Large Tudor-style house with red brick and white timber framing, swimming pool with fountain in foreground, evening sky with clouds.
CASE STUDY

The Frythe

We worked with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council and the local community to secure outline planning permission for this major residential development site within the greenbelt. 

Homes
214
Size
49 acres
Stage
Completed
Location
Herefordshire

This 49-acre site was historically used as a major research and development facility in a mature landscape setting, containing the former historic building, known as the Frythe.

LIH undertook extensive consultation with the local community and council to bring forward the delivery of 200 new homes and 14 apartments whilst also preserving and enhancing the landscape setting and the historic assets of the site.

Large Tudor-style house with red brick and white timber framing, swimming pool with fountain in foreground, evening sky with clouds.
Aerial view of suburban village with houses clustered amongst trees, surrounded by green fields and roads curving through countryside.
Aerial view of industrial complex with white-roofed warehouses, brick buildings, and multi-storey structures surrounded by green fields and trees.

On acquisition, the site was a large-scale redundant pharmaceutical research and development campus.

Development of the site required the demolishment of 440,000 sq ft  properties and hardstanding.

In additional to the existing pharmaceutical use, the site was an historic Arboretum as well as containing the Frythe House dating from the 1850’s. Significant thought, consultation and design consideration was given to this setting including the preservation of  the tree- dominated landscaping.

LIH infrastructured the site to enable a ready-to-build scheme for the housebuilder, Linden Homes. These works extended to the demolition of buildings, delivery of estate roads, utility connections and diversions, as well as  extensive ground remediation and earthworks.