A new garden village rooted in a landscape-led approach

Selected as one of 14 new settlements by the Government in a first ‘wave’ of Garden Villages across England, Bailrigg Garden Village will deliver approximately 5,000 mixed-tenure homes alongside green spaces and a mixed-use local centre including retail spaces, primary school, community, workshop and flexible commercial spaces clustered around the high street.

Nestled in the unique local landscape, neighbourhoods have been designed to sit sensitively within the existing drumlin landscape, with building orientation and homes arranged around natural features, including the canal and woodland, responding to the site’s changing topography.

The introduction of landscape ‘layers’ across the site include a new mixed woodland; wildlife corridors; open access grazing grassland for livestock to make produce for local supply and local employment opportunities; a network of productive landscapes including small-scale horticultural enterprises and open-field production; as well as more traditional community gardens and allotments, agroforestry and orchards.

A network of active and leisure cycling and walking routes connect to surrounding settlements, Lancaster city centre, Glasson Dock, Galgate and Lancaster University developing productive and collaborative relationships between all partners.

JTP engaged extensively with local organisations, stakeholders and communities in a collaborative process to shape and design the Garden Village. A staged process of community engagement provided a variety of ways for the community to feed into the preparation of the masterplan including a face-to-face Stakeholder Charrette, a digital “Create Communities” platform and online community workshops.

Lancaster City Council’s Cabinet has endorsed the Spatial Masterplan Framework and Vision Document as the basis for delivering the new community at Bailrigg Garden Village as part of the preparation of the Lancaster South Area Action Plan.