Developing in Partnership with Bloor Homes
Developing in Partnership with Bloor Homes
The Duchy of Lancaster in partnership with Bloor Homes is to bring much-needed new homes to Wollaston in Northamptonshire. The Duchy has made 6.3 hectares of development land at Hookhams Path available for housing and Bloor Homes has secured planning approval for the construction of 98 new homes on the site. The new development will […]
Centenary Year For Rushden Golf Club
One of our longest serving tenants is celebrating their centenary this year. Rushden Golf Club first began with a small group of local businessmen who in the early 1900s marked out a field at Stanwick in order to play a few holes. By 1919 however the Club had settled into its present site on Duchy […]
New Lease of Life for Disused Farm Buildings
The Duchy of Lancaster has formed a joint venture with award-winning housebuilder Francis Jackson Homes to transform a number of disused agricultural buildings on its Higham Ferrers estate in Northamptonshire into a small residential development. Five individually designed homes will be created on Bidwell Lane in the village of Caldecott, just 2 miles from the […]
New Special School To Be Built At Higham Ferrers
The Duchy of Lancaster has agreed to release 2.2 hectares of land for the building of a new free school at Rushden on its historic Higham Ferrers estate. Built by the Department for Education and to be run by Friars Academy Trust, this specially designed secondary school will offer places to 145 students with special […]
New Rural Surveyor Joins The Team
In 2015 the Duchy of Lancaster realigned its Rural Surveys and brought the management of its Southern Survey in-house under its new Head of Rural, Christopher Sparrow. Three years on, the Survey has expanded by 50 per cent following a series of strategic acquisitions and reviews. This has prompted the need to recruit a new […]
