The vision for Great Whaddon, and this part of it, is to create a well-connected new community with a distinctive sense of place, where people can live, work, learn and play and where green infrastructure is improved for people and wildlife, including protected bat species.
The masterplan is ambitious outcome both for new and existing residents. We wish to improve the place.
Our aim is to start creating a new neighbourhood. We want residents to be proud of their home, their neighbourhood and the surrounding landscape. We want to encourage care in the local area and neighbourly vibrancy and vitality.
Vision
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A Place to Live
Creating a variety of high-quality new homes to meet the needs of all, including affordable homes and a range of types and sizes suitable for families, older people and first-time buyers.
A Place to Work
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Introducing a local centre, retail and commercial uses to promote self-containment, reduce vehicular journeys and improve work-life balance.
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A Place to Learn
Delivering new primary education facilities and pre-school, safely accessible by foot and cycle, where young people can thrive and where families will want to live.
A Place to Play and be Healthy
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Creating substantial areas of new recreational space, including equipped play areas, informal open green space, sports pitches, a leisure facility, and a large, multifunctional Suitable Alternative Natural Green Space (SANG) for the benefit of biodiversity and recreational use.
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A Place to Travel Sustainably
Sustainable transport has been considered from the earliest stages of plan-making at Great Whaddon so that it is reflected in the vision for the plan village, as it will form an integral part of a masterplan’s strategy for creating well-designed, sustainable, inclusive and popular places to live.
Pegasus Group are planning, transport and drainage consultants to Lightwood and will ultimately manage the planning application through to submission to, and determination by, the Local Planning Authority, Wiltshire Council.
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Pegasus’ team comes from a variety of professional backgrounds and has extensive experience managing large-scale mixed-use projects including within this part of Wiltshire, where local knowledge and professional expertise are invaluable.
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Pegasus assists Lightwood in managing other inputs such as ecology (Ethos), landscape, heritage and green infrastructure (EDP), noise and ground conditions (Omnia).
Pegasus Group
The vision and masterplanning process is being led by Create Streets. Create Streets is a social enterprise with an associated charity, the Create Streets Foundation. Create Streets is a design practice, town-builder and think tank set up in 2013 to change the way we create places in this country to be more beautiful, more prosperous and more sustainable.
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The project team includes a collection of other professional consultants addressing a wide range of technical disciplines.
Create Streets
Lightwood is a land promoter that works with landowners, councils and local groups to create new settlements, neighbourhoods, streets and places that deliver homes and supporting facilities. Lightwood aim to be a leader in the establishment of better and more beautiful places in which to live and work.
Once planning permission is secured, the land is sold to housebuilders and other developers to proceed with the more detailed phases of design, planning and delivery, led by parameters set out in Outline applications and, increasingly, Strategic Design Codes.