Manchester-based Leep Utilities has recently celebrated a record-breaking month of energisations – after overseeing the main power supply of 12 UK-wide sites going live.

They include Art'otel London Battersea Power Station, Axe Street landmark regeneration project in Barking, the Peel L&P Environmental waste soil wash plant facility in Greater Manchester, and Gallions Quarter, near Royal Albert Dock, London.

It's a 220% increase in a standard month for the market-leading utility company, which saw three projects delivered ahead of target - driven by, amongst other factors, residents wanting to move into their new homes and schedules being brought forward.

Leep Utilities owns, operates and maintains last-mile utility networks - delivering electricity, water and heating and cooling to hundreds of UK residential, commercial and mixed-used developments across the UK. These include Media City, Liverpool Waters, Canary Wharf and Battersea Power Station.

Following a series of competitive tender processes, its successful spell cumulated in Leep switching on the power supply for 12 prestigious projects, including the Peel L&P Environmental facility that houses a waste soil wash plant capable of recycling up to 240,000 tonnes per year of general construction demolition waste that would otherwise go to landfill. It can recycle and recover an impressive 99% of imports into the site, turning them into high quality sand, aggregates and clay to help construct Port Salford, other Peel L&P developments and third-party construction projects across Greater Manchester.

The main power supply of Art'otel London Battersea Power Station - the new art-inspired premium lifestyle hotel, which is due to open later this year – is another of the 12 energisations overseen by Leep. Designed by renowned architects Foster + Partners, it's set within Battersea Roof Gardens development, and adjacent to the iconic Power Station – the last-mile electricity network contract for which Leep Utilities secured in 2020.

Axe Street – the landmark regeneration project in Barking town centre, London – and the 2,000 square metre first floor extension to Stane Retail Park, in Colchester also went live during the record month. As did the Gallions Quarter project - a two-phase mixed-use development located over four sites, near Royal Albert Dock, in London. It includes 800 flats, 1500 square metres of non-residential space, as well as a new public square, new recreation areas, and shops and cafes.

Also amongst Leep Utilities' 12 highly prestigious projects to go live in August is Bishops Square – another landmark London site that was designed and constructed by Foster + Partners. It comprises a covered market area, 3,700 square metres of retail space, 72,000 square metres of offices, along with apartments, community facilities, cafés and restaurants.

Louise Manfredi, CEO of Leep Utilities, said:

"We're obviously delighted to have enjoyed our biggest month ever, to date, in terms of energisations and it comes at a very exciting time in our growth. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank the entire Leep team for their hard work and dedication, which has resulted in this brilliant achievement.

"We're working with an increasing number of developers, contractors and consultants to provide flexible solutions to the connections process on new developments across the UK, thanks to our commitment to streamlining the connections process. We know that developers have historically found the utilities process one of the most frustrating and difficult aspects of any build, so we're working hard to change that – and it's clearly working.

"Over the last five years we've grown our number of contracted utility connections from 2000 to over 100,000 and have made our mark on the market with multiple flagship strategic site wins – our success during August is a cumulation of our hard work and, I'm sure, it's a number that will grow again, very soon, here at Leep Utilities."

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