About
Opportunity HSQ
Connecting Hounslow residents with local employment, training and skills opportunities
Local Impact
Real Local Benefits
When new developments come to a borough, they bring real opportunities for local people - jobs, apprenticeships, training and community engagement.
Barratt London and Wilson Bowden have delivered High Street Quarter, a 210 million pound mixed-use regeneration of Hounslow town centre: 588 homes, 134,000 sq ft of commercial space, a 10 screen Cineworld and a new public square. The work it creates, from construction and fit-out to permanent retail, leisure and cinema roles, should reach Hounslow residents first.
Barratt London and Wilson Bowden is delivering High Street Quarter Hounslow. Local residents get first sight of jobs, apprenticeships and training placements created on the scheme, with on-the-ground support to apply.
Purpose
Our Mission
We believe local development should mean local jobs. Opportunity Platform exists because when major new development reshapes Hounslow, the jobs, apprenticeships and training it creates should land first with the people whose streets are changing, not travel to outsiders with better networks.
We work borough by borough, pairing every listing with resident-facing support from local partners so Hounslow residents are first in line where they live.
How It Works
The Delivery Model
A replicable partnership model connecting developers, councils, and communities
Strategy
Storey Consulting designs the local employment and skills strategy for each development
Platform
Opportunity Platform lists local opportunities and connects them with the right candidates
Delivery
Local delivery partners provide resident-facing support: pre-employment training, mentoring, and welfare advice
Outcomes
Real impact for residents - jobs started, apprenticeships placed, training completed
Why local people come first
What Section 106 actually means
When a council grants planning permission for a big development, it can attach conditions to it. That agreement is called a Section 106, after the part of the planning law it comes from. Some of those conditions are about buildings: affordable homes, a new park, money towards a school. Some are about people.
The ones about people are the reason this site exists. They commit the developer and its contractors to hiring locally, creating a set number of apprenticeships, offering work experience, and going into local schools. Those are promises made on your behalf, in public, before a single brick was laid.
Promises like that have historically been easy to make and hard to check. Our job is to make them real: every job, apprenticeship and training place published where local people can actually find it, and every outcome recorded so the council, the developer and you can see whether the commitment was kept.
Our Community
Get Involved
Whether you are a resident, an employer or a training provider - we would love to connect with you.