- Clear vision for a campus style development of high-quality new jobs and homes set in a new and extensive landscape setting supported by the Local Enterprise Partnership and the Local Planning Authority.
- Helped facilitate a major ‘planning for real’ exercise at the site with stakeholders and local communities.
- The master plan accommodates some 8,000 jobs and 5,000 houses focused on attracting new investment, jobs and opportunities.
- Sustainable development is being explored including the provision of a new rail station and renewable energy projects.
- New employment will focus on Low Carbon, High Tech & Creative Industries, ICT, Research and Development and advanced manufacturing, engineering and processing.
- Outline planning application for the whole site was submitted in August 2012 and a resolution to grant was received in December 2013.
- Designated by the government as an Enterprise Zone following close collaboration with the owners of the site, the Local Planning Authority and the Local Enterprise Partnership to develop the successful bid.
- Coordinated, submitted and had approved detailed planning applications for enabling works in the Enterprise Zone and for the first commercial buildings.
- Leading a multi-disciplinary team to deliver the Enterprise Zone and the wider development of the site through the planning process.
OTHER PROJECTS
RUGBY RADIO STATION FOR URBAN&CIVIC
Lead planners and masterplanners for the former Rugby Radio Station, now known as Houlton, with capacity for up to 6,200 homes together with schools, employment space, extensive provision for ecological enhancement, plus a full package of supporting infrastructure.
WATERBEACH, FOR URBAN&CIVIC AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE
Working closely with award-winning Fletcher Priest Architects as masterplanners and a large multi-discipline team.
THURROCK GROWTH STRATEGY, FOR THURROCK COUNCIL
Retained by the Council to provide ongoing strategic planning and development advice as part of the preparation of the local plan.
STEVENAGE CENTRAL FRAMEWORK
Stevenage was the UK’s first New Town in 1946, with the New Town heritage shaping a distinctive town centre.
PEBBLE MILL, FOR CALTHORPE ESTATES
Lead consultant securing an outline planning permission to regenerate the former BBC Studio site into a new Bio Technology and Science Park with enhanced sporting facilities for community use.
OXFORD MK CAMBRIDGE ARC (O2C)
For Milton Keynes Council, Aylesbury Vale District Council, and South Northamptonshire Council
MARSTON VALLEY, FOR O&H PROPERTIES LTD
Lead masterplanners and planners for a series of new communities of up to 5,000 homes, 30 hectares of employment land, and new parklands incorporating 17 hectares of formal open space.
LANGLEY, FOR BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL
Lead masterplanners of an emerging urban extension on a strategic land release to the north east of Birmingham.
HAMPTON, FOR O&H PROPERTIES LTD
Masterplanning and implementation of a new community on the southern edge of Peterborough since 1998.
CRANBROOK, FOR HALLAM LAND MANAGEMENT, PERSIMMON HOMES & TAYLOR WIMPEY
Masterplanning and delivering a new community to the east of Exeter for 3,500 dwellings and subsequently the future expansion for a further 4,000 dwellings.