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Ebbsfleet Garden City’s first primary school, Cherry Orchard at Castle Hill, welcomed its first pupils on September 6

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Ebbsfleet Development Corporation will invest £30million in the provision of new electricity sub stations and connections in order to ensure the supply for up to 15,000 homes and a new city centre over the next 15 years, it was announced.

It is the first time a public body has invested in this way to help unlock development and while the deal was vital to secure the continued growth in the Garden City which will see 5,100 homes completed by 2021, the money will be claimed back through an agreement reached with UK Power Networks when developers pay for the proportion of electricity they need.

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Up to 100 Ebbsfleet Garden City residents are to have their fitness levels monitored in an innovative health technology project.

Data from digital fitness monitors worn by volunteers will be analysed by the Healthy New Towns programme in Ebbsfleet Garden City.

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Plans for a new employment scheme have been given the go-ahead in Ebbsfleet Garden City.

The proposed development in Northfleet East is a potential joint venture between Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Gravesham Borough Council and could see up to 690 jobs created in 240,000 square feet of industrial space, business incubator units, office and a small retail space. Full story here

New figures show more than 600 homes were started in Ebbsfleet Garden City in the last 12 months. See the story here 

January’s planning committee gave approval for Ebbsfleet Garden City’s first pub and hotel.

Marstons is to build the 220-cover pub and 104-bedroom hotel at Ebbsfleet Green to complement Redrow’s 950-home development which is currently under construction. The pub could be open by December.

A huge scheme is being proposed by the EDC and Gravesham Borough Council to create up to 690 new jobs in Ebbsfleet Garden City.

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Ebbsfleet Garden City  is one of 30 areas which will spearhead a £1.2billion scheme to see discounted starter homes built for young, first-time buyers.  Up to 635 starter homes could be created across the Garden City and  will include homes in a newly-created city centre as well as on Northfleet Riverfront. See the full story here

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Seven hundred homes, a school and a shopping complex could be built in Northfleet as part of the next stage in the Ebbsfleet Garden City development. Gravesham council has been asked for its views on the proposal, which earmarks Crete Hall Road as one of the city’s seven strategic sites. To see the story click here

Land Securities has sold more of its land at Ebbsfleet Garden City to house builder Taylor Wimpey.

Taylor Wimpey has snapped up 539 residential plots at Castle Hill, joining Ward Homes and Persimmon, which in total are building 1,550 homes in this area of the Garden City, of which 375 are affordable.

Henley Camland, a developer that is adding infrastructure to the project, has also purchased a large chunk of Eastern Quarry, which makes up one of three main ‘villages’ of Ebsfleet Garden City.

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The first primary school for the Garden City is given planning permission. The 420-pupil school – and a new community centre – will be built in Castle Hill, and will also provide 26 nursery places as well as 15 for special needs pupils. It will be complete in September 2017.

The announcement in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Autumn Statement, sees North Kent Innovation Zone (NKIZ) become one of 26 new and extended Enterprise Zones across the country.
The awarding of Enterprise Zone status follows a bid endorsed and submitted to Government on behalf of the partners, Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, Maidstone Borough Council, Medway Council and other stakeholders, by the South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SE LEP) and Thames Gateway Kent Partnership.

Northfleet Embankment, with its 22.37 hectares of land has been earmarked for 54,000m2 of commercial development for construction technologies and advanced manufacturing, including modular housing, alongside innovatory space and workshops.
Nearby Ebbsfleet Valley North East offers 4.08 hectares for 30,000m2 of development focusing on accommodation for professional services, creative industries. Both sites are integral to the deliver of the garden city.

The area around the Ebbsfleet International railway station has for a long time been identified by both national and local government as the location for a large scale mixed development.

Ebbsfleet itself is part of a wider strategic site within the adopted Dartford Core Strategy (2011) which also includes the area known as Eastern Quarry and the Northfleet West Sub Station