The Sherford Vision

South Hams District Council’s Quality Vision for the Sherford New Community is:

"..to create a quality, sustainable development with a vibrant, balanced community, where people choose to live, work and spend their leisure time".

And which incorporates:

a sustainable development delivering an excellent quality of life, within a well designed high quality environment a strong and healthy community a high quality new community, with good locally distinctive design a mixed use development - prioritising affordable homes, local job opportunities and a full range of community facilities from the outset safe and convenient movement - incorporating a high quality, high capacity public transport system from the outset clean, attractive, high quality public spaces throughout the development - including a large scale community park forming the eastern boundary responding to the challenges of ‘climate change’ and the need for sustainable development and maximising the opportunities for sustainable lifestyles development which meets the housing needs of the Plymouth sub-region, that cannot be accommodated within the city boundary, and the needs generated from within the South Hams.

For more detail please see the Adopted Sherford AAP (August 2007).

The Sherford Timescale

Outline planning permission has not yet been granted but will be once the Section 106 legal agreement is completed.  The final details of the legal agreement are still being worked on and it is hoped that following the conclusion of these negotiations work on site can commence during 2012.

Following the issuing of planning permission the developers will need approval of a number of planning conditions and consents persuant to the outline permission, before work can start on site.  This process is likely to take a further six months.

Once development has started on site the development will take approximately 12 to15 years to complete.