Summary

Information about how to plan, design and develop a new garden community.

Contents

  • To deliver a successful garden community you’ll need long-term support, local leadership, partnership and financial backing.

  • How to test if there are suitable, available and deliverable locations and sites for a garden community.

  • How to successfully guide the development by creating a clear vision for your garden community.

  • Engaging the local community and stakeholders can create a garden community plan with roots in the local context.

  • Local Plan policies provide an important framework to guide development proposals and aid decision-making for garden communities.

  • Information about how to develop a planning permission strategy for your garden community.

  • Masterplanning is integral to creating well-planned and designed garden communities.

  • How smart communities connect people to technology.

  • Delivering infrastructure can unlock development of a garden community and provide some of the building blocks for a successful new community.

  • Information about creating long-term maintenance and management arrangements for your garden community.

  • Find out about government guidance on viability and how to manage it in your planning process.

  • The process of capturing some of the increase in land value which comes from policy decisions, the granting of planning permission by local authorities, or as a consequence of new or improved, publicly funded infrastructure projects.

  • At an early stage in your project, you should explore the mechanisms and options available for delivery of your garden community.

  • Governance creates good collaborative working and effective decision-making among public and private sector partners and stakeholders.

  • Strong project management is needed to deliver a complex garden community on time and to ensure it delivers on expectations.