Indie developer glad that ‘Corbyn is out of the equation’
Independent developer Lockley Homes has announced plans to ramp up its activity in 2020 with new sites and new senior staff members to be announced in coming weeks.
Joint managing director Karl Lockley said: “The relief that we have now got a stable government and that Corbyn is out of the equation means that businesses like Lockley Homes can return to investing in growth.
“We are hopeful that a more ‘can do’ attitude will permeate through the economy, and that working with planning officers across the region to find elegant and acceptable solutions to development projects, we can literally build on our current success.
“There is clearly a renewed sense of optimism running through the county and this is reflected in an upturn in house sales that we are seeing.”
At Kingsbrooke, Lockley Homes’ second development in the village of Colwall, near Malvern in Worcestershire, there are only four properties remaining.
Work on the site is virtually complete with the other properties already occupied by their new owners.
Development is also well underway at Lockley Homes’ development of eight properties in Marmalade Lane at Honeybourne, near Evesham, and these will include two 2-bedroom houses, three 3 bedroom houses, two 4-bedroom houses and one 2-bedroom bungalow.
Lockley Homes also has four other sites it has publicly announced are in the pipeline including plans for nine luxury bungalows and farmhouse-style properties on a two acre site in Broomhall Lane on the southernmost tip of the new Worcester “super village”.
The company has been granted planning permission for eight 3-bedroom townhouses in Pope Iron Road, Worcester and work will start in early March.
At Alstone, nine miles north of Cheltenham, Lockley Homes has submitted a planning application to Tewkesbury Borough Council for nine homes providing a range of two, three and four bedroomed properties.
And the company is hoping to win approval for a mix of three 3 bedroom bungalows and six 2 bedroom apartments on land next to Stanhope Care Home, in Malvern Road, Worcester, which is the subject of a planning appeal.
Lockley said: “From a one-site-at-a-time family house builder with a penchant for bungalows, my brother Tom and I, with the support of our chairman Martin Fitzpatrick, have clearly come a long way in the past two years, and we intend to make 2020 the year when we really put the hammer down.
“We are young, adaptable and hardworking and we feel we can steal a march on the housing market by delivering quality homes just as the market is seeing a distinct upturn.”
