Sherford New Town

A £1.5bn development including 5,500 new homes, 800,00m² of new employment and retail space, three primary schools and a secondary school. The development also included new local centres, a library, a business park and community park over a total of 1,200 acres of land, with a 500 acre country park.

Our Role

We had a wide-ranging role for this major project, allowing us to utilise our different teams in a multidisciplinary way, enhancing the output. Our responsibilities included:

Managing a consortium development board as lead Development Partner
Leading all non-house building strategic delivery activities (land, planning, technical, production, commercial and marketing)
Leading all road and infrastructure implementation
Dealing with land sales and ancillary development management
Developing procurement, appointment and payment processes
Resident Engineer
Running infrastructure RM applications, S73 and S96 applications on behalf of the client
Strategic land lead

The Outcome

We commenced work on the project in 2014. By 2022, we had facilitated:

A new outline planning permission for the scheme
Significant cost savings for our partners
Over 1000 new homes in construction
The delivery and opening of major new roads around the development
Early opening of the primary schools
Opening of Community Hub, All Weather Pitches and Temporary Convenience Store
Development of the Sherford skills centre for local training and employment
Planting 250,000 trees and five miles of wildlife corridors.

With our help, when completed, Sherford will provide homes, jobs and facilities for over 12,000 people, as a modern and sustainable town.

If you would like to learn more click the link below.

https://sherford.uk/about/about-sherford/

Project Highlights

Client: Taylor Wimpey and Vistry Partnerships, Clarion Housing
Work Areas: Transport planning, highway design, flood modelling, services & utilities coordination, financial control, sales and marketing