Across our SSH programme, the integrated Wates team is working together as one, creating space to reflect, share lessons learnt, and apply insight in real time.

Wates Construction is on site at HMP Welland Oaks, a new Category B prison in Leicestershire that will deliver over 1,700 much-needed prison places as part of the Government’s aim to create a total of 14,000 by 2031.

We have broken ground at HMP Welland Oaks, the new Category B prison being developed next to the existing HMP Gartree site in Leicestershire.

Wates Group and the Ministry of Justice have signed the main works order for an expansion project at HMP Wayland in Norfolk.

The Ministry of Justice have signed the main works order with us for a £100m expansion project at HMP Onley in Warwickshire.

Wates Smartspace was appointed by the Ministry of Justice to deliver a new Video Conferencing Centre (VCC) at HMP New Hall

We have begun work on a major expansion programme at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk. This will include new facilities and services.

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

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

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

Wates has been part of a new secondment scheme pilot to support emerging talent across the wider portfolio through the Alliance 4 New Prisons. 

Kier, Laing O’Rourke and Wates have been appointed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to provide up to 1,200 new prison places across the UK with a focus on safety, security and rehabilitation

Following a competitive tender process, We have been awarded a number of lots under the Ministry of Justice’s new £2.5bn Constructor Services Framework.

Supporting the government’s plan to deliver 20,000 new prison places.

In 2022, we worked at HMP Norwich on a strip out and refurbishment contract which saw us create a new 16-room on-site court complete with a video conferencing centre (VCC)

In 2022, we were appointed to fit-out and refurbish 12 probation offices, as part of a nationwide programme of investment by the MoJ to modernise the estates being used by the Probation Service in England and Wales.

At Watford County and Family Court, our fit out team took a former CAT A office and completely remodelled its interior to become a brand new judicial development on behalf of His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS).

A major fit-out project completed for the Ministry of Justice.