MARSH FARM, LUTON

Client: Luton Borough Council, Marsh Farm Community Development Trust and GO-EAST

Role: Masterplanners, Landscape Architects & Architects

Value: £200 million

Marsh Farm is an NDC-status 150 hectare estate in Luton where PRP is working as lead designers and project managers. PRP is supported by a team of seven subconsultants covering a huge range of specialist skills necessary to attain a deliverable regeneration master plan for the estate.

The key to the success of the master plan will be to achieve a sustainable community. In physical terms this will mean a careful balance of appropriate refurbishment, redevelopment and reconfiguration of the external environment. To this end the design process has involved three workstreams working in parallel including landscape architecture, urban design and architecture. Each strand in effect has to defend and sell its ideas to the others, ensuring that only the best concepts are carried forward for consideration by the community and stakeholders.

Marsh Farm has huge potential for the underlying and surrounding landscape to inform a successful master plan.