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Sharpness Development LLP has submitted a planning application to Stroud District Council for Sharpness Vale, a new community designed to address Gloucestershire’s urgent housing and employment needs.  The application for 2,750 energy-efficient homes results from extensive public consultation and technical assessments, ensuring a phased, well-planned approach to growth that matches Stroud District Council’s ambitions for sustainable development.  Sharpness Vale has been designed as a low-carbon neighbourhood, with green infrastructure and a strong focus on reducing car dependency. The plans include: … Read More »Planning application submitted for Sharpness Vale – a major step toward a sustainable new community 

Engaging with Stroud: Sharpness Vale development hosts pop-up shop at Five Valleys Sharpness Development LLP is continuing its dialogue with the Stroud community by hosting two consultation events at a pop-up shop in the Five Valleys Shopping Centre on Friday, 22 November, and Saturday, 23 November 2024, from 10 am to 2 pm.  The pop-up shop, at Unit 36 near the King Street entrance, allows Gloucestershire residents and businesses to learn more about Sharpness Vale, a significant development of 2,750 homes that will deliver affordable housing,… Read More »Press release: Engaging with Stroud: Sharpness Vale development hosts pop-up shop at Five Valleys

Sharpness Development LLP invites residents, businesses, and community stakeholders across Stroud to participate in a public consultation for the proposed Sharpness Vale new community. This initiative encourages community-wide engagement to help shape a new, sustainable community that meets Gloucestershire’s housing and employment needs while ensuring it aligns with the values and aspirations of the wider Stroud area.  The consultation, hosted by GreenSquareAccord and Lioncourt Strategic Land, will take place over two in-person events:  A virtual consultation is also available from… Read More »Public engagement announced for new community at Sharpness Vale

Biodiversity net gain requires developers to ensure habitats for wildlife are enhanced and left in a measurably better state than they were pre-development.  At Sharpness Vale we are aiming higher, in the full appreciation that we are located in a very special part of the world. The Severn Estuary is of international significance for overwintering and migratory birds and as such is designated as a Special Protection Area (SPA).  Over half of Sharpness Vale will consist of new green spaces.… Read More »Rob Forbes, ecology expert on the Sharpness Vale project team, explains how Sharpness Vale’s vision is to go above and beyond standard requirements to boost and protect nature, leading to biodiversity gain.

In March 2021 we published our Climate Change Manifesto. Paul Fong, Ridge LLP, explains why, and discusses how climate change has influenced every aspect of Sharpness Vale’s design. The effects of climate change are rapidly affecting our world, creating an increased number of extreme weather events. We will need to address climate change in everything that we do to slow the rapidly increasing temperatures across the globe. If we continue to burn fossil fuels, release greenhouse gases and cut down… Read More »Climate: Challenging convention and delivering change

Providing new infrastructure will directly help in significantly reducing car use at Sharpness Vale. Andy Faizey explains the exciting progress being made on a new rail link. Sharpness already has an operational railway line. We think it is time for people to be able to use it again. We are designing Sharpness Vale to include the re-opening of the railway line at Sharpness to passenger services, including the construction of a new station. Network Rail has formally confirmed that it… Read More »Rail Link Update

Transport New publication: Our transport approach ‘Our Transport Approach’ document is now available to read on our website here. The document explains our approach and rationale to transport and movement at Sharpness Vale. The focus for Sharpness Vale is on a move away from the private car to sustainable transport to include increased public transport provision, a network of cycle, pedestrian and bridle paths and a re-opened railway line.  Bid for ‘Restoring your Railway’ fund  We’re continuing discussions with Stroud District Council… Read More »News from Sharpness Vale

During lockdown, many of us have taken stock of how we live. As a result, people are becoming much more aware of their carbon footprint and our impact on the natural world. Trends such as homeworking, cycling, and local food growing have accelerated. Cycle sales, for example, increased in April by 60 per cent.  The Government also recently announced a £2 billion package to create a new era for cycling and walking. Fast-tracked statutory guidance, published in May and effective immediately,… Read More »Taking stock during Covid-19: living more sustainably

Local Plan News Sharpness Vale is a draft allocation in the Stroud District Draft Local Plan and the council is now working through the representations made on the Draft Local Plan during the consultation period earlier this year. Our proposals are for a mixed used development including 2,400 homes by 2040 as well as a 10 hectare business park, with an eventual total number of 5,000 homes, to help meet the district’s housing and employment needs. We’re intending to submit a planning application in 2021 and we will engage… Read More »News from Sharpness Vale