Galliard Homes is a British residential property developer based in

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. Operating across London and the

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, Galliard Homes is the capital's largest privately owned residential

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History

Galliard Homes was founded in 1992, by

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, who is still its chairman and stepped down as CEO in 2017. In 1993, Galliard Homes purchased the completed Papermill Wharf. Galliard's Victorian conversion,

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followed in 1994, including a statue of engineer

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. Further developments in the Docklands include Great Jubilee Wharf, in

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, and Millennium Quay. In 2011, together with Frogmore, Galliard acquired a site on Chiltern Street in

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and began developing apartments, now known as The Chilterns. Galliard appeared on BBC One's ''The Apprentice'' in December 2015, with contestants trying to sell off-plan apartments at The Printworks in Clapham. In September 2016 Galliard's Lincoln Plaza development in London's Docklands won the

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for the worst new building of the year in the UK.

Operations

With over 700 staff, Galliard is a property development, hospitality and management group overseeing mixed-use residential, hotel and commercial projects across London and southern England, with a £3.6 billion portfolio of over 6,000 homes, 950 hotel rooms, and one million square feet of retail premises and commercial properties. Led by chairman and chief executive officer Stephen Conway, the Group has three divisions, Galliard Homes, Galliard Commercial and Galliard Construction. In July 2015, Singaporean developer, Oxley Holdings entered into a subscription and shareholders' agreement to acquire a 20% stake in the enlarged share capital of Galliard for £50m.

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is among the projects under development by Galliard Homes. A 1999 legal case, ''Galliard Homes v J Jarvis and Sons'', is relevant to the interpretation of

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, pre-contractual documents issued in order to set a project underway. In this case, the formal contract documents were never signed, and a dispute arose regarding the project. The High Court held that the intention of both parties had been to enter into a formal contract executed as a deed, but this did not take place and there was therefore no contract in place.

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Cases - Galliard Homes Ltd v J Jarvis and Sons plc
, accessed 16 December 2022

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