There are two things about Allison Homes that you might notice immediately.
One is our CEO Karl Hick - the 'public face' of The Larkfleet Group of Companies, which includes us and our sister company Larkfleet Homes. The other is our high quality new homes in locations in the East Midlands and East Anglia.
While it is fair to say that Karl is the driving force that helps us deliver our developments he is supported behind the scenes. Firstly, there is Karl’s wife and joint MD Helen Hick (pictured above with Karl).
Then there is a small army of staff including architects and planners, construction staff and contractors, craftsmen and trades people from across the industry, site managers, sales people and admin staff. In fact, we currently employs more than 100 full time staff. And we support many times more jobs than that through our contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers.
It’s the staff and the 'supply chain' who make Allison Homes tick and deliver the quality new homes that people have come to expect. It really is a team effort.
- Architects and planners - Allsion Homes designs its developments carefully. Planning, landscaping and the built environment are all carefully considered. There is full submission to the local council of all drawings and documents relating to the development prior to commencement on site and there are several pre-commencement meetings.
- Site managers – each Allison Homes site is overseen by a site manager. He or she has responsibility for everything from health and safety and ensuring that the roads are kept clean to liaising between contractors and customers as new homeowners take possession of their new property.
- Contractors, subcontractors and tradesmen – these are the guys and girls who build your new Allison home. Highly skilled bricklayers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, plasterers, painters and decorators and tilers and roofers work together to bring each new home to completion from foundations and groundworks to topping off the roof.
- Sales staff – once the houses are ready to be occupied (or, more often, before they are ready as people buy 'off plan') they need to be sold. That’s where our sales teams come into the frame. Our director of sales oversees the team of sales executives who liaise with our customers to deliver the best possible levels of service.
- Admin staff – keeping everything running smoothly we have our admin staff who help to ensure that everything is in its place and there’s a place for everything. From accounting to personnel there is a small army of unseen (by the customer) individuals without whom nothing much would happen.
- Last, but not least, we have the teams behind our marketing activities including web designers, graphic designers, social media experts, copywriters and marketers who present our wares to the public – all overseen by our director of marketing.
It’s like the rolling credits at the end of a blockbuster movie. All these people are working hard to get you into your dream home - a large group of people in distinct roles all working together as part of a team to deliver the best possible product.
What better reason do you need to buy new? We’ll make your dream a reality.
