{"id":33688,"date":"2025-12-20T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/crown-estate-lodges-plan-for-4000-home-east-hemel-new-town\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:43:12","slug":"crown-estate-lodges-plan-for-4000-home-east-hemel-new-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/crown-estate-lodges-plan-for-4000-home-east-hemel-new-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Estate lodges plan for 4,000-home East Hemel new town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-504440\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The 975-acre East Hemel scheme will ceate two new neighbourhoods with a wide mix of homes, including significant affordable provision, supported by four schools, health and community facilities, local centres and play spaces. <\/p>\n<p>More than a third of the land will be green space, including a new 63-hectare country park and a south valley park linked by walking and cycling networks. <\/p>\n<p>The scheme also includes 1.8m sq ft of employment space, anchored by an innovation hub expected to generate thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Plan span both St Albans City &amp; District Council and Dacorum Borough Council and form a major plank of the Hemel Garden Communities programme, which aims to deliver up to 11,000 homes and thousands of jobs by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Chesworth, head of strategic land at The Crown Estate, said East Hemel offers a rare chance to create a place that will serve the people of Hertfordshire for generations.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-12-19-at-07.10.20.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-12-19-at-07.10.20.png\" alt=\"-\" width=\"1658\" height=\"848\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-504442\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detailed designs will come forward through later reserved matters applications once the outline principles and site parameters are agreed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/2.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Morby\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/12\/19\/crown-estate-lodges-plan-for-4000-home-east-hemel-new-town\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The 975-acre East Hemel scheme will ceate two new neighbourhoods with a wide mix of homes, including significant affordable &#8230; <a title=\"Crown Estate lodges plan for 4,000-home East Hemel new town\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/crown-estate-lodges-plan-for-4000-home-east-hemel-new-town\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Crown Estate lodges plan for 4,000-home East Hemel new town\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}