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City & Country recommended for approval to deliver 480 homes in Stansted
Keepmoat strengthens team with two senior promotions
Stansted-based developer City & Country has been recommended for planning approval for two residential schemes in Essex, comprising up to 300 homes on the edge of Stansted village, and up to 180 homes adjacent to Birchanger. The Stansted scheme includes a shop, cafe, nursery, care home and land allocated for a village hall, while the Birchanger scheme proposes extensive new cycle and pedestrian links between the villages, alongside signifi cant landscape enhancements designed to improve biodiversity and ensure the settlements remain separate. Planning offi cers at ttlesford District Council have recommended approval of City & Country’s proposals, highlighting the design quality, ecology and sustainable location of the schemes. The developments will also help address the shortage of affordable housing in the area, with demand expected to increase alongside the planned expansion of Stansted Airport and a new logistics park nearby.
The Planning Committee Report states: he ouncils Principal rban esign offi cer describes the scheme as exemplary and exceptional, noting that it represents a genuinely place-specifi c and landscape-led response.” The report also welcomes the creation of a substantial habitat bank and green corridor between the two settlements, noting that this “not only reinforces the retention of a meaningful
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and permanent landscape buffer between the settlements but plays a clear role in preventing their coalescence, thereby maintaining their distinct identities and the openness of the intervening countryside.” City & Country hopes to build a collection of one to six-bedroom homes, 50% of which will be deemed affordable through rent and affordable home ownership, exceeding the local authority requirement and helping to provide homes for the 1,400 households on the council’s housing waiting list. The plans also comprise 15 km of new and enhanced pedestrian and cycle links and a habitat bank with ecological enhancements. This includes a community orchard and the reinstatement of historic woodland and hedgerows lost over time. nder the current proposals, the developments will each achieve a Biodiversity Net Gain “massively in excess of 20%,” said City & Country. The proposed homes have been designed by Stirling Prize winning architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, with a focus on architecture that draws from the landscape and culture of ttlesford and the wider region. he developer added that the homes would be built to ttlesfords latest sustainability standards to have net zero operational carbon.” The schemes would also provide signifi cant funding for sustainable transport, road improvements, education, health and emergency services.”
Keepmoat is celebrating two senior pro- motions, as it “continues to strengthen its est idlands regional offi ce. Martyn Grimes has been promoted within the land and partnerships team, to director of land and partnerships. And mma rie, who was formerly head of sales, now steps into the role of sales director.
ased at the irmingham offi ce, artyn joined the team in 2024 and in his new role he will oversee “driving acquisi- tions, focusing on strengthening new and existing partnerships, advancing local opportunities and supporting the team in achieving further organic growth across the West Midlands.”
Martyn recently spearheaded the region’s collaborations with Walsall and Smethwick Councils on Locksmith Quar- ter demolition works and the Friar Park regeneration project, which will see more than 600 new homes created through the partnership, transforming derelict brown- fi eld land.
Set to lead the sales strategy at the
est idlands division, mma rie has been promoted following two and a half years as head of sales. In her new role, she will oversee sales across a portfolio of developments including ill Place in p- per Tean, Stallings Place in Kingswinford and Sketchley Meadows in Nuneaton, while also shaping the sales strategy for upcoming sites being brought forward by the Land and Partnerships team. Working closely with the wider regional leadership team, Emma will play a key role in aligning sales delivery with the region’s future growth pipeline. eepmoat is a top partnership homebuilder with a track-record of deliv- ering uality new homes across the . To date, almost 60 percent of its current developments are on brownfi eld sites.
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