Greenmill Gardens, Seacroft

We designed and delivered this scheme which now provides much needed self-contained one and two-bedroom extra care housing apartments. The development is dedicated to the needs of older people in Leeds, offering vital services and facilities to the surrounding area, ensuring families and social networks from the local community can stay within close vicinity of one another.

Employment & skills

We delivered employment talks as part of an employment day at Seacroft jobcentre.

Our site team attended careers events in schools and colleges across Leeds and hosted site visits and career talks for students at local secondary schools, York College and Leeds College of Building.

We hosted work experience placements in site management roles for students at Leeds College of Building and York College. Our site team also hosted paid internship for an engineering student at Leeds University and ran a 1-day virtual work experience Skills Challenge workshop for secondary schools and colleges across Leeds City Region, including Garforth Academy, Roundhay School, UTC Leeds and Leeds College of Building.

Improving social mobility

We undertook work experience placements with Build Force to support local Armed Forces service leavers as they transition into construction careers.

Community nature restoration

Our site donated money for school children to take part in a clean-up and sustainable food day with Climate Action Seacroft in the summer holidays to learn about protecting natural capital and the need to reduce our carbon footprints.

Our Greenmill Gardens team was able to deliver a number of successes throughout the life of the project. Over the 16 months the project was under construction, we saw that £2.66 went back into the local economy for every £1 spent – a total social value of almost £30m. We kept the project’s supplies almost exclusively local, with SMEs making up 98% of our supply chain.

The project welcomed 12 apprentices, two undergraduate placements, and seven work experience placements (two of whom were ex-armed forces). We also undertook 20 educational engagement activities at local schools and colleges.

The project team spent 185 hours volunteering for local causes, with some of our team (together with supply chain staff) completing the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge and raising over £2,000 for the Home Group Fund.

Morgan Sindall Construction has ensured long term jobs for local people through investing locally in the supply chain and we hand over a lasting legacy for all stakeholders to feel proud of as it continues to make a difference to so many lives as it opens its doors to residents and staff.”

Paula Broadbent, managing director of Lovell Later Living