About Countryside Properties
Countryside Properties is a leader in property development, the creation
of sustainable communities and urban regeneration. Our vision is to create
outstanding new homes in excellent locations for people to enjoy, now and
in the future.
We can deliver every aspect of development, including both private and
affordable housing, commercial property and recreational and community
facilities. Our principal areas of operation are in London and the Thames
Gateway, the South East, East and North West of England.
We have a proven track record in creating high quality homes and places
that our customers enjoy and which stand the test of time. In recognition,
we hold more CABE Building for Life Standards than any other privately
owned developer. Indeed, we were the first housing developer to receive
the most highly prized architectural award of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2008.
Our individual design solutions integrate with and enhance the surrounding
natural and built environment to create places of distinctive character.
We deliver imaginative design solutions for every new home and development
we build. Such good design helps to create a community, improves safety
and security, and enhances our customer’s quality of life.
The Countryside Properties name is a byword for design excellence, much
sought after by discerning homebuyers seeking a higher quality of life.
Sustainable Homes
We have an excellent track record of building high quality
new homes that are comfortable, highly energy and water
efficient, and which aim to improve our customer’s quality of
life. In choosing a new home from Countryside Properties you
are reducing your environmental footprint and saving money
which at this time of ever increasing utility costs is important.
Today the world’s attention is firmly placed on combating
climate change. Around 25% of the UK’s carbon emissions
are generated in homes and in Britain on average, £1 in
every £3 spent on energy in older homes is wasted
immediately. However, a new home from Countryside
Properties is on average 6.5 times more energy efficient
than one built just 30 years ago.
Our developments contribute to a higher quality of life by
protecting the environment, promoting social cohesion
and strengthening the local economy. We achieve this
through building attractive residential areas with their own
architectural character and identity, green open spaces,
and convenient transport links to essential local amenities
such as schools and shops. In addition, our new homes
are well designed, comfortable, safe and adaptable, and
wherever possible they are constructed from materials that
have a reduced impact on the environment.
In recognition of this we have received more than
60 awards for sustainability since 2001.
We are reducing our environmental impacts by measuring
our schemes against the Building Research Establishment’s
EcoHomes rating scheme. EcoHomes is an authoritative
rating for new home developments. It sets out a series of best
practice criteria, against which the environmental aspects
of building new developments can be assessed. Each
development is rated on the basis of Pass, through to Good,
Very Good and Excellent. One to four sunflowers depict these.
Oakwood Reach has an EcoHomes rating of Good.
EcoHomes considers the broad environmental concerns of
climate change, resource use and impact on wildlife, and
balances these against the need for a high quality of life,
and a safe and healthy internal environment. The issues
assessed are grouped into seven categories including: energy;
transport; water; ecology and land use; pollution; health and
wellbeing, and materials. EcoHomes offers our customers the
benefits of reduced costs through superior energy and water
efficiency, and reduced maintenance, as well as comfortable,
healthy, and flexible internal living space. It therefore helps to
reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which in turn safeguards
the environment.