New homes, new horizons

Since 1995 we have built more than 2000 homes for affordable rent and shared ownership, helping to ease the housing shortage in the South West. At the end of the financial year, we built more than 350 new homes, including 136 for shared ownership, and another 394 were under construction.

We build and manage homes in rural villages and market towns, like Devizes, and large towns and cities, like Swindon and Bristol. We provide different types of homes to meet a wide range of needs, including retirement housing. Our first retirement home owners moved into their new apartment in 2008.

Solid foundations

Sarsen is a member of the Aster Group, a Housing Corporation investment partner. Aster is also a lead partner in New Futures, an investment and development partnership in the South West and one of three Homebuy agents for the region.  

Sustainability

As part of the Aster Group we have an environmental sustainability strategy focused on reducing our carbon footprint. Not just in the way we build new homes, but in our existing homes and in the way we run our business.

For new developments we are aiming to achieve carbon neutral homes by 2016.  

In 2008 Aster recruited its first sustainability manager, who works closely with Sarsen and the other companies within the Group to meet their environmental objectives. 

Words into action

Wherever possible, we re-cycle construction materials and source materials locally. For example:

•  We re-used 40,000 tonnes of bricks and other rubble from a demolished retirement housing scheme in Devizes for foundations in a new homes

• Our first homes in Cornwall, built on Duchy of Cornwall land, have timber frames made by a local factory and stone cladding from a local quarry