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A final chance is on offer to own a lovingly restored apartment in a Grade II Listed country house just four miles from Chester, developed by HBF Five Star builder Jones Homes.
The Moreton is a two-bedroom apartment situated on the first floor of the restored Backford Hall building set in the grounds of Backford Park. This elegant, ready-to-move-into apartment is brimming with character derived from the authentic period ceiling and other original features which have been expertly preserved and restored.
Jones Homes is encouraging anyone interested in owning this final apartment to move swiftly as it is expected to be in high demand.
Gemma Pownall, Sales and Marketing Director for Jones Homes North West, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity to own a stunning apartment in a charming Grade II Listed building.
“The property consists of a spacious open-plan kitchen and living area which would be ideal for hosting friends and family, along with two luxurious bedrooms and three car parking spaces. You will find the charismatic charm follows you through every room of the apartment, from the ornamental cornice to the feature windows with native architrave.
“These homes have been increasingly popular as the development is placed just four miles from Chester city centre. Backford Hall is ideally located for people wanting to live in an enchanting country home with a contemporary high specification finish, surrounded by plenty of outdoor space, while remaining close to all the essential amenities that the city provides.
“This is the final apartment available here at Backford Hall, so I would recommend anyone who desires owning this home to contact a member of our sales team to arrange a personal visit to find out more.”
The Moreton apartment is available for £299,950 and is ready to move into. With the Government-backed Help to Buy scheme available on this beautiful property you can turn your dream into a reality with only a five per cent deposit.
Help to Buy is currently available on new homes priced up to £600,000. Up to 20 per cent is provided as an equity loan, on which no interest is repayable for the first five years.
A much-loved soldier from Handforth who was killed on his second tour of Afghanistan has been honoured in the name of a new road near his home.
Local housebuilder Jones Homes has paid tribute to local hero Lance Corporal Jamie Webb at its Sanctuary Wilmslow development in Wilmslow, by naming the gateway to the new community Jamie Webb Drive.
L Cpl Webb’s parents Susan and David and brother Luke, along with a group of uniformed soldiers and veterans, many of whom served alongside Jamie in the 1st Battalion of the Mercian Regiment attended a ceremony held by the housebuilder to celebrate the naming of the new road.
The family were presented with a replica of the street sign at the event, which gave those attending the opportunity to share their memories. L Cpl Webb died in March 2013 aged just 24 following an attack on his patrol base in Helmand Province.
Luke Webb, L Cpl Webb’s brother, said: “We are really honoured and proud to have a road named after Jamie. We really want to thank Jones Homes for all their help and all the hard work that they have put into this day.
“Jamie was a true hero and It’s great that he is being commemorated in the naming of this road. Future generations will pass this road and will remember him.
“It’s more than just a road sign to us, it’s a memorial, another way to celebrate Jamie’s life. It means so much to us that the sacrifice that Jamie has made will not be forgotten.”
L Cpl Webb served in the British Army for six years, enlisting at age of 18. In this time, he was deployed on four operations, firstly to Northern Ireland, then to Iraq, followed by two tours of Afghanistan. He was promoted from Private to Lance Corporal after his first tour of Afghanistan.
Lt Col (Retd) Bill Temminck said: “The Mercian Regiment would like to thank Jones Homes and the local councillors for the honour they have granted in remembering Lance Corporal Jamie Webb by naming this location Jamie Webb Drive.
“The day Jamie was killed in service with 1 Mercian in Afghanistan remains a day that is not forgotten by all his comrades who served with him.
“This is why so many of the soldiers that knew Jamie have attended this event, to pay their respects to him and show Jamie’s family he is not forgotten.
“I know that Jamie still lives in the hearts and minds of David, Sue and Luke, and he is remembered every day. Our Regimental Headquarters remains committed to supporting them whenever they need it.
“I would like to thank all the soldiers and veterans from both the Mercian Regiment and the Cheshire Regimental Association who have attended this dedication naming ceremony and are able to share the memories of Jamie with the family.”
Jones Homes North West, which is based in Alderley Edge, also made a donation of £500 to the Mercian Regiment Benevolent Charity in memory of L Cpl Webb.
Gemma Pownall, Sales and Marketing Director at Jones Homes North West, said: “We were honoured when Jamie’s family approached us to ask about the possibility of naming the entrance road at Sanctuary Wilmslow in his memory. It was clear to us just how much this would mean to them and we were more than happy to contact the council to make it happen.
“It has been wonderful to hear all about Jamie and what a popular and kind-hearted person he was, and we can think of no one more deserving of this tribute. We are extremely proud to have a road at our Sanctuary Wilmslow development named after Jamie, and it was a pleasure to welcome his family and friends to the site for the ceremony.”
Jones Homes’ Sanctuary Wilmslow development, located off Coppice Way, is a new community providing bespoke mature living for the active over-55s.
Jones Homes has funded a new beehive to support Heron Hill Primary School in Kendal’s latest ecological project.
The company’s £300 donation has enabled the school to purchase the equipment to enhance its already impressive apiary.
The school has assembled its own ‘Bee Team’ to lead the project, which has been in progress for over three years. The aim is to enhance learning opportunities for the children while increasing their understanding of the ecological system around them.
Jacqui Cottam, who is chair of governors at Heron Hill Primary School, is a registered beekeeper who helps to run the Bee Club for pupils in Year 4 to Year 6. She said: “The children are very excited about the hive and can’t wait to see our bees buzzing around their new home.
“It really will have far-reaching positive benefits, not just for our children, but so many of the Kendal community who come to visit the apiary.”
The long hive requires far less heavy lifting than the hives currently being used by the Heron Hill Bee Team, meaning that disabled children or children with limited mobility can now take part in activities there.
The hive has been built by Green Earth Hives, who specialise in educational and accessible beehives.
Jones Homes is building 110 homes at Stonecross Meadows, off Milnthorpe Road in Kendal.
Sales Director, Carol Barlow, said: “It is clear that our donation of £300 to Heron Hill school to buy a new long hive has had a tremendous impact on the children and we couldn’t be happier.
“Aside from benefiting the children at Heron Hill, the hive will also be made available to pupils visiting the apiary from other schools nearby.
“Heron Hill Primary School’s initiative is a worthy project, both in terms of educational and environmental impact. We are glad to be supporting the school in its endeavours and hope to visit the apiary again soon to see how their work is progressing.”
Jones Homes is investing more than £300,000 in Kendal, with £279,300 allocated for schools and £32,500 to improve the development’s junction with Milnthorpe Road.
Jones Homes Lancashire is celebrating 10 years of building beautiful homes across the county and more recently expanding into Cumbria.
During the decade from 2010, the builder, which has its main regional office in Lytham St Annes, has built or is building 816 homes within 18 developments across the county
Ralph Bacon, Regional Director of Jones Homes Lancashire, said: “This is a significant landmark for Jones Homes in Lancashire during a period of growth. We’re a Lytham-based builder with a proud heritage of building for our neighbours right across Lancashire and a real commitment to the area.
“We take pride in our homes and we take pride in our region. We want to enhance the area where we all live ourselves.”
Jones Homes Lancashire developments built over the past decade span locations including Blackpool, Lytham and Preston. Over the past year work has finished at Kings Meadow in Staining, where Jones Homes built 30 homes and at The Willows, which is a development of just six homes of Willow Brooke Court in Blackpool.
The Lancashire division is currently building 242 homes at Moorfield Park in Poulton-le-Fylde, a 26-home development called Walton Meadows at Walton-le-Dale and Ribbleswood Chase, a development of 48 homes in the Cottam area of Preston.
Jones Homes Lancashire is part of The Emerson Group, a family-owned property development company that builds around 600 homes a year across the UK, from apartments, elegant conversion projects to spacious detached houses.
The group also manages a commercial property portfolio worth more than £1 billion and builds homes in Florida and Portugal.
Ralph Bacon said: “We deliver modern, luxury accommodation focusing on quality, appearance, layout and style – and we build to last.”
A St Helens teacher has taken a step up the property ladder after selling her previous home in just nine days thanks to Jones Homes’ Agency Assist scheme.
Emma Mather, 33, who teaches health and social care used the housebuilder’s Agency Assist scheme to help secure her move to the Eccleston Grange development in Eccleston, St Helens.
Under the scheme, Jones Homes will hold a reserved plot for up to eight weeks while instructing an independent estate agent to market the buyer’s existing property on their behalf.
While the average time it takes to sell a home in the North West is 66 days*, a buyer was found for Emma’s house in just over a week.
Having previously lived in a new build home just around the corner from Eccleston Grange, Emma had seen the development taking shape and occasionally visited to have a look round.
Jones Homes’ sister company, Orbit developments, have built a new retail court adjacent to the development comprising of a convenience store, a food outlet and a veterinary practice. There is also a doctor’s surgery and a pharmacy at the centre too.
She said: “I have always liked the area, and in the last few years, with the addition of shops and other amenities it has become a really sought-after place to live.
“Whenever I visited Eccleston Grange the sales advisors were so lovely and helpful. I visited the site when it first opened, and I remember it was so popular people were queuing out of the door of the sales centre.”
Emma visited the development again this spring, finding herself impressed with the high quality of the homes at the development.
“When I visited the development again last year, I really liked what I saw. In comparison to the home I was in, these homes were so much bigger and a much nicer quality.”
When she fell in love with The Birch, a three-bedroom semi-detached home, she worried she wouldn’t be able to sell her current home in time to purchase it.
Emma said: “I was talking with the Sales Advisors and they told me about their Agency Assist scheme which would help me sell my current home.
“I was really worried at first that I wouldn’t sell in time and that I would lose my reservation, but I ended up selling in nine days!
“The agents were amazing at keeping me up to date. They would call me all the time with updates on interested buyers which was really good to know.
“The site team were amazing too. At every step of the process the Sales Advisors and the site manager were there to answer all my questions and help wherever they could.”
As well as using Agency Assist, Emma also took advantage of Help to Buy. The Government scheme enables buyers to purchase a new build home with just a five per cent deposit and a 75 per cent mortgage. The remaining 20 per cent is provided as an equity loan, which is interest-free for the first five years.
Emma said: “The combination of Help to Buy and Agency Assist helped me to buy my dream home in a location that I have always aspired to live in.
“The staff at Jones Homes explained the process and helped me to complete the required paperwork which made the application stress free.
“My new home is just perfect. I lived in my previous property for seven years and never had my family round for dinner, but just weeks after moving in here I’d already had everyone round.
“Without Help to Buy, I wouldn’t have been able to move up the property ladder and into my dream home”.
There is a selection of homes available at at Eccleston Grange, St Helens with only the final few two and three-bedroom homes remaining.
Jones Homes are also building a variety of homes at Springfield Gate in St Helens. The development includes a range of four and five-bedroom detached homes from the housebuilders Signature Collection with just a handful of homes remaining.
For more information on the homes available at Eccleston Grange call 01744 734039. For more information about the homes at Springfield Gate call 01744 633849 or visit jones-homes.co.uk.
*Figure from the November 2019 Rightmove House Price Index
A Roman road, the remains of Anglo-Saxon pit-houses and copper artefacts from the Stone Age were among the fascinating discoveries made by archaeologists at the site.
The findings were uncovered during an excavation of the 9.8 acre site off Worksop Road, ahead of construction work beginning on the 53-home development.
Reuben Thorpe, Head of Field Archaeology at Archaeological Research Services Ltd, which conducted the excavation, said: “What we appear to have here is an exciting multi-phase site of regional significance that encompasses activity from the late Neolithic period right through to the late Medieval period.”
The oldest features on the site were tribal boundaries dating back to the Neolithic period, the final part of the Stone Age which ended in around 6500 BC. Copper alloy artefacts, including pins for cloaks and dresses, from the same period were also among the findings.
Evidence of human activity from the Roman period was also uncovered, in the form of a Roman road which ran through the site, a Romano-British well structure and fragments of Romano-British pottery.
Mr Thorpe added: “The fragments of Romano-British pottery pressed into the upper surface of the road indicate that it was likely in use during the period and it is suggested that the road here represents part of the wider landscape narrative of Roman colonisation and organisation of the area.”
Two possible Anglo-Saxon Grubenhaus, or pit-houses, were uncovered as well as pottery and a brooch from Medieval times.
David Ruffley, Regional Director for Jones Homes Yorkshire, said: “The excavation of the Van Dyk Village site has uncovered some remarkable objects of great historical significance which may well have gone undiscovered without this new development coming forward.
“We are proud to have supported the excavation and we have been amazed by the findings. It’s quite remarkable to think that when the first residents at Van Dyk Village move into their new homes they will be the latest in a long line of settlers dating back 7,000 years.”
Jones Homes has launched its new Cavendish Park development in Bolsover following the success of neighbouring Cavendish Grange.
New to Bolsover and located next door to the 35-home Cavendish Grange development, Cavendish Park will offer a further 127 homes across a 16-acre site off Oxcroft Lane, 13 of which will be affordable housing.
The site will include a range of two, three, four and five-bedroom properties.
The development is also bringing an investment of around £800,000 for local services and infrastructure, through financial contributions being provided by Jones Homes as part of the planning agreement for the site.
Jayne Swift, Sales and Marketing Director for Jones Homes Yorkshire, said: “Cavendish Park has generated a great deal of interest locally, due to the range and quality of homes we are offering at the development.
“The high demand we have already witnessed follows on from the popularity of our Cavendish Grange development which was completed late last year.
“Both developments share a picturesque and convenient location, and this has been a major draw for buyers in the area. The homes at Cavendish Park will boast a high specification on the inside and a variety of finishes on the outside, giving each houses its own unique character.”
Jones Homes is also building at nearby Van Dyk Village, a development of new homes located off the A619 between Chesterfield and Worksop, and Hillside Green in Harthill.
The development team at Jones Homes Yorkshire has increased in size over the past four years to compliment the regional housebuilder’s ambitious plans for growth.
Jones Homes Yorkshire have sites in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and currently build 100 new homes each year aiming to increase this to in excess of 200 new homes per year by 2022.
Expanding the development team was identified as a key element in achieving this target, which was set out in the company’s five-year plan in 2017.
Over the past four years, the Development Department team, which is based at the housebuilder’s regional office in Cleckheaton in West Yorkshire, has increased its workforce significantly.
Three new roles have been created during that period – Development Coordinator, Development Engineer, and Development and Land Assistant in addition to new recruits appointed to the existing positions of Development Director, Technical Manager and Development Technician.
Mike Parrott, who heads up the department as Development Director, said: “The development team is an integral and important part of the business. We have a role and influence in most stages of the development process, from land acquisition through technical design and construction to the point of sale. Following site build and sales completion, we still play a role in ensuring that roads and sewers are adopted and open areas adequately maintained.”
“In terms of growth, it was initially decided to recruit a Development Coordinator, Chris Charlton, as the natural first step in the department’s progression. Shortly thereafter a Development Engineer, Gerard Furness was appointed and because we work in close union with the Land Department we appointed Liz Northcote as the Development and Land Department Assistant.”
“The latest recruits to the department are Joshua Brodrick, Development Technician and the most recent appointment of Sean Berry to the team as Technical Manager. Sean’s appointment is crucial to the Development Departments role within Jones Homes Yorkshire providing a day to day overview of team priorities and management of the supply of information to other departments.”
“It is vital for our team to provide concise and timely release of accurate and technically correct information to ensure that each development is built to the highest possible standards. Our team structure is now ideally appointed to ensure this happens.”
Jones Homes Yorkshire is currently building across the county in Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Harthill, Thorpe Hesley and Treeton, as well as in Clowne and Bolsover in Derbyshire and Harworth and Worksop in Nottinghamshire.
The newly appointed Sales Manager at Jones Homes Southern says he is looking forward to a long and prosperous career with the company.
Greg Parkes, 26, will have responsibility for the privately-owned housebuilder’s developments across Kent and Sussex.
He joins the company with seven years’ experience in the industry under his belt, having worked his way up from Sales Executive to Trainee Sales Manager. Prior to that, he was a retail manager with Marks & Spencer.
Greg, who lives in Maidstone and is a keen golfer in his spare time, will be based at Jones Homes Southern’s regional office in Swanley.
He said: “This is an important step in my career and I’m really pleased to be making it with Jones Homes. They have an excellent reputation within the industry and are renowned for the fantastic quality of their product.
“As Jones Homes is a privately-owned company, you get to work very closely with the people at the top of the business, and as a result, feel much more involved in the decision-making process.”
“My aim is to have a long and prosperous career with Jones Homes and I’m looking forward to establishing myself in my new role and making a positive difference to the company.”
Sara Stanhope, Sales and Marketing Director for Jones Homes Southern, said: “Greg’s impressive track record in the industry, which includes several years working in the very competitive London market, combined with his previous management experience, made him the ideal candidate for this role.
“We are delighted to welcome him to the team and look forward to working alongside him to help grow the business in the years ahead.”
More information about career opportunities with Jones Homes can be found at jones-homes.co.uk/careers/
The foundations have been laid at a new housing development in Lenham, ready for the first homes to go on sale later this year.
Construction work is now underway at Jones Homes’ Westwood Park development, off Ham Lane, where Jones Homes Southern is building 70 new homes.
Westwood Park will include a range of three and four-bedroom houses, with the first plots due to be released for this winter, when a sales centre will open on site.
Sara Stanhope, Sales Director for Jones Homes Southern, said: “Building work has now started to deliver these new homes at Westwood Park, which neighbours our existing Westwood Grange development in the village.
“We are proud of the links we’ve already built in the village and are looking forward to further strengthening our relationship with the local community through this new development.
“There’s a growing need for new homes in this part of Kent, especially three and four-bedroom houses for couples and families, and we have carefully designed the properties we are building here to meet this rising demand.
“With work progressing well on site, we’re now looking forward to welcoming the first visitors to the development later this year. In the meantime, people can visit our website and register their interest to ensure they receive the latest information about the launch as it becomes available.”
As part of the planning agreement for the development, Jones Homes will make contributions of around £290,000 to support local infrastructure, including education and healthcare, open spaces, traffic improvements and libraries.
The development will feature a landscaped area to the north-west of the site, while hedges to the east and south will be preserved and there will be nest boxes for swifts to the north of the development, where the houses will look out onto the Kent Downs.
To register for updates on the new homes coming soon at Westwood Park, visit jones-homes.co.uk.
As a project sales manager in the building industry, you’d expect Jon Robinson to know a good new home when he saw one.
So when he calls the house he bought ‘exceptional’, you can take notice.
Jon (57) bought the three-bedroom semi-detached Baycliffe house at Jones Homes’ Appledown Grange development in Marden, near Maidstone, earlier this year.
He said: “I think it’s an exceptionally well built and designed house and with a great use of space - the kitchen/dining room right across the rear of the house was exactly what I was looking for”.
“All the bedrooms are a good size; even the third bedroom, which I’ll be using as an office, and it’s also got a very good size garage.”
The Baycliffe design is eye-catching from the outside, with the triangular shape of its white clad exterior reminiscent of the sales of a yacht.
Inside, the kitchen/dining room has French doors to the garden, while there’s also a spacious living room and a downstairs cloakroom. Upstairs, the master bedroom has an en-suite shower room, and there are two other good-size bedrooms and a main bathroom.
Jon used the Help to Buy scheme to purchase the house which he said had helped him buy a better property than he would otherwise have been able to.
The scheme allows buyers to secure a new-build home with a five per cent deposit and a 75 per cent mortgage. The remaining 20 per cent is provided by a Government loan which is interest free for the first five years.
Jon said he bought a new-build home because “it’s reassuring to have a 10-year structural guarantee for the property as well as the developers own Customer Care service”.
He said he had learnt over the years that any new building could have little snags, and it was then a question of how quickly the developer rectified these snags.
He said: “At Marden the customer care team are very responsive and the customer care rep I deal with is both very likeable and multi-talented!
“Just as importantly, the sales team looked after me really well along my own journey, keeping me updated and ‘in the loop’ all the time. It’s a critical factor for any purchaser”
Jon is also a fan of the large village of Marden. “Technically it’s a village, but it seems to have the amenities of a small town, whilst maintaining a ‘village’ atmosphere and spirit” he said.
“I needed a quality house home where I could walk out of the front door into a community. Marden has a great new sports club, shops, an amazing cafe, two really good pubs, a social club and an all-important railway station.
It’s a 10-minute walk from Appledown Grange to the station, and then just 55 minutes to Charing Cross. The development also has good links to the road network, including the A21, the A229 and then to the M25.
“I just found that Appledown Grange and this particular house ticked all my boxes,” he said. “I would definitely recommend the house and, equally, the developer and their build quality to anyone.”
There’s a choice of three, four and five-bedroom homes currently available to reserve at Appledown Grange, Marden. For more information, contact the sales office, open every day from 10am to 5.30pm, on 01622 831507 or visit jones-homes.co.uk.
Jones Homes Southern has unveiled a new Signature Collection, showcasing a range of homes with exceptionally high specification.
The collection will be rolled out in larger homes across the company’s developments in the South East.
The first Signature Collection show home has opened at Jones Homes’ flagship Kingsborough Manor development in Eastchurch, Kent. The next development to feature the range will be Folders Grove, in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, where two Signature Collection show homes are due to open later this year.
Sales and Marketing Director Sara Stanhope said: “Jones Homes has built its reputation on creating homes which demonstrate the highest standards of design and specification.
“At Kingsborough Manor, we have spent 20 years building large executive homes to help attract new residents to the area and to meet the needs of people who already live in Eastchurch.
“This approach, which was masterminded by the local authority, has enabled us to create a thriving new community at Kingsborough Manor. As we move into the final stages, we identified a need to raise the bar even further and the new Signature Collection was our response.”
The Signature Collection homes feature luxurious extras as standard. Bathrooms have been designed with full height Porcelanosa tiling, Villeroy and Boch sanitaryware and Hansgrohe taps. The Aqualisa digital showers and digital bath fillers add an additional level of indulgence. For home entertainment, there’s even the option of adding an integrated home sound system, which can be operated from around the house.
The open-plan Symphony kitchens combine style and functionality, with integrated Neff appliances, including a wine cooler and induction hob.
The star of the Signature Collection at Kingsborough Manor is the garden room, which floods the homes with space and light through the expansive windows and bifold doors. There are also wider driveways, remote control garage doors and external floodlights.
Sara Stanhope said: “The new Signature Collection has been extremely well received at Kingsborough Manor and we are confident it will be just as popular when we unveil the homes at Folders Grove.
“The range has been driven by our customers’ feedback and it will continue to evolve, but the principles of luxurious fixtures and fittings, complemented by additional space and light, will remain at the heart of the collection.”
Four and five-bedroom homes at Kingsborough Manor range from £600,000 to £660,000. For more information on Jones Homes Southern developments and the Signature Collection see jones-homes.co.uk