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.

Wates Living Space has been appointed by The Guinness Partnership to deliver planned maintenance works to two high rise schemes – taking the housing maintenance provider’s total number of tower block refurbishment projects to over 200.

Wates has completed work on 22 much-needed new homes at Stag House in Wandsworth, celebrating with an official event to mark the handing over of keys to Wandsworth Council.

A new build 32 storey tower of 279 apartments for shared-ownership and private sale, plus ground floor commercial units.

Plans have been approved on the second site of a £1 billion housing regeneration scheme in London, marking a significant step forward for the flagship home building programme.

Building work on one of east London’s largest regeneration projects is continuing at pace on Barking’s Gascoigne Estate.

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David Morgan, Managing Director, Wates Property Services calls on the housing maintenance industry to join forces in the aftermath of Covid-19.

Havering Council and Wates have submitted plans for the Waterloo Estate in Romford, east London, the largest council estate regeneration planning application to be submitted in London this year.

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Wates Residential helps secure funding for vital community foodbank service as demand increases due to Covid-19

32 unemployed adults from Bexley and the surrounding areas have graduated from a free, two week Construct a Career training course that targets individuals that are not currently in employment.

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.

From the outset, the Anthology Hale project had a focus to eliminate the need for scaffolding or mast climbers and saving on costs whilst doing so.

Wates has been reappointed by Tamworth Borough Council to deliver a ten-year programme of housing repairs across the borough.

Wates has officially announced the launch of one of Birminghams most significant and complex projects of the past decade, Bank Tower.

Construct a Career, an initiative offering a proactive and quick solution to the skills shortage facing the UK construction industry, is celebrating its first programme delivered in partnership with the Wates Group in Brent.

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

Plans for Wates to build more than 200 new homes on the west side of the Gascoigne Estate have been given the thumbs up at Barking and Dagenham Councils planning committee.

Wates has expanded its framework presence with its appointment to the South East Consortium (SEC) Internal & External Building Works Framework.