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Land North of Chipperfield Road will be a new neighbourhood set in beautifully curated landscape with up to 150 high-quality and sustainable homes, including 50% affordable housing. The neighbourhood will provide trees, hedges and ponds managed to foster nature recovery and biodiversity. The landscape will include community meeting areas and play areas, encouraging outdoor activity and interaction with nature. To promote healthy and active lifestyles, new cycling routes and walking paths will be included lined with edible hedges and orchards.

In collaboration with Sunnyside Rural Trust, we aim to create a supportive environment for students at Kings Langley Secondary School through the provision of onsite learning and therapeutic services. Our vision includes dedicated growing spaces alongside health and wellbeing programs featuring therapy gardens and animal-assisted activities. We are actively engaging with Kings Langley Secondary School and Sunnyside Rural Trust to integrate this provision, fostering hands-on learning experiences within the curriculum and through extracurricular activities.

This neighborhood is much more than just a housing development; it is a chance to create a living, breathing partnership between business, social enterprise and education to enrich both the community and the land on which it will thrive.

The Land North of Chipperfield Road is located on the north-western edge of Kings Langley and is approximately 9.6 hectares. The site is vacant open land and its characteristics meet the relevant definition of Grey Belt as defined in the recently revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF, Dec 2024). There are no existing structures or major constraints and the site benefits from existing access off Love Lane, which will be used as cycle and pedestrian access only. An additional entrance is proposed from Chipperfield Road which would serve as the vehicular access route into the site.

On the 30 July 2024, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government issued a Written Ministerial Statement, setting out plans to address what the Government has been deemed “the most acute housing crisis in living memory”. These plans include raising mandatory housing targets across the country to stimulate house building and deliver new, affordable homes to local communities. The proposal at Land North of Chipperfield Road will help Dacorum Borough Council meet its housing delivery targets in a high quality and sustainable way, including the delivery of 50% affordable housing (an increase from 35% to comply with the revised NPPF, Dec 2024) across a range of housing types.

The project team undertook consultation with the local community and relevant bodies in preparation of an Outline Planning Application (OPA) which was submitted to Dacorum Borough Council (DBC) in January 2025. The application is now live on the Council’s planning portal for the community to view and comment further.

Subject to planning approval, construction work is anticipated to start in 2027.