Wheldrake Residential Development – York

Private client

Wheldrake, York

Bowman Riley provided concept designs and a masterplan for a developer on a new residential development on 11.3 acres agricultural land in the village of Wheldrake, seven miles south-east of York.

The project responded to the local authority’s call for land for residential development as part of the Site Allocations Plan to address the shortage of housing land supply.

The plan is for 104 three and four-bedroom family homes including a portion of affordable housing.

With industrial premises to the west and existing housing to the north east, the new development would round off the urban sprawl of the village.

We designed a significant landscape buffer between the industrial premises and the new development to mitigate the noise and smell of the factory.

A major challenge was to connect the residences from the Main Street and through the development without creating cut-through roads.

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