11 Facts About Urban Splash

Urban Splash as founded in 1993 by Chairman Tom Bloxham MBE and Creative Director Jonathan Falkingham MBE; the company has spent more than two decades working with architects and designers to restore old buildings and create new, sustainable communities.

Urban Splash has won over 450 awards for architecture and regeneration, including 46 RIBA awards.

Urban Splash recorded an increase in the value of its tangible fixed assets which now exceed £100 million – a £5m growth on the prior year – as well as a retained profit of £0.

In September 2008, Urban Splash announced it would be making significant redundancies due to the downturn in the UK property market.

In October 2013, Urban Splash sold one of their undeveloped acquisitions – the former Sunbeam motorcycle factory site, off the Penn Road island in Wolverhampton – which had been disused since 1999.

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In 2014, Urban Splash refinanced £135 million of debt in conjunction with entering into a joint venture with The Pears Group, and restructured itself.

In 2020, Swansea Council announced that Urban Splash would be its preferred development partner for a number of key sites, including the Civic Centre, Swansea Central north and a plot of land running alongside the River Tawe in the St Thomas area of the city.

In 2022, House by Urban Splash went into administration with 160 staff made redundant at its Derbyshire factory and at sites across the country.

In July 2022, Urban Splash completed a deal with Aviva Investors to secure £43.

Urban Splash was founded by Tom Bloxham, a graduate of the University of Manchester, and Jonathan Falkingham, an architecture graduate from Liverpool University.

Urban Splash then expanded into Liverpool, opening a shopping arcade called the Liverpool Palace and then into licensed premises with the founding of the Baa Bar in Liverpool together with Falkingham.