In our first ‘Redrow 8’ awards – highlighting our strong placemaking principles – Horsforth Vale won out for being designed around what is important locally and to fit sensitively into the area.
Other categories in the Redrow 8 awards included ‘easy to get around’, ‘places to go’ ‘nature for people’ and ‘streets for life’.
Recently completed, Horsforth Vale is a mixed-use new community on the edge of Horsforth comprising 500 new homes of a wide range of types and tenures, as well as a cafe/bakery and shop. It sits comfortably within the local area and brings benefits to the existing and new community.
John Handley, managing director for Yorkshire, said: “We’re extremely proud that our Horsforth scheme has been recognised as standing out among all of Redrow’s other developments across England and Wales.
“We used local materials including York stone and slate roofs together with dry stone walls to knit the new development into the wider landscape and ensure it reflects the local character. Despite the fact this was a ‘brownfield’ site and the location of a former chemical plant, we worked carefully to retain existing features and landscape on the site and weave them into the new development.
“For example, a former historic mill building was restored and re-imagined as apartments and the mill pond was also restored. Existing landscape features such as mature trees and hedgerows were retained and incorporated, helping to knit the new community to the area and the wider context. This approach also contributes to a positive impact on biodiversity as well as a sense of belonging from the very start.”
Although Horsforth Vale is now complete, we have plenty more examples of developments with placemaking at their heart, including The Avenue and The Point at Thorpe Park, Leeds. These two developments sit amongst new parkland and next to a luxury hotel and spa, a multi-screen cinema and a large shopping and leisure park packed with top name stores and family friendly restaurants.
There’s also Aspen Park, in Garforth, a development of mews style properties, townhouses and semis, on part of the former site of the old Stocks Blocks production facility. Together with neighbouring The Poplars, the finished scheme will comprise 242 new homes.
The new homes are at the heart of an established community – Garforth has a proper high street with banks, shops and cafes, and there are two train stations in the town. There are good schools within a short walk and a children’s playground and skate park on the doorstep.
For more on the last few remaining homes at Aspen Park – where current prices are from £246,950 for a two-bedroom Cadogan mews - call 0113 213 6245.
