The vision for Kingswood goes beyond building new homes, it focuses on building a community for people of all ages and providing a platform for economic opportunity and sustainable growth.
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Introduction
Kingswood will very much belong to this part of West Sussex. Our vision is to create a thriving community, providing homes and jobs to people of all ages and backgrounds. It will be sustainable and distinctive, steered by careful masterplanning and design.
The ‘Our Place’ approach is based upon phased place creation and not phased construction, which ensures liveability and community from the outset. Kingswood will take 20+ years to deliver, and each phase will be self-sustaining with amenities, infrastructure, culture and green space delivered to shape and nurture the burgeoning community.
As a sustainable developer, Our Place champion the findings from the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission 2020, in which Sir Roger Scruton stated, “there is a growing corpus of evidence that many of the components that make places beautiful (such as walkable streets, “gentle density” and street trees) also make them healthy, happy and sustainable”.
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At Kingswood we have inherited a beautiful natural landscape. As landowners, we appreciate its importance and take our responsibility as custodians very seriously.
Bespoke Design
Our delivery strategy at Kingswood is is based upon phased placemaking not phased delivery. Find out how we will bring forward a neighbourhood centre in each phase creating a sense of community and belonging from the outset.
Location Map
The site for Kingswood occupies the semi-enclosed fields and ancient woodland to the South East of Adversane, a mile south of Billingshurst, close to the Brinsbury Campus of Chichester College.
Kingswood in detail
Situated on a 150-hectare site a mile south of Billingshurst, the new settlement will be built over several decades, reaching a total of up to 2,850 new homes on completion in the 2040s. Approximately 2,000 homes will be completed within the Local Plan period.
Kingswood will grow organically from small village to small town, with infrastructure and employment growing progressively to support the settlement as it becomes more established.
Kingswood will be a sustainable and mixed-use place offering community, residential, employment, and local retail uses. There will be a diverse range of house types, sizes and tenures, integrated to achieve a socially inclusive, mixed-income development capable of meeting residents’ changing needs throughout their lifetimes.
The plan incorporates a range of employment opportunities alongside new homes with the target of delivering one job per dwelling. The majority of these will be focused in the town centre, within three neighbourhood centres, and at Kingswood Works, an adjacent employment hub that will be built alongside Kingswood.
The proposals also include vitally important social infrastructure, including two schools (a primary school and an all-through school), nurseries and provision for people with special educational needs (SEN). A healthcare centre is also planned, as well as a village hall, a hotel, and a range of accessible open spaces including a central park, playing fields, equipped play areas, 0.75 hectares of allotments and 1.5 hectares of orchards.
Community is at the heart of our plans for Kingswood. Individual and communal wellbeing, environmental wellbeing, sustainability and place management are fundamental to our proposals. To ensure these principles are upheld over the long term, we will create the Kingswood Legacy Trust, a community organisation in partnership with local residents and stakeholders that will promote community activities, support local business and enterprises, and sustain our vision for Kingswood.
Kingswood will be connected to local centres by public transport, with land reserved for a railway station connected to the Arun Valley London line. Cycling and walking will be encouraged and there will be attractive paths, routes and open spaces to encourage regular outdoor activity for all ages and interests.
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Mix of amenities, social infrastructure, culture and green space in each phase
A walkable neighbourhood with a network of characterful streets and spaces
A walkable neighbourhood with a network of characterful streets and spaces