First look at new homes now on sale at garden suburb in Herne Bay
Greenwood Gardens at Lower Herne Village is a joint venture between Countryside Homes – part of Vistry Group, Britain’s biggest housebuilder – and leading social enterprise Places for People.
The project is planned to deliver up to 800 homes, commercial space, areas of green open space and allotments on an 88-acre site off the A299 Thanet Way.
Construction work is underway on the first phase of 128 homes which is being built on land in the north-eastern part of the wider site, bordered by Thanet Way to the north west and Canterbury Road to the east.
Vistry Kent will be selling 65 of the properties on the open market under its Countryside Homes brand while the other 63 homes will be sold as shared ownership properties by Places for People.
Mary McHutchison, regional sales and marketing director at Vistry Kent, said: “There has been a great deal of interest in this project and we have taken the decision to sell the first properties off-plan from a sales office at our Westwood Point development in Margate.
“The building programme is moving apace after we began groundworks on site in January, with construction on the first homes starting three months later in April. We hope to be in a position to open a sales office here in February next year.”
This initial phase of construction at Greenwood Gardens at Lower Herne Village will include the first section of the Herne Relief Road, a spine road running through the development which will link Canterbury Road to the east with Bullockstone Road to the west.
Mary said: “This exciting scheme will not only provide a variety of new homes to meet the specific needs of the local housing market but will deliver an important new relief road which will divert traffic away from nearby Herne Village.
“Greenwood Gardens at Lower Herne Village is a sustainable development which will create a vibrant new community on the outskirts of Herne Bay. In this first phase all of the homes will benefit from solar panels and electric vehicle charging points.”
The first phase will also provide a large area of open green space, a play area and 220 square metres of commercial space.
Detailed planning applications to build 296 homes on two more phases of the project have been submitted to Canterbury City Council and are pending consideration.
The first Countryside Homes properties available to buy at Greenwood Gardens at Lower Herne Village include a selection of two, three and four-bedroom houses priced from £310,000.
For more information, visit https://www.countrysidehomes.com