ThamesWey’s most advanced development to date, The Reeds brings 77 spacious family homes to Sheerwater. Each home is powered by its own solar panels and air source heat pump, and built to the highest possible EPC A rating.

187 high-spec new homes, including 102 affordable rent apartments, with a private residents’ podium garden.

Merchant House, as part of the growing Sheerwater regeneration area alongside New Woodlands, Guild Lodge, Pine Grove and Yellow Phase, delivers 39 high-quality one, two and 3-bedroom apartments at full market rent. Residents benefit from a private balcony or terrace, together with a landscaped podium garden, secure parking with EV bays, and free cycle storage.

Pine Grove brings London mews-style living to Woking, with 10 contemporary red-brick homes. The development includes nine 3-bedroom and one 2-bedroom house, all built to a high, sustainability-led specification featuring air-source heat pumps, triple-glazing, EPC B-C ratings and EV-ready carports.

ThamesWey delivers seven EPC B-rated homes in a purpose-built rental setting. All are connected to the district heat network for efficient heating and hot water supply, and each home provides three bedrooms, vaulted ceilings, skylights, and a private balcony.

68 spacious one-bedroom homes for the over-60s, purpose built to set a new benchmark for sheltered housing in Woking.

ThamesWey achieves ISO 14001 certification, awarded by the British Standards Institution, covering our energy services operations and head office activities. The standard recognises organisations that take a structured and accountable approach to reducing their environmental impact.

ThamesWey commissions its first independent tenant satisfaction survey, carried out by Halo Research – results exceed industry benchmarks across every area covered.

The Cornerstone launches. One of ThamesWey’s most distinctive and highly accessible addresses, The Cornerstone is a major town-centre conversion delivering a range of contemporary apartments in central Woking.

ThamesWey launches landmark residential development comprising 90 homes across a mix of high-specification apartments, affordable homes, and spacious townhouses, all connected by a landscaped podium garden.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ThamesWey introduces a rent freeze across its housing portfolio to support residents facing financial uncertainty during the national lockdowns.

ThamesWey completes Harrington Place, ThamesWey’s flagship, sustainable, Woking town centre development.

ThamesWey, together with construction partner Galliford Try, broke ground on Woking’s new low-carbon Energy Centre.

ThamesWey appointed Ørsted, a leader in offshore wind, to provide top-up electricity to our networks in Woking and Milton Keynes. For all ThamesWey supplied sites in Woking and Milton Keynes, the electricity bought from the grid to top-up that generated by our energy centres is now 100% renewable, generated by offshore wind farms.

ThamesWey has completed its first housing development containing swift bricks. The 12 swifts bricks have been incorporated into two new family sized affordable homes which have been handed over to Woking Borough Council.

After years of planning and consultation, the first diggers have begun work on the multi-million pound regeneration of the Sheerwater estate. Teams broke ground to start building a state-of-the-art leisure complex as part of the Canalside development. This major regeneration project will breathe new life into this area, creating a thriving, sustainable community that meets the changing needs of modern living.

ThamesWey’s planning application for the Poole Road energy centre was approved. The new energy centre will secure the future of low carbon energy supplies in Woking for the next 50 years:

ThamesWey begins a 12 month energy storage, using batteries, trial on 11 properties. The batteries will enable residents to store unused solar energy generated throughout the day for use at night.

ThamesWey completes major renovation of 50 former Ministry of Defence properties in Pirbright to improve the comfort of the homes and reduce the energy bills for tenants. The energy efficiency “make-over” included installing wall and roof insulation, solar panels and upgrading old, inefficient boilers.

The newly-refurbished Victoria Gate office building in Woking town centre is now running on ThamesWey’s district heat and power network, earning it some impressive sustainability credentials. Choosing this local supply for all its power, heating and cooling requirements has helped the prestige redevelopment achieve an ‘Excellent’ status in its BREEAM sustainability assessment.

ThamesWey launches an Earn Your Deposit scheme to help ThamesWey tenants save towards a deposit to buy their own place.

First ThamesWey modular build, 20 High Street, Knaphill completed. Modular construction is where a building is built off-site in “modules” which are put together on the desired location.This enables properties to be built faster compared to on-site construction.

Action Surrey completed the “Streets Ahead” project which used £1.8 million worth of the Green Deal Communities Fund to enable 450 Surrey residents to insulate their solid wall properties.

ThamesWey delivers a 3G artificial turf pitch at Woking Leisure Centre in order to improve the facilities available for the community.

WWF’s Living Planet Centre and The Peacocks Centre were connected to TEL’s electricity network:

ThamesWey Solar’s first solar photovoltaic arrays are installed at 35 sites throughout the borough, including on Council owned housing, community buildings and third party owned buildings.  This represents over 1.24 MW of peak solar capacity and all arrays are registered for the Feed-in-Tariff scheme.

Hoe Valley construction work completed including a country park, flood alleviation, a new state-of-the-art community building and a new centre for Woking Sea Cadets. This represented the first ThamesWey provided community buildings:

Network Rail National Centre connects to the ThamesWey Central Milton Keynes District Heating and Private Wire network.

ThamesWey Solar established to further the installations and operation of solar photovoltaic panels in Woking. ThamesWey now has more than 60 PV arrays in and around the Borough.

Completion of the Code for Sustainable Homes Level 5 eco-houses at Brookwood Farm which featured triple glazed windows, improved insulation & air tightness, rainwater harvesting and photovoltaic roof tiles. These represented the first purpose built THL property.

MP Chris Huhne, 2010-2012 Secretary State for Energy & Climate Change, visited Brookwood Farm:

Work starts on the Hoe Valley Scheme to provide flood alleviation scheme for approximately 183 existing homes, new community facilities and remediate land for 200 new homes:

Action Woking established to provide an impartial energy advice service, supporting households, schools and businesses to help them save money on energy bills and reduce CO2 emissions.

ThamesWey Housing reaches 100 owned properties

ThamesWey Energy generated more than 40 GWh of low carbon electricity and heat from its generating stations.

ThamesWey Developments established to develop both commercial and residential schemes across the Borough.

Woking’s low carbon demonstration home “Oak Tree House” opens showcasing energy efficiency, renewable technology and water saving improvements such as solar hot water panels and rainwater harvesting

ThamesWey acquired Energy Centre for Sustainable Communities Limited which became known as ThamesWey Sustainable Communities Limited in 2013.

ThamesWey Central Milton Keynes formed, and appointed by English Partnership, to develop a major new energy plant in Central Milton Keynes.

Woking Borough Homes Limited established (later renamed ThamesWey Housing in January 2013) in support of Woking Borough Council’s Housing Strategy

ThamesWey Energy installed the first commercially operational hydrogen fuel cell combined heat and power plant in the UK at Woking Park Leisure Centre.

ThamesWey Energy begin the installation of over 300 solar panels at Brockhill, the first of 12 sites across the borough to receive similar arrays, eventually resulting in over 3000 panels and a peak generation of over 750 kW peak.

Woking Town Centre Energy Station became operational with a 1.4 MWe gas fired Combined Heat & Power engine. The energy station provides low carbon heat, cooling and power to a number of buildings within the town centre.

ThamesWey Energy begins construction of the Woking town centre combined heat and power station.

ThamesWey Energy Limited established to provide a long-term strategy of sustainable energy infrastructure investment and a mission to provide low carbon energy in the Borough of Woking.