Westwick Row
In addition to the East Hemel site, The Crown Estate’s land at Westwick Row (located at the junction of Westwick Row and Green Lane, next to Leverstock Green Primary School – see redline in map below) has a draft allocation for the development of up to 80 new homes in Dacorum Borough Council’s emerging Local Plan.
After a thorough selection process to choose a development partner with the right expertise to design and deliver exemplary homes, The Crown Estate has appointed TOWN to the Westwick Row project. TOWN is a profit-with-purpose developer with a mission to create good places for better lives, and supports The Crown Estate’s ambitions to create a lasting positive impact in an inclusive way, in the places it operates in. The Crown Estate, TOWN and a team of award-winning architects will work in collaboration with the local community and future residents to design the new homes and surrounding areas.
The engagement and design process for Westwick Row includes:
An Ideas Exchange panel that was recruited to be demographically representative of Leverstock Green
Engagement with other local residents and stakeholders to gather additional insights.
A Renters Panel which consists of local private renters and focuses on spatial design and future management structures for the rental homes.
A co-design process with potential future residents interested in living in a more collaborative and sustainable way.
To find out more about the engagement programme for Westwick Row and how you can get involved, visit the Westwick Row webpage.
Westwick Row also seeks to demonstrate best practice in sustainability and will explore the necessary changes in housing delivery to enable this. We intend to incorporate learnings from this project into future activity at East Hemel and in other communities.
While our work at Westwick Row is being run as a separate project, Westwick Row and East Hemel will complement each other and there will be opportunities for local communities to get involved in both projects.