Wates celebrates the official completion of the new site with partners Homes England and Abri and local Gosport council.

Proposals for 1,380 new homes at Waterloo and Queen Street in the heart of Romford have been approved by Havering Council’s Strategic Planning Committee to bring the creation of an exciting new community one step closer for local people.

Wates has been reappointed by Thurrock Council to continue on the Transforming Homes Programme for a further five years.

Wates has completed works at Braywick Leisure Centre, a major leisure and community hub for Windsor and Maidenhead Council, via the Major Works UK framework, part of the Scape National Construction framework.

Wates’ application to develop a further 20 homes for local people at the ground-breaking Daedalus Village site in Lee-on-the-Solent has been given the go-ahead by Gosport Borough Council planning bosses.

Wates has joined with PSR Solutions to donate £500 and a package of employment support sessions to the Adur Community Café.

Wates FM continues to grow its public sector presence, expanding HMRC contract from four sites to 19 after less than one year.

Wates has started a 10 year programme of housing repairs for Crawley Borough Council in the middle of a pandemic, after successfully assembling its teams using virtual and social distancing mobilisation measures.

A ground-breaking neighbourhood plan led development at the former Ford Airfield, West Sussex has taken a further step forward with the submission of an outline planning application to create a new heart to Ford together with 1500 new homes at a highly sustainable location.

A ground-breaking new scheme which offers prisoners paid work on construction sites is helping individuals return to the community and reduce reoffending.

Wates has been appointed to install a new cladding system at Southern Housing Groups St Lawrence House in Reading.

Wates has retained its place on the fourth generation Southern Construction Framework (SCF), which promises a potential £5.25bn pipeline of work across the South.

Wates has planted 100 sapling trees by the new Braywick Park Leisure Centre in order to offset carbon emissions generated during the centre’s construction.

Three of the UKs leading construction companies have been chosen to create Public Health Englands new state-of-the-art public health science campus and headquarters at Harlow in Essex.

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Wates Smartspace has been appointed to the prestigious £250m per annum Gatwick Airport Limited Construction Framework until 2021, with the potential to extend for a further two years.

Leading housebuilder Miller Homes and Wates Developments have joined forces to form a new housebuilder joint venture which will increase business opportunities for both organisations in Southern England.

22 Station Road, Cambridges new Grade A office development, has been crowned Best Commercial Workplace at the British Council for Offices (BCO) Midlands and East Anglia Regional Property Awards 2016.

Steff has been at Wates since 1995, spending his initial 18 years in a regional capacity including five years as Regional Director. Following this, he led the pre-construction function for Wates Construction Group, including SES Engineering Services, for more than six years.