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Lastest News - June 2008
Peters Pit Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) has been rated as being in 100 per cent favourable condition by Natural England, the public body responsible for helping to conserve and enhance the U.K.’s natural environment. The site, which is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust on behalf of Trenport Investments and Aylesford Newsprint is home to one of England’s largest populations of Great Crested Newts. The project ensures that large numbers of the species are protected long into the future and that the remainder of the site is well managed to improve and shelter its diverse wildlife.
Latest News - March 2008
Start of construction of the new Medway Valley Crossing, together with road improvements and infrastructure for 1000 new homes at Peters Village between Wouldham and Burham, is to be deferred until a formal Agreement for access rights over the River Medway and the railway line is settled. Negotiations are continuing between interested parties with a view to reaching agreement at an early date.
Meanwhile, the site has been prepared; clearance and demolition work completed, new ecological habitats created and movement of wildlife in the area finished.
Tenders for the circa £30M civil engineering works have been received and are being considered, but due to the extensive nature of weather sensitive earthmoving involved, work is now unlikely to commence before spring 2009.
To minimise the effect of the delay, our contractors will use the opportunity to progress their detailed engineering designs so that works can commence quickly once the necessary agreements have been received.
We are pleased to announce our selection of The Guinness Trust as our preferred partner with whom we are working to finalise an Agreement for the integration and delivery of affordable homes. We are looking forward to them delivering 250 affordable homes across the development in due course.
The finalisation of a Residential Design Code will ensure that future residential developers will deliver a consistently high quality built environment with diverse and distinctive neighbourhoods each with their own sense of place, once sites are released.
Project Director, Bob Hamblyn said; “This is a huge and complex project and we are delighted with the progress we have made since gaining planning consent in May 2006. Whilst delay is always unwelcome, it is by no means unusual for projects of this size and complexity to suffer delays and we remain positive that these will soon be overcome”
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Shirley Boards
Peters Village Project Enquiries
Trenport Investments Ltd
3rd Floor
86 Jermyn Street
London SW1Y 6JD
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Trenport Investments Ltd
Trenport Investments Limited is the principal residential landholding and development company within the Ellerman Investments Group. The Group has been built up over the past 40 years and has an established track record of successful commercial and industrial developments throughout the UK.
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Peters Village
After several years of planning and public consultation, Trenport achieved planning approval in May 2006 for a new village near Wouldham in Kent, and a new bridge across the River Medway. Trenport is committed to ensuring that the new project is a model of sustainable development.
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This means providing, amongst other things, community facilities that reduce the need for journeys by car by providing a high quality environment for pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians and improved bus services.
The Local Plan
The site has been identified since the mid 1990's as suitable for residential development. It is allocated as such within Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council's Local Plan. It is also identified for residential development within Kent County Council's Structure Plan.
The planning process
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The submission of the planning applications for the village and the bridge followed a long period of study of the site and surrounding area. The study looked at environmental issues such as ecology, landscape, transport and land contamination. Outline planning approval for the construction of a new village of 1,000 residential units was granted by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council. Detailed planning permission was required for the new bridge, and it was granted jointly by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council and Medway Council in May 2006, as the new bridge crosses the boundaries of the two local authorities.
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Master Plan
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A sustainable development
The village is illustrated on the master plan above. The net area of development is approximately 35.05 hectares (86.61 acres) of which 11.1 hectares (27.3 acres) is set aside as public open space. The new village will include:-
- Regrading of the site with four development areas: one alongside the river (old Peters Works site), and three within the former quarry. Acceptable gradients will be created and the site will be protected from flooding.
- 1,000 homes of varying sizes and tenures, including affordable housing for local people.
- Development within the village centre next to the river will include buildings to a maximum of 4/5 storeys high. Those on the lower platform in the quarry and along Hall Road will be 2/ 2 ½ storeys high with the occasional 'landmark' building at 3/4 storeys. Those on the middle and upper quarry platforms will be up to 2 ½ storeys high.
- New primary school
- Local centre next to the river including: community centre, police post, medical centre, ambulance post, shop, public house and employment units.
- New areas of open space and playing fields.
- A new riverside walk
- Protection and management of the Peters Pit nature reserve.
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