Land East of Kenilworth Development Brief

Land East of Kenilworth Vision:

Land East of Kenilworth will be developed comprehensively as a high quality, integrated development that creates a strong sense of place and sustainable neighbourhoods comprising an estimated 1,400 new dwellings, 8 hectares of employment land and other complementary community infrastructure.

Development proposals will be sensitively designed to respond to constraints and opportunities including existing landscaping and biodiversity, the existing road network and associated environmental considerations, heritage assets, topography and relationship with existing communities.

The new community will be fully integrated into the existing town and well connected to neighbouring settlements through appropriate highways infrastructure that encourages the safe and free flow of traffic, supports sustainable travel and use of public transport, and through a design and layout that encourages and promotes pedestrian and cycle movement and connects the site to existing routes.

A range of new housing, including affordable housing, with a mix of dwelling types, sizes and tenures will be provided to create a sustainable new community and meet a broad range of needs.

8 hectares of mixed B1 and B2 employment land will provide new residents and existing residents in the area access to significant and varied new employment opportunities within a high quality designed employment park.

Essential local facilities to serve the new community will be delivered including a Local Centre comprising a community centre, a public park with recreation facilities and a network of play areas. Furthermore, early years, primary, secondary and further education facilities will be delivered to meet the needs of residents.

Existing mature landscaping and woodland will be retained except where their removal demonstrably enhances the development and the development will provide attractive and usable green spaces that are connected providing green corridors through the site. The green corridors will also be designed to support ecology and biodiversity.

The development will have characteristics that encourage a strong sense of community and healthy lifestyles and will include high quality sustainably designed buildings and public realm and attractive and usable greenspaces.