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A House for Artists wins RIBA’s Neave Brown Award

|Date: 24 October, 2023

A House for Artists wins RIBA’s Neave Brown Award

Apparata's pioneering housing project provides a blueprint for better buildings and wins RIBA’s Neave Bro ...

Apparata's pioneering housing project provides a blueprint for better buildings and wins RIBA’s Neave Brown Award. Almost two years ago in London, Apparata’s prescription for the future of social hous ...

24 October, 2023
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Wates to build 334 new mixed-tenure homes in Barking and Dagenham

|Date: 19 January, 2023

Wates to build 334 new mixed-tenure homes in Barking and Dagenham

Wates has been appointed by Be First to build 334 new homes as part of an £874m regeneration of the Gasco ...

Wates has been appointed by Be First to build 334 new homes as part of an £874m regeneration of the Gascoigne Estate in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. This will be the third project Wates ...

19 January, 2023
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Countryside and L&Q complete partnership deal with Barking and Dagenham Council to speed up housing delivery on Beam Park

|Date: 11 March, 2022

Countryside and L&Q complete partnership deal with Barking and Dagenham Council to speed up housing delivery on Beam Park

Mixed-tenure developer Countryside and housing association L&Q have completed the sale of 936 homes a ...

Mixed-tenure developer Countryside and housing association L&Q have completed the sale of 936 homes at Beam Park to Barking and Dagenham Council, in a deal which will be crucial in accelerating mu ...

11 March, 2022
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Willmott Dixon to deliver a further 382 homes in Barking estate transformation

|Date: 29 April, 2021

Willmott Dixon to deliver a further 382 homes in Barking estate transformation

Willmott Dixon has been appointed by Be First to deliver the next segments for Phase 2 in the regeneratio ...

Willmott Dixon has been appointed by Be First to deliver the next segments for Phase 2 in the regeneration of Gascoigne estate’s east side in Barking. Known as ‘E2’, ‘F1’ and ‘F2’, the combined develo ...

29 April, 2021
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Be First chooses offsite for new housing for homeless families

|Date: 22 September, 2020

Be First chooses offsite for new housing for homeless families

Premier Modular, one of the UK’s leading offsite construction specialists, has been awarded the contract ...

Premier Modular, one of the UK’s leading offsite construction specialists, has been awarded the contract to provide modular housing for homeless families in Barking who are in urgent need of accommoda ...

22 September, 2020
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Demolition begins on 200-home Gascoigne West project in Barking

|Date: 15 January, 2020

Demolition begins on 200-home Gascoigne West project in Barking

Demolition is now underway on the west side of the Gascoigne Estate, making way for the delivery of more ...

Demolition is now underway on the west side of the Gascoigne Estate, making way for the delivery of more than 200 new homes in Barking over the next two years. Barking and Dagenham Council leader Cllr ...

15 January, 2020
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Wates Residential’s first win on Be First framework is £55m project

|Date: 8 July, 2019

Wates Residential’s first win on Be First framework is £55m project

Wates Residential has been appointed to deliver a £55m project in the London Borough of Barking and Dagen ...

Wates Residential has been appointed to deliver a £55m project in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham after winning a place on the pioneering Be First Development Framework. The national devel ...

8 July, 2019
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Critical friends appointed to oversee top quality design in Barking and Dagenham

|Date: 28 June, 2019

Critical friends appointed to oversee top quality design in Barking and Dagenham

A team of ‘critical friends’ made up of 25 architects, environmental experts and town planners has been a ...

A team of ‘critical friends’ made up of 25 architects, environmental experts and town planners has been appointed by Be First, Barking and Dagenham Council’s pioneering regeneration company, to act as ...

28 June, 2019
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Gascoigne estate in Barking to set new environmental standards

|Date: 7 June, 2019

Gascoigne estate in Barking to set new environmental standards

Barking and Dagenham Council planning committee approve plans to build over 500 homes on a new look eco-f ...

Barking and Dagenham Council planning committee approve plans to build over 500 homes on a new look eco-friendly Gascoigne estate in the heart of Barking town centre. The development will feature 11 n ...

7 June, 2019
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