Willmott Dixon’s pipeline of Midlands housing work is being boosted by new schemes in Evesham, Worcester and Rugby that will sustain over 100 jobs.
While Tamworth-based Lovell has secured work on six new-build housing schemes across Birmingham with Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust.
The Lovell schemes are worth £18.7m and will see 187 homes being built.
Work on the schemes will begin in the next quarter and all will be complete by the end of 2014.
The sites are: Perry Common phase 5c and 5d – £6m – 60 units, Wyrley Birch – £2.7m – 25 units, Lozells – £3.4m – 22 units + external works, West Heath – £3.5 m – 47 units, Loftus Road, Shenley Fields – £1.7m – 19 units and White Farm, Four Oaks – £1.4m – 14 units.
Willmott Dixon will deliver 160 new homes for Rooftop Housing Group, Worcester Community Housing and Housing 21 to deliver a total of 160 new homes in the region for a variety of tenure needs.
At Evesham, Willmott Dixon will build a £6m 48 apartment extension for Rooftop Housing Group to the popular Yates Court extra care complex in the High Street.
In Worcester, Worcester Community Housing has awarded the company a £7m contract on Gresham Road to create a mixed-use development providing 27 houses and six commercial units that incorporate a further 24 apartments, together with the re-provision of the local church.
In Rugby, Willmott Dixon is working with Housing 21 on a facility that will provide 61 apartments for people requiring specialist extra care accommodation.
The housing work comes a few weeks after Willmott Dixon announced its Coleshill-based housing company had created 42 new jobs in the past six months following a surge in housing orders that included a £6.6m contract for The Wrekin Housing Trust for extra care apartments in Wombourne, plus work to create 37 new homes of all tenure mixes for Walsall Housing Group on Fisher Road.