EVERYBODY needs good neighbours like building site manager Nathan Pyett.

The CG Fry and Son site manager has been judged just the kind of operator you’d like to have working next door.

At the 2011 Considerate Con- structors Scheme National Site Awards in London, Nathan was presented with a bronze award.

It was in recognition of the care taken by West Dorset builders Frys at the company’s small development of new homes at Salway Ash, near Bridport, where Nathan was manager.

The Considerate Constructors Scheme is a national initiative set up by the building industry to reward concern for the environment, workforce, site neighbours and the general public.

Awards this year were presented for the highest-scoring 7.5 per cent of sites selected from over 8,500 eligible projects completed in 2010.

Nathan, 40, has been with Frys since leaving school. He joined the firm as an apprentice carpenter at 17 and became a site manager just four years later at the age of 21.

He said: “I’m really chuffed with this award, because it’s national recognition for the trouble the team have taken to be as considerate as they can.

“The site at Salway Ash was a small one, with neighbours on both sides, and it’s important to do everything you can to minimise any nuisance.

“It means things like keeping the site tidy and the road clean, making sure there is no loud noise from radios and so on, keeping the neighbours in touch with what’s going on and making sure they have no concerns.”

Nathan is now in charge of a major Frys development of new houses at Yeovil.

Litton Cheney-based Frys has won a number of building industry awards. In the most recent ‘Seal of Excellence’ awards by the National House Building Council, a Frys site manager at Poundbury, Steve Carr, was South West regional winner in the category for medium-size firms.

Another Frys manager, Jason Hockey, notched up his fourth Quality Award in five years in the national Pride In The Job competition.