Who Are We?
AJ Cooper Builders Ltd was a development company of such repute, that homes are still advertised today as "Cooper built" and James Development Co. Ltd. was founded in 1959 to follow on and continue the success of the previous company. We are a family owned firm who believe that building requires knowledge, professionalism and dedication. Our employees tend to stay with us for a very long time, the longest serving joined us when he was 16 and other than his time of National Service has worked for us ever since. He still drops in and helps regularly at the age of 74!
What Do We Do?
To date, we have designed and constructed thousands of new homes and their associated drains, highways and other infrastrucure. We have also designed and constructed many significant large scale retail outlets.
Where Do We Do It?
Our work has mainly been focused in East Anglia, but we have been involved in developments as far flung as Dundee.
What Is Our Aim?
We aim to build prestigious luxury new homes that house people in a lifestyle of contemporary elegance offering pleasant surroundings and a civilised environment of which their sustainable family home forms an integral part. We try to use our resources wisely to afford our purchasers the best value for money and for example, whenever possible we equip our homes with fitted carpets, fitted wardrobes to every bedroom, en-suite bathrooms and shower rooms to principal bedrooms, ecofriendly double glazing, renewable energy heating systems, thermostatically controlled central heating, appropriately tiled wet rooms and a generous supply of electrical sockets. Above all, our homes are built by professionals that love their work and are determined to produce genuine and tangible quality through high standards of workmanship and intelligent selection of material palettes.
All our projects are designed by our in house Chartered Architectural design office and their construction is supervised by our Chartered Builder.
Where are we different?
We are a small family firm and that means that our business matters to us. We take it very seriously and we work very hard.We do not squander our resources, instead, we try to invest what we have earned wisely to secure our future and in so doing, the future of our entire team. We have maintained continuous growth through times of economic turmoil and turpitude while suffering the consequences of the ineptidues and errors which seem to charasterise the abilities of those given the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer and yet, after nearly half a century we are still here, doing what we have done since our company was founded and competing with the enormous national house building firms on their territory.
Other companies pay lip service to concerns such as environmental policy, but we have actually done something effective about the situation and below are two examples that are representative of the intelligent and direct action that we believe in:
At Mulberry Lea, we have installed a very efficient and economical Air Sourced Heat Pump based heating and hot water system in every house, not just the expensive house types. This will dramatically reduce the carbon footprint and running cost of these homes.
We have purchased a mobile concrete crushing plant. This enables us to recycle all our hardcore and concrete waste for drives and paths etc.. This saves natural mineral resources, reduces waste sent to landfill and reduces the amount of lorries travelling on the roads. We maintained a full permit to use this equipment which many mobile crusher owners do not bother with. However, we have now been granted an exemption from this permit on the basis of triviality.This is unusual for a crushing plant as large as ours and reflects the excellent management procedures that we have instituted and followed in operating this equipment and indeed, one local authority environmental officer asked our permission to distribute our system to other users as an example of an ideal management system saying that we had achieved more in a few well considered pages than some operators achieve in manuals of over 100 pages! If the environment matters to you too, visit any other building site and see what they do with their hard waste or ask to speak to their Chartered Environmentalist; you can speak to ours, because we have one.
AJ Cooper Builders Ltd was a development company of such repute, that homes are still advertised today as "Cooper built" and James Development Co. Ltd. was founded in 1959 to follow on and continue the success of the previous company. We are a family owned firm who believe that building requires knowledge, professionalism and dedication. Our employees tend to stay with us for a very long time, the longest serving joined us when he was 16 and other than his time of National Service has worked for us ever since. He still drops in and helps regularly at the age of 74!
What Do We Do?
To date, we have designed and constructed thousands of new homes and their associated drains, highways and other infrastrucure. We have also designed and constructed many significant large scale retail outlets.
Where Do We Do It?
Our work has mainly been focused in East Anglia, but we have been involved in developments as far flung as Dundee.
What Is Our Aim?
We aim to build prestigious luxury new homes that house people in a lifestyle of contemporary elegance offering pleasant surroundings and a civilised environment of which their sustainable family home forms an integral part. We try to use our resources wisely to afford our purchasers the best value for money and for example, whenever possible we equip our homes with fitted carpets, fitted wardrobes to every bedroom, en-suite bathrooms and shower rooms to principal bedrooms, ecofriendly double glazing, renewable energy heating systems, thermostatically controlled central heating, appropriately tiled wet rooms and a generous supply of electrical sockets. Above all, our homes are built by professionals that love their work and are determined to produce genuine and tangible quality through high standards of workmanship and intelligent selection of material palettes.
All our projects are designed by our in house Chartered Architectural design office and their construction is supervised by our Chartered Builder.
Where are we different?
We are a small family firm and that means that our business matters to us. We take it very seriously and we work very hard.We do not squander our resources, instead, we try to invest what we have earned wisely to secure our future and in so doing, the future of our entire team. We have maintained continuous growth through times of economic turmoil and turpitude while suffering the consequences of the ineptidues and errors which seem to charasterise the abilities of those given the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer and yet, after nearly half a century we are still here, doing what we have done since our company was founded and competing with the enormous national house building firms on their territory.
Other companies pay lip service to concerns such as environmental policy, but we have actually done something effective about the situation and below are two examples that are representative of the intelligent and direct action that we believe in:
At Mulberry Lea, we have installed a very efficient and economical Air Sourced Heat Pump based heating and hot water system in every house, not just the expensive house types. This will dramatically reduce the carbon footprint and running cost of these homes.
We have purchased a mobile concrete crushing plant. This enables us to recycle all our hardcore and concrete waste for drives and paths etc.. This saves natural mineral resources, reduces waste sent to landfill and reduces the amount of lorries travelling on the roads. We maintained a full permit to use this equipment which many mobile crusher owners do not bother with. However, we have now been granted an exemption from this permit on the basis of triviality.This is unusual for a crushing plant as large as ours and reflects the excellent management procedures that we have instituted and followed in operating this equipment and indeed, one local authority environmental officer asked our permission to distribute our system to other users as an example of an ideal management system saying that we had achieved more in a few well considered pages than some operators achieve in manuals of over 100 pages! If the environment matters to you too, visit any other building site and see what they do with their hard waste or ask to speak to their Chartered Environmentalist; you can speak to ours, because we have one.
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