Strategic Land
We use our detailed knowledge of the planning process to assist clients to identify land with the potential to accommodate longer term strategic growth. We then use our skills and experience to engage with Local Planning Authorities to promote land though the plan making process to secure high value land allocations in emerging Development Plans. There are many pitfalls in this process, but the right advice and planning strategy can deliver significant results.
South West Sector Strategic Housing Allocation and Norwich Research Park
The promotion of a 309 ha site on south west of the City of Norwich as a new urban extension. The area of land promoted through the Greater Norwich Local Development Framework contains the allocated Norwich Research Park and a large area of land surrounding the flagship Norwich University Hospital. The proposals is for a new mixed use community comprising 4,000 homes and in excess of 250,000 sq ft of employment space. The scheme promoted is an exemplar scheme on many levels.
The Deal Ground and May Gurney Sites, Norwich
Lanpro are currently formulating detailed plans for the redevelopment of the Deal Ground and May Gurney sites in Norwich. The sites combined are some 16 ha in area and are of great strategic importance in terms of employment, housing and sustainable regeneration, and represent a major brownfield development opportunity in Norwich. Norwich City Council considers that the comprehensive redevelopment of these sites is critical to the future regeneration of East Norwich and to the prosperity of the wider Norwich area. The Deal Ground and May Gurney sites are blighted by a series of complex and interrelated development constraints including flood risk, off-site highway, landscape and ecological impact issues. The sites are being promoted for major mixed use development comprising some 700 new flood resilient homes and external spaces developed around a new nature reserve and in accordance with the DEFRA backed LifE Project produced byBACA.
