St Mary's Wharf: Construction Updates (last updated 11 August)
New homes are coming to Guildford town centre, together with riverside gardens, restaurants and business space.
St Mary’s Wharf, 1 August 2025
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The John F Hunt construction team have now completed the main demolition of the former Debenhams building at the St Mary’s Wharf site. The demolished materials have been removed for recycling.
There is still some minor demolition to carry out, but these operations will be intermittent, using smaller equipment than needed for the previous main phase of demolition.
This week, these works include installing more columns and verticals, completing the basement core, and saw cutting the east perimeter wall.
The works continue to be monitored 24/7 by John F Hunt’s noise, dust and vibration monitoring system, and the team will continue to work within the approved parameters.
We appreciate your patience and understanding as we carry out these works.
If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact thomas.oconnell@johnfhunt.co.uk.
Thank you for your patience.
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Updates will continue to be posted on this website.
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St Mary’s Wharf will deliver new homes in Guildford town centre, together with riverside gardens, restaurants and business space.
Key features of the development include:
Opening up the River Wey by creating public spaces including a new town square and a biodiverse landscaped riverside walk, providing direct access from the High Street to the river for the first time in 50 years.
Developing two new sustainable residential buildings with retail and restaurants at ground floor, providing 183 new private and affordable homes, shops, cafés, and bars.
The buildings, designed to respect the surrounding heritage of the area, will be all-electric and net zero carbon in operation.
Repurposing brownfield land to provide new, centrally located homes, helping to alleviate pressures on the surrounding Green Belt, reinvigorate the Guildford town centre and reduce car dependency.
Enhancing local biodiversity, with 50 new trees, extensive planting and green roofs.
The development has committed to contribute more than £3m to improvements in Guildford, including support for the NHS, education, highways, open space and riverside infrastructure.
St Mary’s Wharf is also expected to create more than 415 construction jobs and up to 83 jobs within the development, as well as contributing an estimated £1.7 million a year to the local economy.
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To register your early interest in the homes we are delivering, or for any general queries about the development, you can contact us here.
If you have any questions or comments about what’s happening on site, please do not hesitate to contact thomas.oconnell@johnfhunt.co.uk.