Courtyard Garden Cottage

Home Garden Studio

Apartments

Courtyard Garden Cottages

The Courtyard Garden Cottages are nestled together in clusters of 4-6 homes, designed to offer sociable living ideal for young people keen to get onto the housing ladder. Courtyard Garden Cottages offer the opportunity for ‘outdoor living’ with each home incorporating a courtyard garden and roof terrace. The Courtyard Garden Cottages are a nod to historic Cotswold mews.

Home Garden Studio

The Home Garden Studio is intended as a permanent but flexible home in which the family can expand and contract: an office for home working away from a busy family life or a granny annex for a visiting relative. The Home Garden Studio overlooks some of the generous green spaces including the meadow walks and woodland.

Apartments

Apartments will be included in 2-storey buildings consisting of an apartment on each floor, each with a private south facing outdoor area. As well as their own outdoor spaces, these homes will be located close to communal green spaces too.

Land South of Green Lane is inspired by the lanes off Alchester Road in the Village. The lanes are defined from the access road by a change to a shared stone surface and with a less formal sense of boundary and ownership between a handful of homes which share the lane as an access.

The lanes are intended as Home Zones, with no through traffic, and where pedestrians take priority. Here young children can play outside, close to home, surrounded by high quality public open space.

The meadow walks will connect the site to the village, and within the site itself to the community amenities. These are linear green parks with pedestrian routes between the lanes of housing.

These areas have meadow planting and trees, seating and pathways, for the community to enjoy the landscape. They are interspersed with pockets of more formal play areas, as well as glades for picnicking and resting.

Land South of Green Lane will be in-keeping with the local and unique character of Chesterton and the surrounding Cotswolds incorporating a number of distinctive materials and styles.

Buff Stones and Facade and Walling

Local Cotswold limestone is proposed as the primary material for the housing to reflect the facade of existing homes in Chesterton village. This stone will be used throughout the development including low level garden walls along lanes and rear garden boundaries to reflect the stone walling which is typical of the Chesterton Conservation Area.

Red Brick Features

In addition to Buff stones red brick is proposed for features and variation in the housing. Brick was commonly used in Chesterton in housing from the 20^th century and to housing additions to older buildings in the local area.

Slate Tiles

Welsh Slate Tiles are proposed to be used for the roof to be in keeping with roof materials commonly used in the Chesterton Conservation Area.

Cobble Setts Paving

Land South of Green Lane will incorporate cobble setts paving such as granite for the shared surface of the lanes in a nod to the historic character of the lanes in Chesterton Village.