Altrincham · Manchester & Cheshire · Est. 2020
New builds. Developments. Fit-out & refurb. Nothing else.
One-off new build homes for private clients — the kind with a plant room, a basement and a gated approach. Housing developments of two to thirty plots. Commercial fit-out and whole-building refurbishment, built around clients who never closed their doors.
What we build
Three things. Done properly.
We're not a general builder. These are the only three types of work we take, and we're better at them because of it.
01 — One-off houses
New build homes
for private clients
Individual houses on individual plots, £400k to £3m and beyond — plus major extensions and whole-house remodels above £100k. Architect-led or design and build.
- Basements, pools & spa
- Garaging, annexes, gatehouses
- Major extensions & remodels, £100k+
- Structural glazing & bespoke joinery
- Landscaped grounds & gated approach
02 — Developments
Housing
developments
Small and medium schemes, two to thirty plots. From a line on a map to a street people live on. We buy, we joint-venture, we build out.
- Residual land value appraisal
- Planning & conditions discharge
- Elemental cost plan & procurement
- Full site management & build out
- Plot handover, snagging, warranty
03 — Commercial
Fit-out &
refurbishment
Empty floors and tired buildings, brought back to something a tenant will pay for — including the EPC and MEES upgrades a landlord needs before they're legally allowed to let. We build around your operation instead of shutting it down.
- Cat A & Cat B office fit-out
- Whole-building refurbishment
- EPC & MEES compliance upgrades
- Healthcare, care homes & NHS
- Hotels, restaurants & retail
Our focus
What we don't do any more.
In 2026 we closed the domestic small works side of the business. Not because we couldn't do it — because a firm juggling nine kitchens can't put its owner on your site every week, and we'd rather run three projects properly than thirty at arm's length.
So we set a floor instead of a list. Above it, we'll look at anything in our three disciplines — including a serious extension or a whole-house remodel. Below it, we'll happily point you at someone good.
- Kitchens
- Bathrooms
- Loft conversions
- Garden rooms
- Insurance jobs
- Anything under £100k
Who runs your job
The man who prices it
is the man on site.
Dave Groom founded Tatton Projects in 2020 after two decades working every rung of a construction site — starting with a chisel in his hand, finishing as the man carrying the contract.
Since 2020 Tatton has turned over £8m across more than sixty completed projects. From 2026 Dave is back on site full time, project managing the jobs himself. That's the whole point of closing the small works: when a subcontractor tells you a first fix needs three weeks, you have someone standing next to you who has actually done the first fix. Most developers get a quantity surveyor who has never hung a door.
- 01Time-served joinerTrained on the tools. Learned what good looks like — and what it costs.
- 02BuilderRunning the trades, sequencing the work, carrying the risk on his own jobs.
- 03Site managerProgramme, health and safety, quality, and every subbie on the deck.
- 04Project managerClient-side delivery. Budget, design team, critical path.
- 05Contracts managerMultiple sites, commercial control, variations, final accounts.
Fit-outs delivered for
- Hilton
- Hampton by Hilton
- Holiday Inn Express
- Barchester Care Homes
- Tesco
- Ford
- Three
- Greggs
- Harvester
- Zizzi
- Fossil
- Calvin Klein
Delivered by Dave as project manager and contracts manager, prior to founding Tatton Projects in 2020. Hotels, care homes, restaurants, retail and trade — all built around a client who was still trading.
Dave also built EstiMate — the estimating and cost-control platform now used by tradespeople across the UK, with over £4.2m of quoted work run through it. Your cost plan isn't done on the back of an envelope. It's done on software he wrote because nothing on the market was good enough.
Selected work
Sixty projects delivered.
Nine we can show you.
Over sixty completed since 2020. Most clients would rather we didn't publish theirs — these are the ones we can. Click any project for the full story.
Sectors
Healthcare & care homes
GP surgeries and clinics — and Barchester care home fit-outs delivered with residents in situ.
Hotels & hospitality
Hilton, Hampton by Hilton, Holiday Inn Express. Harvester and Zizzi. Fixed opening dates.
Retail & trade
Tesco, Ford, Three, Greggs, Fossil, Calvin Klein. Shopfits delivered around trading hours.
Landlord refurbishment
Dead floors brought back to lettable. Cat A, common parts, and the EPC upgrade that makes it legal to let.
Developers
Build-out and design and build for small and medium residential schemes.
Private clients
One-off homes across Bowdon, Hale, Alderley Edge, Prestbury and Mere. Discretion as standard.
How a job runs
Five stages. One number.
A written cost plan at stage two and a signed variation procedure before anyone lifts a spade. That's why our final accounts land where they were promised.
Knutsford · Complete
Stage 01 — Appraise
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Stage 01
Appraise
Site, plot or unit feasibility. Abnormals, planning risk, build cost, end value. We'll tell you when to walk away — that advice is free.
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Stage 02
Cost plan
Elemental cost plan and a full schedule of works. Priced, not guessed. This is the number you build to, and the number you settle at.
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Stage 03
Consent
Planning, building control, warranty provider, licensing and compliance. Conditions discharged before we mobilise — not after.
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Stage 04
Build
Owner-managed. Weekly programme tracker, monthly valuation, written variations only. No verbal extras, ever.
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Stage 05
Hand over
Snagging closed out, warranty and O&M packs issued, final account settled at the figure we agreed at stage two.
How a fit-out goes in
Bare shell to signed off.
A floor arrives as concrete, columns and a slab. Five stages later people are working on it — and on most of our jobs, they never left the building while we did it.
Vanguard · £2M · Complete
Stage 01 — Strip out & survey
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Stage 01
Strip out & survey
Back to shell. We measure what's actually there rather than what the drawing says, and find the asbestos, the dead services and the floor that isn't level before they find us.
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Stage 02
Services first fix
Ductwork, cable tray, sprinklers, power and data. Everything above the ceiling goes in first, because everything below it depends on getting this right.
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Stage 03
Partitions & glazing
The floor stops being a space and starts being rooms. Stud, acoustic infill, glazed screens and doors — set out from a datum, not from the wall the last contractor built crooked.
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Stage 04
Ceilings & lighting
Grid, rafts and the lighting that decides whether the floor feels expensive or feels like a call centre. This is the stage where a fit-out is won or lost.
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Stage 05
Finishes & handover
Joinery, flooring, furniture, commissioning, snagging, O&M packs. Handed over ready to work in — and on most of our jobs, handed back floor by floor while the client kept trading.
Group company
SiloPod.
Acoustic pods, installed.
Five models, one to six seats, from a 1m² booth to a six-seat meeting room. Aluminium frame, composite wall, acoustic felt, laminated glass — with LED lighting, ventilation and 220V + USB built in.
Buy them as part of a Tatton fit-out or on their own. Either way the same crew levels them, powers them and signs them off.
| Model | Seats | Installed |
|---|---|---|
| Silo One | 1 | £3,995 |
| Silo One XL | 1 | £4,495 |
| Silo Two | 2 | £4,795 |
| Silo Three | 1–4 | from £5,195 |
| Silo Four | 1–6 | from £5,995 |
All prices +VAT, supplied and installed
Land & opportunities
Have a site?
We'll appraise it in a week.
We buy, we joint-venture, and we build out for landowners who want to keep the upside. Send us a location and a title plan — you'll get a residual land value and a build cost, free, in five working days.
- Minimum project £100,000
- Plots 2 – 30
- Private homes £400k – £3m+
- Geography Gtr Manchester & Cheshire
- Status With or without consent
- Appraisal turnaround 5 working days
Start a conversation
Tell us about
the project.
Send us a plot, a floor, a building or a drawing. You'll get a straight answer from the person who'd run the job — not a salesperson.
- 01A written cost plan, not a guess
- 02Site appraisal back in five working days
- 03We'll tell you when to walk away — free
- 04Minimum project £100,000
Straight answers
The questions everyone asks.
The ones most contractors dodge. We'd rather tell you now than argue about it later.
As a working range in 2026: a basic Cat A refresh runs around £45–£70 per sq ft. A standard Cat B fit-out is roughly £70–£110 per sq ft. A high-specification Cat B — bespoke joinery, feature lighting, acoustic treatment, the kind of thing we did at Vanguard — runs £110–£180 per sq ft and upwards. Anyone who quotes you a single number without seeing the floor, the building's services and the landlord's licence to alter is guessing. We give you an elemental cost plan instead, and that number is the one you build to. See the full cost guide →
Yes — it's most of what we do. Hotels that kept selling rooms, care homes with residents in their beds, a public service centre with ninety staff at their desks and the public coming through the doors, retail units in a trading mall. Phased handbacks, dust and route separation, out-of-hours working. If you can only close for a weekend, say so at the appraisal and we'll build the programme around it.
Not lawfully, in most cases — and the standard is tightening. This is the MEES regime, and it turns an aesthetic decision into a legal one: a sub-standard building can't earn until it's fixed. We survey it, tell you what it costs to get the rating up, and do the work. Often it's fabric, lighting and controls rather than anything dramatic. Get it assessed before your next void, not during one.
Because a firm juggling nine kitchens can't put its owner on your site every week. We closed the domestic small works side in 2026 so the projects we do take get proper attention — the person who priced the job is the person managing it. Below £100k we'll happily recommend someone good.
A written cost plan at stage two and a signed variation procedure before anyone lifts a spade. Written variations only — no verbal extras, ever. Monthly valuations so you always know where the number is. That isn't paperwork for its own sake; it's the single biggest reason building projects end in an argument, and it's entirely preventable.
Send us the location and a title plan. You'll get a residual land value and a build cost back in five working days, free. If the numbers don't work we'll tell you that too — that advice is free, and it's cheaper than finding out after you've bought it. We also buy sites and joint-venture with landowners who'd rather keep the development upside.
New build homes, developments and private work across Greater Manchester and Cheshire — Altrincham, Hale, Bowdon, Knutsford, Mobberley, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Sale, Timperley, Mere, Handforth, Northwich, Macclesfield, Lymm, Winsford, New Mills and Chester. Commercial fit-out and refurbishment we take nationwide for the right project. We have delivered in Liverpool, Leeds, Stockport and London.
Where we work
New builds, developments and private homes across Greater Manchester and Cheshire. Commercial fit-out and refurbishment nationwide for the right project.