Key Site Considerations

The design work by Barwood Land’s appointed professional team has been guided by a wide range of technical studies and assessments covering key matters such as transport and accessibility; sustainability; drainage and flood risk; ecology and nature conservation; trees; landscape and visual considerations; archaeology and heritage; ground conditions; utilities; noise and air quality.

This in-depth analysis has identified a number of considerations and opportunities that have informed the scheme proposals. The creation of the illustrative masterplan will ensure a scheme which is both appropriate for the site and crucially, is deliverable in the short-term and underpins the outline planning application.

This work has identified a number of opportunities that will be embraced, including:

    • Provide a range of new house types, sizes and tenures that will meet a range of identified local housing needs, including the provision of 50% affordable housing.

    • Create new, generous areas of public open space of varying character and that are accessible and available for the whole community to use.

    • Retain, protect and enhance the vast majority of existing hedgerows, woodlands and trees and their key view corridors, providing a strong landscape framework to shape the development.

    • The Public Rights of Way within the site will be protected and enhanced.

    • Secure the long-term protection and meaningful enhancement of existing and newly created landscape features and ecological habitats within the site, including the existing trees and woodland.

    • Reflect and celebrate local character and distinctiveness and a form of development that knits seamlessly into, and forms a cohesive part of the village, that has a strong sense of place.

    • Deliver sustainable urban drainage features that are sensitively designed and will integrate into and form part of the informal areas of open space, in line with national and local requirements to serve the development and ensure the risk of flooding will not increase within the site or elsewhere.

    • Retain and create new pedestrian and cycle routes that will provide safe and convenient connections between the site, the village and leisure and wider countryside.