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We regularly produce press material to inform the media about our current and potential developments, which can be found in reverse date order below. Journalists should contact our PR partners, The Public Relations Company, directly, using the contact details below.
Just click on the title of the release you want, and it will appear in full with photograph if applicable. For older releases, visit our News Centre Archive.
If you require photographs or further information contact Mike Stathers on 01482 647575, or via email, using the link
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Title and short extract - cllick on the title for the full text and photos if applicable. |
February 2010 |
George and Carol Buckton, of Birklands Drive, Hull, submitted their details into the company’s annual draw during a visit to Peter Ward’s sought-after site, Rawsons Green, at Hornsea, where the couple’s new home will be built. |
December 2009 |
While the housing market generally has been adversely affected by the recession, sales and visitor numbers at Hornsea have continued to impress the company’s marketing team. |
December 2009 |
The Beverley-based company, currently building new homes at Hornsea, Goole and at Habrough Fields, four miles west of Grimsby and in the heart of North East Lincolnshire, is forecasting a welcome injection of activity in the housing market soon into the New Year |
October 2009 |
“Woman on a mission” finds dream home at Captains Close When Margaret Cannon embarked on her search for a dream new home, she was, in the words of her husband, Ray, “A woman on a mission”. Click the Get Adobe Reader button below to download Adobe Reader if not already installed. |
September 2009 |
In the case of one East Yorkshire couple, the act of buying and moving into their new home has been all about the builder’s attention to detail. |
August 2009 |
Throughout this year, while the industry has endured its worst recession for decades, the award-winning company has continued to develop sites at Goole, Driffield and at Habrough Fields, near Immingham, and is already making plans to open new sites elsewhere in the East Riding. |
Peter Ward Homes to sponsor Driffield’s blue ribbon event Beverley house builder Peter Ward Homes is to sponsor the blue ribbon show jumping event at this year’s Driffield Show. It is the first time the company has put its name to the Open Championship, an event which invariably attracts the maximum 40 entries and which carries a first prize of £300. |
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The grass is getting greener for some Goole residents Youngsters using the play area at St George’s Green in Goole have been asked to let the grass grow under their feet! The public open space was provided by house builder Peter Ward Homes when the company completed work on the 132-home site five years ago. Since then, they have been trying to cultivate the grass to a standard that would persuade council officials to adopt the site – so far without success. |
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Driffield’s Southwood Park one of East Yorkshire’s most popular new housing sites The bricks and mortar is long gone and the sales team is preparing to shut up shop at one of East Yorkshire’s most popular new home locations of the past 10 years. Southwood Park, a 65-house development by Peter Ward Homes on the south western edge of Driffield, has just four homes left to sell – and one of those is already reserved |
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Housing market showing signs of recovery Latest sales figures from the housing market suggest the sector has at last reached the bottom and is even experiencing a spring bounce, according to a leading East Yorkshire house builder. Peter Ward, managing director of Beverley-based Peter Ward Homes and a spokesman for the East Riding House Builders Group, said the recent reports that house prices are once again heading upwards is a clear sign that the market has reached a turning point. |
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Young families need housing they can afford, not ‘affordable housing’ A leading East Yorkshire house builder says a controversial planning policy is hindering young families from getting on to the housing ladder. Peter Ward, Managing Director of award-winning Peter Ward Homes and a spokesman for the East Riding House Builders Group, has urged the Government to redefine its so-called ‘Affordable Housing’ policy, a term he believes is grossly misleading |
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Peter Ward Homes Launches New Assisted Sales Scheme Award-winning house builder Peter Ward Homes has launched a new Assisted Sales Scheme to help homebuyers affected by the credit crunch. The Beverley-based company says it is taking whatever reasonable action is available to help buyers, especially first-time buyers, complete their house purchases. |
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Buoyant Bank Holiday For Peter Ward Homes Interest in the Peter Ward Homes development of the former Hornsea Pottery site has been buoyant over the Bank Holiday weekend. For the first time, visitors to Rawsons Green were able to view the show house and meet staff in the newly-opened sales office. |
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Peter Ward Homes Buck Market Trend Interest in new properties built by Peter Ward Homes has been buoyant over the Bank Holiday weekend especially at the 84-home Captain’s Close development at Goole. “We’ve been really busy and pleasantly surprised by the number of sales coming in. It is a very positive feeling here in Goole,” said managing director Peter Ward. |
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Promising Times For Peter Ward Homes House-hunters have been heading for the seaside during the past couple of weeks to be among the first to look round the Peter Ward Homes development of the former Hornsea Pottery site. For the first time, visitors to Rawsons Green, off Marlborough Avenue, have been able to view the new show house and meet staff in the recently-opened sales office. |
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Anna takes up new sales role at Habrough Fields Experienced sales representative Anna Redmond has been appointed by Peter Ward Homes to join the sales team at the company’s flagship site at Habrough Fields, near Immingham. |
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Peter Ward Homes sales at high levels Beverley house builder Peter Ward Homes has announced its best first quarter for sales and enquiries for several years. Actual house sales are up several times on the same period last year and the number of enquiries across the region has more than doubled, according to sales director Peter Richardson. |
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Work starts to redevelop the former Hornsea Pottery site Award-winning house builder Peter Ward Homes has begun work to redevelop the former Hornsea Pottery site on the southern edge of the town. Over the next two years, the Beverley-based company plans to build 50 new homes on land which once housed the town’s most famous enterprise. Pottery produced by the Hornsea outfit was renowned for its innovative design and sold throughout the world. |
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Planners give go-ahead to Driffield homes and play park plan East Riding planning councillors have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a house builder’s plans to build five new homes and create a play park on land near Driffield. Beverley-based Peter Ward Homes was given the go ahead by the planners after they heard that as well as providing much-needed low cost homes, the scheme at Auchinleck Close would also incorporate a children’s equipped play park and a ‘kick-about’ area. |
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East Yorkshire house builder Peter Ward Homes has reported a bright start to 2008. The Beverley-based firm says combined sales and enquiries at its current developments – at Goole, Driffield and at Habrough Fields, Immingham, – are running at least 10 per cent ahead of forecasts. |
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Work starts on floral display thanks to local builder Members of a Goole musical theatre group are finally getting stuck into their latest community project after a local house builder came to their rescue. Castaway, based at the Yorkshire Waterways Museum in Goole, organise events and activities for adults with a learning or physical disability and had chosen to play a part in next year’s Goole in Bloom effort. |
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New sponsor for HOSM junior soccer stars East Yorkshire-based house builder Peter Ward Homes has helped a village junior soccer team to kick-off 2007 in style with a new strip! Holme on Spalding Moor Under 9s, through their coach James Clark, contacted the award-winning house builder last year to ask if the company could offer some financial support. |
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New housing will be just what families need Plans to build family housing on an area of low-grade agricultural land at Goole will give people a much-needed opportunity to get onto the housing ladder, according to the developers. |
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Beverley house builder goes back to school Pupils at an East Yorkshire school are to benefit from a new multi-purpose play and performance area thanks to the generosity of Beverley house builder Peter Ward Homes. |
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A house simply too good for Melanie to miss Choosing a new home is an exciting but stressful time for most people, unless you happen to be Melanie Gascoigne. Melanie is one of those sales people who believes in putting her money where her mouth is, in the nicest possible way of course, and choosing her new home was quite simply just another day at work. |
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Leading house builder to sponsor Beverley’s heritage trail Organisers of Beverley’s new heritage and tourism initiative, the Medieval Guilds and Crafts Trail, have announced leading independent house builder Peter Ward Homes as one of its first major business sponsors. |
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Children’s play area key part of new homes plan Award-winning house builder, Peter Ward Homes, has submitted plans to build a batch of first-time buyer houses, along with a children’s play area, adjacent to their popular Auchinleck Close development at Kirkburn, Driffield. |
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Beverley College to make way for luxury homes Details have been released of the long-awaited plan to re-develop the former East Riding College site in Beverley for high quality housing. |
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Another building industry ‘Oscar’ for Peter Ward Homes Leading independent house builder, Beverley-based Peter Ward Homes, has once again walked away with the honours at the house building industry’s ‘Oscars’ ceremony. |
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New housing will add to village peace and quiet Lorries rumbling to and from their base in an East Yorkshire village will soon be a scene from the past after a new housing development was unveiled this week. |
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Peter Ward Homes publishes House Buyers Guide to new sites in our region Award-winning house builder Peter Ward Homes has published its first multi-site magazine designed to give house buyers a comprehensive view of new-build properties throughout the East Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire region. |
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Promising early demand for Habrough Fields homes Sales of new homes on the 21-acre Habrough Fields development at Immingham have got off to a flying start. Within 72 hours of the sales office being opened, several properties had been snapped up by eager purchasers and enquiries are already showing a high level of interest. |
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Peter Ward Homes ahead of target at Driffield Sales of new homes on the sought-after Southwood Park site at Driffield are soaring ahead of target. Demand for the properties, being built by Beverley-based award-winning house builder Peter Ward Homes, has been so strong during the first few weeks of the year that the development could be completed ahead of schedule. |
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