Countryside News

We are proud to have been shortlisted for four coveted award categories at this year’s First Time Buyer Awards. The awards recognise developments and homes that uphold the values that first-time buyers across the UK value when looking for their first home and we are extremely pleased to be acknowledged for our work.

Beam Park, the £1bn regeneration scheme in Rainham, Essex that is being delivered by Countryside and L&Q, has been recognised in two categories in the Planning Awards 2020. The development won the ‘Best Use of Publicly-Owned Land’ category and was Highly Commended for ‘Planning Permission of the Year’.

Countryside has received two awards at the Considerate Constructors Scheme’s (CCS) National Site Awards 2020.

We are proud to announce that we picked up four awards at the prestigious Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2020. Beaulieu, our joint venture with L&Q, and Breedon Place both were named winners in their category, while Regency Grange and Breedon Place were Highly Commended.

Residents are set to benefit from 73 new affordable homes as Countryside commences construction on behalf of Nottingham Community Housing Association.

The first retailers in Phase 2 of South Oxhey Central, the £218m town centre development being delivered by Countryside in partnership with Home Group and Three Rivers District Council, have now opened, alongside a new market square. Known as Market Place, these new retail spaces add to the 19 retailers at Station Approach and future Lidl supermarket that are also part of South Oxhey Central.

We are proud to announce that The Allington house type at Breedon Place, our new development in Pangbourne, Berkshire, has been shortlisted in the Housebuilder Awards within the ‘best design for three storeys or fewer’ category.

Countryside catches up with Saloua Oussalah, centre administrator at the Acton Gardens Community Centre. A key part of Acton Gardens, Countryside and L&Q’s regeneration of the South Acton Estate in west London, the Community Centre was officially opened in July 2019 as part of a new hub for residents which is also home to a youth centre, dental practice, incubator workspace and local supermarket.

Countryside, the UK’s leading mixed-tenure developer, has donated a total of £10,000 from its Communities Fund to Waltham Forest Council as part of the local authority’s drive to support community groups and charities in the Marlowe Road area that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Friday 11 September, Rochester Riverside celebrated the handover of the first affordable housing at the flagship regeneration scheme from Countryside to Hyde, providing further much-needed new homes for Medway.

Countryside, the UK’s leading mixed-tenure developer, teamed up with charity and social enterprise Cultivate London to donate free gardening kits to residents of Acton Gardens, Countryside and L&Q’s £800m regeneration of the former South Acton Estate in west London.

Countryside, the leading UK mixed-tenure developer, has been selected as a joint-venture (JV) partner for the £124m next phase of Bracknell Town Centre’s regeneration.