- Client
- Peterborough Diocesan Board of Finance
- Sector
- Planning & Development
- Location
- Land at Gipsy Lane, Kettering
- How we helped
- Planning consultancy Development consultancy New homes
- Statistics
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16.9 ha
Site area
Johnny Clayton joined Carter Jonas in July 2018 to head up the masterplanning and urban design practice across the UK. Johnny is a Masterplanner and Urban Designer, with a broad skills base and over 16 years of project experience encompassing conceptual design, masterplanning, urban design, detailed design and project implementation. His particular specialism and passion is for strategic land projects including new settlements, but also urban mixed-use regeneration schemes. Johnny is also a Chartered Landscape Architect since 2008.
The Gipsy Lane site presents an opportunity to provide high quality new homes and supporting facilities in a sustainable location close to Kettering General Hospital, a proposed development to the south, the main railway station and Kettering Town Centre.
However there are a number of unusual issues on and around this site which influenced the scale, form and extent of development.
Taking into account the site’s opportunities and constraints, the master plan accommodates a residential scheme of 350 dwellings, with retail provision and potential care facilities. The proposals are landscape-led, reflecting the site’s edge-of-town location.
A large, linear park is provided along the western half of the site, marking the transition between the town and the countryside beyond. The park contains substantial landscape buffers and mounding to mitigate both the visual and noise impact of the adjacent A14.