Wates acquires Liberty, enhancing property repairs and heating services, adding 1,100 employees to strengthen its social housing expertise.

In 2024, we completed a unique pilot project for our social housing customer, L&Q Group, to deliver new external wall insulation for homes at Urban Drive in Trafford as part of the Government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1.

Wates Residential has today announced Paul Nicholls as its new Regional Managing Director for London, joining the business in February 2025.

Following a successful period of internal refurbishments, Wates was asked by Settle to deliver its SHDF Wave 2 decarbonisation retrofit work.

Winning business strategies in many sectors today look quite different from the ones common in earlier years, when the accepted view was to compete and prevail, with ‘self’ as the central theme.

This project was designed around a whole-house retrofit. In all, 210 homes were brought into scope, with funding secured through Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Wave 1.

19 million homes in the UK are in need of significant upgrades to become low carbon and energy efficient, with more than 13 million in England alone needing to be upgraded to attain an EPC rating of C or higher by 2025.

Our property services has published an annual review for 2023 revealing significant business growth alongside their acquisition of property services business Liberty, growing their capabilities to include heating and compliance.

Wates has today announced Phillippa Prongué as the new Executive Managing Director of its growing Residential business.

After overseeing the transition of Liberty to Wates, Ray Jones has decided to leave the business following six years as Group Managing Director.

We are delighted to present this Project Impact Report, highlighting our achievements over the course of the Strategic Construction Partnership (SCP) with Wolverhampton Home

At the end of contract, following the blended funding retrofit activity, all 30 homes in the project achieved an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of A, far exceeding the Government’s EPC C target social housing.

In a world centred on the customer experience, and accepting only of 10/10 customer satisfaction scores, getting the job done right-first time is simply not enough.

From today, local authorities and housing associations can apply for funding to carry out retrofit projects that will improve the energy efficiency of their homes.

The homes represent phase two of the Harold Hill Town Centre vision aimed at revitalising the area with high-quality new shops and services

Jordanas will receive financial support through his first three years of university education with a generous bursary provided by leading architecture firm Collado Collins.

We have been appointed by Orbit, one of the UK’s foremost not-for-profit housing groups, to undertake a retrofit programme for 410 homes over two years, marking the start of a long-term partnership to help decarbonise Orbit’s homes.

we’re announcing our new partnership with Guildford Borough Council (GBC) to develop a site in the heart of Guildford.