JTP’s Pease Pottage proposals receive unanimous approval
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JTP’s Pease Pottage proposals receive unanimous approval

Published on 3 November 2017

Mid Sussex District Council has unanimously approved JTP’s proposals for the first phase of a new high quality mixed-use neighbourhood at Pease Pottage, West Sussex, for client Thakeham.

The site forms the first part of JTP’s outline masterplan, approved in November 2016, which will eventually deliver over 600 homes, a mix of community uses, a primary school and an extensive network of woods and parkland within an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) to the south of Crawley. 

The first phase will include 156 homes in a broad mix of types, arranged into two distinct character areas to create visual interest and appeal to different sections of the market. The first area, around the site entrance, is a reinterpretation of local Edwardian redbrick architecture, with distinctive, repeated gable features and bay windows, creating a strong rhythm along the principal streets. The second area is more contemporary in appearance, with simple forms accentuated by projecting bays and porches clad in metal.

A community hub building in the heart of the new neighbourhood will contain a shop, meeting rooms, café and apartments. Linked to this, a 24-bed hospice designed by Building Ideas Architects will provide a much improved facility for St Catherine’s, a care provider currently based in Crawley.

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The fantastic linked facilities of St Catherine’s and the Community Hub will generate activity throughout the day and create a unique focus for the development of community life in this new neighbourhood.
Andrew Dobson, JTP’s lead architect on the project

JTP’s proposals also include the first half of a large village green, which encompasses a row of existing, mature trees, and will eventually sit at the heart of the wider masterplan. A further generous swathe of green space runs along the southern boundary of the site and incorporates new woodland planting and attenuation ponds fed by the swales and SuDS which run throughout the site.