"If the 4.4 million new homes to be built over the next 20 years are as good as this, there will be few complaints"
Homes and Gardens
"Listed homes of the future?"
What House?
"Designed to give a higher environmental quality and sense of identity. Its layout is intimate and human in scale and people are enthusiastic about it"
CPRE Countryside Campaigner
"If more new housing was as attractive as this there would be fewer objections to new development"
The Guardian
"A home as striking as this… Is sure to present not only a fantastic home for today, but a potentially shrewd investment for tomorrow"
Your New Homes, Maek Love
"So, it’s a rusty shovel for most volume house builders when it comes to gardens but there are one or two exceptions. A silver trowel is due to Environ whose green finger policy is enhancing many a new home"
Show House, David Hoppit
"From Brownfield to retirement paradise… a superb retirement scheme from Environ"
Kent Messenger
"Lacuna combines the winding lanes and tight-knit street scenes of the traditional English Village with contemporary townhouse designs…"
The Sunday Times
"The decision was unanimous... to achieve this result in a small and very sensitive historic town, is little short of brilliant… in fact Environ (Communities) has achieved the impossible"
Daily Mail, Greenleaf Awards
"This is a fantastic house... innovative, attractive and with bags of style. It bristles with great features… This house clearly sets the Standard for others to follow"
What House?
"You only have to look across the city landscape to see new standards being set combining architectural excellence with environmental efficiency such as .....THE Lacuna housing development in Kent"
The Deputy PM
"The design and execution of the hard and soft landscaping, together with the integration of art works are excellent"
The Civic Trust
“Environ Country Homes copies local building styles – weather boarding, second-hand roof tiles and mellow bricks – to build “character” into new developments.”
The Express
“As good as old… new homes built with genuine respect for tradition and quality.”
Country Homes & Interiors
“Environ (Communities), based in Kent, takes account of the environment of a development before instructing its architects… worthy contenders for future Listing.”
The Times
“The Square is a development of 10 houses in a traditional Kent – cottage style. The feature is what the Americans call 'turnkey' development – the houses have been specified to the tiniest detail, so a buyer has only to turn the key and move in.”
The Daily Telegraph
“An equally impressive statement of the Gummer principles is provided by the remarkable Tudor Hall Houses produced by Tony Dowse’s Environ Homes.”
Housebuilder
“The designs in sympathy with their surroundings please Kentish Planners.”
Daily Express, Jeremy Gates.
“Environ has built a fine reputation for the quality of its building, not least because of its sympathy with vernacular style.”
Vintage Times, David Hoppit.
“ This vernacular housing scheme would be beguiling anywhere, but seen in the context of its site, the transformation is remarkable…”
The Guardian
“Fordwich Farm, near Canterbury, used to be a pig production unit. Five large houses have now been built in a convincing Kentish shiplap-and-brick style and they look lovely!”
Weekend Telegraph
“Good news in small packages … Anthony Dowse … at the vanguard of a fresh push towards high quality, customer first house building.”
Show House
“The gardens are comprehensively landscaped to provide wonderful spreads of colour from herbaceous borders.”
House Buyer
“For those in the early days of retirement Environ Country Homes specialises in producing exclusive private communities in Kent, the garden of England.”
World of Retirement, David Holt
“Worth a detour…. Stonegate Place, Wye. Interesting not so much for its architecture, as for the overall planning , landscaping and innovative management approach.”
RIBA
“Stonegate Place……a pleasure to walk around and explore.”
What House?
“I cannot resist mentioning Stonegate Place … these traditional weather boarded cottages are actually an upmarket retirement scheme.”
Tatler & Vogue, Michael Hanson
“Exceptional transformation….unbelievable as it now seems to anyone who knew the area before, this meticulous detailed vernacular development was built on the unprepossessing site of a former egg packing station.”
The Daily Telegraph
“The best style of new home”
Daily Mirror, Rosalind Russell
“Designed in the vernacular style the finished homes can easily be mistaken for period cottages.”
What House? Diana Wildman
“Lacuna – as good as New England.”
The Mirror Mick Ames
“Lacuna – white, light, a bit of alright.”
Building Homes
“Anyone who visits an Environ development can easily see why, for these are properties that make their occupants happy as well.”
What House? Michael Hanson
“Environ Country Homes has built an eco-friendly neighbourhood which benefits from a highly efficient building concept.”
Good Homes
“The judges felt that the good proportions and satisfactory contemporary detailing of this high density development was worthy of the Award as Best House in England.”
The Daily Telegraph
“The sought after Home of the Year Award was scooped for an “urban-style” town house combining ”local vernacular” design features and ideas from lofts and riverside homes.”
Evening standard
“…if more new housing was as attractive as this, there would be fewer objections to new development.”
The Guardian
