Latimer by Clarion Housing Group

Been a great 2024 as part of Latimer by Clarion Housing Group Community and Social Impact team. Great projects delivered across the country, in partnership with the communities where we are developing. 🎓 100s of young people supported by our Rise Up - Ealing project, delivered by the inspiring and infectious Dene Botha 🏡 A successful Volunteers Week, offering colleagues the opportunity to directly support the community groups local to their schemes. Massive thanks to Cultivate London , Deen City Farm & Riding School , Stepney City Farm , NO-WALLS GARDENS CIC and more! 💫 Some enjoyable and impactful partnership working in Cambridge with Kevin O'Connor at Durkan New Homes, Biky Wan at University of Cambridge and Paul Keating at Bellway Homes. 📈 Proud to have led on 2 youth engagement pilots, ensuring that local young people are meaningfully involved in the development process. Thanks to Sarah Mitton, and Ben Spry of the amazing POoR Collective Up the 2025!

We’re delighted to announce that the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community project has been nominated in three categories at the TET (ThorntonEducationTrust) Inspire Future Generations Awards: Community Engagement, Children Long-Term Programme, and Youth Long-Term Programme. Young people are influenced by their neighbourhoods, yet they rarely have a voice in shaping them. We value the fresh perspectives children and young people offer with their keen awareness of issues affecting their age-group and their compassionate understanding of the needs of marginalised groups. Thanks to the support of MATT+FIONA, we’ve launched several initiatives that have empowered children and young people to have a meaningful say in the design decisions at Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community. These awards recognise and celebrate excellent projects and programmes that have made a tangible impact on closing the gap between architecture and education. We’re proud to have been nominated, and look forward to the awards ceremony in January. #IGAAwards #IGAAwards2024

We’re thrilled to have once again achieved the prestigious Gold Award for The UK’s Most Sustainable Not-for-Profit Housebuilder, as recognised by the NextGeneration Benchmark. For the second consecutive year, we’ve upheld our standing as the highest-ranked housing association developer and for the first time, we’ve increased our position to become the second most sustainable homebuilder overall.   This accolade is a testament to our ambitious sustainability strategy, which prioritises socio-economic development, environmental stewardship and design excellence across our projects.   The NextGeneration Initiative is the sustainability benchmark for the UK’s housebuilding sector. It evaluates the social, economic, and environmental performance of the top 25 housebuilders. The benchmark sets out the best practice and drives positive change across our industry. Our continued leadership in sustainability has cemented our position as a standout performer.   Richard Cook, Chief Development Officer at Clarion Housing Group, said: "To win the Gold Award for the second-year running is a tremendous achievement and a reflection of Latimer’s unwavering commitment to sustainability. I am incredibly proud of our team for their efforts in building communities that not only provide much-needed homes but also address the pressing environmental and social challenges of our time." Read the full NextGeneration results: https://lnkd.in/e3BsbKKJ Find out more about our strides in sustainable development: https://lnkd.in/em3X8cEU JLL UK #SustainableDevelopment #Sustainability

📍 The Cocoa Works, York We're proud to announce our flagship project to transform the iconic Rowntree's Factory into a residential development is now complete. The Cocoa Works has been sensitively redeveloped into 279 apartments, 30 per cent of which are affordable homes. As part of the redevelopment, the former Joseph Rowntree Memorial library has been re-imagined as a co-working and meeting space for residents, including a concierge, and the newly created William Sutton pavilion is home to independent York café CAVO. As the former Rowntree's Factory, the building was once an incredible centre of community in the city. Now, after years of being left derelict, residents are starting to move in and enjoy the space. We're excited to see it flourish as a new community begins to thrive here once again. Richard Cook, Chief Development Officer at Clarion Housing Group said: "We wanted to do more than just build homes at The Cocoa Works. We aspired to deliver more by sympathetically redeveloping the factory to sit at the centre of a vibrant and diverse neighbourhood which provides quality homes, amenities and shared spaces to help foster a genuine community. With The Cocoa Works now complete, it gives me tremendous pride to be able to say we’ve delivered on that promise.” Henry Boot Construction

At Latimer, we are committed to building strong relationships with our partners and constantly learning, improving, sharing lessons learnt and best practices in order to create safer construction sites, homes and communities. This week, the design team for Phase 1 of our new 7,750 home mixed use Garden Community at TENDRING COLCHESTER BORDERS LTD in Essex joined Latimer colleagues for the Zero Incident Pledge (ZIP) behavioural change programme. ZIP demonstrates our commitment as a Client to act with integrity and diligence in everything we do to ensure that health, safety and wellbeing are prioritised at every stage of a project including design as well as construction and operation.   Melissa Dowler, Director at Bell Phillips Architects, said ‘I really appreciated being invited to join this interesting and instructive workshop. It is reflective of Latimer’s obvious dedication to health, safety and wellbeing as a central tenet of their development work that the workshop took a refreshingly holistic attitude towards these subjects. As a designer, an understanding of these issues is fundamental to my ability to deliver successful projects for my clients and to have the opportunity to discuss and reflect on the challenges with the wider team in a round table format was extremely valuable.’   Thank you to all the attendees from Bell Phillips, Haworth Tompkins, Jas Bhalla Works, Clancy Consulting, Wallace Whittle, Stantec, Periscope, Arcus and OFR for prioritising the session and supporting us towards our commitment to ensure that all stakeholders are positively impacted by our projects.   If you’d like to find out more about ZIP as our behavioural change programme or to sign up to our HS&W newsletter, please reach out to our Health Safety & Wellbeing Lead Jide Talabi Jide.Talabi@clarionhg.com or reply to this post. #design #Latimer #healthandsafety #wellbeing #TCBGC #cultureofcare #collaboration 

Really happy to reach completion on another fantastic project in the London region, Angel Heights. This development brings a mixture of 1, 2 and 3 bed high specification apartments, along with external space, across 25 storeys and 132 units. Well done to the whole project team and our Development Partners London Square Potter Raper Airey Miller Latimer by Clarion Housing Group

For over four decades the WhatHouse? Awards have been one of the most prestigious events in housebuilding, honouring enterprising, customer-focused housebuilders and housing associations and their partners. We’re thrilled to have won Bronze in Best Renovation for The Cocoa Works.   The Rowntree’s Factory is a truly iconic part of York’s history and it’s been a privilege to bring this incredible building back to life along with our partners at Henry Boot Construction. Preserving and celebrating heritage has been at the heart of the project from the very beginning.

It was a pleasure to host Jessica Goodrich last week for work experience as part of Pathways to Property which raises awareness of and aspirations about careers in property. Jessica certainly has a bright future ahead in the built environment sector!   During her week with us Jessica spent time with the team getting an insight into Development Management, exploring the essential role of design, community engagement, placemaking and town planning to bring forward successful new communities. She attended design team meetings, learnt about the RIBA Design Stages and met the team bringing forward Tendring and Colchester Borders Garden Community (TCBGC) in her home county of Essex, also finding time to get out and about in London for site visits to see the theory put into practice.   Jessica also met plenty of Latimer and Clarion colleagues and learnt about the varying career paths different people have taken from apprenticeship and graduate programmes to making a switch to their current position later on after specialising in another area first.   We wish Jessica all the best with her AIB and hope to see you again soon – stay in touch!

Thrilled to have the team representing at #LGA2024 this week. Pop by stand Q20 for a coffee and chat 👇

Absolutely delighted for The Cocoa Works to have scooped 'Best Large Development' at last night's Yorkshires Residential Real Estate Awards 🏆 Hosted by Yorkshire Children's Charity, the awards celebrate the very best of the region's designers, developers, and agents, while raising over £100,000 to support children living in poverty across Yorkshire. The award is a testament to everyone involved in the sensitive restoration of an iconic building into a thriving new community. Thank you to our partners at Henry Boot Construction for working alongside us on this flagship project and collecting the award.