“This first phase of Welborne that we are designing now is substantial in scale – representing, for example, one third of the entire Poundbury project, but is just over one-tenth of the entire Welborne project.
It’s incredibly exciting to see the whole area beginning to take shape in detail: we are re-learning the lessons of great Edwardian town planning movement, which have proved to be such a powerful and enduring theme in English domestic planning, and which crucially have the potential to be delivered to a very high standard by the modern housebuilding system today.
There will be something quietly revolutionary about seeing those streets emerge, because nothing like it has happened for a hundred years. I sincerely believe that Welborne will set a new benchmark, on a large scale, for building new settlements with an inherent sense of authenticity and design; simple, and with a real sense of character and meaning.”
— Ben Pentreath
