- First stage comprised a Development Capacity Study assembling and mapping constraints to inform an assessment of broad development capacity as a precursor to identifying development options.
- Produced Development Frameworks for six areas with potential to accommodate significant new or expanded communities meeting housing need in parallel with advancing ambitions in relation to healthy living and quality of life and supporting economic growth.
- Undertook a HLAA to establish realistic assumptions about the availability, suitability and the likely economic viability of land, including sensitivity analysis, incorporating policy constraints including the Green Belt and employment designations.
- Utilised a combination of GIS constraints data, site visits, contact with agents and developers, and viability, to get an indicative land supply over 15 years.
- Produced an adopted Strategic Design Guide SPD aimed at raising design quality in the Borough, identifying development typologies with place-specific guidance for each.
- Worked alongside the Council to produce a framework for the future development of the Thurrock Lakeside Basin, advising on capacity and opportunities for diversification
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.
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.
CANTERBURY MOUNTFIELD PARK, FOR CORINTHIAN LAND
Master plan and hybrid planning application to develop 4,000 homes according to Garden City principles.