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Orbit chooses Wates again

Source: https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

Wates Residential is extending its association with housing association Orbit with another £9.4m housing project in the London Borough of Bexley.The planned West Street redevelopment in Erith will see vacant buildings, including a former car parts warehouse, replaced with a low-rise housing. The plans also include a car park with electric charging points and a community garden.The contract award follows Wates Residential’s work on Larner Road for Orbit, where it replaced former council estate tower blocks with a low- to medium-rise development of apartments and houses, re-named Erith Park.Wates Residential has also been appointed to help deliver Orbit’s proposed £95m regeneration of the Arthur Street housing estate in Bexley.