Wates Commercial & Logistics is promoting an 80-acre site in Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, offering a prime opportunity for industrial and logistics development with the potential to deliver approximately 1 million sq ft of high-quality employment space.

Wates Commercial & Logistics secured Park Farm in Wellingborough – a prime nine-acre site in Wellingborough.

This recently opened academy in Leicester is one of the UK’s first net zero carbon secondary schools and the very first secondary of its kind in the East Midlands, setting a new standard for more sustainable school infrastructure.  

This transformative redevelopment in Yorkshire has delivered a vibrant, three-storey teaching block that replaces outdated facilities — all while the school remained fully operational. The new building offers bright, modern spaces designed to support both academic excellence and student wellbeing. 

One of the UK’s first net zero carbon in operation secondary schools has opened in Leicester at the new Brook Mead Academy site.

Our Construction East business attended the re-opening of Derby’s Market Hall, which it helped restore and reinvigorate.

NetZero Collective has undertaken a project with Nottingham Community Housing Association to help them prepare to decarbonise their independent living schemes.

We celebrate an outstanding achievement for our team at Gartree 2, securing an incredible score for the Considerate Constructors Scheme.

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of a strategically positioned 9-acre site in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

Design and construction of a new two-storey, 40-bed dementia-friendly extra care home, supporting facilities, and all associated infrastructure & external works to replace the nearby Hazelwood Care Home.

Wates has announced that work has now started to build a new prison next to the existing HMP Gartree site in Leicestershire.

A new time capsule has been sealed within the walls of Derby Market Hall, containing a snapshot of life in Derby in 2024 for future generations to uncover.

This new wing will provide much-needed prison places for the Ministry of Justice, with a focus on enabling the rehabilitation of prisoners.

We have started our new partnership with South Derbyshire District Council to deliver planned and responsive housing maintenance works to the Council’s 3,000 properties.

In May 2022, we began a whole house retrofit contract for Nottinghamshire Council as part of their £1.5m Social Housing Decarbonisation Demonstrator Fund works

In July 2022, we began a retrofit project with Stonewater, after they took the decision to decarbonise a number of their least energy efficient homes.

Manor Drive School in Peterborough accommodates pupils from Nursery age through to Secondary school, with 446 primary pupils, 900 secondary pupils, and 26 nursery places with new teaching and support areas.

We have appointed Matt Johnson as Regional Director for construction in the Midlands, to lead the region and deliver our strategic objectives.