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

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.

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.

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’ve been appointed to deliver a £4.3m Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1 contract on behalf of The Hyde Group, further strengthening our position as a leader in social housing retrofit.

We have started our new partnership with South Derbyshire District Council to deliver planned and responsive housing maintenance works to the Council’s 3,000 properties.

We’ve been appointed by Hertfordshire County Council to carry out a range of planned, reactive, and minor works across the Council’s 1,025 corporate buildings, libraries, fire stations, adult day care centres, youth centres, rural estates, open spaces, and schools.

A dream came true for our Chairman Tim Wates, when he took to the turf of his beloved Crystal Palace Football Club at Selhurst Park.

We have increased our fleet of electric maintenance vehicles by over 50% in a second major investment to our property services fleet in under 12 months

Summer Sampson, Disrepair Manager at Wates, shares insight on the long-term solutions needed to help social housing overcome some of its biggest challenges.