The offices of Galliford Try Partnerships East and West Midlands are gearing up to the challenge of delivering more new housing starts over the coming months. The leading regeneration specialist has grown rapidly in size, from a new entrant to the affordable and mixed tenure market to a leading player across the region in the past 5 years.
The success of the businesses has been the catalyst for a recruitment drive which has seen several new appointments and internal promotions recently, In the East Midlands new recruits include, Keith Moorcroft, Construction Director and Emma Hunt, Head of legal. West Midlands has seen Jema Moorcroft promoted to Associate Commercial Director, Adam Sharpe promoted to Head of Pre-Construction, Jonathan Walsh now Associate Construction Director and the recruitment of Roy Dickenson, Managing Quantity Surveyor.
Responding to the businesses growth objective to double its annual output of new homes by 2020, the Regional Managing Director for the Central and North region, James Warrington commented: “The recent Government boost to housing spending is good news for the industry and good news for our plans to expand our operations in the Midlands. We have a goal of doubling our production of new and affordable housing over the next two years and the additional funding streams announced by the Government will help to kick-start projects which would otherwise struggle to get off the ground.
“We have many new projects that are due to start within the next six months and we have bolstered our teams by recruiting highly motivated, enthusiastic and talented individuals who join our dedicated workforce and who will help us to deliver to the high-quality standards expected by our clients.”
Galliford Try Partnerships’ key projects across the regions include Tapworks and Tower & Fort Works in Wolverhampton where they are regenerating two sites to deliver 227 new homes for rent and for sale; the former Hall Green Stadium site in Birmingham which will see the delivery of 210 new two, three, and four bed houses; a £33m contract with Central Bedfordshire Council to build an independent living development in Houghton Regis. The development will include 168 one and two-bedroomed apartments, as well as community space, a restaurant, retail opportunities and care facilities; a Joint Venture with Metropolitan Thames Valley at Wilford Fields in West Bridgford, Nottingham. When complete, Wilford Fields will comprise a total of 121 homes for sale, including a range of two, three, four and five-bedroom properties and Solihull Retirement Village a partnership with Extra Care to build a Retirement Village in Solihull providing a whole range of communal social and leisure facilities for residents, their families and members of the wider community.
