Anchor Hanover selects contractors for build programme

Anchor Hanover, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of later life housing, has selected 11 building contractors for a supply framework.The selected companies can, between them, expect to build 3,200 homes for older people over the next eight years.Most contracts will be in the £5m to £25m value band and will be delivered by Willmott Dixon, Vistry, Castleoak, Engie, United Living and McClaren Construction, who have been selected on a national contractor basis.There are also likely to be some larger (£25m+) contracts that will be awarded on a regional basis from a panel consisting of Higgins Construction, Hill Partnerships and Durkan in the south, and Seddon Construction and Esh in the north of England.Hill Partnership started work last month on a £20m later living development of 82 flats for Anchor Hanover in Chelmsford. [See previous report here.]The bidding process for the first projects under the new framework – in Newmarket, Suffolk and York – will be put to tender within the next month. For Newmarket, the successful contractor will be appointed to build a development of 69 apartments offering home ownership and independent living. Building works on the project are anticipated to start by autumn. The York project will see the appointed contactor deliver a development of 58 apartments with build due to start in November 2021.