New £5.5m HQ signals fresh chapter for housebuilder

Beal Homes has relocated to a new head office in East Yorkshire as the company enters its 55th anniversary year.

The £5.5m, 20,000 sq ft building occupies a prominent position at Bridgehead business park in Hessle.

It provides Beal’s office-based team members with a modern working environment and features a reception area and central atrium, open-plan work spaces, a boardroom, meeting and training rooms, breakout spaces and a first-floor outdoor terrace.

It also accommodates a Design Lounge, where customers can work with Beal’s designers to personalise their new home to fit their lifestyle and tastes.

The Beal team have moved 100 yards across the road from the company’s previous building, on the opposite side of the Bridgehead site, which had been the housebuilder’s home for almost a decade.

Beal chief executive, Richard Beal, said: “We’re hugely excited to open a new chapter for Beal Homes in this fantastic new building.

“It represents a major investment in the business and in providing our excellent team with an exceptional working environment.

“It’s also a state-of-the-art facility for our customers and would-be buyers to drop into and enjoy the experience of finding and creating their new dream home.

“Our new building is a highly-visible showcase for the Beal brand, a place where customers can use the latest digital technology to view our developments and house types, and where our buyers will enjoy bringing their vision for their own dream new home to life.”

Beal has worked on the project with Wykeland Group, owner and developer of Bridgehead. The two local businesses, are also joint venture partners in the regeneration of Hull’s Fruit Market urban village.

Dominic Gibbons, managing director of Hull-based Wykeland, said: “The new Beal Homes head office is the latest major investment in a continuing story of successful development at Bridgehead.

“Their new office is a spectacular, both inside and out, and a fantastic addition to the business park.

“It’s a perfect example of delivery on our long-term vision for Bridgehead as a place where prestige brands invest, thrive and grow.”

Designed by Yorkshire-based architectural practice The Harris Partnership, the new building is more than twice the size of Beal’s previous base, with the interior design and fit-out delivered by Hull-based Chameleon Business Interiors.

Chameleon chairman, Shaun Watts, said: “We delivered the internal fit-out for Beal’s previous head office back in 2013, so it’s been great to continue our working relationship, creating a truly exceptional workspace that we’re very proud of.

“The interior design is centred around sustainability and wellness. The carpets are carbon neutral and the furniture has been sourced from sustainably considered manufacturers.

“There’s a living wall, ceiling foliage and even two trees. It’s an inspiring and contemporary space that accurately reflects the Beal culture and its vision for the future.”

Beal is now finalising the sale of its former head office building.