AROUND 25 new family homes are set to be developed on a site near Salisbury.

Developer Bargate Homes and parent company VIVID Homes have acquired a 4.2-acre site in Whiteparish, which was recently granted outline permission for 25 homes.

Now, the award-winning housebuilder has appointed Bagshot-based architect Cooper Baillie to undertake the detailed design for the scheme, and said it will incorporate “a range of executive homes, seven affordable dwellings, and three further plots to be sold as First Homes”.

Half of the site, off the A27 Romsey Road, is designated for the creation of a play area, attenuation basin and nearly two acres of public parkland, the firm added.

Around 25 homes are set to be built on the site, in Whiteparish. Picture: Bargate Homes

A planning application will be lodged with Wiltshire Council next year, they added.

Steve Birch, land and planning director at Bargate Homes, said: “It has been a decade since Bargate Homes last delivered new homes in Wiltshire. Acquiring such a special site in Whiteparish – which offers glorious countryside views and footpaths leading through to the New Forest – is very exciting.

“There is significant pent-up demand for energy-efficient family homes within this ‘Best Kept Village’ which benefits from a sustainable and accessible location between Salisbury and Romsey.

“We are looking forward to working up the detailed house designs which will complement and add to the appeal of the village, parts of which date back to the 12th Century.”

Parking for each new home will be allocated on-plot, within parking bays or garages, the firm said, while an “extensive footpath network from the Romsey Road site takes walkers northwards to West Dean, or southwards to the forest trails and attractions of the New Forest”.

For further information on Bargate Homes, visit www.bargatehomes.co.uk.