Garden Villages are by their nature green. Our scheme will protect at least 48% of existing green space within the site and increase biodiversity by up to 20%, double the minimum requirement.
What we are doing
- Planting over 5 hectares of new woodland (around 55,000 new native trees) as part of the Forest for Cornwall plans to support cleaner air and help to capture carbon.
- Creating a new tree nursery on the site
- Providing around 35 acres of natural green space and over 6km of walking and cycling routes at Governs Park
- Locating new housing completely in the landscape, connected with the existing settlements through a green buffer along the A390
- Providing allotments, community farm, community gardens and community orchards to support food production and bring communities together
- Designing the main road through the site (Fordh Langarth) with high quality landscaping
- Retaining existing field patterns where possible and protecting existing Cornish hedges, rivers and wetland areas to provide habitats for insects, songbirds and badgers.
- Creating 720 metres of new Cornish hedges, and wildflower meadows
- Providing sports pitches and public open spaces for play and recreation
- Improving access to existing countryside with walkable green corridors, cycleways and pedestrian walkways connecting all parts of the development, and creating river and woodland walks.
- Providing improved surface water drainage, with new basins, wetlands and swales increasing biodiversity and providing habitats for insects, songbirds, badgers, otters and other amphibians
- Using robust design codes to ensure buildings and other structures on the site incorporate green roofs or green walls.
- Ensuring new buildings will have bird boxes, bat boxes and bat bricks and, where appropriate, incorporate barn owl or bat ‘lofts, together with hedgehog holes in fences to allow the animals to easily move between gardens.
- Encouraging future home owners to leave an area of their garden “wild” to encourage wildlife, and to plant pollinator friendly plants and small trees, etc.
