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29 September 2000
The first ever TV series to be produced on the creation of a new community, as well as how new homes are designed, planned and built, is about to appear on Discovery Home and Leisure. On the recommendation of a number of local authorities, Discovery Home and Leisure chose to make their programme at Great Notley Garden Village, an award winning 465-acre new village to the south west of Braintree, which Countryside Properties has been creating since 1993.
The series has taken seven months to film and will be presented by Tim Grundy, in thirty, half hour programmes, making it one of the longest series shown on the Discovery Channel.
'The Villagers' starts on Tuesday 3rd October at 2.50pm on Discovery Home and Leisure. This will be its regular weekday slot on cable, satellite and digital. On digital, it will also be shown at prime time at 8.15pm on Fridays, and five episodes will be run back to back on Saturdays at 7.45pm.
'The Villagers' is a portrait of the hundreds of people and the numerous skills that go into making a new community. It has 'looked over the shoulder' of planners, architects, designers and building controllers, to learn how and why a particular mix of homes and residential layouts are arrived at. Specialists have been filmed putting in the infrastructure, digging the foundations, laying bricks, tiling roofs and plumbing bathrooms. They have met the management teams co-ordinating the whole operation, the landscape architects, ecologists, designers, artists and gardeners.
The film has also spoken to the residents of Great Notley, some even as they move in, and has asked them why they chose to live there. It has followed the whole process of how a muddy field has become a vibrant new community.
Great Notley Garden Village is an inspirational new development by Countryside Properties, incorporating all of the aspects you would expect to find in a typical English country village that has evolved over many decades. When it is completed, (scheduled for 2007,) Great Notley will incorporate over 2000 new homes, 180-acres of public open space, including a 100-acre country park and a six-acre village green, shops, schools, a new doctor's surgery, veterinary surgery, church, village pub and public art, as well as further community and leisure facilities and a 400,000 sq.ft. business park. Today, more than 1,000 homes are occupied at Great Notley.
For new homes sales enquiries at Great Notley Garden Village, please telephone Countryside Residential on: 01277 690 660 or Copthorn Homes on: 01376 327 682
Alternatively, visit Countryside Properties' website at: www.countryside-properties.co.uk or email group@cpplc.com
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Information correct as at 29/09/2000