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Wates launches ‘Healthy Homes’ service to improve UK’s social housing stock

Wates has launched a new dedicated service designed to combat two of the greatest challenges facing social housing, disrepair, and damp and mould. The new Healthy Homes service, which boasts six customers in place already, will see Wates offer existing ...

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Pinnacle grows housing management contract with LGAH

The housing services provider is set to more than double the number of homes it manages on behalf of Legal & General Affordable Homes (LGAH) as it becomes the firms leading managing agent. In recent weeks, Pinnacle has taken on ...

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Pinnacle wins housing association estate management deal

Funding Affordable Homes Housing Association (FAHHA), a for-profit Registered Provider and Homes England investment partner, has appointed Pinnacle Group to provide management services at a new-build home counties housing scheme. Sterling Gardens, a development of 119 apartments, including 27 for ...

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EN:Procure appoints contractors for £3.2bn framework

Regional procurement specialist EN:Procure has appointed 100 contractors to its latest installers’ framework, valued at more than £3.2 billion, over a four-year term. The procurement arm of social housing consortium Efficiency North had recently opened the bidding for the next ...

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Wates secures its largest SHDF contract to date

Wates has secured a £21 million contract to retrofit 665 homes across the Royal Borough of Greenwich, through the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1, which is now the firms largest SHDF contract to date. Carrying out energy improvement ...

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Wates cements presence as a leader in social housing retrofit

Wates has secured £107 million of Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1 contracts on behalf of 17 social landlords. The milestone comes eight months after the Government allocated its latest round of SHDF funding, a total of £778 million ...

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Richard Irvin FM secures two key wins

Richard Irvin FM’s Housing Services division has landed two prestigious contracts with two new clients in Scotland. Through the PFH Framework the hard services specialist has been successful in tendering the Annual Heating Servicing and All Inclusive Repairs & Maintenance ...

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Wates wins £35m major works contract in Brent

The Wates Group’s social housing repairs and maintenance division, Wates Living Space, has secured a £35 million contract to deliver Brent Council’s Major Works programme across its social housing portfolio. The contract, which commenced in July will run for 80 weeks ...

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Morgan Sindall Property Services chosen to retrofit hundreds of homes

Longhurst Group has appointed Morgan Sindall Property Services to help deliver a new project to improve the energy efficiency of 581 homes over the next two years, following grant funding from the Government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). The scheme will ...

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Wates teams up with NHDG to boost social housing retrofit

Building and property maintenance company, Wates, has become one of the first members of the newly formed National Homes Decarbonisation Group (NHDG) in a move that will help accelerate the social housing retrofit challenge. The Group will work together to ...

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