my behalf has quite literally been life changing for me.

Mycroft Perry ’The Happy Farmer’, Landowner, Salford Priors

Salford Priors

The Lone Star team promoted this site with much diligence alongside the progression of the Salford Seven Neighbourhood Plan. Aligning the aspirations of the community with those of the landowner can potentially be very difficult, however a unanimous approval at Planning Committee demonstrates how these situations should work. Fisher German and Lone Star then worked well together, effecting a swift disposal of the site to CALA Homes .

Rob Champion, landowner’s agent at Salford Priors

CALA HOMES

“I have experience of working with Andy for over 15 years, 10 years of which were as a direct report. Andy is an honest and driven individual who has the ability and desire to succeed producing results of a very high standard.”

Alan Brown
Chief Executive

BERKELEY HOMES

“Andy has worked with Berkeley Homes for a number of years and this has proved to be a successful business relationship. He has the ability to bring in high quality opportunities into our business. When the sites are through the front door his tenaciousness, enthusiasm and people skills ensures that if there is a deal to do then it gets over the line.”

Andrew Saunders-Davies
Chairman

Recent Projects

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Sandhills, South Oxfordshire

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Badsey, Wychavon

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Madeley, Newcastle-under-Lyme

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Broadway, Wychavon