Summerfield Homes has completed on the first open market sale at its Saxon Fields development in Middlezoy, marking a major milestone less than a year after construction began on site.
The three-bedroom property was purchased by Jessica Radford and Charles Beake under Summerfield’s MyHomes scheme, enabling them to buy their home at 25% less than its market value.
Saxon Fields is a mixed development of 26 homes comprising one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom properties. Eight of the homes were made available through a housing association and are already occupied. 
The development is also Summerfield’s first net zero development, with each home designed to generate as much renewable energy as it is targeted to consume and so not adding to the UK’s overall level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. To achieve its green targets, Summerfield has included solar PV panels, air source heat pumps and energy saving devices in the house designs.
Presenting the keys and a bottle of Champagne to Jessica and Charles, Summerfield Homes Sales and Marketing Divisional Director, Philip Morgan said: “One of the best parts of my job is handing over a new home to its buyers. I love seeing the delight on their faces as their dream of home ownership comes true. All of us at Summerfield wish them happiness in their new home.”
Charles said: “Getting onto the property ladder was a dream of ours and had seemed out of reach but the My Home scheme has made it possible and we are thrilled to be moving in.”
Before beginning work on the 26 homes off Back Lane, Summerfield Homes appointed an Archaeology company to carry out excavations. It uncovered a Bronze Age farmstead, as well as pottery, grinding stones and tools for spinning and leather working.
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