Award-winning North Wales builders Anwyl Construction have announced two major ventures in Liverpool as part of a programme of more than £30 million in new building projects during 2016.
Anwyl will start work next year on a 15-storey block of 430 student flats on the Norton Street site of the former National Express coach station.
They have also bought a second site in Liverpool for a 16-storey tower for a private residential scheme of 270 flats.
Meanwhile, the company plan to move into their new £1.9 million headquarters in Ewloe, in Flintshire, next month, relocating from the Mona Terrace site in Rhyl where they began in business in 1930.
Anwyl, North Wales’s largest private housebuilder, currently employ 150 staff, most of whom will make the move to Ewloe, leaving their bespoke joinery workshop on the Rhyl site.
They are also due to complete Welsh social housing giant Wales & West Housing’s new northern headquarters alongside their own new HQ at Ewloe next year, one of several ongoing contracts they are engaged in.
Anwyl Director Mathew Anwyl, who heads up the housebuilding section of the company, said: “The Liverpool project is a major new venture on a site we have acquired ourselves.
“It will see us design and build a 15-storey high quality student accommodation in the heart of the city, close to the universities.
“We also recently received planning permission for a joint venture with Redrow Homes in Sandbach, Cheshire, for 154 homes and a community park and we have plans to build a total of 500 new homes across North Wales and Cheshire over the next three years and we estimate this will create almost 2,000 jobs.”
As well as Liverpool and Sandbach, Anwyl currently have active housebuilding sites at Croes Atti in Oakenholt, near Flint, and at Northop, Buckley, Rhyl, Abergele, Willaston and Crewe while they also have a planned start for a 70-home site in Congleton in Cheshire in June.
The company’s Contracts division is also busy, with a £6 million extra care facility at Severnside, Newtown, and another £7.8 million 58-unit site at Greenfield, Holywell, for Wales & West Housing on the books and a planned £8.5 million, 73-bed extra-care facility for Pennaf Housing Group at Flint, where Anwyl are the preferred contractors, as well as the £4.5 million Chirk Court care home redevelopment currently being built for Pennaf.
They have also been placed on the framework for £4 million plus projects for RCT (Rhondda Cynon Taf) Homes for Mid and South Wales and £2 million plus projects for Re:allies, a social housing consortium, in the North-West, Yorkshire and Humberside which could open the door to further major contracts.
Tom Anwyl, the Anwyl Director who heads up the firm’s Contracts Division, said: “We are very busy and with plenty of work across the Contracts and Housebuilding divisions.
“In addition to the 150 staff we employ directly we also have up to 350 sub-contractors regularly working with us on projects across North and Mid Wales and into Cheshire and now also Liverpool.
“We can have up to 100 people on a single site at a time and we like to think that 80 per cent of them will be from within a 40-mile radius which means that we’re keeping the Welsh pound in Wales.
“We estimate every pound spent on our contracts generates £2.50 for the local economy so those contracts that add up to well over £30 million will mean a £75 million boost for the North East Wales economy.”
