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The larger development will be built around a courtyardHalf the new properties will be for private sale and half for council housing. The deal will see construction of 250 homes on the old Copland School site, east of Cecil Avenue – of which 152 will...

Eoghan O’Lionaird has been on gardening leave since departing marine services group James Fisher last September. Aged 56, he joins Wates on 20th February 2023. Irishman Eoghan O’Lionaird had served three years as chief executive of James Fisher. Before that his CVB shows periods with...

Antony Collett (left) and James GreggAntony Collett has joined Wates from Mitie as managing director of its facilities management business. He takes over from James Gregg, who has moved into the role of managing director of Wates Living Space (south planned) – the planned housing...

Tim WatesTim Wates will succeed as chairman of the Wates Group at the privatetly-owned company’s annual general meeting in May 2023. Tim Wates joined the business in 1993 after starting his career in banking with Cazenove & Co. He has been on the board from...

David AllenDavid Allen’ sudden departure from Wates in July took the industry by surprise, given that he had just led the company to its highest ever annual operating profit in 2021. As an accountant, his new job at Mace represents a return to his roots....

Sarah CookeSarah Cooke joins Wates from Balfour Beatty, which she joined in 2020 as national framework director. Over the past 20 years she has worked in design roles at Lendlease and Thomas Vale and has had stints as pore-construction director at both Galliford Try and...

Paul Griffin Paul Griffin rejoins the company that trained him more than 20 years ago. He left Wates four years ago to join London Project Consultants, where former Wates chief executive Dave Smith is a non-executive director, but is now back. He has been appointed...

CGI of The Bishops Avenue RiverstoneThe Bishops Avenue Riverstone is a 22,084 sqm ‘later living’ residence in containing 93 flats for the over 65s, with facilities ranging from a sauna and swimming pool to a ballroom and library. The developer is Riverstone Living, which is...

Reporting to Wates Construction managing director Mark Tant, Saville will lead the business’ strategic plans across the North West, as well as Yorkshire and the North East. With almost 30 years’ experience in the industry, Saville joined Wates Construction in 2019 as Regional Director for...

David AllenSir James Wates, chairman of the Wates Group that is owned by his family, announced today that chief executive David Allen was stepping down with immediate effect, to be replaced on an interim basis by chief financial officer Philip Wainwright. While the company statement...

CGI of the National Quantum Computing Centre The NQCC is being built at the Science & Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Campus in Harwell, Oxfordshire to promote collaboration between quantum hardware and software researchers. Scientists reckon that quantum computers have the potential to...

Wates has been honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the sustainable  development category – a third win for the company, having previously won the award in 2011 and 2016. “Wates Group Ltd is awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development because...

Loyds Bank is Wates' lead lenderWates’ three-year loan is believed to be the second biggest to date taken out by a UK construction company with sustainability strings attached. And one of those strings is that it has to do something about its pale male leadership....

Chief executive David AllenWates made a record operating profit of £40m in 2021 (2020: £4.6m) on turnover up 12% to £1.63bn (2020: £1.45bn) Pre-tax profit was up 5% to £37.4m (2020: £35.7m and 2019: £36.2m). The business secured £2.3bn of new work during 2021 and...

Wates Construction regional director John Carlin (left) and managing director Paul Chandler declare the new office open at a ribbon-cutting event on 16th FebruaryWates Construction has moved its midlands headquarters from Quinton Business Park in Birmingham to the Colmore District, near Snow Hill Station, in...