Talk:Galliard Homes

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I would like to add some further information to the company page. See written copy below.

Proposed draft

Operating across London and the Home Counties, Galliard Homes is the London’s largest privately-owned residential property developer and is a part of the Galliard Group. Galliard Homes markets the Group’s portfolio of homes for private sale. The development division of the group, Galliard Homes, is responsible for the site acquisition, funding, planning and design of each project, whilst the construction of these homes is undertaken principally by Galliard Construction. History Galliard Homes was founded by Stephen Conway and John Black in 1992. The company’s first project was a development of 110 apartments in Enfield, close to Galliard Road and thus, ‘Galliard Homes’ was born. In 1993, Galliard Homes purchased the completed Papermill Wharf and successfully brought it to market, with the development almost completely selling out on its release weekend. Galliard’s Victorian conversion, Burrells Wharf followed in 1994 featuring a statue of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel who designed the track layout, track, rolling stock and tunnels for Great Western railway. Further landmark developments by Galliard in the Docklands include Burrells Wharf, Great Jubilee Wharf and Millennium Quay. In 1995, Galliard Homes secured the North and South blocks of the former Greater London Council (GLC) headquarters at County Hall situated directly behind the London Eye. The launch of the County Hall apartments was an historic event with purchasers queuing for 10 days prior to the sales release. In 1997, the White House Apartments were redeveloped from a converted office building along London’s South Bank, helping to transform the area. Further notable developments on the South Bank included Park Plaza County Hall Hotel; this was a pioneering project in 2005 for both Galliard and the property market, offering hotel suites as an investment for the first time. Built on part of the original County Hall GLC headquarters site, these apart-hotel suites overlooked Big Ben, The Houses of Parliament and the City. Galliard purchased a whole peninsular site in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in 2007, just minutes from the Cutty Sark. More than 400 apartments were sold in one weekend at the site, which is now known as New Capital Quay. Further participating in the regeneration of a London area, the Drayton Park development was built by Galliard in 2008 and surrounded the Arsenal Emirate’s Stadium. In 2011, together with Frogmore, Galliard acquired a site on Chiltern Street in Marylebone and began developing luxury apartments, now known as The Chilterns, the properties are an example of Prime Central London real estate. Hollywood celebrities Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were rumoured to have viewed the development’s £24m penthouse. Frogmore and Galliard teamed up again in 2012 to develop Marconi House along the Strand, once home to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company and winner of the Evening Standard’s ‘Best Large Development’ in 2013. A recent Frogmore and Galliard Homes’ partnership is that of Baltimore Tower in Canary Wharf. This landmark 46-storey residential tower will complete in 2017. In August 2015, Galliard sold the former Great Scotland Yard Headquarters for £110m to LuLu Group. The site will be converted into a luxurious hotel with The Steinberger Hotel Group appointed to manage the hotel once completed. Galliard Homes and Cain Hoy established a £1bn joint venture in November 2014, known as Galliard Developments Ltd. Global banking and financial services company, Deutsche Bank made a three-year corporate facility available to Galliard Holdings Ltd that was used towards the Galliard share of the equity funding for the new joint venture. The first project funded through this venture was in 2015, with the Docklands development, Harbour Central. The Maine Tower sold out in five hours and The Telegraph reported that buyers and investors queued for over 36 hours to secure a property. Galliard Homes appeared on BBC One’s The Apprentice in early December 2015. The show garnered a lot of attention as contestant’s attempted to sell Galliard’s off-plan apartments at The Printworks in Clapham. Operations Founded in 1992 and 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 £3.8 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 comprises three divisions, Galliard Homes, Galliard Commercial and Galliard Construction. The company’s current projects are spread over 32 separate sites in various stages of construction, from the five-star hotel project at Great Scotland Yard, to residential skyscrapers in London’s Docklands, to the Group’s current largest development of 900 homes at Harbour Central. Leading Singaporean developer, Oxley Holdings entered into a subscription and shareholders’ agreement to acquire a 20% stake in the enlarged share capital of the Galliard Group for £50m.

Rtalbot55 (talk) 17:47, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Due to multiple issues with this draft, I am declining the rewrite as of its current state. First and foremost, the proposed changes are too promotional to be included in Wikipedia. While many details you provided are factual on their face, they are clearly designed to give the article a promotional slant: claims that real estate properties constructed by Galliard quickly sold out, "winning" awards, etc. Neither is the prose written from a neutral point of view: words like "luxurious", "pioneering", and "landmark" may be appropriate for press releases but would not fit in with Wikipedia's normal tone of voice. Lastly, all well-written articles must be attributed to reliable sources, which this draft currently lacks. Until these issues are fixed, I'm afraid we cannot accept this draft. Thanks, Altamel (talk) 05:21, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Altamel for the detailed comments and solid advice. Rtalbot55 should also bear in mind that other editors are not being paid for their time, so our patience and goodwill with addressing issues in any further rewrite is not unlimited. It is usually better to attempt to have information added in small chunks. Edwardx (talk) 10:21, 16 February 2016 (UTC)