St Cuthbert’s Garden Town

Carlisle City Council

Hive are working with the Council on engagement with landowners and stakeholders within St Cuthbert’s, a key workstream given that there are over 100 landowners and very little publicly owned land within the Garden Town (GT). For any GT to work, regardless of the delivery vehicle, it is imperative that the Council engage comprehensively and frequently with all landowners to understand their position and appetite towards development, as well as consulting on the emerging masterplan and planning policy.

Delivery

Fronting landowner engagement forums / events and individual meetings with key landowners where potential collaboration structures were presented and discussed; Representing the Council in engagement with landowners including responding to enquiries; Land ownership review, including a review of legal barriers to delivery, and the creation and updating of a comprehensive landowner database; Feeding landowner intelligence into the emerging masterplan to ensure key barriers to delivery were understood; and Drafting and leading on the roll out of a landowners Memorandum of Understanding.

Designing a detailed strategy and programme to unlock 48 residential sites with a capacity of 3,500+ new homes.
Production of a PID, implementation plan, site prioritisation matrix, area based promotion and marketing documents, and individual proformas for each site including an analysis of the interventions required
A landowner engagement strategy and extensive engagement with funding bodies (including Homes England) aimed at specifically addressing viability challenges.
Drafting an investment prospectus and launch event to directly market the sites to developers.

Outcome

As well as the ongoing tasks, Hive drafted a report setting out options around landowner collaboration and vehicle(s) which would be best suited to aid delivery of the GT. Drawing on expertise on similar instructions on other large scale residential led development projects, the key lessons learned from the project was the need for early and ongoing engagement with the key stakeholders, bringing in Homes England as part of the strategy to demonstrate Government buy-in, the identification of landowner-related ‘show stoppers’ to feed into masterplan formulation, as well as the need to adopt a tailored approach to different stakeholders and at different stages of the project.

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