{"id":842936,"date":"2025-04-23T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/wates-boosts-public-sector-team-with-senior-homes-england-hire\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:12:30","slug":"wates-boosts-public-sector-team-with-senior-homes-england-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/wates-boosts-public-sector-team-with-senior-homes-england-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Wates boosts public sector team with senior Homes England hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/04\/robert-stone_1_1024x683_144dpi_shifted.webp\"   alt=\"robert-stone_1_1024x683_144dpi_shifted.webp\"><\/p>\n<p>Robert Stone<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/tech\/why-construction-news-is-using-ai-to-assist-with-our-writing-31-03-2025\/\">Who is Harmsworth?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"311\">Wates Group has appointed former Homes England executive Robert Stone as head of public sector and national frameworks.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"313\" data-end=\"663\">Stone will report to group public sector director Stephen Beechey. He will lead efforts to build stronger ties with public sector clients, including those in the defence, justice and emergency services sectors.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"313\" data-end=\"663\">His remit also includes oversight of national frameworks such as Pagabo, P23, Procure Partnerships Framework and Crown Commercial Services.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"951\">Stone joins with more than 30 years of construction sector experience across public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"951\">He most recently served as director of technical services at Homes England, where he led teams responsible for construction delivery, sustainability, estate management and planning.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"953\" data-end=\"1327\">Before Homes England, Stone held a senior estates role at the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, working on the Defence Estates Optimisation Programme.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"953\" data-end=\"1327\">His earlier career included 12 years in tier one contracting, delivering school and hospital projects.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"953\" data-end=\"1327\">He also led Balfour Beatty\u2019s \u00a31bn Eastwick &#038; Sweetwater regeneration project, part of the Olympic Park redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1537\">Wates said the hire would reinforce its existing team delivering public sector work for clients including the Department for Education, Ministry of Justice, Defence Infrastructure Organisation and NHS trusts.<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"1539\" data-end=\"1772\">Beechey said: &#8220;The public sector makes up around 70 per cent of our business as a group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Delivering vital social infrastructure requires the best talent, and Robert brings extensive experience working directly for our key customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class data-start=\"1774\" data-end=\"1941\">Stone added: \u201cI\u2019ve worked alongside the Wates team for several years and have always been impressed by their commitment to the public who benefit from their projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1735\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wates.co.uk\/news\/wates-group\/culture\/wates-appoints-homes-england-corporate-director-to-spearhead-strategic-growth-in-public-sector\/\">Wates press release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/peoplemoves\/wates-boosts-public-sector-team-with-senior-homes-england-hire-23-04-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Colin Marrs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Stone This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth Who is Harmsworth? Wates Group has appointed former Homes England executive Robert Stone as head of public sector and national frameworks. Stone will report to group public sector director Stephen Beechey. He will lead efforts to build stronger ties with public sector clients, including<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":842937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24646,100309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boosts","category-wates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}