Oct 1 2009
Galliford Try has won five affordable housing and regeneration contracts totalling £36.1m.
The largest of these is a £20m design-and-build contract to regenerate The Tidemill School, Deptford Lounge and Resolution Studios in Deptford for the London Borough of Lewisham. The project will involve developing the new Tidemill Primary School, which will be integrated with a new public building to be named the Deptford Lounge.
The Deptford Lounge will house a public library, a council service centre, a number of community rooms, office spaces, a cafe and health and leisure services. In addition, Resolution Studios, nine creative studio units , an art gallery and 38 one and two-bedroom homes will be built on the complex. Work is due to be completed in May 2011.
Galliford Try has also been appointed on three contracts worth a total of £14.3m by Swan Housing Association to build a total of 128 affordable homes in East London.
Additionally, the firm has secured a £1.8m contract to remodel the 1st to 3rd Floors at Anchor House, a hostel for homeless adults in Canning Town East London, to provide 69 self contained bed rooms.
Source: http://www.gallifordtry.co.uk/