Bargate has been crowned winner of Premier Guarantee’s 2025 ‘Development of the Year’ for its landmark Heritage Place scheme at North Stoneham Park, Eastleigh.
The award for 151+ Units recognises Heritage Place, a £97million neighbourhood of 322 homes set within a 120-acre former deer park, as the standout development in its category, ahead of entries from some of the UK’s largest national housebuilders. Radio and TV broadcaster Colin Murray presented the award at the Nobu Hotel in London.
Mark White, managing director at Bargate and chair of the Future Homes Hub’s SME Liaison Group, said: “To be recognised with Premier Guarantee’s Development of the Year award for a second time is an incredible achievement for Bargate and a real credit to our team. Having previously won this award for our Rivercross scheme in Warsash, to now secure it again for Heritage Place underlines the consistency of our approach and the quality we strive for across every single project.”
“Heritage Place is the culmination of years of meticulous planning and design, where every detail has been carefully considered. This award reinforces our commitment to creating not just houses, but lasting communities of real character and quality.”
Heritage Place forms the final phase of the North Stoneham Park regeneration, completing a 1,000-home masterplan that has transformed this historic setting into a modern community. Bargate’s scheme delivers a mix of three, four and five-bedroom family homes alongside 124 affordable properties for the not-for-profit provider of affordable homes, VIVID.
The North Stoneham Park scheme includes a new primary school, landscaped open green spaces, a large play area, a network of footpaths and cycleways and community facilities. A self-contained community, the site is surrounded by parkland yet also within minutes of road, rail and air travel, with Southampton Airport and Parkway Station both nearby.
This latest success builds on Bargate’s strong track record. In 2025, the company received both the Outstanding Achievement Award for Customer Satisfaction and a Gold Award from In-House Research. Bargate also won Developer of the Year in the Premier Guarantee Awards 2023, and Development of the Year for its Rivercross scheme in Warsash the same year – demonstrating Bargate’s position as one of the UK’s leading SME housebuilders with quality and customer confidence at the heart of its success.
