Sunday Times on new housing developments on country estates
by Nicholas Hellen, Social
For more than 20 years Poundbury, the Prince of Wales’s traditionalist housing development in Dorset, has divided opinion with some describing it as visionary, others as a “feudal Disneyland”.
Now, inspired by his approach, some big landowners are planning a series of Poundbury-style housing developments on their own country estates as part of efforts to tackle Britain’s housing crisis.
Among the schemes is a plan by the Duke of Marlborough to build up to 1,600 homes, overseen by Hugh Petter, an authority on classical architecture. It would mean Woodstock, a small market town in the shadow of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, would more than double in size.
