Housing – Gateway, Newhall, GAF II Neighbourhoods
Harlow Gateway
The £50m Harlow Gateway Partnership is regenerating the town with new homes, new sporting facilities and new opportunities for the people of Harlow.
It is delivering nearly 600 new homes, a £3m football stadium, £1m athletics track and a £25m state-of-the-art community leisure centre.
The partnership was formed in 2003 to release land for housing and relocate and upgrade sporting facilities. It is also building stronger links between education, health and sport, and creating new jobs and training opportunities.
The
partnership consists of the Homes and Communities Agency (formerly
English Partnerships), the Department for Communities
and Local Government, Harlow and District Sports Trust, and Harlow
District Council. The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) has
contributed £2.9m towards the new leisure facilities, supplementing
the contributions from partners in the Gateway Project.
Newhall
Newhall is a new neighbourhood within Harlow. Planned by Roger Evans Associates, an Oxford-based architectural practice, the award-winning development is different to the rest of the first generation New Town.
Newhall will eventually be another neighbourhood within Harlow with community facilities - a primary school, doctors' surgery and retail units - serving some 6,000 residents.
Extensive cycle tracks and an easily negotiated street pattern should encourage residents out of their cars to access the neighbourhood facilities. All homes will be no further than 65 yards from a green space with around 40 per cent of the entire area set aside for parks and wildlife reserves.
To maintain the overall coherence of the
scheme the landowners and planners have retained the right to sign
off the design of individual schemes as they come forward for
planning approval. Although design codes exist architects are still
able to exert a lot of freedom of expression. When complete Newhall
will provide almost 3,000 homes.
GAF II Funding
Harlow Council was successful in securing £10m in funding from the Government's Communities and Local Government (CLG) Growth Areas Fund (GAFII) for regeneration of four key neighbourhoods in the town along with the recently opened Harlow Innovation Centre in Edinburgh Way.
Ward councillors, residents and other interested parties in the neighbourhoods - Old Harlow, Staple Tye (Southern Corridor), Prentice Place and Clifton Hatch - have been included in wide-ranging consultation on how the neighbourhoods can benefit from the regeneration projects.
In February 2009 Harlow Renaissance and Harlow Council appointed Moat Homes to deliver the residential and retail elements of the scheme. The project aims to regenerate the neighbourhood centres through the provision of high quality housing, better health services and improved shopping and local community facilities.
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