A masterplan for 500 houses as the enabling works for a major sports development. Focused around the cricket green, the pub and the square, the residential development is conceived as a new village. It is designed in the local vernacular and carefully integrated into its landscape context. The residential development creates the beginnings of a balanced village community with private and affordable housing freely intermixed. In line with current government policy, the new village is designed as a clear, recognizable community with a strong identity and ‘sense of place’, which will enhance not only its immediate context but also the surrounding region.