Briefing

Nansledan: can design codes and long-term stewardship deliver better housing?

By 2025-07-23T05:10:00

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As part of Building Design’s Designing Tomorrow’s Housing campaign, Mary Richardson visits Nansledan, the Duchy of Cornwall’s urban extension to Newquay. While its traditional architecture divides opinion, she finds that the project raises important questions about stewardship, planning and designing new housing at scale

As the government seeks to deliver on its promise of 1.5 million homes within the course of this parliament, the Duchy of Cornwall’s Nansledan development offers a fascinating alternative to much of the housing currently being built elsewhere. With its emphasis on long-term vision, design coding and sustained stewardship, it presents an alternative to the volume housebuilding approach that so dominates UK development.

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