Crown Estate lodges plan for 4,000-home East Hemel new town

The 975-acre East Hemel scheme will ceate two new neighbourhoods with a large mixture of properties, together with important reasonably priced provision, supported by 4 colleges, well being and neighborhood services, native centres and play areas.

Greater than a 3rd of the land might be inexperienced house, together with a brand new 63-hectare nation park and a south valley park linked by strolling and biking networks.

The scheme additionally contains 1.8m sq ft of employment house, anchored by an innovation hub anticipated to generate 1000’s of jobs.

Plan span each St Albans Metropolis & District Council and Dacorum Borough Council and kind a significant plank of the Hemel Backyard Communities programme, which goals to ship as much as 11,000 properties and 1000’s of jobs by 2050.

Rob Chesworth, head of strategic land at The Crown Property, mentioned East Hemel affords a uncommon likelihood to create a spot that may serve the folks of Hertfordshire for generations.

Detailed designs will come ahead by way of later reserved issues functions as soon as the define rules and website parameters are agreed.