Harlow North

iCube was appointed to the masterplanning team to lead with Paul Murrain on the design for Harlow North by Ropemaker Properties Limited (property nominee of the BP pension fund). The company is working along side Savills, Beyond Green, Faber Maunsells and Environs as wider design team members in the delivery of an outline planning application in due course.

Harlow North is a proposal to build a sustainable urban extension to Harlow north of the River Stort. The proposal is for 10,000 adaptable, energy efficient, mixed tenure dwellings based in walkable neighbourhoods with streets designed to be fully integrated with Harlow, providing 12,000 jobs. With the possible future growth to 25,000 dwellings and circa 28,000 jobs beyond 2021, Harlow North and the regeneration measures proposed by EERA, EEDA and Harlow District Council, could enable Harlow's economy to grow steadily, attract new employment and educational opportunities and become a location of choice.

The Harlow North study makes a strong case for "wider sustainability goals" and sets 10 "strategic principles" for new development. These embrace, for instance, town centre revitalisation, fostering the quality of spaces and streets, minimising environmental resource use and waste, creating best practice urban settings and retention of an enduring Harlow character.

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