Best Practice Site Visits
Posted 24/09/2024
Key Partners, Council Members, Stakeholders and Key Officers have joined the Hemel Garden Communities team on three Aspirational Site Visits over the course of 2023/24. These were designed to explore best practice in UK housing and neighbourhood design, to help inform and inspire, as the proposals for Hemel Garden Communities (HGC) are developed.
Construction is already underway or has been delivered in the featured communities. The HGC team chose these sites through a range of criteria that align to the Garden Community principles, to highlight those developments where the aims and ambition is most similar to HGC and, in the case of Marmalade Lane in Cambridge, an innovative example of co-housing, a more sustainable and community focused approach to living.
In September 2024 the Hemel Garden Communities team visited Highfield Park Trust to hear about their approach to stewardship and were joined by Council Members and Officers from Dacorum Borough Council and Hertfordshire County Council.
Photos: Alconbury Weald, Marmalade Lane, Cambridgeshire (November 2023) and Chelmsford Garden Communities, Essex (March 2024). Highfield Park Trust (September 2024).
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