Father-of-five Mark Mabey lives in Netherbury with his wife and children.
He was brought up in Southampton and attended King Edward VI School before training as a chartered quantity surveyor over a number of years with day release attendance at Southampton College of Further Education.
He has worked in the private sector and public sector as well as the in-between housing association sector and currently works for Magna as head of development.
Mark had an interesting spell at work for London Underground in fire safety improvement, following the King’s Cross fire in the late 1980s.
His hobbies and interests include fishing, travelling, history and tracing his family tree. He has traced his family back to both Netherbury (18th century) and Powerstock (17th century).
WHAT does your job involve?
I head a team of about a dozen staff who are responsible for the new house building programme across Magna Housing Group. So a combination of line management of staff as well as working with Directors and non-executive members on the development strategy and financial implications of being an active affordable housing business. My day-to-day work at the moment includes getting our team revenue budget and new housing capital budgets prepared for next year.
WHAT is the best part of your job?
Visiting live building sites, which I do less often now than I used to. An active site has quite a buzz to it and meeting new residents who have just moved into their new homes. The latter is what our work is all about.
WHAT schemes are you currently working on?
My team is working on a number of projects. The most local to Bridport is the site at Dibdin View (Flaxhayes) for 57 new homes’ which should be complete next spring.
WHAT would be your dream job?
Running a post office in rural New Zealand – being a combination of a childhood desire to run a post office and an evolving desire to live in New Zealand.
WHERE is the best place you have visited?
I’ve been fortunate enough to visit many countries and recently spent five months away from work travelling with my family so a difficult one to answer – but perhaps the most unusual place – because of what is there – is Moeraki on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island. The beach there is strewn with crystal-filled circular boulders that are ‘conceived’ underground and ‘born’ often via the cliffs onto the beach.
WHERE would you still like to go?
China – our plane had an abortive take-off from Hong Kong last year and so we spent an unexpected night in Hong Kong which has whetted my appetite to see more of what is in my view the real China.
WHICH football team do you support and what are their chances this season?
I’ve supported Tottenham Hotspur since the early 1970s and I’m glad to say that I think this year ‘we’ can finish in the top five securing a place in European Competition next year. It’s about time they won the FA Cup again – so fingers crossed on that one.
WHO would be your three dream guests at a dinner party and why?
Nikola Tesla – a very clever man who could tell us how to sort out our future energy needs.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or Mike to his friends - another man way ahead of his time – would love to hear what he would be working on now if he was still alive.
Ronnie Rosenthal – an ex-professional footballer who had a short spell with Spurs – so I could chat about Spurs but also say that I would have scored against Aston Villa when he managed to miss an open goal from about two yards out.
WHAT was the last book you read, film you watched and CD you listened to?
I’m reading a book about the origins of Freemasonry – lots of thought provoking ideas linking ancient stories to modern belief systems and how and when what we know today as Freemasons may have evolved. The last film was Stranger than Fiction, courtesy of a work colleague, classed as a comedy but found quite an interesting concept. Worth a view but do not expect too many laugh out loud moments. The last CD was a home-made compilation courtesy of my teenage daughters including Justin Bieber who is apparently a well-known Canadian singer.
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