Redhill Aerodrome New Garden Community

Vision Statement

January 2018 Reducing New Strategic 3,800 Flood Road Links jobs on & Risk off-site

Extending Footpaths New Provision of & Cycleways M23 Primary and Secondary Junction Schools

£87m £125m open NEW Community space 40% Infrastructure HOMES Levy (CIL) BONUS

average Improved Facilities District at Railway Stations: Centre & Cycle Regular Bus construction290 Transport Parking Service jobs per year Hub

£190m H NEW value added Improved HEALTHCARE (GVA) per annum access to the FACILITIES hospital

8,000 per annum DEDICATED New £21.8m Air Council Tax Ambulance homes Increase FACILITY Contents

The Vision pg 2 Our Development Framework for Garden An Community The Unprecedented pg 6 Development Opportunity Framework pg 4 Explained Life at pg 14 Redhill Aerodrome Garden Community, 2033 pg 12 Summary of Benefits pg 22

Who will build this new Garden Community? pg 24 21st Century Living Rooted in Traditions The best of traditional Surrey residential environments with the expectations of a 21st century The Vision lifestyle - low-energy, high performance homes; a rich landscape setting accessible to every home; well served by sustainable transport Redhill Aerodrome modes – walking, cycling Garden Community - and buses. an exceptional place to be born, to grow up, to make a career,

to raise a family, to A True “Garden Community” retire; to enjoy a rich Every home to and fulfilling life. have a good size garden or other Delivery as Rapid outside space as Anywhere – no cramped Everything in place patios or unusable to start building balconies - and homes within ready access to four years of Local great open spaces Plan Adoption nearby. and to create a community of approximately 8,000 homes with all facilities.

KEY QUESTIONS Jobs in Homes Encouragement Why here and why now? for homeworking What will the proposed Garden with support services available Community look like? locally. What will life be like in our new Garden Community? We will make sure it is not just a housing estate in the countryside.

2 Infrastructure-led Development Funding a new junction on the Great Sustainable M23 and a new Transport strategic link road Walking and cycling planned to the A23 - capacity to be as convenient as jumping and connections in the car for local journeys. for the new and existing community Good value, frequent, high- that relieve quality, reliable public transport existing traffic connections to Redhill, Gatwick bottlenecks. Airport, Crawley and to the main retail centres and employment areas, and links to other destinations across Surrey and into London.

Enjoying a Great Landscape Restoration of A beautiful Redhill Brook and an enhanced network of community with parkland paths where few a strong sense currently exist, available to everyone and of identity and connected belonging. Delivery as Rapid to a wider as Anywhere network. Everything in place to start building homes within four years of Local Jobs Alongside Homes Plan Adoption Employment and to create a opportunities to support community of the economic growth of approximately Tandridge and and 8,000 homes with - in the District all facilities. Centre, local centres, in a new business park located close to the M23 and in the expansion of All Services the , at Hand spaces for inward Jobs, child care, investors and local schools, local entrepreneurs. shops, healthcare, sport and leisure facilities, all available on-site.

3 An Unprecedented Opportunity

A Garden Community at Redhill Aerodrome is an unprecedented opportunity to make well-planned provision for housing development and economic growth in a sustainable, well connected and low impact location.

The site for the Redhill Aerodrome Garden Community straddles the boundary between Borough and Tandridge District, in the heart of the coast-to-capital corridor so it can significantly help the housing needs of both Councils in a sustainable location on a single site.

Redhill Aerodrome Garden Community has all the potential to become a thriving new place where local people really want to live and to work.

Strategic infrastructure investments will improve local conditions by making new connections for through traffic and better public transport links to key local destinations.

4 Meeting Local Plan Needs as Quickly as Possible

Our proposal provides land for Only our proposal will: approximately 8,000 homes, and all associated infrastructure, services and • deliver homes where jobs can be facilities, planned to be started and created too; delivered as quickly as possible. • avoid unreasonable impacts on existing congested and sensitive The rationale behind our proposed transport networks; Garden Community is simple. • make full provision for local schools, healthcare and other community Two adjoining Councils have facilities and services, available to substantial housing and economic everyone; and development needs which are • have less impact on the rural increasingly difficult to meet character of Tandridge. sustainably in existing towns and villages surrounded by Green Belt. The emerging Local Plans stress that new development is needed soon. A large-scale new community in the Contrary to current assessment, we right location offers the most effective can start building new homes with all and sustainable, long-term solution. the key infrastructure from an Area Action Plan in place within four years of adoption of the local plan.

No other proposal can match these advantages in this timescale.

5 A Parkland Centrepiece

Our Development A Natural Bowl Framework for Strategic Transport Links

Green Redhill Aerodrome Buffers Garden Community

Our Development Framework has Green Buffers Strategic Transport Links evolved as we have listened to Strategic green buffers to maintain The site sits between major transport stakeholders. key functions of the Green Belt - corridors: to check the unrestricted sprawl • The M23 to the east The Site of large built-up areas; to prevent • The London-Brighton Railway Line Our Development Framework is neighbouring towns from merging to the west centred on redevelopment of Redhill into one another; to assist in • The A23 to the west Aerodrome and adjoining land. All the safeguarding the countryside from land is under a single promotion. encroachment; to preserve the setting By joining up strategic transport links and special character of historic towns. we create a location of unparalleled A Natural Bowl accessibility in East Surrey. Located within a natural bowl in the One Green Buffer will be to the landscape, the site is surrounded by south of South Nutfield, enhancing We are committed to funding and higher ground with wooded skylines woodland on the sloping ground to building a new junction on the and limited views of the development preserve the landscape setting of M23 and a strategic link road to area from surrounding land. As the village. The other will be to the join the A23. This will provide the extensive mown grassland, the west between the proposed new traffic capacity and public transport aerodrome has very limited landscape Garden Community and the Hospital links that the new and existing and wildlife value and limited current and Whitebushes. This will maintain communities will require. agricultural value. a green link from open land east of Royal Park to open This link road will also substantially countryside towards . improve the accessibility of East Surrey Hospital, the designated Trauma Centre for Gatwick Airport and large sections of the M23 and A23 and a District General Hospital serving the communities of Reigate and Banstead and Tandridge.

6 Expansion of Five the Hospital Distinctive Neighbourhoods The District Centre

A New A Central Business Vista Park New The Air Homes at Ambulance Whitebushes

A Parkland Centrepiece Five Distinctive Neighbourhoods A New Business Park An extensive parkland through the There will be five distinct “walkable” The Development Framework heart of the Garden Community neighbourhoods, each of 1250 to 2000 proposes a new business park east centred on the Redhill Brook and homes and with day to day facilities of the M23 and served by the new Salfords Stream, landscaped for active and services within a 5 minute walk: junction. This will provide for a range leisure and recreation, and designed • One neighbourhood east and of employment opportunities in to manage storm water to avoid another west of the central vista. modern business accommodation. flooding in the future. • A third neighbourhood east of the Redhill Brook towards the M23. The Air Ambulance The link road will run parallel to the • A fourth neighbourhood to the The proposed business park will Salfords Stream. It will be designed as south east with homes distributed provide a new and permanent home a landscaped parkway to have minimal in enclaves among woodland for the Air Ambulance with excellent local impact, and will incorporate the blocks and belts that will create a access to the strategic road network means to integrate the parkland, new distinctive setting. and the East Surrey Hospital. homes and facilities on both sides. • A fifth neighbourhood lying to Expansion of the Hospital the south of the Salfords Stream The Development Framework makes The District Centre on gently rising open land with a full provision for the expansion of The vibrant heart of the Garden woodland skyline backdrop. Community focused around the East Surrey Hospital, plans for which Community Hub with a supermarket, New Homes at Whitebushes are being developed by the Surrey shops, restaurants and cafes, health There are two opportunities for and Sussex NHS Trust. These plans and community facilities, offices and modest developments close to include more bed spaces, expanded business support, higher density Whitebushes – to the southwest treatment services, key-worker homes, and a secondary school. All next to the railway and to the east housing and rationalised car parking close to the new link road to serve of Mason’s Bridge Road; these will and access. The Trust is seeking the passing trade as well as new residents improve the sustainability of this removal of the main hospital campus and workers so it can be developed established community and help from the Green Belt to give greater as early as possible. Local centres will support its existing services and flexibility for future development. cater for day to day local needs. facilities.

A Central Vista A central vista links a visual high point on the Greensand Way to the north of the aerodrome through a major landscape green space in the heart of the Garden Community close to the Salfords Stream to the wooded skyline and open countryside south of Green Lane. 7 Redhill Garden Community from the South Combined Primary & Central East Surrey Extension to Secondary District Centre & Green Hospital Whitebushes School Transport Hub Vista

Whitebushes Green Storm Water Salford Stream Valley Lane Attenuation Park & Playing Field

8 Air Green Buffer to A23/M23 Crabhill New M23 Ambulance South Nutfield Link Road Lane Junction Facility

Primary Reinstated M23 Business School Redhill Brook Park

Illustrative Concept

9 Our Current Concept Framework for Development

Area for Technical Assessment

NC Mixed Use Neighbourhood Centre/ Community Hub

Secondary School

Potential locations for Primary Schools

M23 junction related employment

East Surrey Hospital

Hospital Expansion Area

H Helipad and Air Ambulance Station PF

PF Primary Formal Playing Field

Three Arch Road to new M23 junction link road

Green buffers to South Nutfield

Green buffers to existing development

Connected network of open spaces

Structural planting

Ancient Woodland

Opportunities for SuDS within open spaces

PT Public Transport Hub / Interchange

Integration with wider local road network (public transport emphasis)

Public Rights of Way

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PF PT PF

NC

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11 Life at Redhill Aerodrome Garden Community, 2033

It is 7.30 am on a November Tuesday Mrs Surrey is an administrator for Mrs Surrey’s parents were so morning. The Surrey family is getting the Surrey Air Ambulance, and impressed with the quality of the ready for another busy day. Even remembers it operating from the old houses and the landscape and at this time of the year, their new Aerodrome. Then, she and her family the facilities in the new Garden house is as warm as toast without lived with her parents in Godstone Community that they chose to the heating on, though the first frost and had an unpredictable commute “downsize” to a new home a couple of the autumn makes their garden every day. The lack of affordable of years after they retired. The low beautiful as the sun rises. Rosy will homes in North East Surrey made bills make their pensions go further walk to her primary school, which it impossible for her and her family and they have an eye on the assisted- is just around the corner – now she to live nearer to work, and family living homes just being built next is 10 she goes with her friends and, tensions were getting worse. Now to the District Centre for later years. because there are no roads to cross, they love their three-bedroom house This vibrant mixed use centre will they go on their own, letting Dad get with a lovely garden and overlooking also enable close interaction with the ready for work. George has started a local “green” where the kids play, new local surgery that includes all secondary school this term and cycles and the Valley Park is at the end of the the latest technological advances in along the red-way, picking up his street. Now she has a short journey patient care which they are already “cycling posse” along the way. to the new, dedicated helipad and Air finding very handy for reducing visits Ambulance HQ just the other side of to their GP by instead connecting via Mr Surrey is a senior nurse in the the M23. Commute? About three their mobile devices. Accident and Emergency Department minutes on a bad day! at the East Surrey Hospital and works While they were initially fearful that shifts. During daylight hours, and They make full use of the Community the new place would not have the when the weather is kind, he too likes Hall for meetings and clubs, and same “sense of community” that to cycle or walk – walking along the George has joined the rugby club their old place had, the investment green route to the Hospital lets him that makes use of the sports pitches in community development by the prepare for the day ahead or unwind. in the Valley Park next to his school. builders - meeting, greeting and The bus is handy for bad weather or Rosy often goes with him to football supporting community organisations when he is just too tired; and for night training when their training sessions and events - meant that there was shifts, when traffic is light and parking coincide. actually more going on. And they readily available, he drives. Having a were never far from their old friends choice has made a big difference to now that the new road had been his working day. Walking or cycling built and new links created. The new lets him call in at the shops on the way paths and parks and green spaces home, a chance to stock up on things and play grounds and sports fields missed in the weekly grocery delivery. are a real godsend on “Grandma and Granddad” days – they had nothing like that near their old home!

12 Mr Surrey had spread the word at The commitment to the delivery of were not there before, doing some the Hospital as more people came infrastructure early has proved to be shopping and calling in for a cup of to work there when the Hospital a shrewd move. The new secondary tea on the way back. And they say expanded. Some at the beginning school now serves a wide catchment they have much less traffic past their of their careers could take advantage population in parts of Reigate and house now the new link road is open. of the new “key-worker” flats close Banstead and Tandridge that were What’s not to like?” to the Hospital campus. Others poorly served before. It is due to moved to homes in the Garden be further extended next year. Kids This is our story of how life in our new Community, finding something to who had long journeys by bus on Garden Community could be;, these fit all lifestyles and pockets. Their slow country lanes now have state- lives will only be made possible in our partners realised the advantages of of-the-art teaching facilities nearby. Garden Community on this site in this its roads and extended Fastway bus Links with the new primary schools location. service connections for jobs along the are strong, making for a coordinated A23/M23 corridor, and they have easy education from early years to journeys to work. Indeed, a couple A-Levels, with performance to match. of people had started their own But the schools are also the centres of What are the businesses in “homeworker” houses community life providing a focus for alternatives? and have grown to occupy modern community events long after the end premises on the Business Park next of the school day; planning for multi- to the M23 where they now employ a use from the beginning has made lot of local people. Their businesses them flexible and robust to meet Just imagine life in 2035 with: can take advantage of the great diverse community needs. • No new homes for young families communications along the “Coast- because we didn’t plan properly for to-Capital” corridor and their success “When this was first planned, my mum them now; or is founded on access to supply chains and dad were among those who had • A hundred new homes in every that do not exist along any of the a placard in their Garden saying ‘No village, with no nearby jobs, poor other transport corridors nearby. to the Aerodrome New Town’,” Mr public transport and services and Surrey reflects.“Now they look back facilities bursting at the seams; or and realise that they could have forced • A lot of commuter homes us to find a home a long way away. somewhere on the A22 with no Instead our new home is a target of strategic infrastructure, no jobs their new exercise regime and they nearby, poor public transport, and take full advantage of walking out intolerable congestion that gets through the countryside on paths that worse every day.

There is no alternative!

13 The Development Framework Explained

It is too early to be definite about the But this does not mean “town- mix of homes to be created in our cramming” or a downgrade in quality. Garden Community. But we commit to working closely with the two Garden City Principles highlight Not just the Councils to match the mix to real local the importance of “beautifully and needs. imaginatively designed homes houses people with gardens combining the very need, but the This means that we will pay close best of town and country living to attention to the size and specification create healthy homes in vibrant homes that they of new homes, and we will address communities” and we are committed affordability head-on in terms to deliver on this principle – homes want to live in of special needs, social housing, with gardens and outdoor space at affordable rents and market discount. moderate densities with close access We will tailor a significant proportion to natural green space – just like the of the units to those seeking a starter best Surrey towns and villages from home or a small family home or a the past. retirement home - households largely being ignored by Surrey’s new homes market at present.

We are committed to delivering homes that are needed and wanted by local homebuyers

14 15 This development will apply Thakeham Garden City and its project Principles to a team have studied these 21st century Principles very carefully and Garden considered how they might be realised at Redhill Aerodrome. As a result, Thakeham can commit to each “Long- and every one of the Principles in the term planning, design, development stewardship of assets” and management of a new The potential Garden Community on for a Community this site. Trust, owned and The Town managed by the local and Country Planning community, is being explored to enable Association (TCPA) was residents to take responsibility for their local environment and the established in 1899 by Ebenezer services and facilities in their Howard, the founding father of new community. Garden Cities, and remains the guardian of his Garden City Principles, updated to reflect “Development which enhances today’s priorities. the natural environment” Today the Aerodrome is a largely barren landscape with few trees, hedgerows or “Beautifully natural habitats. The development will & imaginatively deliver a much richer set of habitats designed homes with within a new, rich landscape setting gardens, combining the very of accessible open spaces and best of town and country living private gardens. to create healthy homes in vibrant communities” This is a key principle by which Garden Communities are designed. The plan for Redhill Aerodrome will include: “Strong • ready access to a network of natural green spaces within and local around the new community; cultural, • provision of gardens and outside spaces for every home; recreational • beautiful, well-proportioned and liveable homes using and shopping contemporary design and materials; facilities in walkable • innovation in building performance to minimize the neighbourhoods” environmental impacts of development and the cost of There will be easy occupation; access to services and • investment in community development to facilities required by the new community, maximize the enjoyment and engagement planned to be accessible as part of of those who choose to live here. walkable neighbourhoods where no one is further away than a five- minute walk.

16 “Strong vision, leadership and community “Investment engagement” in facilities Thakeham Homes and services for is committed to the benefit of the continued working in new community” partnership with existing The District Centre communities and members of the new will be the focus for community as they arrive to ensure that education, health, welfare, the proposals evolve and adapt to community development, local meet the aspirations and needs shopping, recreation and leisure, and local of all local people. employment. Many of these facilities will be owned and managed by, and on behalf of, the whole community. “A robust range of employment opportunities in the Garden Community itself, “Mixed- with a variety of jobs within tenure easy commuting distance of homes and homes” housing types On-site employment will be that are genuinely provided within local and neighbourhood centres, and affordable for everyone” in specialist employment areas close to the M23. Redhill This new Garden Aerodrome is also perfectly located relative to a wide Community will provide range of employment opportunities within a short approximately 8,000 new homes commuting distance, including Redhill and Reigate, and will include affordable homes, starter homes, Gatwick Airport, Crawley, Brighton and London. family homes and retirement homes with a The proposed development will improve broad mix of sizes and types of property. A connections to these locations with single large new Garden Community is an modes of transport that are opportunity to meet the needs of all more sustainable. members of the wider local population.

“A strategic approach” “Integrated The plan for this new and Garden Community accessible is not just about what transport systems” happens within the site Walking, cycling boundary. The plan will be and public transport part of a comprehensive strategy networks connecting for the whole of each Council’s area and for how to key destinations will be this new development will integrate with existing implemented from the very beginning. The communities. It will deliver benefits for everyone size of the new Garden Community means within a wide area – new connections, new services that every new resident will have a real, and facilities, new accessible green space, more sustainable choice from day one. This choice. And the plan will set out in full how will become a community much this new community will be created, less reliant on travelling in stages, over an extended by car. development period.

17 Redhill Aerodrome

East Surrey Hospital Mobility and Green Belt Landscape Designations Connections (ADNB / AGLV) Potential New M23 Junction

Tandridge District Boundary

A Strategic Link Road Public Transport

The key to connectivity is a strategic, The new strategic east-west link high quality, east-west road road will enable existing bus services corridor across the site to serve new to be enhanced and extended to development parcels. It will also connect the new Garden Community provide strategic benefits to a much to key destinations across the area wider area. – to Redhill and Reigate, to Gatwick Airport and Crawley, to Salfords and This new road will: and to the towns and villages • improve accessibility to the strategic of Tandridge. These services would road network across Reigate and be focussed on a new transport hub Banstead and Tandridge; within the District Centre. Access to • assist in relieving congestion and the M23 would make many journeys ‘rat running’ in existing towns and faster and more reliable. villages; and • provide significantly improved Enhanced public transport services access to East Surrey Hospital from will improve access to local services the motorways, Gatwick airport and and to railway stations in a sustainable the local road network to the benefit way. of local communities, and in cases of emergency. Cycling and Walking

At the eastern end a new junction will The new Garden Community will connect to the M23 to the south east have a network of walking and of South Nutfield. cycling routes across an area where few exist currently. These would The link road will follow a central provide routes to railway stations alignment parallel to the Salfords and other destinations around the Stream. At the western end, the new Garden Community and schools, the Link Road will improve access to the Neighbourhood Centre, local centres East Surrey Hospital and join the A23. and places of work within the new Garden Community. The location of a new District Centre will be close to the link road in the They would also create an extensive heart of the Garden Community, web of recreational routes through the available to passing traffic as well as housing areas and parkland. new residents and workers. Existing footpaths around the site Improvements to other road corridors will be re-connected across the will be made to enhance capacity and aerodrome, and they could be safety where appropriate. upgraded to allow for use by cyclists.

18 19 Landscape and Ecology

South Nutfield and other existing The landscape and biodiversity • Set out long-term management communities will be separated and framework will ensure that the plans to protect existing habitats their identity protected by enhanced ecological value of the site is and propose new habitats; and extended landscape areas, significantly enhanced. • Establish long-term stewardship of protected as green space. the green spaces in the hands of the Key elements of the design will: community. At present the aerodrome is a private • Retain and enhance local nature site with no public access. Historic sites, important landscape features The project team is consulting footpaths were severed when the and existing woodland habitats; Natural England, Local Planning aerodrome was created in the 1930s. • Create green corridors that Authorities and Surrey Wildlife connect existing woodland, stream Trust on the scope of the proposed In our new Garden Community, at corridors, and hedgerows in a surveys, assessments and emerging least 40% of the land will become strong landscape and biodiversity development proposals. This will green space, accessible to existing framework; ensure that the proposals meet and and new residents alike, reconnecting • Provide extensive areas of accessible exceed national and local planning footpath networks interrupted for green space for a wide range of policy requirements in respect of more than 80 years. recreation opportunities, attractive biodiversity, nature conservation, to new and existing residents alike; and mitigation and enhancement Our landscape and biodiversity • Integrate Sustainable Urban measures. framework will improve hugely the Drainage systems within landscape proposals to improve drainage and quality of green open space on the Area for Technical Assessment site, including natural green space, manage storm water; parks, sport pitches and playgrounds, PF Primary Formal Playing Field accessible to everyone. Green buffers to South Nutfield

Green buffers to existing Settlement

Connected network of open spaces

Structural planting

Ancient Woodland

Opportunities for SuDS within open spaces

PF PF

PF

20 Flooding and Storm Water The culvert below the runways Management Development of the site will restore This will have enormous landscape Extensive areas of the site are Redhill Brook to an open watercourse and ecological benefits, creating currently affected by flooding at times and provide enhanced storm water new wildlife links along the Brook, of heavy rain, and this is recorded storage areas as part of the parkland and throughout the new Garden in the Environment Agency’s flood through the heart of the Garden Community, vital for birds, insects, fish maps. Parts of the site are currently Community, to manage heavy water and water voles, for example. within Flood Zones 2 and 3 – areas of flows and reduce flooding both within higher risk - and flooding occasionally and outside the site. Existing homes will also be much affects nearby homes and other better protected from flood risk. properties.

Flooding is made much worse by the culvert that takes the Redhill Brook under the grass runways of the aerodrome. When there is prolonged heavy rain, water backs up and comes over the top, flooding an extensive area, albeit to a very shallow depth.

21 Development of this site will improve £190m strategic connections across value added the whole area, address flood risk (GVA) per annum and protect the character and identity of South Nutfield. Summary Above all, development of this site will avoid the need to spread the land of Benefits being taken for 8,000 homes across H many of the towns and villages in Improved the two council areas, providing access to the it all in one sustainable hospital location.

NEW The Redhill HEALTHCARE Aerodrome New Garden FACILITIES Community will provide other significant benefits, both on-site and for the wider community. These benefits include: New Homes The Economy and Jobs Approximately 8,000 new homes • Specialist employment areas. including: • 290 building jobs each year during • affordable homes, construction. • discounted market homes, • approximately 3,800 jobs on and • family homes, off-site supported by the new • retirement homes, community. • open-market homes, and • £190m per annum in gross value • homes to buy and homes to rent. added. • £1.2m per annum in Business Rates. Schools New primary schools and an “all- Health through” combined primary and • Designed as a “Healthy New Town” secondary school. in partnership with the NHS, and using “Active Design” principles. Local Facilities and Services • Expansion and enhancement of the District and Local Centres ; East Surrey Hospital. • supermarkets, • Integrated health and social care • shops, facilities centred around a new GP • restaurants and cafés, surgery and primary healthcare • local employment, and within the District Centre. • supporting businesses. • A long-term, permanent base for the Air Ambulance.

22 New and per annum Extended Provision of Footpaths open £87m & Cycleways £21.8m 40% Primary and NEW Council Tax space Secondary HOMES Increase Schools BONUS

DEDICATED New 3,800 New Strategic £125m jobs on & Air Community M23 Road Links Ambulance Infrastructure off-site FACILITY Levy (CIL) Junction

average Improved Facilities Reducing 8,000 District at Railway Stations: Centre & Cycle Regular Bus Flood New construction290 Transport Parking Service homes jobs per year Hub Risk

Open Spaces Better Roads...... and Sustainable Transport New landscape open spaces for the Reducing wider congestion and • Extended and enhanced bus community greatly improving local traffic flows: services to all the key destinations. • At least 40% of the land available as • A new, developer-funded • An integrated cycle network with open space. junction with the extensions to key destinations • Connected network of footpaths and a strategic link road to the beyond the site boundaries. and bridleways between new places A23 through the site to reduce • A comprehensive footpath network ans spaces and existing wider congestion in the whole area while for local trips and for recreational movement network. improving connectivity to key local use. • Increased biodiversity. destinations, including Gatwick • Sustainable Urban Drainage Airport and the East Surrey Hospital. Community Benefits Systems. • Reducing the amount of through- Funding for local and strategic • Making land that is currently out- traffic on minor roads in local towns projects which will benefit existing of-bounds accessible to the wider and villages. and future communities through: community. • Enhanced public transport fast links • £87m New Homes Bonus. to local railway stations, Gatwick • £125m to meet planning obligations Flood Relief Airport, East Surrey Hospital, through Section 106 and Reducing flood risk by removing the Reigate, Redhill and Crawley. Community Infrastructure Levy. existing culvert and restoring the • Improved facilities at local railway • £21.8m pa increase in Council Tax. waterway to its original course with stations, for cycle parking and new storm water storage areas. regular bus services. In total this new Garden Community • Provide new footpath and cycleway could deliver more than £160m of Protection of Rural Character networks throughout the site as part investment in new infrastructure A new Garden Community in this of new primary streets. and other community services and location will protect the rural character facilities. in the heart of Tandridge. 23 Who will build this new Garden Community?

These are the three key tests of Planning Soundness for any proposed development site.

This is a single site with a single, This new community would be committed developer. delivered by Thakeham in partnership It is: with development partner Quintain, the local councils and the wider development community.

Thakeham has a proven track record Available of delivering a diverse range of high quality developments. We have all Available the expertise and experience required to create a strategic, infrastructure- led new Garden Community where people really want to live.

Deliverable Achievable Thakeham works with a wide range of Deliverable Achievable partners, including local authorities, charities and affordable housing providers to deliver high-quality new communities. Engaging with organisations, within the communities where we work, helps create developments that meet local needs.

We are currently working to deliver strategic new mixed-use developments across the South East, which include homes with a mix of tenures, community facilities, schools and specialist buildings for local charities. Our developments also include generous open and green spaces.

24 25 Website: redhillgardencommunity.co.uk

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