Watkin Jones Share Discussion Threads

[spellbrook] 06/9/2016 07:25

Tweeted...

We are very happy to announce the practical completion of our Student Accommodation in Sheffield! Well done to all!

[spellbrook] 04/9/2016 08:02

Tweeted

We are pleased to announce New Bridewell, Bristol has achieved practical completion. Congratulations to the team!!

[spellbrook] 03/9/2016 10:36

Newcastle's former Market Street police station could be turned into flats for 225 students

15:30, 2 SEP 2016

BY SIMON MEECHAN
On Friday, September 9, the council will decide if it wants to fill former Market Street police station with 225 students



Another set of student flats are set to be approved in Newcastle - this time on the site of a former city centre police station.

Northumbria Police’s old headquarters in Market Street has been vacant for more than a year, and Welsh developer Watkin Jones Group wants to tear the building down to build flats for 225 students, under its Fresh Student Living brand.

Watkin Jones has scaled back original plans for 275 bed-spaces, after seeking Newcastle City Council’s advice.

The seven-storey build has been recommended for approval by Newcastle City Council’s officers in a report to be heard by its planning committee on Friday, September 9.

The committee has been asked to give the scheme the greenlight.

The former Northumbria Police HQ offices The former Northumbria Police HQ offices
The full planning application asks to build 225 bed spaces, made up of 48 studios and 177 bedrooms in 27 cluster flats.

The report says the redevelopment meets the city’s sustainability guidelines, and is close to both universities and public transport links. There will be no parking spaces for the tenants, so they will have to rely on public transport.

It says: “Located in the city centre with easy access to university campuses, local facilities and public transport, the site is considered appropriate for student accommodation that would not adversely affect the character or amenity of area and would bring vitality and economic benefit to a currently vacant site.”

hxxp://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastles-former-market-street-police-11834060

[spellbrook] 02/9/2016 13:15

Plans for 115-bedroom student accommodation block near Bath Western Riverside revealed
By JamesCrawley | Posted: September 02, 2016




The applicant, The Watkin Jones Group, intends to have the housing block completed before the start of the 2018/19 academic year if granted planning consent from Bath and North East Somerset Council. The same applicant has overseen the 104-studio student block built at the junction of Lower Bristol Road and Brougham Hayes.


hxxp://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/plans-for-115-bedroom-student-accommodation-block-near-bath-western-riverside-revealed/story-29678534-detail/story.html

[shanklin] 01/9/2016 16:12

Given that we are almost at the end of the current financial year, that the prospective yield for 2016/17 is 5.3% and the current strength of shares in housebuilders and construction companies, I am surprised the share price here is not moving up a fair bit.

[nw99] 01/9/2016 08:08

2 largish prints seller cleared ?

[spellbrook] 14/8/2016 16:16

Forthcoming residential developments...

hxxp://www.watkinjoneshomes.co.uk/forthcoming-developments/

[spellbrook] 14/8/2016 11:30

This is a major 25-storey student housing block planned for Cardiff ...
WalesOnline-11 Aug 2016
Architects Corstorphine + Wright has submitted designs of their new ... Rio Architects Ltd are behind the scheme with developer Watkin Jones ...


This is a major 25-storey student housing block planned for Cardiff city centre

hxxp://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/major-25-storey-student-housing-11737483

[spellbrook] 13/8/2016 10:49

a couple of tweets from WJG


Watkin Jones Group ‏@Watkin_Jones 24h24 hours ago
Christchurch Road, Bournemouth update . . Take a look at the pictures below . . Bournemouth is progressing well!


Watkin Jones Group ‏@Watkin_Jones 24h24 hours ago
We would like to congratulate Ashraf and the team at Blackhorse Lane, London. Achieving performance beyond compliance! Well done!

[nw99] 08/8/2016 13:38

Chart breakout clear blue skies

[spellbrook] 06/8/2016 07:40

Watkin Jones is building the scheme which received the green light from an inspector after appealing a Cheshire West and Chester Council decision to reject the project.


hxxp://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/chester-student-housing-schemes-take-11699853

[spellbrook] 05/8/2016 06:38

I also snapped up shares in Watkin Jones (WJG +
), a company I’ve known for many years (founded 1791), long before the initial public offering only four months ago. It’s clutching at straws a bit to suggest a student housing construction company as benefitting from a cheap pound, but 20% of UK students are from overseas with only 5% from Europe and WJG is a construction and development company primarily in the student accommodation sector.

Watkin Jones controls the whole project, including planning, land procurement, construction and management of the ongoing facilities, all forward funded by the client university. With an order book through to 2020, operating 90 sites around the country, the company is a real quality act with a useful dividend yield over 5


hxxp://citywire.co.uk/money/david-kempton-3-more-brexit-bargains/a937745

[spellbrook] 01/8/2016 22:29

Is Buying 52-Week Stock Like Watkin Jones PLC a Winning Strategy?
by cray — August 1, 2016


hxxp://presstelegraph.com/2016/08/01/is-buying-52-week-stock-like-watkin-jones-plc-a-winning-strategy/

[effortless cool] 01/8/2016 20:03

Thanks for the help, Martin!

[nw99] 01/8/2016 17:52

Chart breakout

[davidosh] 01/8/2016 17:26

EC.....lol....made me smile especially when Shanks then tried to help guide you...double lol

[gswredland] 01/8/2016 17:12

Good to see a new high!

[alan@bj] 01/8/2016 16:38

SPELLBROOK doesn't seem very sure about that.

[shanklin] 01/8/2016 16:33

EC,

Suggest you take a look at the presentation referenced in post 189.

Cheers, Martin

[effortless cool] 01/8/2016 15:46

Does anyone know if this company pays dividends and sells it projects forward?

[spellbrook] 01/8/2016 15:44

Dividends to come and projects forward sold.....

[spellbrook] 01/8/2016 15:44

Dividends to come and projects forward sold.....

[spellbrook] 01/8/2016 15:41

Dividends to come and projects forward sold.....

[888icb] 01/8/2016 14:27

WJG has got over the brexit blues and sits at a new high.