Last week the TOWN team celebrated our 10th anniversary!

It was a chance to reflect on a decade of key moments and milestones that have shaped our journey. Here’s a selection of highlights from the past ten years.

2015.

TOWN, Trivselhus and a design team led by Mole, are selected by Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Cohousing to develop plot K1 in Orchard Park.

2016.

Marmalade Lane, Cambridge’s first cohousing community, gets planning permission.

2017.

First employee joins TOWN.

2018.

TOWN and LandsecU+I are appointed as masterdevelopers for Hartree – a 48ha new, mixed-use quarter of Cambridge – with 5,600 homes, schools, shops, workspaces and community facilities.

2019.

42 households move into Marmalade Lane. The project goes on to feature extensively in national press and in government reviews and policy guidance. It secures a RIBA National Award, the RTPI Silver Jubilee Cup and a Civic Trust award.

2020.

TOWN secures the EG Future of Real Estate Award.

2021.

Love Wolverton receives planning approval for a 115-home, town centre regeneration, in partnership with Milton Keynes City Council, including the 29-home Still Green Cohousing community for over-50s.

2022.

Angel Yard Cohousing appoints TOWN as development manager to develop a cohousing community of 34 homes in central Norwich.

Tenth employee joins TOWN.

TOWN is appointed as development manager for Moulsecoomb Place, leading the design and coordination of two planning applications in Brighton, for the restoration of grade II listed buildings and the delivery of Purpose Built Student Accommodation.

Love Wolverton wins Planning Permission of the Year, as well as the 2021 Future Place award from Festival of Place and the National Urban Design award for Best Mid-Scale Masterplan the same year.

2023.

TOWN acquires Millers’ Field, Oundle and submits planning – in collaboration with future residents of the UK’s first Building Group – for a custom-build, low-carbon community of 14 homes.

The Crown Estate selects TOWN as development partners for one of their residential demonstration projects, to work with the local community and future residents to deliver 80 exemplary new homes in Hemel Hempstead.

TOWN begins a 10-year Place Strategy to regenerate a historic neighbourhood in central Sunderland through sustainable development and adaptive reuse.

2024.

TOWN, with Greengage, publishes a post-occupancy review of Marmalade Lane – an in-depth look at the impact the development has had on residents’ lives and the social value it continues to generate for the community five years on.

Nile and Villiers, a residential-led development of 75 homes on a brownfield site in Sunniside Sunderland, with Sunderland City Council, secures planning permission and prepares to start on site in 2025.

Homes England appoints TOWN to deliver c150 homes in Northstowe new town – including at least one cohousing community.

The TOWN team grows to 15.

Thank you for supporting us on our journey!