The agenda includes six exciting site visits:
1. New Earswick, York
2. Gateshead Innovation Village
3. Newcastle Upon Tyne
– Byker
– Ouseburn
– Newcastle Gateshead Quayside
4. Smith’s Dock, North Shields
5. Peterlee
6. Derwenthorpe, York
Key themes to be explored: Garden village design and stewardship, lifetime homes/sheltered housing, modular construction, ‘smart’ homes, estate regeneration, community engagement and placemaking, town centre renewal, new towns (stewardship/design/renewal), design codes, community energy production/district heating, eco-homes.
Please note: visits to New Earswick and Derwenthorpe will include additional learning on issues such as lifetime homes/energy/design which was not included in the 2017/18 ‘Understanding Garden Villages’ Tours.