Harlow & Gilston Garden Town is teaming up with an independent charity for a summer of online and face-to-face community engagement.
The partnership with the Quality of Life Foundation will give local people a chance to shape the development from Friday, July 15, via an interactive map about wellbeing and their daily lives – from nature and travel to health and community.
Places for People has plans for 8,500 new homes in six villages in a scheme known as Gilston Park Estate. Separately, Taylor Wimpey North Thames has submitted an outline planning application for a seventh village of 1,500 homes.
Together they will make up the 10,000-home Gilston Garden Neighbourhood, which will form part of the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town, ultimately adding 24,000 new homes across four new neighbourhoods.
Information collected by the Quality of Life Foundation over the 12-week project will not only
influence how plans are taken forward by the garden town’s five council partners (East Herts, Harlow and Epping Forest district councils and Herts and…