A housebuilder has won an award for helping improve the community. 

Northstone home builder stole the show, winning a hat-trick of awards at Cowgill’s inaugural North West Homebuilder Awards, including the Homebuilder of the Year award.

The North West Homebuilder Awards, acknowledged the achievements of small to medium-sized homebuilders that help to improve communities and meet the country’s growing need for new homes.

Silkash, Northstone’s first neighbourhood in Westhoughton and home to over 100 residents, won Larger Housing Scheme of the Year and was named as the winner of the Sustainability Impact category.

The judging panel praised Northstone for demonstrating to the judges their ‘real passion and desire to create a community, with impressive attention to detail throughout the entire design process’.  

Phil Wilson, Chief Executive at Northstone said: “Creating beautiful homes and sustainable neighbourhoods is at the heart of everything we do and we believe strongly in the long-term investment of our communities to build special places that people will love.

“We are proud to be doing things differently and that our new build concept is already catching people’s attention and being seen as a trailblazer within homebuilding.”

The awards were held at The Albert Hall in Manchester and were hosted by TV presenter Jenny Powell.