Bargate md appointed chair of Hub SME group

Mark White, managing director of Bargate Homes, has become chair of the Future Homes Hub’s newly formed SME liaison group.

The group will consider SME housebuilders’ specific challenges and identify solutions, support the government in understanding SME circumstances and “help communicate out to the SME sector”.

White was a founding member of the Bargate team and has been its md since 2021. The Hampshire-based SME, established in 2006, delivers 300 high EPC-rated homes a year and is a wholly owned subsidiary of VIVID which is one of the south east’s largest providers of affordable homes.

On White’s appointment, Ed Lockhart, the Future Homes Hub’s ceo, said: “As an active Future Homes Hub member, and having sat on the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Housing Market and Housing Delivery and the APPG for SME housebuilders, we are thrilled that this new group will be ably chaired by Mark White. We are currently assembling group members from across the UK.”

“While recognising that SMEs are vital to housing delivery and innovation in homebuilding, they often have less capacity and can face unique circumstances in complying with new regulations. Forming this SME liaison group will …