Overview
Carreg Coetir is part of a series of distinct and vibrant new neighbourhoods that comprise a north-eastern expansion to the City of Cardiff. We have been engaged in planning and masterplanning for the project and worked closely with the Council and key stakeholders from the outset. Through early engagement and collaboration, we played a key role in translating the policy framework set out in the Local Development Plan, testing the optimum spatial disposition of land uses, and securing outline consent.
Project Highlights
Clients
Taylor Wimpey
North-East Cardiff Landowners Consortium
Date
2014 - Present
Scale
2,500 homes with supporting district centre, education provision, employment and community uses.
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This has been an exciting and challenging project. We have worked closely with Cardiff City Council to understand and maximise the potential of this site. Together we have identified and secured opportunities to deliver meaningful benefits, including opening up and making more accessible the rich landscape resource to both people and nature; co-locating community, health, leisure and education uses as part of a new district centre planned at the heart of the development; and connecting new and existing places through an approach that puts active travel and public transport improvements the heart of the masterplan.
Francesca Parmenter, Partner, David Lock Associates
The Project
The allocation of land at North-East Cardiff will see the delivery of up to 4,500 new homes, on a site which will be bought forward by multiple developers, working within an adopted masterplan framework which will provide the important placemaking elements to create a community. The scheme will include; a new district centre, employment land and an education campus for primary, secondary and 6th form students as well as sports pitches designed for shared use and wider community benefit. The masterplan delivers 2,500 of the planned homes and secures landscape and ecological mitigation for some 50 hectares of natural resource to include river valleys, ancient woodland and species rich habitats.
Pedestrian, cyclist and public transport priority is embedded in the scheme and a new bus corridor will link to existing communities in Lisvane to Pontprennau, enabling onward connections to Cardiff Gate Business Park and the rest of the allocation.
The Process
From initial concept stages, we have steered the project through the process of translating broader site-wide policy objectives into a robust and deliverable masterplan and consenting framework. Leading the multi-disciplinary team, we developed planning and engagement strategies, masterplanning for the site, and coordinated the preparation, submission, and negotiation of the outline planning application, which was granted by the City Council in 2024.
Ongoing work with the client and Council to prepare a series of design codes that will support the delivery of the masterplan and placemaking objectives, will play an important role in supporting the phased delivery of the site. We are currently translating the outline masterplan into phased infrastructure and development components to enable efficient delivery of the first development parcels to a level of design quality commensurate with the City status.