Creating real, long-lasting value for as many people as possible
We are proposing a new community at North Barnes Farm. This is fundamentally different to a housing estate, as it will deliver vital amenities, creating thriving neighbourhoods, jobs and fulfilled lifestyles.
The new community created at North Barnes Farm will become a small market town with food and farming. It will be a whole-life place; a place where young people can afford to live amongst family and friends; a place where families can thrive; a place where people can grow old without having to move away, all in beautiful homes appropriate for their life stage; a place that provides for your everyday needs regardless of age.
By building enough homes, of the right type, with the right amenities, in the right place we can create a mixed age, walkable, sustainable small town - a resilient and vibrant community that fosters a sense of pride and belonging.
This vision can only be delivered with a legacy landowner on board - this means one that is not in it to make a quick profit, but one that is prepared to invest for the long-term and accepts the higher costs that come with doing the right thing.
Homes and Jobs - Improving outcomes for local people
In order to thrive, a community needs homes and jobs delivered together. We’ll create approximately one job for every new home, making sure that people can live, work and play within the same community.
Our Community
We’re in this for the long term
Our plan can only succeed if our partners come together to maximise community wellbeing in perpetuity, not for short-term profits. We will ensure that local communities have a voice in the management of public spaces and community assets, ensuring the character of the market town is preserved forever.
Our Partnership will act as a long-term steward for the community, safeguarding community ownership of local assets and supporting independent businesses’ success and longevity.
We are lucky to have a landowner, Eton College, who is committed to the ongoing stewardship of North Barnes Farm. Our stewardship model will underpin the delivery and management of North Barnes Farm, safeguarding community ownership, ensuring the success of independent businesses across the community and maintaining community infrastructure for the enjoyment of all.
Without a landowner with Eton College’s commitment to community and social values, our plan would simply not be possible.
Our partners
Damon Turner
Partner
Welbeck Land
Damon, a Partner at Welbeck has over 20 years’ experience in land and placemaking. Preferring to work with communities and key stakeholders he believes in engaging with those who have a vested interest in how developments might impact them. Believing we are in the midst of a climate and housing emergency he pro-actively supports and promotes sustainable development, understanding that what we do now will impact generations to come. Working with leading consultants and advisors he is an advocate of phased place-making and not phased construction, and that enhancing biodiversity should be central to proposals that are led by the existing landscape and that everyone deserves a place they can call home.
Jennifer Liu
Associate Planning Director
Welbeck Land
A planning manager and Associate Planning Director at Welbeck, Jennifer has nine years of town planning experience coordinating large multi-disciplinary teams to achieve successful outcomes. She believes that planning can and must bring about significant positive change through the implementation of a well thought through and executed vision which directly responds to the key challenges of our age such as climate change and environmental degradation. For Jennifer, the project at North Barnes Farm presents just such an opportunity, and she’s excited to be involved.
Hannah Smart
Founder Director
edge Urban Design
Hannah is leader in her field and promotes high quality development and regeneration through her comprehensive and inspiring design process. As an “ideas person” and with the ability to think outside of the box, Hannah uses her creative skills to think strategically and bring added value and energy to her work. She believes in creating narrative at every stage and engaging a design process that is interdisciplinary, follows a landscape-led approach and achieves imaginative placemaking.
Lynn Basford
Director
BasfordPowers Ltd
Lynn has been working in the transport and land use planning sector for over 30 years gaining her experience in both UK and overseas environments and in the public and the private sector. Lynn holds an MA in Town and Country Planning and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) as well as a full Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
As well as sitting on various influential governing boards and steering groups, Lynn is the lead author of the TRICS Guidance for the Implementation of the Decide and Provide approach that shapes transport planning and assessment for the future and will be adopted at North Barnes Farm. She has substantial experience in major strategic land allocations in England and Ireland integrating the land use and transport planning to support highly accessible communities.
Karen Astbury
Consultant
Marketing and Communications
Karen, a freelance consultant has over 19 years’ experience in strategic marketing and communications, largely in the property industry both in the UK and overseas. Having most recently worked for large corporates such as Land Sec, CBRE and JLL, on their placemaking and engagement strategies she now prefers to work with smaller developers and landowners that are passionate about creating mixed-use sustainable places where community, the environment and a simpler way of life is paramount. If she wouldn’t love living there herself, she’s not interested in trying to persuade others to!
Alexia Tamblyn
Managing Director
The Ecology Partnership
Alexia has been working in the ecology sector for over 20 years’ gaining experience in both UK and overseas environments, including spending time studying giant bats in Papua New Guinea, to developing conservation management plans in South America, and various countries in-between. Alexia holds an MA in Biological Sciences from Trinity College, University of Oxford and an MSc, specialising in Ecological Management from Imperial College, London.
Alexia has Natural England licences for bats, dormice, barn owls and great crested newts, and is a registered consultant (RC) under the Natural England low impact bat licence scheme; she is also a full member of the Charted Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (MCIEEM), a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS).
Stephen Kirkpatrick
Director
Scarp Landscape Consultants
Stephen has been a chartered landscape architect for over 25 years and founded Scarp in 2013. Stephen enjoys working on a wide variety of project types and scales. He prepares clear strategic visions that are translated into landscape-led masterplans, balancing development needs and the conservation of environmental resources. The focus of much of his work is to achieve design quality that is responsive to local communities and local landscape, ecological and heritage sensitivities.
Leighton Pace
Principal Landscape Architect
Scarp Landscape Consultants
Leighton is an experienced landscape architect with particular expertise in the conception, development and implementation of complex landscape schemes associated with large scale strategic masterplans and public realm design projects. He develops responsive and meaningful design solutions that interweave the dynamics of human life into inspirational landscape settings. He is adept at translating visions and concepts to local communities and stakeholders. His work ethos is underlined by a drive to deliver innovative design solutions that help deliver sustainable, high quality places for people to live.