Sherford New Town – Development Partner
A £1.5bn development including 5,500 new homes, 80,000m² 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.
Our Role
We had a wide-ranging role for this major project. 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
- Arranging S73 and S96 applications on behalf of the clients
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, and opening of the local centre, leisure centre and community hub
- Development of the Sherford skills centre for local training and employment
- Planting 250,000 trees and five miles of wildlife corridors
- A saving of over £30m on infrastructure/abnormal costs
Project Highlights
- Client: Taylor Wimpey and Vistry Partnerships, Clarion Housing
Sectors
Brookbanks Groups
Key Team Members
Senior Consultant – Utilities
Adam Melia
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Project Manager
Ailsa Nicol
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Associate Project Director, Development Management Group
Alan Cunningham
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Principal Highways and Transportation Consultant
Andy Eggleston
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Group Development Director
Andy Tinnelly
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Associate - Development and Planning
Annabel Le Lohé
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Group Director of Cost and Commercial
Anthony Brown
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Principal Project Manager
Becky Synnott
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Project Consultant Engineer
Cheuk Yin Liu (Jacky)
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Civil Technician
Chris Woodgates
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Senior Engineer
Christian McArdle
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Principal Utilities Engineer
Danny Lloyd-Jones
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