Congratulations to all who took part in the Team PLP Bike charity bike ride!
All ten of the team managed to complete the 100km challenge and they raised a whopping £4,267 for charity, this will be divided between Springhill Hospice and The Christie.
Next year’s challenge is already being planned…..
It’s been a busy and exciting few months at PLP Construction, with celebrations, sporting achievements, and well-deserved recognition across the team. Here’s a look at some of the highlights:
December 2024 – Christmas at Flight Club
We wrapped up 2024 in style with another fantastic Christmas Party at Flight Club in Manchester. A great night of fun, food, and festive cheer with the whole team!
February 2025 – Apprentice of the Year!
A huge congratulations to our 1st-year Groundworks Apprentice, Anthony Meninno, who was awarded Trainee of the Year at the Salford City College awards ceremony. We’re incredibly proud of Anthony’s hard work and dedication – a real star in the making!
April 2025 – Sutcliffe’s Annual Ball
Team PLP headed to Liverpool to attend Sutcliffe’s Annual Ball – a brilliant evening of networking and celebration with industry colleagues.
⚽ May 2025 – Football Tournament Fundraiser
Our PLP football team did us proud at the annual HBL Football Tournament, finishing as runners-up – officially the People’s Champions! The event raised an incredible £11,000 for charity, and we were delighted to take part in such a good cause.
♂️ May 2025 – Kieran’s Retirement
In May, we celebrated the retirement of our longest-serving team member, Kieran, who has been with PLP for nearly 40 years. Kieran’s dedication and commitment have been an inspiration, and he’ll be greatly missed. We wish him a long and happy retirement – and the kettle’s always on if he pops back in!
May 2025 – Hospice Big Breakfast with Kevin Sinfield
Team PLP also attended the Hospice Business Buddies Big Breakfast, where we heard an inspiring talk from rugby legend Kevin Sinfield about his journey and charitable work – a memorable morning for a great cause.
Stay tuned for more updates – and be sure to check out the photo gallery from these events!
Below is some recent news from PLP HQ.
Joanne, our Director, visited The Houses of Parliament (see photos attached) April 2024 – Joanne was recently invited by The National Federation of Builders to attend a Skills and Training Event at The Houses of Parliament to meet Gillian Keegan, Secretary of State for Education and likeminded peers to discuss the industry skills shortage and how we can attract new talent into our industry!
5th July 2024 (photo attached) Team PLP won the HBL annual charity football tournament in July! Congratulations to Pat, Christy, Oliver, Cam, John and Tom – a great achievement and over £5000 raised for The Together Trust and John Shaw Foundation.
Another great day out at York Races this year, the weather didn’t dampen our spirits – a few wins, a few losses and some fun along the way!
1st Place – Best Development for Social-Affordable Rent
Anthony Brosnan and Mike Mills recently attended the Northern Housing Awards on Tuesday 2nd May 2023 at The Point, Emirates Old Trafford where our Dob Brook Close housing development in Newton Heath was awarded the Best Development for Social-Affordable Rent.
This is a fantastic achievement for the whole team and we were very pleased to win this award, especially with some stiff competition!
The team included:
Matthew Moss High School, Heywood – Joanne spent the afternoon working with Year 7 girls on an introduction to construction – lots of enthusiastic girls working on their team building schools to build some amaxing Tetrahedrane models!
October 2022 – we celebrated our 40th Anniversary with a get together for PLP staff, clients and suppliers that we have worked with over the last 40 years and who have helped us to be the business we are today!
Congratulations to John and Jack our PLP graduates who graduated from The University of Salford on Saturday, they have both worked incredibly hard studying part time whilst working.
Jack Green graduated with a 2:1 in Construction Project Management (accelerated degree).
John Farrell graduated with a 1st in Quantity Surveying.
Well done for achieving such fantastic results, your hard work paid off! We’re very proud of you!
Joanne James attended a careers taster day for Year 10 pupils at St Cuthbert’s High School in Rochdale.
Joanne talked to the pupils about her career path into construction and the various exciting careers available for girls and boys in the construction industry.
Joanne then set them some tasks to complete in teams – Programme of Works Activity where pupils had to work through 15 construction tasks and put them in the order they would be completed on site, then think about the roles that would be involved in these tasks.
The children then had great fun building some spaghetti towers using spaghetti pasta and marshmallows.
“I just wanted to reiterate my thanks to you all for supporting our Experience of Work day today. The students have had such a good day and got so much out of it. The time and energy that you put into today to produce an engaging and productive day for the students has been phenomenal. This kind of day would not be possible without volunteers like you and the brilliant sessions that you had planned, so from all of our staff and students, a huge thank you.”
Jo Holt, Careers Lead, St Cuthbert’s High School, Rochdale
Rochdale-based PLP Construction has reported record turnover in 2020 of £16m.
The family-run business was founded by managing director Philip Bradley. His son Laurie Bradley and daughter Joanne James are both directors and responsible for the day-to-day running of the business. PLP Construction employ 40 people and specialise in education; commercial; and housing.
Last year the company was involved in 30 projects and had a record turnover of £16m, made up of £13m from their construction division and £3m from their civils division. The figure is up from £12m in 2019. Projects included the building of a £3m assembly centre at Rochdale manufacturer Dunphy Combustion.
Director Laurie Bradley put their record-breaking performance down to the combination of hard work and having a dedicated workforce.
PLP Construction and Adapt Civils celebrate as £750m framework announced
Great Places Housing Group has placed social value at the heart of its new £750m Innovation Chain North framework of Contractors and Consultants as the successful organisations on the new four-year framework are announced. PLP Construction Ltd and Adapt Civils Ltd have been successful in being appointed to the social housing, modular housing and groundworks lots.
The framework has been designed to support delivery of new homes across the north of England, not only to support Great Places’ very ambitious development programme but also those of other Housing Associations operating across the north of England.
The framework renewal saw a 56 per cent increase in bidders seeking to deliver works and services; 183 companies applied to supply the framework. The majority of bidders applied for multiple lots, and in total 726 bids were evaluated across the 23 lots.
In total 113 suppliers – 30 Contractors and 83 Consultants – were successful.
The successful organisations were selected based on their technical competence, price and their commitment to social value.
The new £750m framework will run until June 2024.
Social value pledges, including apprenticeships, work experience opportunities and volunteering hours were proposed by all suppliers and through a collaborative approach, we will be seeking these pledges to be applied on every new development.
Helen Spencer, Great Places’ Director of Development, said: “We are delighted to be working with PLP Construction Ltd and Adapt Civils Ltd on our new ICN framework. We are confident they will be able to work with us and the clients of ICN in delivering the sector’s extensive development ambitions in the North. We were delighted to have a huge response from the market and receive high quality proposals and substantial social value pledges for our communities. We are now looking forward to mobilising the framework and working together on new projects with PLP Construction Ltd supporting us with new build housing, modular housing and groundworks
Joanne Whitehead, Great Places’ Procurement and Performance Manager, said: “Well done to PLP Construction Ltd and all the organisations who have been awarded a place on the framework. We received a large number of high quality bids and we now have an excellent group of contractors and consultants covering a wide range of disciplines to support our housing delivery ambitions. Great Places and the other housing providers who access the framework look forward to working with them all in the future.