History

Over the last 15 years, the business has grown and evolved through a number of key stages.

Originally a private equity backed property start-up in 2009 focused on changing the strategic land market, we became a public company in 2014 through the reverse takeover of a commercial development business and then added Catesby in 2015. In 2021 we were acquired by the Wellcome Trust and delisted, and went on to integrate with L&Q Estates in 2024/25.

Throughout this evolution our values have remained the same and we continue to add more strategic sites, earn our stakeholders’ trust, deliver demonstrable quality and prove our fully scalable business model.

As the leading Master Developer, this puts us in a perfect position to identify and deliver further strategic sites in key growth locations.

December 2023

First Home sold at Waterbeach

October 2023

Houlton School wins Inaugural RIBA reinvention Award

August 2023

First Home sold at Priors Hall Park Zone 2

July 2023

MOD sells Waterbeach to Urban&Civic

September 2021

Urban&Civic completes the secondary school build including the transformation of the grade 2 listed C-Station and the Houlton School opens at Houlton.

September 2021

The first primary school opens in Middlebeck

May 2021

Hertfordshire County Council selects Urban&Civic as the master developer for the Baldock North Urban Extension Project.

January 2021

Following a 99.6 per cent shareholder vote in favour, Urban&Civic was acquired by Wellcome Trust and de-listed on 21^st January 2021

November 2020

First house sold at Wintringham – Morris Homes

September 2020

The first school at the Wintringham development in St Neots opens, designed by award winning architects DRMM

September 2019

Waterbeach outline planning consent

June 2019

Urban&Civic signs contract with an option to purchase over 2,100 acres from adjoining landowners, in an area identified as a strategic development location.