Wates Group Ltd is one of the largest family owned construction, property services and development companies in the United Kingdom.
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12 Facts About Wates Group
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Wates Group Giving, the firm's charitable foundation, has donated over £10 million since 2008.
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Edward Wates Group established his eponymous business in 1897 as a Streatham housebuilder.
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In 2015, Wates acquired the construction; facility management, and engineering services businesses of Shepherd Building Group for £9.
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In 2013, an Adjudicator determined Wates Group should pay a brickwork subcontractor compensation for delays at a site in Tower Hamlets.
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In September 2004, Wates Group Construction entered a guilty plea to a charge of breaching Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc.
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Wates Group agreed to pay costs to the designer, but only on a standard, not the potentially more expensive indemnity basis.
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Judge Coulson found Wates Group should have realised their action against the designer had no merit and that it had to be abandoned sooner.
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Wates Group was ordered to pay costs on an indemnity basis for that latter part of the case.
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In December 2018, Wates Group recovered registration of domain name watesconstruction.
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Wates Group has been a major donor to the UK Conservative Party.
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