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We are thrilled to announce Bargate has been crowned winner of Premier Guarantee’s 2025 ‘Development of the Year’ for our landmark Heritage Place scheme at North Stoneham Park, Eastleigh.
The award for 151+ Units recognises Heritage Place, our £97m neighbourhood of 322 homes set within a historic 120-acre former deer park, as the standout development in its category, ahead of entries from some of the UK’s largest national housebuilders.
The Premier Guarantee Excellence Awards recognise excellence in building high-quality homes, raising and celebrating standards of construction across the industry. The annual awards showcase the very best housebuilders, developments, construction practices and workmanship across the UK.
Mark White, Managing Director and Chair of the Future Homes Hub’s SME Liaison Group, said: “To be recognised with Premier Guarantee’s Development of the Year award for a second time is an incredible achievement for Bargate and a real credit to our team. Having previously won this award for our Rivercross scheme in Warsash, to now secure it again for Heritage Place underlines the consistency of our approach and the quality we strive for across every single project.
“Heritage Place is the culmination of years of meticulous planning and design, where every detail has been carefully considered. This award reinforces our commitment to creating not just houses, but lasting communities of real character and quality.”
Heritage Place forms the final phase of the North Stoneham Park regeneration, completing a 1,000-home masterplan that has transformed this historic setting into a thriving modern community. Our scheme delivers a mix of three-, four- and five-bedroom family homes alongside 124 affordable properties for the not-for-profit provider of affordable homes, VIVID, ensuring a balance of quality and accessibility.
North Stoneham Park is rich in community assets, including a new primary school, landscaped open green spaces, a large play area, a network of footpaths and cycleways and community facilities. A self-contained community, the site is surrounded by parkland yet also within minutes of road, rail and air travel, with Southampton Airport and Parkway Station both within walking distance.
Each home at Heritage Place is finished to our renowned specification, with bespoke kitchens featuring integrated Neff appliances, Porcelanosa tiles in bathrooms, and thoughtful layouts designed around modern family living. Two showhomes, professionally styled by locally renowned home, living and garden centre The Garden Society, are open for viewings.
This latest success builds on our strong track record – where we received both the Outstanding Achievement Award for Customer Satisfaction and a Gold Award from In-House Research this year. Bargate also won Developer of the Year in the Premier Guarantee Awards 2023, and Development of the Year for our Rivercross scheme in Warsash the same year – demonstrating our position as one of the UK’s leading SME housebuilders with quality and customer confidence at the heart of our success.
Prices at Heritage Place currently start from £425,000, with incentives such as Part-Exchange and Bargate Assist available on selected homes.
