from the editor TAKING PRIDE 30 YEARSON
NHBC, the leading standard-setting and consumer protection body for new homes in the UK, is launching its annual Pride in the Job Awards. Now in its 30th year, the awards recognise site managers who develop the highest quality new homes and raise standards in house-building across the UK. This year a Special Award will e introduced to commemorate the 30 year anniversary. Launching the awards, NHBC Chief Executive, Imtiaz Farookhi, said: “Pride in the Job has been encouraging best practice and raising standards on-site for 30 years now. The industry has suffered enormously during the economic downturn creating unprecedented challenges for site managers, which means it is all the more important to recognise and reward those that maintain their commitment to raising new house-building standards to deliver a quality finished home.” Established in 1980, Pride in the Job is unique as the only national award to recognise the contribution a site manager makes to a development. In the
past 30 years, it has become synonymous with quality, making it a recognised seal of approval for new homebuyers. For the winning site manager a Pride in the Job Award can have career changing results.
Each winning development will be able to fly a Pride in the Job flag – a hallmark of a successful site and a good indication for consumers that those homes are built to a high standard and are some of the best in UK today. For the past 12 months NHBC inspectors have been judging around 13,000 site managers, scrutinising every aspect of the build. Judges rigorously assess every aspect of the site including the development, technical knowledge and consistency in the build process.
In June, NHBC will announce the first round of ‘Quality Award’ winners – where the best 400 site managers are identified from across the UK. They will then hope to progress through the awards to win a Seal of Excellence and Regional Award before the awards culminate in the gala
ceremony for the national Supreme Pride in the Job Award in January 2011.
NHBC is the standard setting and leading consumer protection body for new homes in the UK. Established 74 years ago as a non-profit distributing company, NHBC's primary purpose is to help raise standards to protect homeowners. NHBC's 10 year Buildmark warranty covers more than 80 per cent of new homes uilt in the UK and currently protects more than 1.7 million homes. Pride in the Job rewards site managers who demonstrate the highest levels of professionalism in every aspect of their work on- site, from their organisation of the site to the quality controls in place. As one of the most intense and celebrated awards in the industry, Pride in the Job is famous for establishing its winners as the best in their field and is the only award in the UK to recognise the contribution a site manager makes to a development.
Galliford Try to Develop 296 Homes
Galliford Try, the housebuilding and construction group, announces that it has entered into agreements with leading affordable housing provider, the Affinity Sutton Group, to acquire and develop two sites for a total of 296 homes in the south east of England.185 new homes will be provided by the regeneration of the Wilmington Estate in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
114 homes for sale together with 71 affordable homes for social rent will be provided through a mixture of houses and apartments.The regeneration of the Ramsden Estate in Orpington, Kent, will see 111 new homes provided, 53 for private sale and 58 affordable homes. Greg Fitzgerald, Chief Executive of Galliford Try,
commented: “We are delighted to build on our strong relationship with the Affinity Sutton Group to carry out these two significant developments. We are already working with Affinity Sutton on the long term development of the 800 homes net carbon neutral scheme at Graylingwell Park in Chichester in partnership with the Homes and Communities Agency.”
WNDC APPOINTS DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT The body delivering jobs, homes and investment in one of the UK’s most important growth areas has made a new senior appointment. West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC) has appointed Adrian Arnold as Director of Planning Services. The new role has been created as part of a restructuring by WNDC’s new Chief Executive, Peter Mawson. It also follows the outcome of WNDC’s Quinquennial Review, which has seen the Corporation strongly endorsed by government as a strategic body focusing on increasingly large development schemes. Working with WNDC’s local authority partners in Northampton, Daventry and Towcester, Adrian will be responsible for overseeing the determination of planning applications within WNDC’s area of development control. Adrian has 24 years of local authority planning experience, including 12 years of senior management, involving the delivery of high-quality large scale developments. He joined WNDC in 2006 as head of development control and was promoted as the corporation’s head of strategic planning projects in 2008, where he worked on applications providing infrastructure, such as major roads and flood defence works. Peter Mawson, WNDC’s chief executive, said: “Adrian’s appointment is confirmation of his considerable expertise in delivering our development objectives, which include providing high-quality development that benefits local communities. Among his many achievements, his work has provided the infrastructure enabling much needed regeneration on the western side of Northampton.” Previously, Adrian was planning control manager at Mid-Bedfordshire District Council, where he worked on the successful negotiation of a complex S106 planning agreement for a new town, Wixhams.
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