Vistry has reopened Vistry Works East Midlands, a 33,000m2 facility that has the capacity to deliver in excess of 6,000 homes per year.
Vistry announced in November last year that it had completed its €1,41b merger with Countryside, with the new combined company becoming the second-biggest house builder in the UK, behind Barratt Homes. Vistry Works East Midlands acquisition was a part of that partnership.
The new factory is expected to deliver over 2,000 homes in its first year of operation, with approximately 40% of these for new sites. In addition to supplying new homes with open panel frames for the group’s mixed-tenure Countryside Partnerships business and housebuilding business, the new MMC facility will facilitate the delivery of homes to meet the Future Homes Standard, which comes into operation in 2025.
Scott Stothard, manufacturing and special projects director at Vistry, said: “Vistry’s investment in the relaunched East Midlands timber frame facility creates the capability for us to capitalise, at scale, on the benefits of factory manufactured construction, delivering high-quality sustainable homes faster and more economically than traditional methods of construction and in a more environmentally friendly way. As well as the opportunities this brings to help address the housing shortage, the relaunch of this new facility will be a boost to local job creation, creating a positive socio-economic impact in a region which is important to us.”
