Place Making

Villages for Life are passionate about creating outstanding living environments for our customers. Our approach to design fully embraces our key measures for design quality to deliver Buildings for a Healthy Life, including the following:

Our approach to housing layout and design fully embraces the key quality elements necessary to deliver “Buildings for a Healthy Life”. These include:

  • Connect, involve and empower people and communities

  • Maximise active travel by walking and cycling

  • Integrate with nearby social, leisure & recreational facilities

  • Provide a mix of housing types & tenures that suit the needs of the local community

Designed to create distinctive places, which:

  • Utilise and enhance local features

  • Protect existing assets in landscape, trees and habitats

  • Incorporate appropriate local architecture and materials

  • Deliver memorable spaces and housing groups

Delivers “healthy” streets and public spaces, featuring:

  • Well overlooked streets and spaces, with active frontages

  • A variation of street types that are straight and connect

  • Ample public and recreational spaces and facilities

  • Provision of ample footpaths, cycle ways and car parking

  • Existing and new habitats for flora and fauna

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