Alconbury, Cambridgeshire
We have been involved from an early stage developing the Green Infrastructure Strategy that has played an important role in the creation of the development proposals for the whole site, a former airforce base that retains a significant proportion of it's original architecture.
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The green assets of the site and how they link with the wider community were of particular importance to the development proposals. By utilising them in a positive way the client was able to demonstrate their long term investment in delivering a new and linked community in Huntingdonshire.
Early phases of the project required the creation and presentation of a variety of illustrative material to support a public design enquiry. We then produced a Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) along with a detailed planning application for the enabling works zones.
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The scheme, that includes around 5,000 new homes, primary & secondary educational facilities and a potential new rail station, is phased for delivery over the next 20 years with the enabling works, including a business enterprise zone, completed on site in early January 2014.
The old runways on site could be utilised as public parks, part of the site wide Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) and a visual link to the site’s heritage, grounding the development in the past but looking to the future.
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