Following the King’s Speech where the new government’s plans to get Britain building were laid out by His Majesty King Charles, Channel 4’s senior political correspondent Paul McNamara met with our managing director for Vistry Northern Home Counties James Shuttleworth at our Wellingborough development in Northamptonshire. In an interview that aired on Wednesday's Channel 4 News, James said he was optimistic after hearing of the Government’s plans. The Stanton Cross development at Wellingborough will comprise of 3,600 homes and incorporates vital infrastructure. It is just one of the many developments that Vistry is committed to in their drive to tackle the housing crisis. James said: “I am very hopeful for the first time in a long, long time because the rhetoric coming out of the government is heading in the right direction.” He added: “I don’t think it is going to happen overnight, I think in the long to medium term we do need to see a reform of the planning system and land availability but, in the short-term finance needs to drive the existing developments that are here, and which are not moving as fast as they could be.” #AffordableHousing #Community #MakingVistry
About us
Vistry Group is the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed tenure homes. Our purpose as a responsible developer is to work in partnership to deliver sustainable homes, communities and social value, leaving a lasting legacy of places people love. We are a young and dynamic business with a partnerships-led approach, delivered under our Countryside Partnerships brand, and an exciting timber-frame manufacturing operation called Vistry Works, running three factories and supporting our drive towards net zero. Delivering thousands of homes every year for the affordable and private market places, Vistry Group also has an unmatched portfolio of retail brands, each with a rich history and strong reputation: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes and Countryside Homes. We are a multi award-winning housebuilder and the group has again been awarded the 5 Star Rating by the Home Builders Federation following the latest industry’s Customer Satisfaction Survey.
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https://www.vistrygroup.co.uk/
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- Construction
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- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Kent
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- Public Company
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- placemaking, newhomes, partnerships, community, housebuilding, sustainability, and biodiversity
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Kent, GB
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Great to be involved in this impactful project alongside our partners including SSAFA the Armed Forces charity
🍃 Why is the Gordon Messenger Centre (GMC) – a military community hub based at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, Devon – of such value to all who use it? 🍃 As we look forward to the impending construction of a garden here, beginning this Wednesday, we’ve spoken to some of those who use it, to find out... John Kirby, age 78, was a Corporal in the Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers for 15 years, and comes along to the veterans’ brunch every Thursday for a bacon bap. “I love coming here to be with other people who have been through similar experiences,” he says. “Whether your Army, Air Force or Navy, you’ve all been through similar training and all had some excellent and lousy times, so everyone understands you here. John served in Northern Ireland and was discharged around the same time as the Falklands War began. “It was an absolutely brilliant time of my life,” he continued. “I went into the army because I wanted to get away from home. I had good and bad times, of course; the bad times you forget, but the good times were absolutely brilliant, like the camaraderie and where we got to go. “I was sat in the office one day, and the boss came in and said, ‘I've just been told I've got to send a Class One to Canada for a detachment, but I’m not going to send you because you’re getting married this summer’. “You can get married anytime, but this was a one-off opportunity, so I phoned up my fiancé and said we needed to postpone the wedding. She said, ‘fair enough’. She knew the army was my life.” ***The GMC June Best Sanctuary Garden, located at the Gordon Messenger Centre (GMC), a tri-service community hub at CTCRM, Lympstone, has been sponsored by SSAFA the Armed Forces charity Devon, thanks to a generous legacy gift by former SSAFA Devon volunteer June Best. It is being built by volunteers from the military community, for the military community, and delivered by Splash Projects. Further substantial sponsorship has come from RMA - The Royal Marines Charity (donated as a legacy gift by a former Royal Marine through the Tavistock Freemasons/Sanctuary Lodge), with significant additional support from Vistry Group.*** #veterans #militaryfamily #teamwork #together #splashprojects #communityimpact #givingback
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We are delighted that our unique Vistry Innovation Centre (VIC) has been shortlisted in the Product Innovation category of the Offsite Awards 2024. The category was open to a range of innovative products and systems and we were required to demonstrate how the VIC not only met appropriate UK building regulations and safety requirements but how it plays an integral role in the offsite construction market. Good luck to our Vistry Works and VIC teams for the finals in September. #Awards #Innovation #MakingVistry
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Vistry Group and Bloor Homes have secured planning permission for 826 new homes in Leighton West, Crewe. Plans, which were given the go-ahead by Cheshire East Council’s Strategic Planning Board this week, include 84 affordable homes as well as green infrastructure and landscaping. The public spaces will also include allotments, community orchards, footpaths, cycleways, formal and informal play spaces, outdoor gyms and green corridors. Local community services and facilities will include a site for a primary school which will receive a financial contribution along with funding going towards sports facilities. We anticipate a start on site in spring 2025 with the first homes being occupied by early 2026. Read more via this link: https://bit.ly/45ZjCec #AffordableHousing #Community
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Our head of technical innovation, Jack Brayshaw says of this innovative heating solution in collaboration with Sigma Capital Group Limited: "At Vistry we are proud to support Sigma’s transition to low-carbon heating. Adopting an array of low carbon technologies before the Future Homes Standard comes into force will ensure we learn valuable lessons and achieve the best outcomes for our partners and their residents."
Simple Life and Vistry Group launch sustainable heating solutions: https://lnkd.in/gKCtr9XQ cc Luke Lightfoot BSc (Hons) MSc AIRPM, Jack Brayshaw, Sigma Capital Group Limited and Gateshead Council #btrnews #btr #buildtorent #esg #singlefamily #sustainability #residential #residentialdevelopment #builtenvironment
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We have been shortlisted in two categories of the East Midlands Property Awards. Our Ridgeway development has reached the finals in the Sustainability Award category while we have also been put forward for Residential Developer of the Year 2024 with our joint entry for North and South East Midlands. The finals of the East Midlands Property Awards 2024 will take place in September.
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Our East Midlands team have agreed a new partnership with leading affordable housing provider Metropolitan Thames Valley for 122 properties across three East Midlands developments. MTVH has agreed a forward purchase of 90 new properties in Nottinghamshire: 65 at our Fairham development and 25 family homes at our Padstow site in Bestwood. They will also be taking 32 homes in Derbyshire at our St Lawrence Fold scheme in Clay Cross. All three sites offer a blend of tenures which are all built to the same exceptionally high standard . The affordable homes available through MTVH will give even more families the opportunity to live in a well-designed and high-quality family home in a beautifully integrated community. Read more via this link: https://bit.ly/3xI7TnM #AffordableHousing #partnerships
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Vistry’s Rochester Riverside development in Kent has been shortlisted for the Housing Design Award. Rochester Riverside celebrates high-quality public space, while also incorporating the site’s natural heritage across the scheme, to allow the riverside biodiversity to thrive. Testament to extensive consultation, the scheme brings a vacant site back into use with a sensitive interpretation of vernacular architecture and a dramatic skyline. #HousingDesignAwards #Awards #Regeneration
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Today we published our trading update for the period 1 January to 30th June 2024. Vistry chief executive Greg Fitzgerald commented: “The group has delivered a strong performance in the first half which underpins the board’s confidence in its expectations for the full year. Our Partnerships model is significantly outperforming the broader housebuilding market and we are confident we will deliver over 18,000 completions for the full year and make progress towards our medium-term targets. “We look forward to working with the new Government to address the country’s housing crisis and are extremely well placed to support its ambition of delivering the biggest boost to affordable housing in a generation.” Read the full report via this link: https://bit.ly/3zCAsn9
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In partnership with Paradigm Housing Group we are very pleased to be handing over the first 14 affordable homes at our St Michael’s Hurst development in Bishop’s Stortford, which, once finished, will deliver 207 number of homes in total, comprising 125 affordable homes and 82 private homes. Delivering the housing mix that residents need is key to our partnerships approach, and we are very pleased to have reached this stage of the delivery programme. #partnerships #AffordableHousing
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