Our team

Management

Tim Young
Director BSc (Hons) MRICS

Tim qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 2007 and joined Young Estates in 2011.  With experience in lettings, rent reviews, and lease renewals he takes care of the day to day management of our estates.  He also leads development projects for the company and is focused on expanding the size of the Aldermaston estate.

Trina Young
Director Assoc CIPD MAAT

Trina joined Young Estates full time in 2011 as Office Manager and completed her full AAT qualification the same year.  Since then, she went on to become an Associate CIPD in 2019.  Trina now looks after the company’s HR, as well as assisting with accounts, the running of the fishery and their events.

Roy Young
Finance Director / Company Secretary

Roy has been Company Secretary since 2001 after joining Young Estates as Company Accountant in 1995.  As well as managing the company’s finances, Roy is busy growing Seven Lakes Fishery into a successful day ticket fishery.

Simon Alcorn
Estate Manager

Simon joined Young Estates in 2006 as an estate operative.  Having learnt the lie of the land under the guidance of Robert Young,  he became the Estate Manager in 2012. Simon heads up the Estate Team and looks after the maintenance and upkeep of our estates.

Andrew Young
Senior Director

Andrew joined the company aged 16 and worked his way up the ladder, becoming Director in 1975.  Over the years he has driven the company forward by carefully managing the rebuilding and development of both estates.  Although Andrew has taken a step back from day to day activities he is still involved with key decisions.

Robert Young
Senior Director

Robert started work for the company at the age of 16.  He rose to become an integral part of the management team and was instrumental in the development of the Aldermaston estate.  He was appointed Director in 1974.  Now retired from daily work, Rob has taken on an advisory role in supporting Simon and the estate team.

History

Ralph Young started in business in the 1950s manufacturing breeze blocks and in the early 1960s he began production at our Leighton Buzzard site – home to the original Youngs Industrial Estate. In the next few years our business grew to include plant hire, and supply of sand and gravel. Ralph bought 130 acres of gravel bearing land in Aldermaston where gravel was extracted until the late 1970s in our previous name of Young (Aldermaston) Developments Ltd.

By the early 1980s planning permission was granted for industrial units to be built on the site – this was the beginning of Youngs Industrial Estate, Aldermaston. By this time Ralph’s sons, Robert and Andrew, had become company Directors having worked through all aspects of the company’s operations. In 1995 Robert’s son, Roy, joined the company and in 2011 his daughter, Trina, and Andrew’s son, Tim – making it very much a family business.

In 2011, Young (Aldermaston) Developments Ltd become Young Estates and Land Ltd to include not only our estates but also our surrounding land. We take great pride in caring for the land previously used for gravel extraction at Aldermaston, and have created the beautiful Paices Wood Country Parkland, and launched our successful Seven Lakes Fishery.

With occupancy increasing through recent years, our business has continued to grow and in 2022 we built new units at our Aldermaston site to include well-known, national traders including Screwfix and Howdens.

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