LANDSCAPE-LED NEIGHBOURHOOD FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
A Vision For the Future
Higher Clockhouse Farm provides an opportunity to create a new neighbourhood rooted in the character of the surrounding landscape and existing community. Rather than simply building new homes, our ambition is to create a place where people can live, walk, meet, play and enjoy nature.
Our vision is based on one simple principle: Create a place that complements Bransgore rather than competes with it.
These proposals represent our current thinking and continue to evolve. Your feedback, together with ongoing technical work and discussions with the Council and statutory consultees, will help shape the final masterplan before a planning application is submitted.
The site has the opportunity to deliver a landscape-led neighbourhood that provides new homes within a mature setting, excellent walking and cycling connections to Bransgore, and extensive multifunctional green space that promotes health, wellbeing and biodiversity.
The emerging masterplan has been informed by a comprehensive programme of technical assessments, carefully considering heritage assets, ecology, drainage and flood risk, landscape character, highway access, existing vegetation and utilities to ensure the proposals respond positively to the site’s opportunities and constraints.
Respecting Existing
Neighbours
We recognise that one of the most important issues for existing residents is how the new neighbourhood will relate to the homes that already exist. The masterplan (image right) has therefore been carefully designed to provide a landscaped transition between existing and proposed development. Existing hedgerows will be retained wherever possible, reinforced with substantial new tree and hedge planting, creating a landscape buffer of between 30 and 78 meters.
This landscape-led approach helps protect the privacy and outlook of neighbouring properties while creating an attractive green edge to the village. Rather than a hard line of development, the proposals provide a gradual transition between Bransgore and the surrounding countryside, helping the new neighbourhood blend naturally into its setting.
The proposals overleaf include:
Around 220 new homes, with up to 50% affordable housing to help meet local needs.
A wide range of high-quality, energy-efficient homes designed for modern living, home working and future adaptability.
A landscape-led network of green infrastructure, featuring up to 16 hectares of Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG), significantly more than is required for the size of the proposals, alongside parkland, play areas, species-rich meadows, SuDS and productive landscapes, creating attractive spaces for people, wildlife and nature. In the New Forest ‘SANG’ is referred to ‘ANRG’ - Alternative Natural Recreational Greenspace.
Sensitive design that respects the setting of nearby listed buildings through appropriate scale, materials and local character.
Improved pedestrian and cycle connections linking the site with Bransgore’s shops, services and community facilities and existing residents to the open space and community facilities.
An opportunity for a flexible community building or hub providing space for local groups, charities and community organisations, with the potential to accommodate uses such as a café, meeting space, health and wellbeing services, support groups, part-time clinics (such as diabetes services), dementia support, and other facilities that respond to local community needs, like a mobile banking-hub.
New community open spaces and opportunities for recreation, food growing and orchards.
A minimum 10% Biodiversity Net Gain, enhancing habitats and strengthening ecological networks.
Sustainable drainage systems designed in accordance with national and local planning policy.
Homes built to the Future Homes Standard, delivering high levels of energy efficiency.
Economic benefits through construction employment, increased spending in local businesses, additional council tax revenue and developer contributions (CIL and Section 106) to support local infrastructure.
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