Kennett Garden Village Community Planning Weekend

The local community was invited to the Kennett Garden Village Community Planning Weekend to help create the Vision for a sustainable new neighbourhood on land off Station Road, to the north of Kennett station.

Background
The development will include new homes, education provision, small-scale commercial buildings such as a shop and small business units, and public open spaces. A proportion of the new homes will be genuinely affordable for people living and/or working in the parish, and will be owned by the newly formed Kennett Community Land Trust (CLT). Local developer Palace Green Homes will work in close partnership with Kennett CLT, Kennett Parish Council and the wider community to design a development that will bring real benefits to local people and create a positive legacy for the parish. To this end, the development team appointed collaborative planning specialists JTP to facilitate the Community Planning Weekend and create a Vision for Kennett Garden Village and its relationship with the surrounding community.

Community Planning Weekend
The Community Planning Weekend was an opportunity to share local knowledge and contribute to shaping the plans through workshops, walkabouts and hands-on planning groups. There was also an exhibition explaining the background of the proposals. We are delighted that Mary Clear, co-founder of the Incredible Edible movement, joined us on the Saturday to give a lunchtime presentation entitled, "The Power of Small Actions".

Participation was on a drop-in basis with no need to pre-register - participants could stay for a short while, a few hours or for the whole event if they were able to. Team members were on hand to answer questions.

Report Back Presentation
After the public workshop days, the JTP led team analysed and summarised the outcomes to draw up the Vision for Kennett Garden Village which was presented back to the local community on Tuesday 8 November at Kennett Primary School. Following the creation of the Vision, the design team went on to develop the proposals further in on-going consultation with the community, submitting an outline planning application for the site in June 2018.

Downloads
Report Back Broadsheet
Report Back Presentation part 1
Report Back Presentation part 2
Report Back Presentation part 3
Report Back Presentation part 4
Event Exhibition Boards
Event flyer

Date / Time

4 November 2016
3:00pm - 6:00pm
5 November 2016
11:00am - 4:00pm
8 November 2016
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Location

Kennett Primary School
98 Station Road
Kennett
Suffolk
CB8 7QQ
United Kingdom

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Related Projects

Kennett Garden Village,
Kennett, UK

New Neighbourhood
Stage: Outline Planning Consent