Tributes have been paid to well-known Hull businessman Malcolm Scott who has died in hospital after a short illness.
A chartered surveyor, he initially worked for Hull City Council before joining the Prudential Building Society when it operated an estate agency division. However, after a year he found himself unemployed when the division was closed so he set up his own company in 1990, initially based in a rented room inside Oriel Chambers in High Street.
Scotts Chartered Surveyors soon expanded from a one-man business, taking over the commercial work of long-established estate agents Wells Cundall in 1995 and later opening an office in Grimsby. Over the next three decades he used his experience in both the public and private sectors to forge numerous partnerships between the two in a range of areas, from economic development to the arts and culture.
