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We have officially opened the doors to our new Discovery House at Alconbury Weald, a David Wilson development
We have officially opened the doors to our new Discovery House at Alconbury Weald, a David Wilson Homes development in Cambridgeshire.
The interactive experience, created in our popular Elmsthorpe style home, has been designed to show the various build stages of a new home and what makes new build homes so energy efficient.
The Mayor of Huntingdon, Councillor Phil Pearce, and the Mayoress, Debbie Pearce,...
Posted: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:41
National Apprenticeship Week
On Monday, the Industry and Parliament Trust held their annual dinner to mark National Apprenticeship Week, attended by figures from across business and parliament including Seema Malhotra, Shadow Skills Minister, and former Home Secretary the Lord Blunkett.
Representing Barratt at the dinner was Abigail Stevens. Abigail, pictured second from the right, is working towards her Level 3 Site Carpentry...
Posted: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 09:00
Sarah Dyke MP visited Delamare Park last week, our gas-free, 82-home development in Frome, Somerset.
Sarah Dyke MP visited Delamare Park last week, our gas-free, 82-home development in Frome, Somerset.
All 82 energy efficient properties are fitted with air source heat pumps as standard, replacing gas boilers with a clean, emissions-free way of meeting a home's heating and hot water requirements.
Sarah Dyke MP said: "It's very encouraging to see the country's biggest housebuilder is taking the climate...
Posted: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 09:00
This week we joined government, business and finance leaders at the Net Zero Council
This week we joined government, business and finance leaders at the Net Zero Council, bringing a range of industries together to plot a shared pathway to net zero.
As well as discussing the critical role for finance and how to decarbonise transport, our Chief Executive David Thomas spoke about the steps the homebuilding industry is taking to build zero carbon homes, as well as the need to tackle emissions...
Posted: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:54
NHBC Pride in the Job Supreme Awards runner up
At the NHBC Pride in the Job Supreme Awards on Friday, Site Manager Sean O'Regan, working at our Waldmers Wood development in Bury, was named runner up in the Large Builder Category.
The Pride in the Job awards are the 'Oscars' of the housebuilding industry, and our record underlines the high standard of work that our site teams deliver every day, building homes and places of the highest quality.
Also...
Posted: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:00
Kickstart - a new shared ownership scheme launched with Legal & General Affordable Homes
To help more people to buy a high quality new home, we've launched a new shared ownership scheme with Legal & General Affordable Homes, called Kickstart.
Kickstart is a great way for people to afford a new home because they can start by buying a share rather than the full market value of the home. This means the deposit is lower, mortgage is smaller and you can increase that share over time.
Eligible...
Posted: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:18
We continue to be the country’s leading national sustainable housebuilder
This was underlined last week by the NextGeneration benchmark, where we were again ranked as the leading national sustainable housebuilder, and second on the list overall, scoring 85% across over 60 criteria covering the full ESG spectrum.
NextGeneration is the only sustainable housing benchmark used by the majority of UK housebuilders to assess their sustainability performance.
On top of our Gold Award...
Posted: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:29
Last week we hosted the first tour of our new, £45 million-pound timber frame factory in Derby
Last week, we hosted the first tour of our new, £45 million-pound timber frame factory in Derby.
A group of mortgage lenders and valuers including TSB Bank, Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide Building Society, toured the factory to see how raw materials are taken from one end of the 200,000-square foot facility and placed on a giant conveyor belt, where wall and floor panels and roof trusses...
Posted: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 17:06