Our partnership with Dacorum Borough Council (DBC) began in April 2022 with a project to decarbonise 24 properties to achieve a minimum Energy Performance Certificate Band C and a heat demand target of 90kwh/m2/annum.

At Grahame Park in Barnet, we were chosen by Notting Hill Genesis to work on Plot A as part of the regeneration of a 1970’s housing estate, providing 209 new affordable homes, in a safe and welcoming environment where the community can flourish.

This 66-home joint venture with Vistry Western shows how we use our expertise to ensure that the existing natural beauty of sites is maintained and enhanced through development.

Our relationship with BeFirst and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham continues to go from strength to strength.

With financial backing from the Welsh Government we are working with Cardiff City Council under our Development Agreement to deliver emergency temporary homes.

Winchester City Council declared a climate emergency in June 2019 and is aiming for the wider district to be carbon neutral by 2030. The Winnall social housing scheme is an example of the council’s commitment to becoming a carbon neutral local authority by 2024.

We’ve completed work on a new seven-story mixed-use building behind the iconic Piccadilly Lights in central London, transforming a previously disused space into shops, workspaces and apartments.

Our work for The Guinness Partnership (Guinness) saw us complete part-house retrofits to 52 homes in Crewe as part of the BEIS Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Demonstrator project. Our role in leading the retrofit project was to catalyse innovation and develop best practice to inform Guinness’ future social housing retrofit projects.

We’re set to expand our presence in London with the appointment of our housing maintenance services team  to deliver Brent Council’s Major Works programme across its social housing portfolio.

Havering Council and Wates have celebrated five years as Joint Venture (JV) partners on our pioneering estates regeneration project with a day of celebrations.

A first for Wrexham County Borough Council, this pilot scheme was delivered by our Retrofit team, alongside partners Energy Specifics and Construction Thinking, to transform an inefficient void property into a pioneering zero-carbon home.

While the headlines from Michael Gove’s housing speech on 23 July may have focused mainly on a renewed commitment to building one million new homes by 2024 and for more homes to be built in city centres the Government also announced new measures for permitted development relaxing previous restrictions around changing buildings like shops and offices into homes

We have been appointed by leading UK social enterprise, Places for People, to upgrade thousands of homes across the central and north east as part of a £104m major works investment framework.

We’ve celebrated starting on site at a new 128-home low carbon development in Ancoats, the first project for This City, Manchester City Council’s housing development company.

Geraint Sewell on how we can work with local authorities and delivery partners to build a more sustainable future together.

We have been appointed by leading housing association, L&Q to deliver maintenance and fire safety works to 13,400 homes as part of a 15-year, major works programme worth up to £300m a year.

More much-needed housing will soon be a reality in Wembley following an agreement with Brent Council to develop 304 new homes.

In July 2022, we secured outline planning consent for a sustainable development of 420 family homes.