LABC Building Excellence Awards 2022 winner: Best Medium Volume New Housing Development

More than 850 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate best practice, quality, and exemplary standards in construction.

The LABC Building Excellence Awards focus on professional skills and competence, as well as projects, with categories for ‘People’ and ‘Places.’

A panel of industry experts judged a selection of the highest quality projects, professionals, and teams from around England and Wales to showcase solutions to complex technical or construction issues, site constraints and technical innovation. The awards highlight the vital contribution public sector building control teams make as part of the project team, ensuring safe, sustainable, and high-quality construction projects. 

LABC is delighted to announce that the winner of the Best Medium Volume New Housing Development is Warton Grange Close, Warton, Lancashire, built by Wilson & Co Properties Ltd.

Warton Grange Close is a regeneration of a redundant run-down farm in the heart of Warton Village, Lancashire, into 25 high end dwellings. This lies within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) with strict planning constraints. The project saw extensive ground works carried out, to mitigate the risk of underlying peat and to overcome flood plain issues, while working closely with the RSPB due to the neighbouring nature reserve. Built under the LABC Partner Authority Scheme with plan checking by South Lakeland District Council and site inspections carried out by Lancaster City Council’s building control team, communication between all parties was excellent and helped with swift resolution of any issues.

Congratulating Wilson & Co Properties Ltd on their success, Lorna Stimpson, LABC Chief Executive said,