Key Features 

• 353 Dwellings in total, including 106 affordable homes and 36 custom build homes

• Mix of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom dwellings delivered across Persimmon Homes and Charles Church brands

• Mix of 2 storey, 2.5 storey and bungalows

• Designed to ensuring excellent permeability and connectivity to public rights of way

• Primary access onto the Potton Road and Baden Powell Way roundabout with a secondary vehicular access from Furzenhall Road serving no more than 74 dwellings by provision of an ANPR bus gate system

• Integration with the wider public right of way network and provision of trim trails

• 7.13ha of Green Infrastrcuture including a Locally Equipped Area of Play (for children 3-10 years circa 600-800m2),  community allotments, orchard and wildlife pond

• 0.18 ha sustainable drainage principles, including ponds and swales

• Parking in accordance with policy standards including visitor parking spaces

• Integration of a Public Art Scheme (to be designed)

• Bio-diversity Net Gains

The Boulevard Spine

• A moderately formalised primary street running from the Furzenhall Road access through to the Potton Road roundabout, designed to accomodate buses. The route establishes a strong identity and movement structure defined through consistency in red brick, grey roof tiles and highway width and hedgerow planting to the front of plots. It is designed as a formal, coherent street with a clear sense of address.

The Green Heart

• A softer neighbourhood core structured around the village green. Influenced by the open space at Gale Drive to Chew Meadow. Maintains a material continuity with ‘the boulevard spine’ ensuring transitionary points on the boulevard are complementary. Uses red multi brick with grey roof tiles retaining a level of formality off the Boulevard. Limited use of buff brick is acceptable in relation to the western boundary of the site.

Informal Edges

• A rural settlement edge with an informal character utilising buff or red brick with dark grey or brown roof tiles and softened planting.

Noise Barrier

The outline planning permission recognised a 4m high noise barrier is required along the western boundary to mitigate against the East Coast Mainline at source. We will provide a 2m high acoustic fence set upon a 2m high landscape bund with attractive soft landscaping provided to the foreground. 

Allotments

A minimum of 0.4ha of Allotments will be provided along the western boundary of the site, in accordance with the Section 106 agreement. This will include:

1. Parking area

2. Seating / Composting Area / Water Supply

3. Main Access Avenue

4. Range of allotment plots from 250m2 to 125m2 to 65m2 (starter plots)

5. Informal Orchard Area

6. Boundary native hedge

7. Noise bund and noise fence along the western boundary

Natural Wildlife Pond

A wetland pond will be provided on the western boundary providing an ecologically focused water feature, designed as a habitat asset within the broader wider biodiversity network.

Northern Boundary

Along the northern boundary of the site, attractive soft landscaping will interface with the right of way network, providing views out whilst softening the built edge of the development against the open countryside.

New Access Road

The Potton Road / Baden Powell Way roundabout will form the principal gateway into the development, creating a distinctive landscape-led arrival that transitions from the surrounding rural context into the proposed neighbourhood. 

Play and informal recreation will be integrated throughout the wider public open space network, creating a varied and accessible range of opportunities for children and young people of different ages, whilst contributing positively to the landscape character of the development. 

A series of informal trim trail / fitness elements will also be distributed throughout the wider green infrastructure network, encouraging informal exercise, movement and incidental play whilst strengthening the recreational role of the open space corridors and pedestrian routes. 

Together, these elements establish a layered recreation strategy comprising formal equipped play, youth provision and informal activity spaces distributed across the development to serve a broad range of users.

Children's Play Area

A children's play area will be delivered at the centre of the development in accordance with the Section 106 agreement, providing at least 600sqm of activity area for use by children of 3-10 years old, (containing a minimum of 6 items of play equipment for 3-6 year olds, and a minimum of 10 items for 6-10 year olds). The space will designed with safety surfacing and laid out to meet relative safety standards for play facilities with a 20m buffer to the nearest dwelling.  

Teenage Play Area and Trim Trails

In addition to the Super LEAP (children's play area) provision, a dedicated youth recreation area will be provided towards the eastern part of the site in accordance with the approved parameter plans and Section 106 obligations, creating opportunities for older children and teenagers within an appropriate landscape setting.

A series of informal trim trail / fitness elements will also be distributed throughout the wider green infrastructure network, encouraging informal exercise, movement and incidental play whilst strengthening the recreational role of the open space corridors and pedestrian routes.

A range of highway mitigation measures were agreed within the outline planning consent, and will be delivered as part of the implemented scheme. The final details are currently being prepared.