The design and site organisation are based on an appropriate response to the landscape character.

It acknowledges the importance and potential for improving ‘Green Gaps’ and existing ‘Frontages’.

It ensures the “Green Gap” for all time.

It is the result of a pro-active process focussed on being in tune with the local community’s feelings and interests rather than quantity driven, or a contested process.

It is a site -specific holistic design approach rather than an application of generalised design policies.

It is the antithesis of a typical “anyplace” development proposal.

It is a landowner initiative that balances viability, practicality, and longer-term wider community benefits and immediate benefits to the neighbouring residents.

It is not profit driven.

It acknowledges the need for incremental growth and the importance of the public realm by optimising building footprints to make a new public place that can grow and contribute to the making of well-liked, liveable, neighbourhoods.

It provides the garden spaces and flexible dwelling units.

It offers options for different individual tenures within the same form and shared layout.

It has excellent access to open space and recreation.

It offers a safe place for children to play with passive overlooking and ambient activity at all times.

It is safe from traffic and offers safe pedestrian and cycle routes into both Gamlingay and Cinques.

It is planned as a place of all year-round changing beauty that people can grow to respect and nurture over time, and to which they can feel a strong affinity.

It reflects the character and scale of the locality.

It is a site which is planned to have many natural facets as an integral part such as birdwatching, recreation, a clubhouse, gardening small holdings, allotments, nature reserves, and swales as havens for aquatic life as part of the surface water management and retention.

It will be conceived in detail with the involvement of local and reputable national organisations to have an inbuilt structure for its long-term management protection and growth.

It is a site-specific bespoke approach based on the highest design excellence and time-tested workable exemplars.

It is conceived as a naturally limiting proposal that not only reflects incremental growth principles, but which also contributes to redressing the balance of lost open spaces due to the undesirable depletions resulting from development pressures elsewhere in the locality.

Is not the outcome of applying gratuitous ‘design features’ and add-ons in an attempt to justify an inappropriate form and typology of village expansion.

The ‘planning gain’ is directly relevant to the place, and is an addition to its story.

The brief and vision is based on a current, intimate and historically informed ‘on the ground’ knowledge of the area.