PUBLIC CONSULTATION

Masterplan Vision

The masterplan aims to create a beautiful new rural neighbourhood that fits comfortably within its woodland setting.

View looking across the Central Park greenspace with play area, new footpath links and new rural homes facing into the greenspace.

View looking across the Central Park greenspace with play area, new footpath links and new rural homes facing into the greenspace

Masterplan Design Drivers

The masterplan is informed by the surrounding landscape and buildings, taking cues from the existing context and integrating and enhancing landscape features already present in and around the site.

The following design drivers illustrate how the development and landscape proposals have been informed and where the site constraints, surrounding context and character of the place have guided proposals.

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Draw public green spaces into the site

water symbol

Clever use of water

community symbol

A new rural neighbourhood

heritage symbol

Support the existing heritage of the site

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New rural homes

Draw public green spaces into the site diagram

Draw public green spaces into the site

  • Extend Isles Wood into the site to create a rural, wooded character which is distinct from the character of the north.
  • There is significant potential to create new ecological ‘green’ corridors extending through the site to enhance ecological value, provide visual screening and help knit the site back together again.
Clever use of water diagram

Clever use of water

  • At the heart of the new homes will be a new brook watercourse, which will be located within a new public parkland running through the centre of the development.
  • Alongside providing the required drainage infrastructure for the site, it will also create the opportunity for amenity and ecological value and play, as well as new pedestrian and cycle routes through green spaces.
A new rural neighbourhood diagram

A new rural neighbourhood

  • Clusters of new homes nestled within woodland and green spaces, with informal winding road layouts, hedgerows, wide verges and trees.
  • New homes set back from the street frontage with generous green verges, gardens and hedgerow boundaries.
Support the existing heritage of the Site diagram

Support the existing heritage of the Site

  • The existing site heritage will provide the focus for a new community hub, referencing the site’s unique past and providing a focal point for existing and future residents.
  • It will create a ‘heart’ to this southern area and provide local services and events space to new and existing residents around it.