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Open space Developers have now lodged Canterbury’s largest planning application in history – a vast “garden suburb” of 4,000 homes.

Dubbed Mountfield Park, the scheme in south Canterbury would see the city expand by an area four times the size of the historic centre.

Corinthian Land’s proposals – now submitted to the city council – show a huge residential community on what is currently 560 acres of green space.

If granted permission, the scheme would stretch from Canterbury’s southern edge as far as the village of Bridge.

Images released exclusively to this newspaper show how the future development could look.

A civic square, flanked by three and four-storey buildings, can be pinpointed on Corinthian’s latest masterplan, also revealed today.

Alongside thousands of contemporary homes, Mountfield Park would offer shops, office

space, sports pitches, two primary schools and a potential new site for Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

New public squares and green spaces are to be created, and a new road system.

A new park and ride scheme would provide access to the city centre, and the entire development offers direct access to the A2 via a new interchange.

John Trotter, development director for Corinthian Land, said: “This will not be a housing estate, but a vibrant and wellsupported community that will be developed gradually as the demand dictates.

“We hope it will become a wellintegrated part of the city.”

Planned along “garden city”principles, Mountfield Park would deliver 1,200 affordable homes, 70,000 sq m of business space, parkland and woodland, doctors’ surgeries, and community meeting spaces.