Context | Tiverton Eastern Urban Extension

Planning Context

The Adopted Masterplan Supplementary Planning Document (SPD), provides a vision statement which captures all aspects of the unique opportunity to establish a new garden neighbourhood at Tiverton.

Key aspects of this vision can be summarised as follows:

The extension to Tiverton will create a new garden neighbourhood with a character and appearance inspired by the defining characteristics of Tiverton and its immediate surroundings and that is reminiscent of a garden city environment.
Living in the garden neighbourhood at Post Hill means being able to enjoy the best of Devon rural living, whilst also being close to the heart of Tiverton.
At Post Hill, it is possible to live a life where all aspects of everyday living are available nearby.
What really sets Post Hill apart is the ability for people to live a modern lifestyle in an area that is part of Tiverton and where a parkland scene meets the countryside.
When the new homes are available, people will be choosing to live in what has become a mature and thriving garden neighbourhood set within a quintessentially Devon landscape.

Fig.2 Adopted Mid Devon Local Plan 2013-2033

What is a Garden Neighbourhood?

The overall design of the Adopted Masterplan SPD is based around a series of design principles that seek to create a new garden neighbourhood with a character and appearance inspired by the defining characteristics of Tiverton and its immediate surroundings and that is reminiscent of a garden city environment.

Whilst the plan is designed around modern requirements and standards (including making efficient use of land for the provision of new homes) and takes account of sustainability objectives; it seeks to establish a firm foundation for a place that is green, leafy with generous private gardens, making the most of sunlight and natural daylighting, and creating opportunities for community recycling and food production.

For Further information and the history on the Tiverton Eastern Urban Extension please visit www.middevon.gov.uk

What is approved? - Masterplans

The Adopted Masterplan provides a spatial representation of the Tiverton’s new garden neighbourhood at Post Hill – a physical illustration of how the character areas, streets, parks and open spaces, land uses and transport corridors could be arranged in order to ensure that the vision, concept and guiding principles are delivered in the right way.

The plan is illustrative and as such is designed to provide guidance about the quantity and location of different land uses as well as where key connections should be made throughout the neighbourhood. The plan is intended as a flexible tool so that the shape of different aspects of the new garden neighbourhood can be designed in many ways to respond to different circumstances.

The actual position and alignment of routes, shape of blocks, streets and open space will of course vary from what is illustrated in the plan.

Fig.4. Adopted Masterplan

The Adopted Masterplan is shown to the below with existing and pending consents overlaid. The related planning permissions are being brought forwards in close accordance to masterplans guidance, but also how they have positively evolved through consideration of detailed site constraints and opportunities.

Since the adoption of the Masterplan 2014, land within Area A is being developed. Over the past 10 Years, 521 new homes have been approved, with a further 122 homes awaiting a decision.

There have been numerous consultations, undertaken by the Council and the developers of each site. This includes the recent consultation for the Community Centre building in the neighbourhood centre, (Area A).

Using the framework contained within the Adopted Planning Guidance and Design Guide, a more detailed plan is being prepared for Area B, with a view to starting to deliver new homes and community facilities within the next 12 months.

Fig.5. Adopted Masterplan with Existing Consents and those awaiting a decision overlaid