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Recent news and events at Williams Lester.

Planning Approval, Sandbanks

Following our success in a limited design competition, we are pleased that Full Planning approval was achieved for an exciting new one-off private home in Sandbanks. This is the second house designed for the client, in this part of Sandbanks. It…

Traditional Building Skills

3 members of Williams Lester attended a 5 day Traditional Building Skills course at Bucklers Hard, Beaulieu in the New Forest. Delegates had hands on instruction in cob walling, historic masonry and historic joinery using the buildings of Bucklers Hard…

Folland Court, Hamble

We are delighted with this recently finished project for McCarthy and Stone which was completed ahead of schedule. Williams Lester took this project on after Planning Permission had been received. We collaborated fully with engineers from WF Brown and Vent…

New Director

We are delighted to announce the appointment of new Director, James Green who has  20 years experience as an architect. He has returned to Williams Lester after spending the past nine years in New Zealand, where he worked for Jasmax Ltd…

David Lester Retires

Williams Lester said goodbye to David Lester with a surprise lunch at The Jetty restaurant, Christchurch. The last of our founding partners, David left McCarthy and Stone where he was chief architect to form Williams Lester with Walter Williams in…