Garden Cities, Towns & Villages

Patrick Clarke, Director

Resurgence of interest in Garden Cities

“The supply of new homes can sometimes be best achieved through planning for large scale development, such as new settlements or extensions to existing villages and towns that follow the principles of Garden Cities.”Paragraph 52, NPPF

Garden City Principles

An interlocking framework for successful delivery:

– a land value capture mechanism to fund infrastructure delivery

– high levels of sustainability

– substantial provision of affordable housing

– long term stewardship of assets

– beautifully and imaginatively designed homes with gardens

Garden City

Ebbsfleet Garden City

c.15,000 homes

• First Government designated Garden City• Zone 2 travel time to Central London• New ‘Ebbsfleet Central’ around HS1 Station• Existing Blue Water Park Shopping Centre• Fast Track BRT system• Potential Crossrail extension• Theme Park subject to DCO process

Garden communities at different scales

Garden Town

Manydown, Basingstoke

c.10,000+ homes

• c.800ha site owned by BDBC & HCC• OPA submitted for Phase 1 • New Secondary & Primary Schools• 100ha Country Park• Urban + Civic selected development partner• Creating high quality character areas• 45mins to London Waterloo

Garden communities at different scales

Garden Village

Welborne, Fareham

c.6,000 homes

• Master developer Buckland Development Ltd• Long term legacy vision• Adopted AAP + OPA submitted• Employment space, District & Village Centres• Secondary & Primary Schools• c.150ha of new public open space• Up-graded Junction 10 on M27

Garden communities at different scales

Current Initiatives

2016 Neighbourhood Planning Bill amendment

Powers of 1981 New Towns Act to be made available to Local Authorities

Government Prospectus expected Summer 2018

Securing consent through a highly complex regulatory process

Integrated and evidence-led approach

Looking to the future

Better planning of strategic infrastructure delivery

Looking to the future

Better integration of land use & transport to support higher densities

Looking to the future

Accelerated delivery through new models of housing

PLACE LadywellArchitect: RSH+P

©Morley von Sternberg

Looking to the future

Current consenting processes are highly complex and lengthy:

– Lack of a strategic planning framework

– Highly contested projects with multiplicity of competing interests

– Cross boundary issues and ‘duty to co-operate’

– Multiple consenting processes for different elements

Opportunity to follow a ‘Locally-led Development Consent Order’ process?

– Single process for all necessary consents

– Requirement for ‘front loaded’ evidence-led approach

– Defined timescales for determination

Thank you