Redrow Anwyl secures £23m contract in Prescot, Merseyside
Housebuilder and contractor Anwyl's new Lancashire housing division has secured its first contract: a £23m deal to build 122 homes on a development site in Prescot, Merseyside. The announcement followed Anwyl's poaching of former Redrow Homes northwest managing director John Grime to head the business. Work on the four-year Prescot site is set to begin early in 2018 and is expected to take about four years.

Housebuilder and contractor Anwyl has secured its first deal through its new Lancashire business.

The firm has won a £23m contract to build 122 homes on the former home of the Prysmian Cable Factory in Prescot, Merseyside.

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The site forms part of the wider Prescot Park development, which will deliver around 750 homes alongside major public realm improvements.

The deal is the first project that Anwyl’s new Lancashire housing division has secured since its launch in April.

Anwyl poached former Redrow Homes North-west managing director John Grime (pictured above, left) to head up the business earlier this year, which has a turnover target of £75m within three to five years. The new division also plans to be completing more than 300 homes annually within the same timescale.

Work on the Prescot Park site is expected to start in early 2018 and take around four years to complete, with a sales office opening on the site in spring next year.

Mr Grime said: “We are delighted to have acquired our first piece of land for the new region. The plans for the development are really exciting and we are confident that our first venture in the area will be well received.

”Prescot is a fantastic location to live, providing many facilities as well as having excellent communication, being accessible via the nearby motorway network and the wider Liverpool area.”

Alongside its homes business, Anwyl is also plotting two developments in the Merseyside area: a £60m PRS development on Pall Mall in Liverpool city centre, and a £35m student accommodation project, also in the city centre.

The £60m PRS scheme, which ranges up to 22 storeys in height and contains 366 homes, was given the green light by city planners in March this year.