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Housing and neighbourhoods
Housing and neighbourhoods
Housing and neighbourhoods
Housing and neighbourhoods

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Neighbourhoods within Wychavon Town will be attractive tree-lined, high-quality, low-traffic, accessible places where people can live, play and work. Each will have a local centre designed to meet a range of people’s day-to-day needs within the place where they live, as well as provide easy access to the town centre and wider transport network including Worcestershire Parkway Railway Station and the M5.

People and place will be prioritised over the car with speed limits restricted to 20mph throughout the neighbourhoods and town centre encouraging walking, cycling and wheeling along the network of active travel routes across the town. This will create a quieter, more pleasant environment for residents.

A comprehensive network of walking and cycling routes will connect people to facilities that are no more than 15 minutes from their neighbourhood, while there will be plenty of access to green space for leisure activities. Allotments/ community gardens, children’s play areas, and community orchards will also be key features. Neighbourhoods will be well connected to the local bus routes and within a 15 minute walk from a bus stop. Transport mobility hubs will be located across Wychavon Town providing car clubs, electric charging facilities, and secure cycle facilities.

Wychavon Garden Community
Wychavon Garden Community
Wychavon Garden Community
Wychavon Garden Community
Neighbourhoods within Wychavon Town will be attractive tree-lined, high-quality, low-traffic, accessible places where people can live, play and work. Each will have a local centre designed to meet a range of people’s day-to-day needs within the place where they live, as well as provide easy access to the town centre and wider transport network including Worcestershire Parkway Railway Station and the M5. 
People and place will be prioritised over the car with speed limits restricted to 20mph throughout the neighbourhoods and town centre encouraging walking, cycling and wheeling along the network of active travel routes across the town. This will create a quieter, more pleasant environment for residents.
A comprehensive network of walking and cycling routes will connect people to facilities that are no more than 15 minutes from their neighbourhood, while there will be plenty of access to green space for leisure activities. Allotments/ community gardens, children’s play areas, and community orchards will also be key features.

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Housing and neighbourhoods

Spetchley

Neighbourhoods within Wychavon Town will be attractive tree-lined, high-quality, low-traffic, accessible places where people can live, play and work. Each will have a local centre designed to meet a range of people’s day-to-day needs within the place where they live, as well as provide easy access to the town centre and wider transport network including Worcestershire Parkway Railway Station and the M5. 

Woodhall Farm

Neighbourhoods within Wychavon Town will be attractive tree-lined, high-quality, low-traffic, accessible places where people can live, play and work. Each will have a local centre designed to meet a range of people’s day-to-day needs within the place where they live, as well as provide easy access to the town centre and wider transport network including Worcestershire Parkway Railway Station and the M5. 

Pitchmoor Hill and Norton Fields

Neighbourhoods within Wychavon Town will be attractive tree-lined, high-quality, low-traffic, accessible places where people can live, play and work. Each will have a local centre designed to meet a range of people’s day-to-day needs within the place where they live, as well as provide easy access to the town centre and wider transport network including Worcestershire Parkway Railway Station and the M5. 

Low Hill

Neighbourhoods within Wychavon Town will be attractive tree-lined, high-quality, low-traffic, accessible places where people can live, play and work. Each will have a local centre designed to meet a range of people’s day-to-day needs within the place where they live, as well as provide easy access to the town centre and wider transport network including Worcestershire Parkway Railway Station and the M5. 

Upper Wolverton

Neighbourhoods within Wychavon Town will be attractive tree-lined, high-quality, low-traffic, accessible places where people can live, play and work. Each will have a local centre designed to meet a range of people’s day-to-day needs within the place where they live, as well as provide easy access to the town centre and wider transport network including Worcestershire Parkway Railway Station and the M5. 

Abbotswood Ridge

Neighbourhoods within Wychavon Town will be attractive tree-lined, high-quality, low-traffic, accessible places where people can live, play and work. Each will have a local centre designed to meet a range of people’s day-to-day needs within the place where they live, as well as provide easy access to the town centre and wider transport network including Worcestershire Parkway Railway Station and the M5. 
Neighbourhoods within Wychavon Town will be attractive tree-lined, high-quality, low-traffic, accessible places where people can live, play and work. Each will have a local centre designed to meet a range of people’s day-to-day needs within the place where they live, as well as provide easy access to the town centre and wider transport network including Worcestershire Parkway Railway Station and the M5. 

There will be a mixture of types of housing. The majority of neighbourhoods will be low to medium density (about 35 homes per hectare) with a mix of semi-detached and detached houses and small apartments, usually with gardens and driveways, providing a balance between space and community living. Certain areas closer to local centres may be more built up (about 55 homes per hectare of land) with a more urban feel including terraced houses and apartments.

In the Town Centre area, neighbourhoods will be more built up (about 75 homes/ apartments per hectare), comprising of well-designed flats and apartments with easy access to shared open green 
space and close to shops and transport. 
New homes will be designed to be “Zero-Carbon Ready,” meaning they will be able to transition to zero carbon when the electricity grid is fully decarbonised. Heating will be provided via greener energy and there will be the option to include renewable electricity generation and battery storage, as well as the infrastructure for electric car charging points. All homes will come with water efficiency measures built-in and full fibre broadband will be provided as standard. The whole town will also be served by 5G mobile phone technology (or a later standard if one is available at the point of development).

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