by Andy Evans, in Development News , Land Wanted , New Homes , News
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve exchanged contracts this afternoon to purchase a site in Birmingham, onto which we will be building 29 affordable homes, subject to planning. Congratulations to Mark Horsley, our head of land and planning, for getting the deal over the line. Our thanks go out to Andrew Moss of Avison Young…
by Andy Evans, in Charity , Sponsorship
Next week Wonderful Homes’ MD Andy Evans and skiing friends Guy Bartlett, John Davies and Ian Dougall are taking on the AJ Bell Crans-Montana Marathon in support of Snow-Camp, raising much needed funds for the work they do with underprivileged young people. It would mean a lot if you can spare a few pounds to support the teams efforts and this very…
by Andy Evans, in Contracting , Development News , News
Earthworks at our development of 81 new homes in Overdate, Telford is now well underway. We’ve got to reduce levels and reprofile the whole site, with around 40,000 m3 of surplus earth to be moved off site – that’s around 4,000 lorry loads!! We’re also having to do some pretty deep excavations to install the…
by Andy Evans, in Contracting , Development News , New Homes , News
This week we’ve started work on our latest project, building 81 new homes under contract for Green Square Accord Housing Association. This is a very technically challenging site that has been in planning for many years, largely due to the site being a backfilled former opencast coalmine. We’ve spent nearly 2 years working on it…
by Andy Evans, in Contracting , Development News , New Homes , News
Today we handed over the last two new homes at St Peters View in Hixon, Staffordshire to Midland Heart. This development has provided 30 new affordable homes, with 24 having been let on an affordable rent basis and 6 have been sold via shared ownership. It’s been an interesting and challenging project due to the…
by Andy Evans, in Contracting , Development News , New Homes , News
Today we handed over the first 12 new homes at St Peters View in Hixon, Staffordshire to Midland Heart. We’re really pleased with how the development looks, with a careful choice of brick, roof tiles and small architectural details that compliment the rural / village location. These new homes really are in a lovely position…
by Andy Evans, in Development News , New Homes , News
A great way to end the week! After nearly 12 months of hard slog during the Coronavirus Pandemic, much of which was spent waiting for Highways England’s input, our reserved matters planning application for this development of 81 affordable homes in Telford has just been granted. Now the hard work begins to iron out the…
by Andy Evans, in Land Wanted
We urgently need more land to deliver more new homes. We’re looking to buy land in the West Midlands and surrounding counties. Sites need to be able to accommodate between 20 – 150 dwellings, circa 1 to 10 acres, and be within roughly a 1 hour drive / 50-60 mile radius of Birmingham. We ideally…
by Andy Evans, in Land Wanted , News
We hope you’re enjoying the festive period, taking a break and spending time with your loved ones, whether that be in person, by zoom, facetime, whatsApp or however we manage to see each other this year!! There is no doubt that 2020 has been a very unusual year with challenges we could never have even…
by Andy Evans, in Land Wanted , News
We’re delighted to announce that today Mark Horsley has joined us as Head of Land & Planning to lead our land prospecting and planning activities. Mark’s key objective is to build a rolling pipeline of development sites for the business to deliver. Mark is a chartered Architect with over two decades of experience in residential…
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