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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.
A trainee site manager in Wilmslow has been named Young Builder of the Year 2019.
Nick James, 24, who works at Jones Homes’ Sanctuary Wilmslow development for active over-55s off Coppice Way, picked up the prestigious award during a prize giving at the House of Commons.
The Young Builder of the Year Awards, which are run by Youth Build UK, celebrate the achievements of young people in the construction industry.
Winners are announced in two age categories; Nick won the award for 18 to 24-year-olds, while another prize was awarded for those aged 14 to 18.
His award follows the success of his site manager Rob Bennett, who recently received a coveted Seal of Excellence from the National House Building Council (NHBC) in recognition of his work at the development.
Having embarked on a landscaping apprenticeship straight after leaving school, Nick joined Jones Homes five years ago as an apprentice joiner, working at the Bollin Park development off Adlington Road. He has been a trainee site manager at Sanctuary Wilmslow for the past two years.
The 24-year-old, who lives in Hazel Grove, Stockport, said: “It’s great to be recognised for my hard work. I’m part of a fantastic team so I feel honoured to be the one to have received this award.”
“Because I started an apprenticeship straight after leaving school, I didn’t take the college courses or qualifications that most people do in order to become a site manager, but the apprenticeship I did with Jones Homes gave me the experience I needed to progress in my career.
“Working at Sanctuary Wilmslow has been great. The site is getting a lot of recognition, not only with me getting this award, but with Rob, the site manager, recently receiving the Seal of Excellence.”
Rob Bennett, Site Manager at Sanctuary Wilmslow, said: “Nick has been a valuable asset to the team ever since he joined us and he thoroughly deserves this award. He has shown all the attributes you need to be a successful site manager and I firmly believe he has got an extremely bright future in the industry.”
Sanctuary Wilmslow is a private gated development of cottages and apartments exclusively for the active over-55s which is due to launch in November.
A Wilmslow site manager has won a prestigious industry award in recognition of his work at a pioneering new housing development for the active over-55s.
Rob Bennett, 31, the site manager responsible for Jones Homes’ Sanctuary Wilmslow development in Wilmslow, has been awarded a Seal of Excellence by the National House Building Council (NHBC) – putting him in an elite band of site managers in the North West.
He received his prize at the NHBC’s Pride in the Job North West regional awards ceremony at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate on Friday 11th October, which he attended with his assistant site manager Nick James.
Rob was one of 41 finalists from across the region to make it through to the awards ceremony after winning a Pride in the Job Quality Award earlier this year, and one of just 11 to receive a Seal of Excellence.
Sanctuary Wilmslow, which is due to open to the public in November, will be an exclusive gated development for the active over-55s.
Located off Coppice Way, Sanctuary Wilmslow will be the first Jones Homes Active Living development in the UK, following the success of Jones Homes USA’s mature living developments in Florida.
Rob said: “Winning a Pride in the Job Quality Award was a great achievement but being presented with the Seal of Excellence award is an even bigger honour.
“I am lucky enough to be surrounded by an incredibly hard working team, and I don’t think it would have been possible for me to have won this award without their dedication to the job and the effort they have put in to make the development the best it can be.
“Sanctuary Wilmslow truly is a one-of-a-kind project, so to be made the site manager for the development and also win a prestigious award for my work there is fantastic.”
Ian Hilliker, Regional Director of Jones Homes North West, said: “We’re so thrilled for Rob that he has received this prestigious accolade from the NHBC.
“As a developer, we are continually striving to deliver the highest quality possible for our customers, and this award is a fitting recognition of the brilliant job that Rob and his team have done at Sanctuary Wilmslow.”
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
Young players at Worksop United Juniors FC are now wearing stylish new kit, thanks to sponsorship from local housebuilder Jones Homes.
Jones Homes, which is building new homes at Gateford Park, off Churchill Way, has shown its support for the club’s U14s team by sponsoring their home kit for the current season.
Worksop United Juniors provides football training for children of all ages and abilities by FA qualified coaches.
Dave Storey, Club Chairman and manager of the U14s, said: “Worksop United Juniors FC was established only two years ago and has quickly developed into a club of four teams with approximately 50 young players from our community, ranging from eight to 14 years of age.
“Our under 14s would like to sincerely thank Jones Homes for providing us with a lovely new full home kit. This support helps us to keep the club growing and providing a safe and enjoyable environment for youngsters to play football in our local community whilst showing them the values of working as part of a team and providing a great social aspect at the same time.”
Jayne Swift, Sales and Marketing Director at Jones Homes Yorkshire, said: “Worksop United Juniors is a great club, encouraging children to remain active by playing football.
“It’s fantastic to be able to show our support to the club this year by providing the full home kit sponsorship for the U14s team.
“Donations like these are a wonderful way for us to help and support the local community, something we strive to do in and around all of our developments.
“We wish all of the teams at Worksop United Juniors the best of luck throughout the rest of the season.”
The housebuilder is currently building a range of four and five-bedroom homes at its Gateford Park development, off Churchill Way, in the town.
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 first homes have gone on sale at a new luxury housing development in the village of Harthill. Construction work is well underway at Hillside Green, an exclusive collection of 24 houses being built by Jones Homes off Winney Hill.
The development will include 18 four and five-bedroom detached properties for sale as well as six affordable homes.
Reservations are now being taken with the first residents expected to move into their homes next summer.
Jones Homes will inject funding of £89,000 into the local area in line with the planning agreement for the development. This will include £12,000 towards local transport, and around £80,000 in the form of a Community Infrastructure Levy, paid directly to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to help support and develop local infrastructure.
Jayne Swift, Sales and Marketing Director for Jones Homes Yorkshire, said: “We’re proud to be providing new homes and investment for Harthill and look forward to becoming part of this thriving community.
“Harthill is a picturesque little village with a number of great amenities close, making it an extremely popular location for house buyers who want to escape to the country. Hillside Green is an exclusive development and all the homes are bespoke, spacious and built to a high specification.
“Construction work is progressing well on the site and we are looking forward to welcoming the first residents into their homes next summer.”
The sales and information centre for Hillside Green is now open at Jones Homes’ nearby Van Dyk Village development, located off Worksop Road between Chesterfield and Worksop, where the stunning five-bedroom detached Knightsbridge show home is open to view now.
A show home is due to open at Hillside Green in July. A selection of homes are currently available at pre-show home prices, with four-bedroom houses starting from £349,995.
For more information about the homes available at Hillside Green call 07483 352002.
Jones Homes is set to launch 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, and 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.
Earlier this year, an archaeological excavation of the site commissioned by Jones Homes uncovered the remains of a Roman settlement and evidence of prehistoric field systems dating back to the Bronze Age.
Jayne Swift, Sales and Marketing Director for Jones Homes Yorkshire, said: “Cavendish Park has generated a great deal of interest locally, due partly to the fascinating artefacts uncovered by archaeologists, but mainly 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 and we are looking forward to releasing the first selection of properties for sale.
“Both developments have 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.
“We are planning to launch Cavendish Park in early 2020 so I would encourage anyone interested in buying a new home at this highly desirable development to register for updates so we can let them know as soon as the first homes become available.”
The final home available at Cavendish Grange is The Thornton, a three-bedroom semi-detached house which is priced at £187,995.
Jones Homes is also building nearby at Van Dyk Village, a development of new homes located off the A619 between Chesterfield and Worksop, and Hillside Green in Harthill.
A festive-themed five-bedroom show home has just opened at a new village being built in Derbyshire.
Jones Homes’ Van Dyk Village is a unique new community being created off the A619 between Chesterfield and Worksop, on the site of a former garden centre.
More than 50 people attended an event to mark the launch of the Knightsbridge II show home, enjoying champagne and canapes as they explored the luxury five-bedroom property.
Jayne Swift, Sales and Marketing Director for Jones Homes, said: “It was great to welcome so many people to Van Dyk Village for the launch of our fabulous Knightsbridge II show home. It’s an extremely luxurious and well-designed property which showcases the very high specification of the homes we are building at this exclusive development. The comments we’ve received from visitors have been overwhelmingly positive.
“With the festive season now upon us, our interior designers have decorated the show home for Christmas, giving it a warm and welcoming ambience. Our garden room has been decked out with a beautiful Christmas tree complete with presents underneath, creating the scene every family looks forward to waking up to on Christmas morning.
“As for the development itself, Van Dyk Village seems to have really caught the imagination of the public. It’s an exciting project, years in the planning, which is creating a traditional village with a village green from scratch on this beautiful Derbyshire site.
“We received more than 1,000 enquiries before the site had even launched. We think that might make it the most popular new housing development in Derbyshire. Given such a high level of interest, I would encourage people to visit Van Dyk Village today and see the show home in all its festive glory.”
The Knightsbridge II show home is a superb double-fronted detached family home with five bedrooms and a detached double garage.
The spacious ground floor has a 20ft living room, with bi-fold doors to the rear garden. There’s a generous separate dining room, while the large contemporary open-plan kitchen and family room lead to a luxury garden room, which also has bi-fold doors to the rear garden. There’s also a convenient utility room, a study and a downstairs cloakroom.
Van Dyk Village will be an intriguing mix of three, four and five-bedroom homes, all from Jones Homes’ very high specification Signature Collection.
The spacious luxury homes blend a rich housing heritage with the ultimate in contemporary design and attention to detail. Prices for three-bedroom homes start from £242,995, while five-bedroom houses are available from £595,995.
For more information, visit the sales centre off Worksop Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S43 4TD or call 07834 620974.
Born and bred Londoner Shaun Brown has found his dream home on the rural Isle of Sheppey, allowing him to escape the hustle and bustle of city life.
The former IT consultant and software engineer moved out of London in June to a new home at Jones Homes’ Kingsborough Manor development in Eastchurch.
Shaun and his partner Gary McDonald, sold their two-bedroom flat in central London, investing the proceeds in their new Hartford Regent II four-bedroom detached house, with money to spare for furnishings, a new car and then some.
Shaun, who has taken an early retirement to start his new life on the Isle of Sheppey, said: “One of the main things we were looking for was open space. In London you can become so accustomed to small spaces and I really wanted to get away from that.
“We visited several new-build developments in and around Kent and felt the homes at other developments had too many small rooms and not enough living space.
“This house has so much space to live in. Our favourite room is the garden room where we can sit with our breakfast looking out into our south-facing garden, but we are also massive movie fans, so our living room doubles up as our very own movie theatre that we love just as much.”
The couple have not moved into their new house alone, having been accompanied by their eight-month-old Husky, Troy.
Shaun said: “As a society we socialise through our dogs and that couldn’t be truer here. There are lots of dogs on the development and there are amazing walking routes with the most beautiful views.
“On the day we moved in Troy went into the back garden and rubbed his face into the grass and sniffed the air and the sea breeze and I looked at him and I thought, you are right Troy, the air is so much cleaner here.
“It is so peaceful and quiet, and the people are so friendly. In London everyone is so busy that they don’t have the time to stop and appreciate what’s around them – whereas here, the people say hello and they sent us welcome cards when we moved in. It’s a different world.”
As Shaun has now retired, the couple put a lot of thought into this move, looking for the perfect home to spend the rest of their lives in.
Shaun said: “I have lived in a few new-build developments in my life and I knew what to expect as part of the process, but what I didn’t expect was the family feel that Jones Homes provided.
“You can tell it’s a family business because it doesn’t have that corporate feel. The sales advisors were so friendly and helped us with every step, making it so seamless.
“This is one of the most stunning places with beautiful sweeping hills for as far as the eye can see. It’s the perfect place and home to retire in.”
Jones Homes is building a range of spacious four and five-bedroom detached homes at Kingsborough Manor, which is located just off Eastchurch Road.
For more information visit jones-homes.co.uk.
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