Investing in Village Life for All

Our Vision

A Village to Live in

We want to allow people to find affordable and high-quality homes in Alderholt at all stages of life – from small apartments to traditional family homes with gardens, enabling people to move up or down the property ladder without having to leave the village. 

Our proposals for Alderholt Meadows seek to respond to a post pandemic world which housing has, for many, moved out of financial reach and changed in function. We are planning to deliver truly affordable homes across a range of tenures, including rental, shared ownership and discounted market housing, with a provision of up to 35% affordable housing.  

We want to provide a range of homes that combined will be capable of supporting everyday facilities that Alderholt and reducing the need to travel. With this in mind, it is also vital that we maintain the village feel of Alderholt and we therefore want to design the new housing into smaller high-quality neighbourhoods to enable this. 

A Healthy Village

Set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside, our vision for Alderholt Meadows is to create a place where access to greenspace and recreation is at the heart of village life. We will do this by providing over 125 acres of new green space, held in a community trust, linked by over 7 miles of new walking and cycling routes providing improved access to the wider countryside.

There will also be a further 56+ acres of land for biodiversity enhancement delivering a net-gain well in excess of 10% required by Government, as well as a significantly larger recreation ground with enhanced sports facilities including all weather pitches, a new club house and changing pavilion.

A new medical centre, built in partnership with local practitioners, will be provided at an early stage so that residents can see a doctor or dentist in Alderholt and pick up medicine at a new pharmacy.

We have engaged with local practitioners to understand the local need and they have suggested that the new surgery is likely to include:

• GP Consulting rooms
• Rooms for health and wellbeing staff
• Nurse Treatment rooms
• Waiting room - convertible to community facility for health promotion, talks etc
• Phone/online consulting room

A Village for Young people 

At the heart of our vision, we want Alderholt to be a be a strong community. 

We want to create a community where children can be children. Rain or shine, our Masterplan for Alderholt Meadows will provide children with the chance to play in new parks, trample through nature trails and learn to ride a bike. Older children and teenagers won’t be overlooked with sports pitches, a skate park and community spaces throughout the village for youth clubs, extra-curricular classes, and socialising. 

We know good schools are a top priority for families. So, together with St James’ First School, our vision is to organically grow the school to enable children to remain learning and growing in Alderholt from nursery age through to the next stage of their education. 

Through the provision of new carbon-zero facilities at the existing school, we are committed to ensuring St James’ can continue to provide a top-quality education, enriched with outdoor learning that makes full use of Alderholt’s unique setting.

A Village to Work in

Following the pandemic, the way many of us work is changing. We want to allow residents to work in a way that suits them, whether residents run their own business, work from home part of the week, need a proper office, or just want an occasional change of scenery, we’ve got it covered, as we aim to provide an expanded village that will support 21st century digital infrastructure for new and existing residents, including fibre internet. 

Community spaces will provide flexible workspaces perfect for those occasional meetings, to get a fresh perspective or collaborate with likeminded professionals. If a more professional work environment is required, we are partnering with leading flexible workspace providers to deliver office space. We are also passionate that we respond to the changing function of our homes following the pandemic with space fit for home working. 

We are also committed to supporting better connections to neighbouring towns and villages for those who are key workers, or those who cannot work flexibly to enable efficient and sustainable travel to and from work. 

A Village fit for the future

The UK government is committed to making the UK carbon net zero by 2050 and Dudsbury Homes understand that people want to live cleaner, healthier lifestyles. We are therefore focused on creating a Net Zero Carbon community that enables residents to make choices that help them to minimise their impact on the environment.

In meeting this challenge head-on, all of our new homes and facilities at Alderholt Meadows will be right for today and also ready for tomorrow - designed to be Net Zero Carbon and harmoniously incorporated within the natural environment. The overall vision will deliver Biodiversity net-gain well above the Government’s policy requirements.

Furthermore, we also plan to sustain community facilities and infrastructure through self-generating annual income derived from management charges on new dwellings, which will enable community facilities to be funded into the future.