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What makes Housebuilder of the Year?
For Shanly Homes, it’s a winning combination of commitment to the local community, sustainable development sites and quality homes
Since it was founded in 1969, Shanly Homes has established itself as one of the South East’s leading developers, and has delivered over 1,500 sites from two to 400 homes at a time. As a privately-owned company, the Beaconsfield-based housebuilder is afforded with the versatility to adapt its homes to individual locations and the sentiment of the local community, which is evident in its development portfolio.
While carving a niche when it comes to building architecturally innovative homes, pinning down the Shanly Homes house ‘type’ is in fact quite difficult. For each development opportunity, planners and designers at Shanly work to create distinctive and characterful new homes, that complement and enhance the local area. The past year has seen the delivery of 133 apartments and 184 houses, which vary in shape, size and style. For the award-winning housebuilder, no two developments, or even homes, are really the same.
As 2015 saw the Shanly Group achieve a turnover Case studies Chapel Arches, Maidenhead
Playing a major part in the regeneration of Maidenhead’s town centre, and possibly Shanly’s most exciting project to date, Chapel Arches is providing 240 new homes along the new waterways.
Shanly Homes has been working closely with the Partnership for the Regeneration of Maidenhead (PRoM) and Maidenhead Waterways to breathe new life into the town with the creation a vibrant waterside destination, providing al fresco dining, shops and offices. Spanning an impressive 3.1 acres, Chapel Arches will open up a previously under-utilised part of town for locals and visitors.
Apartments at The Picturehouse were the first to be released in April, and take inspiration from the scheme’s location, with curved balconies emulating the stream as it meanders around the town. The use of floor-to-ceiling windows maximises natural light, and enhances views across the waterways, towards the public amphitheatre which Shanly is constructing on the opposite river bank.
of £172 million and the number of employees grow to 194, it’s hard to believe that the company had rather more modest beginnings – chairman and founder Michael Shanly built his first development of one home on Love Lane in Pinner, Middlesex 47 years ago. Today, housebuilding is just one arm of the Shanly Group of companies which continues to go from strength to strength. The commercial property division, Sorbon Estates, now has over 1,000 tenants in its portfolio, and rents from these accounted for 8% of last year’s turnover.
The company’s long-standing charitable organisation, The Shanly Foundation, supports predominantly local community projects, events and charities, and has donated almost £10m since its inception. It is also through the Shanly Foundation’s charity partners such as SATRO, that the developer is working with local schools to educate and inspire the next generation of housebuilders.
Tamra Booth, group operations director of the Shanly Group, comments: “2016 is already proving to be a successful year for the Group, and to have taken home such a prestigious award which recognises our hard work, customer service and building excellence, really is the jewel in the crown. We really do take great pride and satisfaction in providing the Thames Valley community with innovative and high-quality homes.”
While this year’s winners are undoubtedly deserving of the Housebuilder of the Year trophy, it seems that we have not yet seen the best of Shanly Homes. With a number of exciting projects underway and in the pipeline, Shanly Homes is actively seeking development and investment opportunities.
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THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – JUNE 2016
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