Sales are about to tee off for a former PGA and European Tour professional golfer who is bringing forward his first new housing development.
The Approach is a 38-plot debut in Immingham from Lynn Homes, with Dave Lynn behind it, together with business partners Mike Burgess and Khush Nagra.
It is a collection of two and three-bed link and semi-detached homes – with designs all named after favourite UK courses – off the port town’s Waterworks Street.
Mr Lynn won the 2004 Dutch Open and the 2013 Portuguese Masters, where other notable champions include 2019 British Open victor Shane Lowry, as well as Lee Westwood and Padraig Harrington.
Like many sports professionals he has invested in property – building a portfolio of mixed-use investments during a career that was cut short by tendonitis in his right elbow five years ago. He had been introduced to the industry as a young man.
“This is the first housing development,” Mr Lynn said. “I have done redevelopments before but always wanted to get involved in house-building, and this opportunity came up. Khush is the builder and we saw quite a few of his developments before we got involved.
“At 38 homes, it is quite ambitious. It is a bigger site than we may have wanted to start with, but a lot of boxes were ticked with it. We saw Immingham, all the industry around the place, a waste-to-energy plant and a biorefinery in planning, and thought Immingham was a place that needed new housing.
“I think is a bit of an underrated town, I might even go as far as to say a sleeping giant.”
Originally from Wigan, he turned professional in 1995, and came second in the 2012 PGA Championship, eight strokes behind eventual winner Rory McIlroy. He lived in Stoke before settling in Hull, where the trio are all based.
Fellow director Mr Burgess sees similarities with his former stomping ground, Lancashire.
“Immingham reminds me of Warrington, for years an extension of Manchester, but with all the development it became a commercial town in its own right,” he said.
“There is a lot of stock from the Sixties and Seventies, but it is limited from a point of view of giving people affordable first-time homes or rental properties for investors. We thought it was quite a nice social entrepreneur thing to do. These are really good quality houses for a good price.”
The pair have worked on strategic investments previously, bringing Mr Nagra on board for his housebuilding acumen.
Grimsby estate agency Jackson, Green and Preston has been appointed to market the properties, with the show house opening later this week.
Prices range from £99,950 and ranging up to £134,950.
James Stanhope, sales manager at JGP, said: In recent years there have been significant improvements and investment in Immingham and we feel that it is about time that this town had a suitable development of new homes which reflects the needs and desires of young buyers, especially given the investment from businesses in and around the area.
"We are proud to have been asked to market the site and look forward to the public launch."
First homes will be released this week, with full completion anticipated by June next year.
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