Hampshire-based Bargate Homes has hired Luke Vallins as Head of Planning to strengthen the internal team. Luke will be responsible for the premium housebuilder’s planning strategy for land interests across Hampshire and beyond, which includes both immediate and longer-term sites.

Bargate Homes is currently delivering 900 homes across six live developments and has a pipeline of future sites expected to deliver in excess of 2,500 new homes. In his new role, Luke will oversee the consultant teams and take sites through the planning process, with the aim of achieving allocations and planning permissions to enable delivery of high quality developments. He will also work closely with Bargate’s land team and assist with identifying and reviewing new opportunities, to ensure visibility of a strong pipeline of new sites, to continue to fulfil the need for new homes in the region.

Previously working as a Senior Planning Manager at Foreman Homes near Fareham, Luke has been involved in a range of residential and mixed-use schemes, and has extensive experience of complex sites with multiple planning issues. Having also worked at planning consultancies Terence O’Rourke Barton Willmore, and Pro Vision, he has an excellent understanding of high-level vision and concept work, alongside detailed planning and design matters. Luke holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Geography from the University of Southampton, as well as a Master of Science (MSc) in Development Planning from University of Reading.

Luke Vallins, Head of Planning for Bargate Homes, said: “I’m delighted to join Bargate Homes, as they have a fantastic reputation across this region for delivering genuinely excellent developments. Having visited a number of Bargate schemes prior to and since joining, it’s easy to see why. The brand is synonymous with quality and attention to detail, and it’s great to be a part of the company’s journey moving forward.”

Bargate Homes has recently launched its 34-acre Rivercross development in the Hampshire village of Warsash. The £128m project will create a new community of 352 eco-focused family homes at the mouth of the River Hamble, less than a mile from the world-famous Warsash Maritime Academy.

The £32 million Hamblewood scheme, near the village of Hedge End, has also recently launched, which is a mixture of 123 apartments and houses. All the properties will be EPC-B rated with the development overlooking ancient woodland.

At the £97m Heritage Place scheme in North Stoneham Park, close to the Hampshire town of Eastleigh, two show homes have recently been unveiled to the public. The 322 eco-focused homes qualify for Green Mortgage rates.

Mark White, Managing Director of Bargate Homes, said: “It’s great to have Luke on board, especially heading up our planning team which is the lifeblood of this business. We are always on the lookout for development opportunities that inspire us, and Luke and the team are totally aligned with this strategy. Luke’s skillset and experience within the regional planning and new homes industry will be an invaluable addition to Bargate Homes.”

Established in 2006, Bargate Homes builds select developments in prime locations within the Hampshire region. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivid – Hampshire’s largest provider of affordable homes.

Bargate Homes has opened two show homes at Heritage Place in Hampshire, with interiors designed by The Garden Society. The scheme is positioned within the 120-acre (48.6 Ha) North Stoneham Park neighbourhood.

Heritage Place is the final phase of the wider development which will feature 1,000 homes. Built on a former deer park on the outskirts of Eastleigh, Southampton, Bargate Homes’ £97m scheme will deliver 322 eco-focused family homes, with prices ranging from £485,000 to £715,000. Part-Exchange and Assisted Move packages are available to qualifying purchasers.

A collection of semi-detached and detached homes are under construction on the site. All homes at Heritage Place will be EPC-B rated, meaning residents will benefit from a lower carbon footprint, energy savings, and access to Green Mortgage rates.

The scheme will consist of three-, four-, and five-bedroom homes, with acres of open spaces, ecological footpaths and lakes. The creative team at Southampton-based The Garden Society has provided two inspiring show home interiors. The design concepts have been fed by heritage style, with aesthetics echoed from old traditions to a quintessential weekend escape.

Mark White, Managing Director of Bargate Homes, said: “We are thrilled with the fully furnished show homes at Heritage Place, which are now open to the public. We are also making great progress with the construction of the first tranche of homes, and purchasers will shortly be moving in. We are proud to be delivering North Stoneham Park’s most eco-efficient homes, completing the final part of the jigsaw for this exceptional new community.

“The two imaginative family show homes have been meticulously designed by Bargate Homes and The Garden Society, who are one of the most well-known home and garden design specialists in the county. The homes feature varying interior styles to illustrate how best to bring the outdoors in, while beautifully showcasing the quality of the specification and finishes. It brings to life the full potential of these premium new homes to prospective purchasers – we are delighted with the finished result.”

Each room within the two show homes has been carefully curated, with consideration paid to how homeowners may use each space, whilst encouraging individuality and personal choice.

The bold contrasting kitchen features painted dark green cabinetry and black knurled handles, surrounded by bright white quartz and soft white walls. All of the kitchens on the development will be fitted out with Neff cooking appliances. As the social hub of the home, The Garden Society recognised that the kitchen needed to be a statement in itself, whilst tying in traditional elements such as the shaker style units.

The upstairs of one of the three-bedroom show homes is light, airy and peaceful, with a dinosaur themed children’s bedroom and soft luxurious blush pink theme being used in the master bedroom. The space emulates tranquillity and comfort. More adventurous choices of material and colours, such as muted powder blue, navy, and terracotta red, can be seen in the open-plan kitchen and throughout the ground floor. The entrance hall has been left minimal with soft lighting to add mood with shadows, illustrating the practical functionality of the space.

The second show home is aimed at a first-time homemaker, featuring three bedrooms, with one being a single – perfect for a home office. This show home used exploratory colourways, with fun accessories and functionality at the heart of the interior concept.

Bathrooms at Heritage Place will benefit from contemporary white Roca sanitaryware, with Porcelanosa floor and wall tiles. Google Nest learning thermostats, Electric vehicle car chargers, and fibre broadband, are all installed as standard. The show home gardens are also on trend, and have been designed as an extension of the living space, using decked areas, landscaping, planting, and outdoor furniture.

Samuel Baker, Director of The Garden Society said: “It is a great pleasure to work exclusively with Bargate Homes to furnish the show homes at Heritage Place and showcase the latest interior design colour palettes and trends. Plants have magical properties within the home and we wanted to create two living show homes with beautiful plants adding vibrancy to these impeccable new homes.”

Heritage Place’s location boasts easy access to London via train, with the site being in walking distance from Southampton Parkway Station, meaning you can get to London Waterloo in just over an hour. The mainline network also links to other major commuter destinations such as Guildford, Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth and Winchester. Junction 5 of the M27 motorway that connects the southeast and southwest and the M3 to London is also close to the scheme.

Established in 2006, Bargate Homes builds select developments in prime locations within Hampshire, Dorset, and West Sussex. The company is currently delivering 900 homes across six live developments and has a pipeline of future sites expected to deliver in excess of 2,500 new homes.

Heritage Place is located off Hopper Road, SO50 9RJ and the show homes are open from 10am – 5pm, seven days a week. For further information, please call 02381 600595, or email heritageplace@bargatehomes.co.uk

Mark White, Managing Director of Hampshire-based premium housebuilder Bargate Homes, has been invited to join the advisory board for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Housing Market and Housing Delivery. Bargate Homes is currently delivering 900 homes across six live developments and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivid – Hampshire’s largest provider of affordable homes.

The invitation to join the advisory board for the influential APPG, which meets up to 12 times a year, came from the office of Ben Everitt MP, Chairman of the Group, who also sits on the House of Commons Committee for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

The role of the APPG board includes providing counsel to parliamentarians, proposing topics for research, and meeting with ministers and other policymakers. Advisory board members provide insight to each other and to policymakers, with the aim of improving the way that the government regulates and supports the housing industry. 

Ben Everitt, Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes North, and Chairman of the APPG for Housing Market and Housing Delivery, said: “The purpose of this Group is to inform and stimulate debate on relevant areas of policy affecting the UK housing market; to promote the importance of the delivery of new homes across all tenures; and to introduce parliamentarians to those involved in delivering housing and other experts and practitioners in the field.

“I am delighted to welcome Mark White of Bargate Homes to the advisory board. The government has a duty to ensure people living in the UK have decent, secure, and affordable homes to live in. Without the input from those who are actively developing new homes across the UK, we couldn’t address the industry’s greatest challenges in an informed and constructive fashion.

“This Group has been formed by parliamentarians who share a belief in the importance of building new homes, and want to raise housing high up the political agenda. Despite decades of discussion and countless policy initiatives, the UK housing crisis remains. Successive, well-meaning policy interventions in the housing market have created a complex web of unintended consequences, leading to unnecessary delay, uncertainty, and cost in the home-building process.”

Officers for the Housing Market and Housing Delivery APPG comprise; Peter Gibson MP, Conservative, Darlington; Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP, Labour, Brighton Kemptown; Gagan Mohindra MP, Conservative, South West Hertfordshire; Andrew Lewer MP MBE, Conservative, Northampton South; and Paul Holmes MP, Conservative, Eastleigh.

Members of the APPG include; Christian Wakeford MP, Labour, Bury South; Bob Blackman MP, Conservative, Harrow East; Greg Smith MP, Conservative, Buckingham; James Sunderland MP, Conservative, Bracknell; Lord Porter of Spalding CBE; Baron Taylor of Warwick; Paul Howell MP, Conservative, Sedgefield; Shaun Bailey MP, Conservative, West Bromwich West; Simon Fell MP, Conservative, Barrow and Furness; and Dehenna Davison MP, Conservative, Bishop Auckland.

Mark White, Managing Director, Bargate Homes said: “With mandatory local authority housing targets now scrapped by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, there has never been a more pressing need to work with government to address the vast challenges faced by the housebuilding industry.

“The energy price cap will increase to £3,000 for the average family home for 12 months from April. But when lowering our carbon footprint and reducing energy consumption is so critical, much more needs to be done to help fix the planning system, solve the prolonged phosphates, nitrates, and nutrient neutrality issue, and stimulate the new homes market.

“While housebuilding challenges and risks predominantly revolve around land and planning, there are other matters that also deserve meaningful debate. Green Mortgages could be subsidised, so that monthly repayments for the most energy-efficient new homes become significantly cheaper. The Feed-in Tariff for household renewable energy generation should also be reintroduced, to make living in a home with solar panels much more financially rewarding.

“We are on site at six developments across Hampshire, Dorset, and West Sussex, which are delivering over 900 open market and affordable family homes. We have 500 tradespeople working for us, and with the impact of planning and nutrient neutrality issues, Brexit, the prolonged unrest in Ukraine, soaring energy costs, and inflation, it costs £20,000 more to build a typical three-bedroom Bargate home than it did only five years ago. I am looking forward to contributing my thoughts to the APPG – navigating through the housing target void.”

Bargate Homes have partnered with the creative team at The Garden Society to provide the show home interiors for Heritage Place.

The design concept is fed from the heritage style at The Garden Society with creative choices and aesthetics echoed from old traditions to a quintessential weekend escape.

We leaned on these visual references for creating a home: somewhere personal, relatable, functional and highly stylish. With design features from the past, combined with formal colours used boldly, a home interior concept for both practical and comfortable living.

Accentuating the character features of the design traditional kitchen styles have been selected for The Honours in a deep moody green. This is modernised with black knurled handles, bright white quartz and soft white walls. Wall art, impactful mirrors and dressed display cases make the kitchen a real social hub for this family home.

Statements made with colour are a key feature of this interior, creating cosy, comforting spaces to retreat and snuggle up in. Tempered lighting, dark window dressings and tonal features add to this effect.

Encouraging individuality and personal choice, The Legacy interior leads from their heritage theme but with more adventurous choices of material and colour within the furnishing. Powder blue, navy, terracotta red and as well as pops of pink and lemon add interest and character.

Organic light fixtures, reflective mirrors and clusters and collections of faux plants and vessels add character to the neutral spaces. This is an interior filled with joy, with fun prints, comforting textures and space to work, think and relax.

This is an extremely practical and functional design with lots of space in the hallway, the living space and the kitchen. These areas have been kept minimal and airy with soft lighting to add mood with shadows and highlights showcasing the design. 

The garden concepts utilise spacious plots with large natural lawns, raised decked areas for entertaining as well as raised boarders to flank the perimeters and create a haven for wildlife.

Heritage Place is serenely positioned within the award-winning North Stoneham Park scheme. A unique, new community with acres of open spaces, ecological habitats and lakes, all linked by footpaths that weave across the park. Our beautiful development consists of 3, 4 and 5 bedroom homes, all full of Bargate character. For more information or to book an appointment to see our show home, call us on 02381 600595 or head to our Heritage Place development page.

Hampshire-headquartered Bargate Homes have launched the final phase of North Stoneham Park, where a new community of over 1,000 homes is being created on a former deer park on the outskirts of Eastleigh, Southampton. Bargate Homes’ £97m Heritage Place scheme will deliver 322 eco-focused family homes.

Bargate Homes unveiled Heritage Place – its largest scheme to date – on Saturday 19^th November, with a completed street scene and two fully furnished show homes. The first homes will be ready to move into before the end of this year. A range of three-, four- and five-bedroom semi-detached and detached homes are available in the first release, with prices ranging from £485,000 to £715,000.

Bargate Homes is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivid – Hampshire’s largest provider of affordable homes. 124 Heritage Place homes will be purpose-built for Vivid, for shared ownership and affordable rent. Vivid has been the recipient of the entire affordable housing provision at North Stoneham Park, where construction has been ongoing since 2018.

Mark White, Managing Director of Bargate Homes, said: “We are thrilled to be unveiling Heritage Place to the public for the first time. This £97m development has been in the planning and meticulous pre-construction stage for over two years, to ensure we will deliver North Stoneham Park’s most eco-efficient homes, completing the final part of the jigsaw for this exceptional new community.

“Taking lessons learnt from previous phases, our family homes will feature garages, and there has been considerable design work regarding the elevation treatments and detailing. The 322 new Bargate Homes will enable local people to climb onto and up the property ladder, as well as attracting newcomers to this scenic, historic, and well-connected part of Hampshire. We are very much looking forward to welcoming the first residents to Heritage Place next month.”

Bargate Homes has worked alongside Eastleigh Borough Council and Winchester City Council’s Design Review Panel to ensure Heritage Place – which is located to the west of Avenue Park – fully complements the existing residential at North Stoneham Park. Close attention has also been paid to maximise linkages to the local centre, which opened to the public in May 2021 with a café, community hall and day nursery, and to Stoneham Park Primary Academy, which welcomed its first pupils in September 2020. Heritage Place has been designed by Fareham-based HGP Architects.

The new development is one mile from Eastleigh town centre and two miles from Southampton Airport and Eastleigh train station. There is a 77-minute regular service to London Waterloo. Trains to Southampton and Winchester take 11-minutes. The M3 and M23 are both close by, enabling fast travel across Hampshire and beyond. Beautiful waterside attractions and the New Forest Wildlife Park are within a 20-minute drive.

Bargate Homes is initially releasing six house designs, which all benefit from a garage, and have elevations in a variety of traditional red and buff brick. The Oak is a three-bedroom detached home, offering 1,126 sq ft, priced at £489,000, whereas The Belvedere is a three-bedroom semi-detached design, which provides 1,133 sq ft and is priced at £485,000. The Saxon is a four-bedroom detached home of 1,268 sq ft, priced at £545,000, while The Acres is a four-bedroom semi-detached home of 1,357 sq ft, priced at £550,000. The Lancelot and The Vista are both five-bedroom detached homes, each offering 1,714 sq ft, and priced at £705,000 and £715,000 respectively.

All homes at Heritage Place will be EPC-B Rated, ensuring future residents can significantly lower their carbon footprint and benefit from energy savings. The bespoke kitchens feature integrated Neff cooking appliances. Bathrooms benefit from contemporary white Roca sanitaryware, with Porcelanosa floor and wall tiles. Google Nest learning thermostats, Electric vehicle car chargers, and fibre broadband, are all installed as standard.

The two, three-bedroom show homes at Heritage Place have been designed and fully furnished by Southampton-based The Garden Society. The show homes illustrate differing interior themes, and both showcase how the garden can become an extension of the living space, using decked areas, landscaping, planting, and outdoor furniture.

Established in 2006, Bargate Homes delivers select developments in prime locations within Hampshire, Dorset, and West Sussex. The company is currently delivering 900 homes across six live developments and has a pipeline of future sites expected to deliver in excess of 2,500 new homes.

From Saturday 19^th November, Heritage Place will be open daily from 10am – 5pm and accessed off Highwood Avenue, SO50 9RJ. For further information, please call 02381 600595, or email heritageplace@bargtehomes.co.uk.

Buying a beautiful Bargate home is a special experience- with the reveal of the newly finished property a truly memorable event.

To make this as exciting and informative as possible, we’ve appointed Nina Crook as our New Home Demonstrator. A dedicated role to comprehensively introduce each and every buyer to all aspects of their new home.

From the all-important demo of your state-of-the-art heating system, to looking after your newly turfed garden (which, of course, you don’t get with other housebuilders), Nina’s the expert, offering a thorough and welcoming introduction.

Commenting on this new  appointment, Nina said:

“I love sharing the excitement of the moment, as buyers see their finished home for the first time and relish taking them through all aspects of how best to run and look after their wonderful dream home.”

Yet another example of how we care and look after our customers.