St William is a joint venture between the Berkeley Group and the National Grid, established in 2014, set up to build new homes on redundant gas sites. The joint venture has funds available up to £700m.
It has the potential to deliver over 7,000 new homes across Greater London. Homes by St William are landscape-led, which is a way to open up and reconnect places that have been closed off for years, and it fits the buildings to the landscape, rather than the other way around. Each plan is developed by a landscape architect, working with the client and the design team.
St William has a proposed portfolio of 33 sites, all of which are on brownfield sites. National Grid prepare the land for redevelopment to ensure the needs of each site are met, then the team at St William take over for planning, construction, sales and community development.
St William won Gold for Best Interior Design at the WhatHouse? Awards 2019 for their Kensington House development.
Current developments include: Clarendon, Court Yard Gardens, Elmswater, King's Road Park, and Prince of Wales Drive.
The housebuilders Prince of Wales Drive development in Battersea was recognised at the Business and Education Succeeding Together (BEST) Awards 2017, due to St William going out of its way to accommodate site visits and work experience to inspire young people in the community.
Each development by St William will have its own poem as a way of capturing the spirit of each place.