Galliford and Carter share £150m house-building framework

House-builder Aster Group has appointed Galliford Try Partnerships and Gloucester-based EG Carter & Co to a new partnering arrangement worth £150m.The contractors are each in line to build up to 500 homes a year for the next five years across the south of England.The contract forms part of Aster’s wider plans to invest £1.5bn in new homes between now and 2024, including a planned 1,100 properties during 2017/18.The partnering contract is for an initial five-year period.Aster has also restructured its management team as part of its house-building programme. The new team includes director of development and sales Jane Gallifent, who has joined from Clarion Housing Group.Aster’s current land-led schemes include 38 homes at a site in Hambleton Avenue in Devizes, Wiltshire and 36 homes to be built in Tadley, near Basingstoke. The group is the preferred bidder to build 109 properties in the Bargates area of Christchurch, Dorset, and recently completed the 94-home Finn Square development in Weymouth, Dorset.