About
Vistry Group is the UK’s leading provider of affordable, mixed tenure homes.
Our purpose as a responsible developer is to work in partnership to deliver sustainable homes, communities, and social value, leaving a lasting legacy of places people love. Operating across 25 regions, we build homes for those who need them right across the UK. We sell homes on the open market through three respected brands: Bovis Homes, Linden Homes, and Countryside Homes.
Social Value
At Vistry, we don't just build houses —
we create thriving, sustainable communities that last for generations.
Our focus is on designing spaces where people and nature thrive together. We’re committed to making a meaningful impact by understanding the needs of local residents and improving their quality of life. Our goal is to build communities people are proud to call home, both now and in the future. By working closely with local communities, we ensure our projects make a lasting positive difference.
Employment, Skills & Opportunities
Creating jobs, partnering with local businesses, and offering training through our Skills Academies.
Environmental Wellbeing
Designing developments with green spaces, sustainable drainage, and wildlife-friendly features.
Community Engagement
Supporting local groups and charities with funding, volunteering, and expertise.
Health & Wellbeing
Promoting mental and physical wellbeing by creating spaces for activity, connection, and safety.
To learn more about Vistry’s Social Value please visit:
www.vistrycareers.co.uk/about-us/social-value
A design toolkit for neighbourhoods,
streets, homes and public spaces
Vistry recognises the role that the built environment has on people’s health and wellbeing and the importance of placemaking in improving the health of local communities.
The healthy placemaking principles of Building for Healthy Life form the foundations of our vision to create a sustainable new community that is integrated into and positively responds to the site and the wider natural and built surroundings. The provision of a range of housing types and tenures of homes together with schools, parks, sports facilities, public transport services and local centres are designed to meet local community needs.
Through active travel design we ensure access for all, making car-free travel more attractive, safe, convenient and an instinctive choice for everyone. Dedicated walking/cycling routes and well-designed street spaces will connect people with places that offer social, leisure, recreational and public transport opportunities only a short walk or cycle from their homes.
Landscaping and drainage design will enrich the public realm and help improve a sense of wellbeing and offer an interaction with nature whilst increasing ecology and biodiversity value. The site’s historical context will be reflected and safeguarded through the conservation of the former runway alignments as linear ‘Runway Parks’ and the retention and enhancement of the listed pillboxes.
The planning application is accompanied by a Building for a Healthy Life Assessment (contained within the Design and Access Statement) that considers in further detail the proposals for the site against the principles and ethos of Building for a Healthy Life demonstrating how these underpin and have been incorporated into the design and the proposals for this new, truly sustainable community.