Case study Infrastructure Residential

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 temporary convenience store, All Weather Pitches and Community Hub
  • Development of the Sherford skills centre for local training and employment
  • Planting 250,000 trees and five miles of wildlife corridors

Project Highlights

  • Client: Taylor Wimpey and Vistry Partnerships, Clarion Housing