Matt Wilkins

Matt Wilkins is a property consultant and developer credited with the preservation of Old Buckenham Airport.
Property Career
Wilkins worked at FPDSavills (now Savills) based in Canary Wharf in the early 2000's
In 2005 Wilkins became the first Sales and Marketing Director of Donal Mulryan's West Properties . Amongst the projects built by West Properties in Manchester was a building called Lumiere with a 50m swimming pool on the 18th storey
By 2007 Wilkins had become one of two partners of Trinity Quays LLP, a company which purchased an important site in the centre of Kingston upon Hull opposite . Initially Trinity Quays achieved planning permission for a 30m tall building with apartments, offices, restaurants and shops . In 2009 a fresh planning permission was approved, which increased the height of the project to 20 storeys and incorporated a Millennium & Copthorne Hotels hotel, apartments and restaurants. The scheme was quoted as having a value of £50 million. Wilkins unilaterally oversaw the project through to both planning consents.
Old Buckenham Airport
In August 2011 it was announced that Wilkins had taken over the management of Old Buckenham Airport formerly RAF Old Buckenham. . Old Buckenham Airport was in the ownership of Donal Mulryan's West Properties where Wilkins had previously worked.
Wilkins was credited with the return of the Old Buckenham Airshow and Wilkins organised, promoted and directed the air show. In 2013, in collaboration with a military museum based at the airfield, Wilkins organised and promoted Military Revival . A sequence of promotional videos were released featuring Wilkins, showing a Citroen van being destroyed by a FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor and a later video showing a lawn mower being flattened by a World War 2 unexploded German bomb. Wilkins made a variety of improvements at Old Buckenham Airport, such as a new War Memorial Garden.
During 2012 the airfield had become the property of Morgan Stanley as part of a portfolio of properties with loans which were being administrated by NAMA from whom Morgan Stanley purchased the debt . Wilkins sold the airfield on behalf of Morgan Stanley in June 2013 . Since the sale Wilkins has continued to run the airfield, and in January 2014 oversaw the building of new hangars.

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