Places for People has appointed groundworks contractors to a framework valued at £246m, dividing the work into 13 regional lots across England and Scotland.
Firms with the widest reach
Coinford Central and RJ McLeod each secured places on six of the 13 lots, the broadest spread among the appointed companies. M&J Evans Construction and Houlihan & Co each picked up four lots.
The winner list also includes MV Kelly, Erith, Tamdown, O'Halloran & O'Brien and Chasetown Civil Engineering, alongside a wider group of regional specialists named on individual lots.
Scope of the packages
Work under the framework ranges from site clearance, bulk earthworks and foundations through to drainage, utilities, roads, sewers and external works. Scottish packages carry extra scope, running from house foundations to completed in-situ concrete floors, plot drainage, retaining wall foundations and ducting for electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Where the value sits
Greater London is the biggest regional package at around £38m. It is followed by the South West — South lot covering Berkshire, Hampshire and Dorset at £30m, while East Anglia and the northern Home Counties account for a further £29m.
The coverage stretches from Lancashire, Manchester and Merseyside in the North West through Yorkshire, the West Midlands, the East Midlands and several South East and South West lots to Greater London, plus three Scottish areas: the Central Belt, a North 1 package restricted to the Aberdeen area and a North 2 package whose detailed area was not specified.
How the lots break down
Most lots carry six named contractors. Selected allocations include:
- Yorkshire South and West Yorkshire: JLC Groundworks, John Reilly Civil Engineering, M&J Evans Construction, MV Kelly, RJ McLeod and Westshield.
- Central West — West Midlands, Staffordshire and Warwickshire: ATD Civils & Groundworks, Erith Group, Hilliard Civil Engineering (Nottingham), M&J Evans Construction, Manvers Main Construction and RJ McLeod.
- Central East — Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire: ATD Civils & Groundworks, Chasetown Civil Engineering, Erith Group, LMH (Civil Engineering), RJ McLeod and Stave-Con.
- South East — East, covering Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex: A D Bly Construction, Coinford Central, Houlihan & Co, Kingsheath Construction, O'Halloran & O'Brien and Tamdown Group.
- South West — West, covering Bristol, Devon and Somerset: Aeropark Developments, Coinford Central, Ford Civil Engineering, Hi-Acre Construction, Houlihan & Co and Renelec Groundworks.
- London: Coinford Central, Ford Civil Engineering, Fred Champion Groundworks, M&J Evans Construction, Renelec Groundworks and Tithegrove.
- Scotland — North 1, Aberdeen area only: Advance Construction (Scotland), Akela Construction, Andrew Strain Construction, I&H Brown, Keystone Construction Scotland and Stewart Landscapes (Contracts).
The appointments establish the pool of groundworks contractors Places for People can call on in each region, with the housing group's Scottish packages extending into substructure and concrete floor works as well as external infrastructure.