This week the Mayor of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz OBE, visited the borough’s latest affordable housing development, designed for those on Newham’s housing waiting list, to lay its commemorative final brick.
Leading Housing Association A2Dominion has appointed Higgins Partnerships onto two lots of its £900 million Construction Framework, which will run for the next four years.
As part of its social value strategy, Higgins is committed to working with social enterprises to support offenders, ex-offenders and homeless people into employment and apprenticeship opportunities.
As part of its social value commitment at its Chippenham Gardens project in South Kilburn, Brent, Higgins has sponsored an after school STEM club, with a focus on maths for year 6 students.
With their ongoing commitment to supporting local communities around their projects, Higgins and A2Dominion have donated laptops and tablets to the children of St Mark’s Primary School in Hanwell, West London.
Higgins Partnerships has been successful in securing a place on the £20 million plus lot on Spelthorne Borough Council’s construction contractors framework.
Higgins Partnerships has been appointed to the New Build and Regeneration lot on Camden Council’s Construction Framework.
Work has started on site at 39A-49A Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate in the London Borough of Newham, E7 to deliver much-needed new homes for the area. Higgins Partnerships has been appointed by Clarion Housing Group, the UK’s largest provider of affordable housing, to transform the vacant brownfield site and build 74 shared ownership, one, two and three bedroom apartments along with retail units on the ground floor.
In the last academic year, UK businesses saw 319,000 apprenticeships started and this year, with the 14th National Apprenticeship Week starting this week, there has never been a more important time to showcase the benefits of apprenticeships.