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• 7,500 additional jobs and 1,300 new homes to be created as part of vision to regenerate world-famous site that built the Mini • Adds to 3,000 full-time jobs and 1,450 homes already created at flagship St. Modwen development • Housing Minister welcomes project as example of regeneration needed to deliver manifesto pledge to build 300,000 new homes each year • £1bn project is one of the largest in the UK
St. Modwen is delighted to announce that Herbert’s Yard, a dedicated new events space in Longbridge town centre, is now open for business. Operated by multi-award-winning street food pioneers, Digbeth Dining Club, Herbert’s Yard represents their first permanent venue to operate outside Birmingham city centre. After over seven years of bringing the Dining Club’s monthly pop ups to Longbridge, the new permanent venue will deliver year-round events with a core focus on local community and business engagement with activities such as networking and yoga taking place regularly.
St. Modwen’s growth plans have been accelerated for its dedicated logistics business with the addition of a £180m portfolio of urban warehouses. The portfolio has been acquired from Argo Real Estate by St. Modwen and shows a commitment to expand its income-generating portfolio and build its presence in Greater London and South East England.
St. Modwen, the UK’s leading developer of new communities and high-quality homes, has received planning permission from Birmingham City Council to build a new state of the art veterinary hospital which will create up to 150 skilled new jobs at West Longbridge Business Park. It represents a major milestone in the development of the park as it becomes a leading centre for science and technology, medicine, precision engineering and R&D.
St. Modwen, a leading UK logistics developer and manager, announces the appointment of Nicki Whittaker into the role of Senior Director for Customer & Markets. The newly created role further underpins St. Modwen’s commitment to providing its customers with high-quality logistics buildings and customer experience and will strengthen both business development and ongoing relationship management.
Property developer St. Modwen and its dedicated housebuilding business St. Modwen Homes are continuing their partnership with Wantage Town FC this season, with St. Modwen sponsoring the team by donating £4,000 that will be used for equipment and kit for teams of all ages. The logos for both St. Modwen Homes and the developer’s Kingsgrove project in Wantage appear on the team’s home and away kit. The club has teams ranging from under 7’s to men’s and women’s first teams in the Southern League Division One Central and the Thames Valley Counties Women’s Football League respectively. The next men’s cup match will be played on 7th December and hopefully the team will continue their journey to the final in March 2022.
This Black History Month, we’re taking a look at one of the inspiring initiatives that St. Modwen has been proud to support through our Covid Impact Fund which provided essential support to grassroots charities and groups that have played a crucial role in supporting their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Raising Black Voices (RBV) is a collective of young, Black artists from, or living in, the Northfield area near Birmingham, lead by mentor, Danielle Parker, alongside Taiwo ‘Taiyewo’ Ajose, Ryan Treasure and Stephanie Treasure. The seed funding from St. Modwen enabled the group to begin building their initiative with a simple mission to gather people of black and ethnic minorities at all ages from the Northfield area to talk about the high impact of COVID-19 on their communities, to reflect on the Black Lives Matter movement, and to find ways to support and work creatively together.
Earlier this month, St. Modwen welcomed eight new recruits onto its two-year apprenticeship programme where the fresh talents will master the skills required to become Site Managers and technical experts of the future, as part of the companies Early Careers workstream. The programme has been created to ensure each apprentice is able to blend classroom learning with the valuable on-the-job training needed to excel in their careers, through support and guidance from experienced members of the St. Modwen team, as they work towards achieving their qualifications.
St. Modwen has welcomed individuals to head behind the hoarding for an insight into life working in construction as part of the nationwide Open Doors initiative. The week long event, organised by Build UK, has been created to showcase the diverse and exciting careers available in construction, with an overall aim to address the industries skills shortage and inspire the next generation of the industry. Four of St. Modwen Homes’ sites at Bramshall Meadows, Branston Leas, Kingsgrove and Locking Parklands took part in the programme. A number of St. Modwen’s education and future skills partner organisations made the most of the experience, including Burton and South Derbyshire College, Weston College, King Alfred’s School and Stoke City Council who brought cohorts of participants to get a first-hand glimpse into what a career in the industry has to offer.
The regeneration of the famous MG site in Longbridge where the iconic Mini was conceived has moved a step closer to fruition after the submission of a planning application by St. Modwen to Birmingham City Council which reflects the heritage, identity and aspirations of Longbridge. The site covers 60 acres of brownfield land and compliments the government’s recent expansion of its Brownfield Land Release Fund. The fund forms part of a government strategy that prioritises building residential property on previously developed sites instead of building on green belt land.
