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Planning Watch
New Developments
During 2016 the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), as it was then, published a prospectus for new locally led garden villages, towns and cities.
The Garden Villages are defined as: • 1,500 to 10,000 homes in size
• New discrete settlement, not an
extension to an existing town or village
• Locally led with support from the community and Local Enterprise
• Bailrigg in Lancaster
• Infinity Garden Village in South Derbyshire
and Derby City Area
• St Cuthberts near Carlisle City Centre
• North Cheshire in Cheshire East
The world is very different from that of enlightened employers such as Robert Owen who created New Lanark in 1800, Titus Salt who created Saltaire in 1851, George Cadbury who created Bournville in 1879, Joseph Rowntree who created New Earswick in 1902, and the Lever Brothers
The case study in this instance is the garden village of Tresham, as it will be known, close to Deenethorpe, on the edge of Corby in East Northamptonshire. This intended village is close to Head Office and NAS have been involved with this project since 2017. Tresham village is probably the most forward-looking model of sustainable rural development in the UK, whose landscape-led and passive solar urban design approach helps to achieve carbon neutrality, climate change migration and energy efficiencies at every scale.
The Tresham Garden Village will also include allotments; approximately 60
plots designed by the NAS East Midlands Regional Representative, Paul Howgill. This site is a former airfield which equates to 217 hectares. Less than half of this will be built on, and as well as allotments the site will include:
• 1500 new homes
• 30% of affordable homes
• 20% opportunities for custom and self-
build
• 200 later life homes
• 100,000 new trees
• 1 new all through school
• 6 electric community buses
NAS need to be involved in all these garden village developments, listed above.
If one of these sites is in your area and you are involved in your Local Plan, then please contact Head Office on 01536 266576.
Liz Bunting, Legal and Operations Manager
Partnership
• Well designed,
high quality and
The development of new sites is important for our future
who founded Port Sunlight in 1888. However, their principles are now more relevant than ever. Historically, model and garden
attractive
Over 50 Local
Authorities submitted
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projects were announced who would receive the governmental support. From Devon to Derbyshire, Cornwall to Cumbria, 14 new garden villages have access to a £6 million fund over two years (2018/2019) to support the delivery of these new projects.
villages, although unique in their own right, share common characteristics:
• They were holistically planned
• They were small in scale
• They were planned for healthy living • They provided for a vibrant social life • They were designed with high quality
materials and attention to detail
• They were designed to provide affordable
homes close to employment
• They provided services for day-to-day
needs within walking distance of homes • They were in single landownership, with a
long-term stewardship organisation What does all this mean for the National Allotment Society? Well, the development of new sites is important for our future. As well as monitoring and protecting existing land we need to ensure that more allotment land is created.
These new developments are:
• Long Marston in Stratford-upon-Avon
• Oxfordshire Cotswold in West
Oxfordshire
• Deenethorpe in East Northants
• Culm in Mid Devon
• Welbourne near Fareham in Hampshire
• West Carclaze in Cornwall
• Dunton Hills near Brentwood in Essex
• Spitalgate Heath in South Kesteven,
Lincolnshire
• Halsnead in Knowsley, Merseyside
• Longcross in Runnymede and Surrey
Heath
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