- Proposals have been embedded within the local planning policy context with a draft allocation for growth secured in Central Bedfordshire Council’s emerging Local Plan.
- Inspiration for Marston Valley comes from lessons learnt from the Garden City movement creating places that people are proud to live in.
- Vision and strategy for a series of interlinked villages set within an outstanding landscape framework.
- Each village will contain local scale shops, restaurants, cafés and other community and leisure uses and will complement what is already provided in nearby villages.
- Employment opportunities will be embedded within the community hubs and from other uses including the schools, hotels, and shops.
- Lakes are defining assets providing a perfect setting for creating special places opening up access to enable people to live, work and play while enjoying waterside views.
- A new navigable section of the wider Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Park will link Brogborough and Stewartby Lakes.
- Waterway channels will permeate development areas to provide an innovative and multifunctional SuDS network whilst providing a distinctive character.
- Over 30% of the site area will deliver new tree cover to accord with Forest of Marston Vale, an establishing Community Forest, principles.
- Sustainable public transport opportunities are at the heart of the scheme maximising pedestrian and cycle connectivity and linkages to East West Rail, the proposed Oxford to Cambridge Expressway and new bus connections within the local area.
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
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.
CANTERBURY MOUNTFIELD PARK, FOR CORINTHIAN LAND
Master plan and hybrid planning application to develop 4,000 homes according to Garden City principles.