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Covers.qxp_Layout 1 12/11/2018 09:45 Page 2 BEST NEW HOMES IN BRITAIN Judges Report sponsored by Covers.qxp_Layout 1 12/11/2018 09:47 Page 3 “Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”HENRY FORD Beautiful things happen when you put the right ingredients together. That’s why we are one of the most successful integrated agency start-ups of the last 20 years. Our philosophy at Four is about combining a broad range of integrated communications and marketing services and real sector knowledge into one exceptional offer. We call it the power of together. [email protected] fourcommunications.com Foreword_1.qxp_Layout 1 09/11/2018 09:29 Page 1 FOREWORD possible to create a climate where housebuilding is heralded as one of the most satisfying – and potentially rewarding – careers, with a variety THE BEST NEW of opportunities across so many disciplines HOMES IN BRITAIN and skill sets. I hope you enjoyed the show, the day the new The best housebuilders in Britain, showcased in homes flag flies highest, and many congratulations these pages, have a hard-wired commitment to to all the winners and their supply chains. You are a their people, to training and addressing the skills credit to the housebuilding industry and should be shortage. Recruit and retain the right people and the immensely proud of your achievements. right products will follow; customers will be satisfied Today is Celebration Day. It is certainly not Training and the industry’s image will rise. Day, although I am sure, for you film buffs, Jack This is why we launched a monthly supplement to Whitehall could do a reasonable impression of the industry’s leading trade magazine Show House Ethan Hawke if pushed. called Show House Jobs, dedicated to helping But maybe 2019 needs to be badged Training Year. people find or enhance a career in housebuilding The housebuilding industry will bleat – sometimes and the supply chain. with good reason, sometimes with naked self- This is why we invited Gabby Logan to talk today interest – about perennial hurdles, be they planning, about Diversity, an issue the industry must address politicians, innovation, NIMBYs, or Brexit. with far more vigour. But what the industry has to get on with, driving the This is why the WhatHouse? Awards are once bus not sitting at the back playing with its Help to again supporting Dallaglio RugbyWorks, a charity Buy app, is training and recruitment – not just for helping teenagers who are not in mainstream tomorrow but for the day after and 20 years to come. education into employment, training or education. The excuses will flood in: too many election We would like to thank all the housebuilders, cycles, too many economic cycles, too many suppliers and other industry colleagues who have housing cycles. Too many bicycles probably – supported this great event, with special thanks to typical bus drivers. our Awards sponsors and judges – all best in class It’s not good enough. We need an attitude that in their professions. places housing alongside health and education as The industry has many challenges ahead, but for key planks of our wellbeing; social, as well as now let us celebrate the best new homes in Britain. economic, political and environmental, imperatives. Housebuilders get fat on the feast; shed jobs in Rupert Bates the famine. It might not be possible to create an Editorial Director environment where the industry is consistently well What House Digital & Show House magazine fed, rather than big weight fluctuations. But it is [email protected] Globespan Media is the organiser of the WhatHouse? Awards and also publishes the leading trade title for the housebuilding industry, Show House. Its sister consumer-facing business is WhatHouse.com, the leading new homes portal, which also offers a range of programmatic packages and digital solutions. Editorial director: Rupert Bates Creative director: Kelly Bates Chief sub-editor: Suzanne Frost Sales director: Adrian Talbot ([email protected]) Globespan Media Ltd – 5th Floor, 291-299 Borough High Street, London SE1 1JG 020 7940 1070 www.whathouse.com | www.showhouse.co.uk BEST NEW HOMES IN BRITAIN | 01 HBOY_4_5.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2018 10:44 Page 1 HOUSEBUILDER OF THE YEAR REDROW mention more than 20,000 five successive years and, in trainees, half of them apprentices. partnership with Liverpool John In October, chairman and One reason for Redrow being Moores University and Coleg founder Steve Morgan, 44 years crowned the best housebuilder Cambria, established a three- after he started the business, in Britain is this commitment to year housebuilding degree. saw Redrow hand over the training and recruitment, which Currently, 15% of Redrow’s keys to its 100,000th home. industry-wide is of massive workforce are trainees, while A month later, Redrow is the significance. Whatever the Redrow chief executive recipient of the biggest economic cycle, whatever John Tutte is chairman of the accolade in the new homes the political uncertainties, HBF’s Home Building Skills industry – WhatHouse? housebuilders have to get this Partnership. Tutte will succeed Housebuilder of the Year. part of their house in order. Morgan as Redrow chairman, Redrow – with Morgan retiring Redrow has been a Top 100 with Matthew Pratt stepping up from the business next March – Apprenticeship Employer for to chief operating officer. is a remarkable story that started in 1974, and this year was another record-breaking one for the FTSE 250 company, building nearly 6,000 homes across England and Wales, reporting record revenues of £1.92bn and record pre-tax profits of £380m, up 21% on 2017. The lifetime statistics to date say 100,000 new homes, £2.7bn into community infrastructure including schools and affordable housing, 5,700 acres of public open space, 36,000 direct jobs and another 200,000 indirectly through the supply chain, not to 02 | BEST NEW HOMES IN BRITAIN HBOY_4_5.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2018 10:44 Page 2 HOUSEBUILDER OF THE YEAR Redrow puts is sustained success down to a triumvirate of product, placemaking and people. It does traditional, doffing hard hats to the vernacular and period-style family homes; it does bold and modern; it does garden villages; and – in the case of Colindale Gardens in north-west London – it does brand new urban settlements. Redrow currently stretches across 15 regions and around 130 live sites, with its headquarters at St David’s Park in Flintshire, north Wales. Redrow contributes to wider industry debate and thought leadership around key issues, prepared not just to shout its own credentials, but appreciating the need for housebuilders to work, walk and talk collaboratively to tackle a raft of pivotal challenges – from image to innovation, product quality to customer care. A worthy winner of the biggest prize in British housebuilding. Here’s to the next 100,000 homes. They are certainly needed. BEST NEW HOMES IN BRITAIN | 03 Large_6_7.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2018 09:35 Page 1 BEST LARGE HOUSEBUILDER GOLD £163m to improving local north-west London – a £1.2bn Redrow Homes communities, primarily through scheme that will eventually supporting education, health and be a new community of nearly Redrow, with its headquarters transport facilities. 3,000 homes across just under in Flintshire, north Wales, is With design distinction comes 50 acres. firmly established as one of brand recognition, combining Sustainability and biodiversity the biggest names in British traditional design with top are Redrow watchwords too, housebuilding. On the back of a specifications and attention to while its commitment to training, fifth consecutive year of record detail. But Redrow does big, recruitment and employee growth, it now builds nearly bold, regeneration projects development is industry-leading 6,000 homes a year and is too and there are few bigger and always enlightening. In the pushing towards a £2bn a year in planning and perception land of the building giants, this business. Its latest pre-tax than Colindale Gardens in year Redrow has struck gold. profits hit a record £380m, up 21% on 2017. Its homes are very distinct, be it Redrow’s Arts & Crafts inspired properties in the Heritage Collection, or the Regent Collection, paying classical homage to the symmetry of the Georgian era. Redrow recently tweaked its Heritage range with bigger footprints and larger entertaining areas, always alive to changing lifestyles and customer feedback, with repeat business from many buyers. Last year, Redrow committed 04 | BEST NEW HOMES IN BRITAIN Large_6_7.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2018 09:35 Page 2 BEST LARGE HOUSEBUILDER accommodation right through to retirement villages. The geographical spread is equally expansive, stretching from Scotland to Cornwall, from mixed- use schemes in Edinburgh to Georgian-style crescents in Truro. Places for People also has a 50% stake in ModularWise – a supplier of modular buildings, currently working on a scheme in Swindon – and Places for People prominent feature of its homes. is looking to be building five SILVER Avant pays particular attention modular homes a week by the Avant Homes to the customer experience, end of this year, and it last year Avant Homes is on a journey of especially when it comes to completed the acquisition of the expansion, looking to turn the signing off a new home, while highly garlanded, Kent-based company into a £1bn turnover using the latest technology to Millwood Designer Homes. business in the next five years raise its marketing offering. The company is also working and building around 4,000 With growth comes recruitment in partnership with Homes homes a year by then. and training; clearly central England on custom-build homes, The housebuilder’s regional tenets within the business and while its retirement brand, Brio reach primarily takes in the north supported by its own sales Retirement Living, has plans to of England and Scotland, with its academy.

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