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United House Developments is a property development company based in Southampton Street, London. It is one of the leading〔 niche residential developers in London and is active in the construction of social housing, urban regeneration, refurbishment and Public Private Partnerships (PPP). ==History== The origin of the company lies with Geoffrey Granter who founded Harp Heating in 1964. Initially, the core business was installing central heating in council housing while the tenants remained in occupation. Harp Heating broadened this service into an internal refurbishment product for the GLC, installing a package of heating, bathroom, kitchen and electrical works in four days. To achieve this they developed highly organised logistics arrangements, distributing materials on a just in time basis from its 100,000 sq ft warehouse adjacent to the head office at Swanley. After Jeffrey Adams joined the company in 1982, becoming its joint owner with Granter, the company changed its name and expanded into housebuilding and housing refurbishment. In the 1990s, the company won substantial business under the Private Finance Initiative linked to the Decent Homes Programme, and building of new social under the Blair-Brown government. A development division named Modern City Living was established in 1990. 〔http://www.unitedhousedevelopments.net/about-us/our-history 〕 United House became the leading housing PFI contractor in the UK, managing over 7,000 homes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ldc.co.uk/Portfolio/CompanyInfo.aspx?Id=305 )〕 In 2008, Modern City Living was rebranded United House Developments. Granter retired from the business in 2008 and Steven Halbert joined the board as Chairman. Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) invested a minority stake and RBS provided bank loans to fund further expansion in inner city private housebuilding. On 16 September 2014, a restructuring of United House Group was announced. United House's construction business (United House Ltd) merged with Bullock Construction, which was also owned by LDC and has a similar profile to United House Ltd, but worked in other areas of the UK. The new construction company was called United Living Group,〔http://www.unitedliving.co.uk/〕 and Bullock's CEO Ian Burnett become the Group Chief Executive. Later in 2014, United House Developments, headed by Adams as chairman and Rick de Blaby as CEO, became a separate development company, based in London.〔 〕 〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United House Developments」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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