Barratt Bristol celebrates National Housing Awards

Barratt in Bristol is celebrating a host of national awards for developments in the city after being honoured in The Daily Telegraph British Homes Awards 2010.

The Zone in Bristol and Hanham Hall, the country’s first large scale zero carbon development, have both been honoured in these prestigious awards.

Barratt managing director Richard Gregory said he was delighted that these two important schemes are being recognised nationally.

“The Zone is a real flagship development in the city centre and has become a regular recipient of awards since work started,’’ said Richard. “And for Hanham Hall to be winning awards at this early stage of development is tremendous."

The Zone won the category for multi storey developments in the BuildQuality Awards while Hanham Hall was named Project of the Year.

The British Homes BuildQuality Awards recognise and endorse build quality in construction promoting those completed schemes that best achieve the creative aspirations of the architect.

Hanham Hall’s award recognises the development as the most impressive scheme with planning consent but is not more than six months into development work.

Hanham Hall, a former hospital site owned by the Homes and Communities Agency, the national housing and regeneration agency, is part of the Carbon Challenge, a government programme that intends to create a number of zero carbon housing developments across the country.

These national awards follow news that six Barratt site managers in the region have been honoured in the NHBC’s prestigious ‘Pride in the Job’ competition.

“Quality is key to creating new homes in the region and we have tremendous pride in all aspects which is being recognised with awards for key personnel and developments," said Richard.