The development at Cogges South will be a compact and well landscaped development. The site will include attractive buildings and well-connected, legible routes, which promote pedestrian movement over private car use. The new streets and small squares will create a series of attractive, spaces that link to the existing adjacent housing. The new development will reflect the local character and style of buildings within the older areas of the town.

Cogges South is proposed for 100 houses plus 3 acres of allotments and 35 acres of water meadow and public open space.

• Areas for development
• Links and connections
• Green infrastructure.

• Create coherent and well defined development parcels
• Provide a central street that enables access to other streets, lanes, squares, courtyards and open spaces
• Create a series of links to the existing Cogges development and across the valley to the town centre.

Total Site Area - 17 hectares.
Residential Net Developable Area - 3 hectares.
Site Capacity - 3hectares at 35 dwellings/ha = 105 dwellings.
3 acres of allotments, 35 acres of water meadow and public open space

EWLC have gone to great lengths to ensure that Cogges South is sympathetically designed and built which includes:

• Buildings will face on to the open countryside in order to avoid the domination of back fences and promote natural surveillance.
• Lower density detached and semi-detached properties will be located on the edge of the site. The retention of existing vegetation and new planting will reduce the visual impact of the scheme on the wider valley landscape, and soften the visual transition between the two.
• The development affords the opportunity to substantially increase tree planting in the area. The main hedgerow running north-south will be substantially widened and enhanced thereby significantly reducing the visual impact of both the existing and proposed development.
• Additional planting immediately south of the development, along the A40, will screen views of the buildings from the A40 and the hills to the south. It will also enhance the landscape quality of the site by reducing the visual impact of the A40 when viewed from the valley.
• Substantial new areas of public open space with areas of wildflower grassland and wetland will serve as a valuable community and ecological resource. A new network of cycle/footpaths and footbridges will increase public access to the Windrush Valley.
• An area of allotment gardens (which are in short supply in the town) will be provided on the north part of the site. These could be accessed from the new housing or the existing car park associated with the Cogges Museum.