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Residents will benefit from its excellent location, with plenty of amenities within easy reach of the development. It’s extremely well connected, with various cycle and walking routes leading around North East Cardiff’s green open spaces, which include a community orchard, allotments, and local woodland. Across the developments, integrated neighbourhoods will have easy access to public rights of way, as well as an active travel network which will provide simple, convenient travel across the local area and the city of Cardiff.
Our proposals also include plans for a new district centre, which will provide everything residents need, including shops, food and drink outlets, and health and community facilities. All of this will be in close proximity to the new primary and secondary schools, ensuring total convenience. We are aiming to start construction activity on our first land purchase in 2026. This is an extremely exciting time for Taylor Wimpey’s South Wales business, and Taylor Wimpey as a whole.
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About the development
Masterplan
We will also deliver a new primary and secondary school, as well as a district centre for residents and the wider community to use as a base for sporting and social activities. Additional communal space will be provided through our plans to include parks, gardens, play areas, outdoor sports pitches, allotments and community orchards. The homes at North East Cardiff will be surrounded by large areas of green open space and new footpaths and cycleways will connect the development to the local area.
Off-site Road Improvements
Project Phasing
Outline planning consent has been granted for the development and it is anticipated that the site will come forward in phases with the intention that the overall development is anticipated to take approximately 15 years to fully develop out the new community.
Taylor Wimpey is keen to make sure new residents have a community hub at the early stages of the development with the provision of a new District Centre in the centre of the site, with local shops, schools, community and leisure facilities and with close proximity to the well connected bus transport route.
Street scenes
Using the arrangement of the streets, spaces, building types and materials, our proposals are designed to create an attractive and welcoming place to live. A coordinated palette of materials and building forms are proposed to ensure the new neighbourhood has a distinct architectural style. These include pitched roofs, cedral weather boarding and red and buff brick walls with off white and ash grey render aligned with our approved Neighbourhood Design Code.
Our proposals features
Previous use
Previous planning applications
History of the site features
Connectivity
Drainage
Ecology
The retention of key green infrastructure, woodlands and vegetation corridors across the site are an integral part of our plans to enhance biodiversity and prevent biodiversity losses.
Our approach features
Community Infrastructure
The Taylor Wimpey proposals will deliver approximately 2,500 new homes including the provision of 18% affordable housing on-site with an additional financial off site contribution equivalent of 12%, which will go a long way to meet local housing need.
Considerable new infrastructure is also proposed which includes an easily accessible new district centre at the middle of the development comprising retail, health, employment, leisure and community uses.
Education provision will also form a key part of the new community and includes a 10ha site for a new secondary school and a 2 form entry primary school alongside associated sports facilities.
2.8ha of employment land will also be delivered providing space for businesses to locate onsite and for those looking to work close to home.
Cycling and walking routes across the neighbourhood will provide easy access to local facilities, the wider City and the open countryside beyond the city limits. This will mean the development is accessible by existing residents in Cardiff who can access the connected green spaces with play areas, sport pitches, community allotments, orchards and woodlands for all to enjoy.
Economic benefits
Open space
Travel and Transport
Priority will be given to pedestrians and cyclists over the use of private cars to help meet the Council’s 50/50 modal split target between sustainable active travel and the private car.
Safe and direct footpaths and cycleways will be provided to all amenities onsite and high-quality infrastructure will minimise vehicular speeds and prioritise pedestrians and cyclists.
Amenities and facilities
Community benefits features
The development will be high quality, with a sustainable design and distinctive character including the retention of large areas of woodland and watercourses creating new areas of green infrastructure for the community to explore and enjoy. The new development will enhance the biodiversity interest and quality of the land and be delivered in tandem with the new homes and community facilities.
The key design principles to deliver a sustainable development include legible built form comprising of unique community buildings, distinctive gateway areas around access points alongside focus buildings to make it easy and safe to get around.
There will be something for everyone onsite including a number of small play areas across the development alongside a large destination play area by the district centre. 56 allotments will be spread across two locations and green open space corridors will provide connectivity for wildlife with certain areas limited for human accessibility and managed for sustainable drainage.
Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) will be embedded as part of the multi-functional green and “blue” infrastructure network.
The proposals will minimise energy use through the implementation of fabric and energy efficient design and the installation of low carbon renewable energy systems to generate onsite energy and reduce carbon emissions. Passive infrastructure will be installed to provide the ability for all plots to have an EV charging point and we will limit carbon emissions further by exploring local sourcing of products and labour.
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