A Derbyshire construction firm is celebrating after landing more than £20 million of new orders - including a contract to build hundreds of homes in the town where it was founded over 120 years ago.
Wildgoose Construction, based at Alfreton, was originally founded in Matlock in 1896. Now, it has returned to the town to help deliver almost 500 new homes as part of the Matlock Spa development, which is being built on the former Cawdor Quarry, off Matlock Spa Road, on the edge of the town.
The first phase of the scheme will see 15 houses and 38 apartments, in three blocks, built alongside retail space.
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The houses are due for completion by spring 2020 and the apartments by the end of 2020. The scheme has been designed by David Morley Architects for Rifkind Associates and the contract is worth £11 million to Wildgoose.
Meanwhile, the firm has also started work on an £8.2 million 80-bed care home in Wixams, in Bedfordshire, for Hamberley Developments.
And Wildgoose is also on site at Loughborough University, as part of a £1.6 million contract to convert its existing Edward Herbert building into lecture theatres.
Executive chairman Jonathan Wildgoose, whose great-grandfather founded the company, said: “Our order book is in great shape and we are delighted to have won these significant orders.
“We are also thrilled to be working in education, at Loughborough University, and returning to Matlock, where our business was founded in 1896, to be part of a significant and stunning housing development.”