PROPERTY developer Conroy Brook has won two of the housebuilding industry’s top awards.

The Holme Valley firm took trophies for Housebuilder of the Year in the small-medium category and Best Design at the Housebuilder Awards 2010.

The design award recognised Brockholes-based Conroy Brook for its Somersby Court development at Almondbury.

The Housebuilder Awards were established six years ago to honour the best of innovation and excellence in the UK housebuilding industry.

This year’s awards ceremony was hosted by BBC newsreader Huw Edwards at the Millennium Mayfair London Hotel.

Conroy Brook was chosen from a final shortlist of seven high-profile schemes – including developments by housebuilders Persimmon and Barratt – to win the design prize.

Somersby Court is a luxury development of 30 exclusive apartments designed by Huddersfield-based Acumen Designers & Architects.

Key design features that impressed the judges were the 25ft high contemporary curved glass balconies with stainless steel balustrades and a stunning entrance window.

As a winner of an individual category, Conroy Brook competed against all the award-winners to receive the main award of the evening, Housebuilder of the Year, in the small-medium housebuilder category.

Chief executive Richard Conroy said: “In terms of national recognition for our work, it really doesn’t get any better than this.

“To have been selected from a shortlist of the country’s finest and long-established housebuilders to win the small-medium Housebuilder of the Year award is incredible.

“We take an immense amount of pride in what we do and are delighted to have been awarded Best Design for Somersby Court. National awards such as these give us the opportunity to show the rest of the country that Yorkshire is home to leading design and quality of residential accommodation.”