IN Brief:
- Deeley Construction delivered the 18,500 sq ft headquarters under a £5.2m contract.
- The two-storey building accommodates 50 staff and provides additional training and development capacity.
- Environmental measures include solar PV, 20 EV charging points, permeable paving, and sustainable drainage.
Bloor Homes has opened its new £5.2m Midlands regional headquarters at Wall near Lichfield, following completion of the two-storey office by Deeley Construction.
The 18,500 sq ft building accommodates 50 staff and provides additional capacity for training and workforce development. Bloor’s Midlands operation moved from its previous Tamworth base during spring 2026.
Deeley Construction delivered the building between June 2025 and March 2026. The design team included Stoas Architects and structural engineer Couch Consulting Engineers.
The office has been built to BREEAM Excellent standard and incorporates rooftop solar generation, 20 electric-vehicle charging points, permeable paving, and a sustainable urban drainage system.
Environmental systems move into operation
The building uses a steel frame with light-gauge steel framing supporting the cladding carrier panels. Red brick, cladding, and a slate roof complete the external envelope.
That specification combines a relatively conventional commercial structure with environmental systems now increasingly expected in regional-office construction. The technical value of those measures will depend on operation and maintenance rather than their inclusion in the original design alone.
Solar PV can reduce electricity purchased from the grid during generation periods, but its contribution will depend on installed capacity, orientation, shading, inverter performance, office demand, and the monitoring arrangements used after occupation.
The published project sources contain conflicting figures for the number of solar panels. Bloor Homes’ construction announcement referred to 160 panels, while Deeley’s current online case study lists six. The discrepancy has not been resolved, so the public article retains the verified presence of solar PV without publishing an uncertain quantity.
The 20 electric-vehicle charging points require their own operational strategy. Electrical capacity, load management, access rules, charging tariffs, maintenance, and future demand will determine whether the installation can serve employees effectively without creating avoidable peak loads.
Permeable paving and sustainable drainage are intended to manage runoff from the building and parking areas. Their performance depends on correct construction, suitable ground conditions, maintenance, and protection from sediment or contamination that can reduce permeability over time.
BREEAM Excellent assesses performance across management, energy, transport, water, materials, waste, health and wellbeing, land use, ecology, and pollution. The rating provides a defined construction and design benchmark but is not, by itself, a guarantee of low operational energy use.
Post-occupancy monitoring will provide the stronger test. Metered energy, solar generation, charging demand, internal comfort, water consumption, drainage performance, and maintenance records can show whether the completed building achieves its intended outcomes.
The new headquarters consolidates Bloor’s regional office functions while creating capacity for additional recruitment and development. Its staff support housing delivery across land, planning, design, technical, commercial, sales, and construction functions.
The relationship between the office and active housing sites is operational rather than symbolic. Information must move accurately between office-based teams and project managers dealing with procurement, design changes, programme, quality, building control, customer handover, and defects.
Deeley Construction has previously delivered a regional office for Bloor Homes in Tewkesbury. The Lichfield headquarters extends the repeat-client relationship and gives both organisations experience of applying a similar brief in a different regional operation.
Repeat work can improve understanding of client standards, reporting, decision routes, and expected finishes. It does not remove project-specific risks around planning, site conditions, design coordination, procurement, commissioning, and occupation.
The project has now moved from construction into the defects and facilities-management period. Building manuals, warranties, maintenance plans, system training, statutory records, and commissioning information must remain accessible to the operational team rather than disappearing into the handover archive.
The office’s environmental measures also require clear ownership. Solar arrays, charging equipment, drainage features, controls, and metering systems deliver little lasting benefit where maintenance duties are vague or operational data is not reviewed.
Facilities teams will also need to compare seasonal performance, investigate anomalies, and retain records that support future maintenance and improvement decisions.
At 18,500 sq ft, the headquarters is modest beside Bloor Homes’ residential pipeline, but it reflects the technical content now expected from routine commercial buildings. Solar generation, charging, drainage, and environmental assessment are increasingly standard parts of the brief; measured performance will determine whether they become useful assets rather than specification entries.
