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We are delighted to inform you of Higgins Construction’s success at last night’s prestigious National
Regeneration Awards evening, during which we were awarded the prize for both Regeneration
Contractor of the Year and Best Community Regeneration Project.
Our previous victory in the 2005 Regeneration Awards was pivotal in our growth as a company,
turnover having since grown to over £150M, with operations now stretching beyond Greater London
into the Home Counties, East Anglia, Buckinghamshire and Sussex. This second victory establishes
Higgins as the only contractor to have ever reclaimed the Regeneration Contractor of the Year title.
The award for Best Community Regeneration Project went to our Market Estate project, which we
are carrying out for Southern Housing Group. Seven years ago, a series of criminal incidents on the
notorious north London estate near Caledonian Park, incited the local residents to voice a need for
change in their community. Dark, secluded areas of this post-war development had become havens
for gang crime and vandalism. The Project Team identified the necessity of rebuilding the
community, not simply building new homes. The project has made a concerted effort to open up the
estate with more street houses and play areas, and has seen the construction of 140 new flats and
houses of mixed-tenure, alongside regenerated green spaces. Crime has since iminished
considerably, with a noticeable positive interaction between neighbours in its place. We are proud to
have been able to engage the local residents in community projects and offer jobs to local youths,
previously deemed unemployable yet now working as estate-based trainees and apprentices.
Market Estate is just one of many community regeneration projects in which
Higgins has been proud to play a part. We have recently invested £2M with training
charity CSV, for the development of CSV Springboard training centres across
London, and with 12 school careers days, over 800 health and safety presentations
and sponsorship of West Ham United’s Asians in Football initiative, Higgins is at the
forefront of the capital’s regeneration projects.
Whilst reflecting on a year of outstanding successes, we
look forward to working with all our partners in 2008
to continue to meet housing need at an award
winning standard.
2007 WINNERS
- Regeneration Contractor of the Year
- Best Community Led Project
2005 WINNERS
- Regeneration Contractor of the Year
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