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St Cuthbert鈥檚 Garden Village

Carlisle, UK

海角视频 supported Cumberland Council to demonstrate the viability of an ambitious vision for a new 鈥済arden village鈥� that will deliver 10,000 new homes, sustainable communities and innovative employment opportunities.

St Cuthbert’s Garden Village will be a new district of high-quality new homes to the south of Carlisle, delivered as a series of connected villages embedded within the world class setting of the Lake District National Park, the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site.

A cluster of distinct garden villages set in an attractive recreational, riverside and landscape setting will be well connected to Carlisle and the wider countryside. The vision for the masterplan extends to innovation and technology integration, which will support attractive employment opportunities and exemplary low carbon living.

St Cuthbert’s Garden Village will deliver 10,000 new homes, seeding sustainable communities and innovative employment opportunities.

An initial masterplan is shaping the St Cuthbert’s Local Plan, together with technical evidence bases, for which 海角视频鈥檚 team was engaged to deliver insight.

We provided a series of clear technical assessments, stakeholder engagement and techno-economic modelling.

This supported the council to build a deeper understanding of the risks, costs, challenges and viability of the plans, as well as setting a range of key sustainability aspirations.

Challenge

St Cuthbert’s Garden Village has been identified as a location for growth in the Carlisle District Local Plan. St Cuthbert’s was designated as a Garden Village as part of the Government鈥檚 Garden Towns and Villages Programme in 2017.

The St Cuthbert’s Masterplan, published in 2020, developed the initial concept and vision for the Garden Village. The Masterplan is now being used to inform and shape the St Cuthbert’s Local Plan, together with a series of additional technical evidence bases, for which 海角视频鈥檚 multidisciplinary team was engaged to deliver a range of key insights.

The project will deliver much needed new homes to the city, in an ambitious, low-density and sustainable development. 海角视频 was engaged to help the council understand the potential infrastructure costs and challenges. This would require the development of an initial plan around aspects such as earthworks, drainage and utilities.

Our scope also included supporting the client to fully understand a broad range of aspects of the project deliverables, including , digital and energy infrastructure. Our feasibility reports would need to play a key role in helping to create a balance between aspiration, viability and cost management.

Solution

Our experts developed an initial infrastructure design and feasibility study, working closely with a quantity surveyor to build a picture of the cost of the project. Our ground engineering team also provided insight around any additional risks and challenges dictated by the site and its history, highlighting any areas of historic industrial contamination, with a clear explanation of remediation solutions.  

To ensure the development is digitally resilient, the feasibility report was supported by a strategy crafted by our digital advisory team. This focused on the potential role of technology and digital infrastructure in future-proofing the site, with evaluations of sensor systems and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to enhance municipal operations.

Providing the client with clarity on energy options, our energy consulting team crafted a sustainable and cost-effective strategy. This included a deep dive into procurement routes, mapping out both capital investment and long-term operational costs. Opportunities for on-site renewable generation were also examined, including solar PV arrays, ground-source heat pumps, and anaerobic digestion.聽

We also delivered a comprehensive sustainability strategy, to ensure that from the earliest stages, the development is set on a low-carbon, sustainable pathway. This included helping the client to set itself goals around aspects such as sustainable materiality for housebuilding, water usage and biodiversity. Our experts laid out both the essential requirements needed to achieve planning consent, alongside best practice pathways, and pioneering approaches, to allow the client to push for greater sustainability solutions wherever viable.  

Our experts engaged with local councillors across a series of stakeholder workshops, to help build an understanding of the sustainability aspirations. Our teams also engaged with the local housebuilding industry, to understand supply issues, delivery and any skillsets challenges, to ensure smooth deliverability within the local economy. 

Value

St Cuthbert鈥檚 Garden Village is one of the largest projects of its kind nationally 鈥� delivering 10,000 homes with supporting facilities and infrastructure. Sustainability will be at the heart of the development, ensuring a healthy, prosperous and resilient new community.

Through a series of clear technical assessments, stakeholder engagement and techno-economic modelling, our teams supported the council to build a deeper understanding of the risks, costs, challenges and viability of the plans, as well as setting a range of key sustainability aspirations.