South East reporting growth in new homes

Since the recent government announcement that its target to build one million new homes by 2020, construction companies in the South East of England are experiencing an increase in project wins and customer enquiries.

The National House Building Council (NHBC) has reported that new build completions across the UK have risen by 15% on last year in the 12 months to June 2015, and despite a 1% drop in homes being started in the same period, areas along the south coast, including the M23 corridor, had experienced robust and increased levels of new build housing starts.

Goldstone Homes, based in Sussex, is one of the companies reporting a sharp rise in demand.  Managing Director, Jon Over, commented: “We deal with a large range of different projects, but increasingly it is new build housing developments that are becoming our main source of income particularly in the South East where there is a shortfall of available properties for sale.

“Over the previous six months we have seen a significant rise in project wins securing £2.7 million of new business and increasing our turnover by over 82% to £1.15m compared to the same six month period of 2014.

“We have actively recruited new members of staff to join our expanding team to take on and complete projects as well as assisting to help grow the business over the next 18 months.”

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