- Lead planners and masterplanners exploring spatial growth opportunities in the O2C Arc.
- Initial commission undertaken as part of MK Futures 2050 Visioning, setting an aspiration for Milton Keynes to grow to a population of over 400,000.
- Prepared a robust evidence study on the scale and directions of growth informed by population growth, geography, and environmental capacity.
- Explored how long-term trends and changes in the way we live will shape growth, and provided recommendations to find an optimum scale and form of growth and investment for MK.
- Examined spatial options for coordinated, well planned and integrated growth, maximising economic and physical benefits arising from committed strategic infrastructure projects including East West Rail and Oxford to Cambridge Expressway.
- DLA has recently been commissioned to work up spatial options and recommendations from the previous studies as part of a Joint Strategic Growth Study led by MK Council with its Partner Authorities Aylesbury Vale and South Northamptonshire Councils.
- Working with specialist consultants, DLA is leading and shaping the long-term policy framework for the central part of the O2C Arc which will enable the delivery of transformational growth and regeneration set out in the 2050 Vision.
- Wider than a planning policy document, the Growth Study will shape the spatial aspects of successive development plans, strategic priorities, corporate policies and direction of travel.
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.
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.
CANTERBURY MOUNTFIELD PARK, FOR CORINTHIAN LAND
Master plan and hybrid planning application to develop 4,000 homes according to Garden City principles.