Countryside News

A senior site manager from Drew Smith has won one of the highest accolades in the housebuilding industry for a second time.

We recently welcomed Tom Copley, GLA Deputy Mayor for Housing and Regeneration, and the Mayor of Hackney Philip Glanville, to our Quartet scheme in the north London district of Clapton Common, alongside several of their colleagues from the GLA and Hackney Council.

On Friday 18th November, we joined housebuilders from across the industry to celebrate this year’s WhatHouse? Awards.

We are proud to announce that Beaulieu, our flagship scheme with L&Q in Chelmsford, received a ‘Highly Commended’ award in the ‘Large Housing Scheme’ category of this year’s Essex Housing Awards.

Throughout the last couple of years, our colleagues have been fundraising for children’s hospice charity, Demelza, which provides clinical and emotional support across Kent, south-east London and East Sussex for children with serious or terminal conditions, and their families.

We are delighted to announce that Countryside has been shortlisted in two categories at Insider North West Residential Property Awards 2023.

Countryside, the UK’s leading mixed-tenure developer, and partner Great Places Housing Group, one of the largest housing associations in the North, were joined by Councillor Gavin White, Executive Member for Housing and Development at Manchester City Council last week (Thursday 10 November) to celebrate 130 much needed affordable homes and the opening of show homes at Belle Vue Place.

The brand-new Lidl at South Oxhey Central has opened its doors for the first time, as the new supermarket on Prestwick Road was officially opened this November by the Chair of Three Rivers District Council, Cllr Debbie Morris.

Simon Clarke, the recently appointed ‘Levelling Up’ Minister, praised Partnerships North East’s Bracken Grange development in Middlesbrough during his first visit to a housing project in his new role.

Leading regeneration specialists, Vistry Partnerships East Midlands and Cross Keys Homes (CKH) have come together with South Kesteven District Council, to celebrate the start of development works on the former Mirlees Blackstone site. The development will regenerate a significant site which has been disused for many years.

An athlete who survived cancer thanks to a lifesaving stem cell transplant, will travel to Australia next year for The World Transplant Games.

Construction work has started on a new eco-friendly residential affordable housing scheme for people over the age of 55 in Penshaw.