Partner Clare San Martin talks to Planning Magazine about Award Winning Sustainable Urban Extension

Published on 22 May 2014

Planning Magazine recently published an article on JTP’s urban extension at Chilmington Green in Ashford, Kent including an interview with Partner in charge of the project, Clare San Martin.

In the article Clare explained how the masterplan was designed along Garden City principles and the importance of integrating flood attenuation with the provision of high quality green spaces throughout the new neighbourhoods. Clare said "good flood attenuation was a really big part of our plans to ensure that water from the development didn't surge into local rivers. Around 17% of the area is given over to flood attenuation."

Clare went onto explain how the masterplan was developed through collaborative planning workshops with stakeholders and the local community. Some elements of the final masterplan such as the market square emerged from the Community Planning Weekend, Clare said: "even the people who opposed the scheme came along to the Community Planning Weekend in the spirit of, 'if it's going to happen they wanted to shape it'."

In January Chilmington Green won the strategic planning award at Planning's 2014 Placemaking awards. An outline planning application was submitted in August 2012 and will be determined later this year with construction beginning in 2015. Subscribers to Planning magazine can read the article in full here.

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Chilmington Green,
Ashford, UK

Settlement Extension
Stage: On-site