Woodgate

Other key credits: Woodgate, Pease Pottage, West Sussex for Thakeham and Abri, with St Catherine’s Hospice and Plunkett UK.

Executive summary from entrant: 

In Pease Pottage, West Sussex, Thakeham is delivering Woodgate: a landmark 619-home development that epitomises quality housebuilding and planning excellence.

Woodgate is one of the largest developments to gain planning permission in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Receiving widespread community support, it includes a primary school, community-owned shop, charity-owned café and hospice and a beautiful village green. Catering to all demographics, the radical plans enrich the community by providing much-needed homes and have gained national attention as a blueprint for future towns and villages, highlighted by visits from Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.