Housebuilder set to axe office jobs across Central region
Housebuilder Avant Homes is set to make a number of redundancies across the East Midlands.
Reports suggest that consultations with staff have begun at Avant’s Central region office, which covers South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, North Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, and is based in Chesterfield.
It is unknown how many roles will be affected.
An Avant Homes spokesperson told TheBusinessDesk.com: “We continually review our business structure, systems and processes to ensure we address the current challenges and opportunities presented by UK residential development.
“Through targeted reorganisation, we have identified that some clear regional overlap can be reduced whilst ensuring that our multi-tenure growth strategy can be better supported by a more efficient operational infrastructure.
“By maintaining our geographical presence we have the ability to continue further implementing our expansion plans.
“Avant Homes recently expanded its presence by opening a new region in South Wales where we have made significant progress in growing our outlet network to deliver hundreds of new homes.
“We remain active in the land market to acquire new sites for both short term and strategic land to complement our existing strong land bank.
“Our valued customers, suppliers and sites are unaffected by this change and we will continue to deliver on our promise of providing quality homes, for everyone.
“Unfortunately, the reorganisation does mean some office-based roles in our Central region will no longer be required.
“We have therefore started a redundancy consultation process with those colleagues who may be impacted by this change and will be providing them with support throughout.
“We are unable to disclose the number of potential redundancies for office-based roles due to the ongoing consultation process.
“We are committed to the redeployment of people, where possible, and a number of new roles are being proposed, all of which is also subject to the consultation process.”
