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Welcome to this joint public consultation between Linden Homes and Barnham & Eastergate Neighbourhood Plan Group.

As you may be aware, the Barnham & Eastergate Neighbourhood Plan has been evolving over the past couple of years led by a team of volunteers from the villages. This site is included in the Plan (see Site background board for more information).

Award-winning housebuilder Linden Homes now has an interest in this site and is in the early stages of developing a masterplan for how it could be developed. Today’s exhibition has been organised to provide the community with an opportunity to view and discuss the indicative proposals. We hope that you find it informative and useful.

We are keen to hear your views so please do take the opportunity to speak to representatives from Linden Homes or the Neighbourhood Plan Group and submit your comments on the feedback forms provided.

Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to attend today’s event.

Linden Homes and BarnHam & eastergate neigHBourHood PLan grouP

Land to the north of Barnham Road

Welcome

www.lindenhomes.co.uk/community/eastergate

site Background

iLLustrative masterPLan: oPtion one

iLLustrative masterPLan: oPtion two

PuBLic oPen sPace

next stePs and timescaLes

At the exhibition today:

Aerial view of the site

Located to the north of Barnham Road, the site is bordered to the west by Cherry Tree Drive and the land on which the medical practice has planning permission; to the north and east by fields and to the south by Barnham Road and the properties on the northern side of Barnham Road. It measures 10.9 hectares.

As you may be aware, the Barnham & Eastergate Neighbourhood Plan has been created over the past couple of years by a team of volunteers from the villages. The Plan allocated this land to provide up to 60 new homes to help meet housing need within the parish.

Award-winning housebuilder Linden Homes has an interest in the whole site and has held initial discussions with the Neighbourhood Plan Group over how the site could be developed. Linden Homes has no control over the land to the west of the site, so is unable to propose any development there. This land is under a different ownership.

Through those discussions, two options have emerged. One option provides 60 homes, as set out in the Neighbourhood Plan, alongside

allotments and a community orchard. The other option provides 100 homes. Along with the community orchard and allotments it would also provide additional community facilities, elderly care provision, enhanced public open space and access to the countryside, to further conform with the Neighbourhood Plan.

The 100 home option would also help contribute to future housing requirements for the area which Arun District Council is shortly to set out in its new emerging Local Plan for the period up to 2031.

Both options are available for you to review, discuss with the team and provide comments on.

The work undertaken to dateLinden Homes is in the process of undertaking detailed technical work to support the progression of the proposals. Winter ground monitoring has been undertaken over the past few months to help inform the proposals for surface water drainage. Linden Homes will draw up these plans and the proposals for foul water drainage in close consultation with Southern Water and the Environment Agency.

Linden Homes is also in the process of undertaking traffic counting, which will be used to model the impact of the proposals on the highways network.

Further details of both will be available at the next public consultation.



Site background

Constraints and opportunities plan




The masterplan: option one

The masterplans have been designed to begin to explore potential uses on the land, rather than act as a fixed layout. We are interested to know what sort of uses you think would be appropriate for the site as well as where you think they should be situated on the site.


Masterplan – option one

This masterplan comprises:

• 60 new homes • Community orchard

• Circa 10 allotments • Public open space



The masterplan: option two

The masterplans have been designed to begin to explore potential uses on the land, rather than act as a fixed layout. We are interested to know what sort of uses you think would be appropriate for the site as well as where you think they should be situated on the site.


Masterplan – option two

This masterplan comprises:

• 100 new homes • Community orchard

• Circa 15 allotments • Public open space

• New healthcare facility • Care home

• Senior living accommodation



Public open space

Both of the options displayed today would provide a significant amount of public open space, including allotments, a community orchard and children’s play space.

Option B for 100 new homes would additionally provide enhanced open space and also access to the countryside by providing a link to the existing footpath on the east of the site.

The images set out below show different options for what the open space could be used for. Please let us know what you think on your feedback form.


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Freephone information line: 0800 298 7040

Website: www.lindenhomes.co.uk/community/eastergate

Email: [email protected]

Thank you for taking the time to attend today’s exhibition. We hope that you found the event helpful and we would be grateful if you could take the time to complete one of the feedback forms available.

Following today’s exhibition, Linden Homes and the Neighbourhood Plan Group will review all of the feedback received, before progressing the masterplan based on the comments.

Linden Homes has also held initial discussions with Arun District Council, and will continue to liaise with officers there as the proposals begin to develop.

We will update you in due course, but in the meantime if you have any questions or if you would like to discuss the proposals at any point, please contact us using the details below.

Thank you for attending.

Linden Homes and the Neighbourhood Plan Group



Next steps and timescales

aPriL 2014 review aLL feedBack received

may 2014 rePort Back to tHe community

may – June 2014

PotentiaL second exHiBition

JuLy 2014 neigHBourHood PLan referendum

summer 2014

LikeLy suBmission of an aPPLication By Linden Homes


Artist’s impression of the scheme

Linden Homes is the country’s sixth largest house builder. We are the house building division of Galliford Try, one of the UK’s leading construction companies.

Linden Homes’ strategic south division operates across the south of England. Linden Homes has 11 regional offices that operate right across England, from Cornwall to Northumberland.

With a reputation for bespoke and creative developments in prime locations, Linden Homes prides itself on its high quality of design. We were named Best Large Housebuilder 2013 at the Housebuilder Awards and Housebuilder of the Year at the Ideal Homes Blue Ribbon Awards 2013.

Engaging with local communities is key to the work that we do. We understand that if we are to deliver houses that not only meet the aspirations of those who seek to live in them but also enhance the existing neighbourhood, then we need to talk to and engage with local people. By seeking out local knowledge, and listening to local opinion, we are able to build a fuller picture and identify the wider benefits that development can bring to the existing community.

Linden Homes is proud to be part of the considerate constructor’s scheme, and works hard with local communities throughout the construction process of its developments.

A selection of Linden Homes’ developments



About us




Investing in local communities: A case study


Case Study: Ogwell Brook, Devon• 186 new homes are currently being built

• 25% (or 46 units) are affordable and are being made available through a local housing association to people on the local council’s waiting list

• 95% of all homes for sale have been bought by local people living within 15 miles of the development

• a direct investment of £19.4 million into the local community

• up to 280 jobs generated (research by the Home Builders federation concludes that every home built delivers 1.5 full time jobs on site and in the supply chain)

• 73 jobs have been created on the first two phases of this three-phase scheme, two-thirds of which are with firms based less than 30 miles away

• A further 13 architects, surveyors and engineers are retained on the project, in addition to our team of four locally-based Linden Homes’ staff

• Local businesses have undertaken the majority of the work on site

• 90% of our contractors are based in Devon and Cornwall

• Three-quarters of our suppliers are also based in the south west

• Working with local firms, we have been able to train 11 young apprentices

our experience at ogwell Brook is replicated on the majority of schemes across our entire national development network.

when we say that we work with communities, we mean it.

National Apprenticeship ProgrammeDuring 2013 Linden Homes launched a national apprenticeship scheme with First 4 Skills (a national training provider).

our aim• To have 500 apprentices within

the next three years

the importance of apprenticeships • Apprenticeships are key to developing

skills vital to UK house building

• Without a skilled workforce, house building will struggle to deliver the new homes we need

achievements to date• 100 apprentices recruited as part of our

pilot programme in the south west

Our 100th apprentice in the South West

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The team of contractors

For many, the visible sign of Linden Homes’ investment in their local community will be the new homes that we build.

We are proud of the quality of our product but we also know that our investment stretches far beyond bricks and mortar.

Our houses provide homes for families, work for local businesses and opportunities for new apprentices.

We undertook a case study of one of our schemes in Devon, the findings of which are presented to the right.

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