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Harlow and Gilston Garden Town

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Promoter : Places for People (Villages 1-6); Taylor Wimpey (Village 7)

Key info: Hertfordshire County Council and East Herts District Council working in partnership with Harlow Council, Epping Forest District Council and Essex County Council to create high-quality places that embrace and enable sustainable and healthy living alongside a thriving economy.

Gilston: – 10,000 homes with resolution to grant (subject to S106)

Opportunity: Commercial land and employment opportunity expected

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Site Description

One of the biggest development and regeneration projects in the country ideally located in the London, Cambridge, Oxford ‘Golden Triangle’, Harlow & Gilston Garden Town (HGGT) will be facilitating 10,000 homes across seven villages in the Gilston Area. 

Gilston villages form one of four new Garden Town neighbourhoods with further communities and 13,000 homes proposed for Water Lane, Latton Priory and East of Harlow.

It is expected that the new Princess Alexandra Hospital will be built close to J7a of the M11 providing a new health campus that will serve the local area.

The adjacent town of Harlow is on site with regeneration bringing forward a new Arts & Cultural Quarter alongside a redeveloped shopping/leisure area and an upgraded bus station.

Gilston will also anticipates an exciting new commercial land opportunity site with up to 34,000sq. m of employment floorspace with an aspiration for 1000 new jobs a year across the whole of Harlow & Gilston. 

Harlow train station has regular 30 minute journey times to London Liverpool Street and Cambridge, presenting the perfect opportunity to be part of an area that will become one of the fastest growing in the UK.