Dunton Hills Garden Village
Dunton Hills is a proposed new garden community on a strategic allocation in Brentwood, Essex, bringing forward circa 3,700 homes across a 551 acre site with schools, community facilities and employment land. We have supported the project on deliverability and infrastructure planning.
Our Role
Our work has included advising on infrastructure costs for viability, and providing technical inputs on utilities and environmental disciplines such as noise and air quality, helping to shape an evidence-led, deliverable masterplan.
Our wider inputs have spanned flood risk and drainage strategy, hydrology and rainfall modelling, highway design and assessment, road safety audits, earthworks assessment, utilities searches and coordination, and abnormal and infrastructure cost planning.
This is long-horizon placemaking rather than a standard planning application: multiple neighbourhoods, major infrastructure and many stakeholder interfaces, with the need to prove viability and delivery over a long programme.
The Outcome
The scheme secured a resolution to grant planning permission from Brentwood Borough Council, with Essex County Council publicly welcoming the approval in March 2024.
Our value lies in turning the complexity of a new settlement into a clear, costed and technically robust path to delivery that promoters, landowners and decision makers can rely on.
Project Highlights
- Location: Brentwood, Essex
- Circa 3,700 homes on a 551 acre site
- Schools, community facilities and employment land
- Resolution to grant planning permission (welcomed by Essex County Council, March 2024)
- Infrastructure cost and viability advice
- Noise, air quality, utilities, drainage and transport inputs
- Services: Utilities, Acoustics, Air Quality, Highways & Transportation, Hydrology, Civil Engineering, Cost & Commercial