Bond Head Community
Bradford-West Gwillimbury

Date: 2002-date
Partner-in-charge: John Bousfield, Bob Cutler, Robert Glover

As part of a multi-disciplinary consultant team retained by Geranium Corporation and Metrus Developments, and through a public participation process, Bousfields led the development of an urban design concept plan and urban design policies for the proposed Secondary Plan of an expanded Bond Head mixed-use residential community.  Located within the Town of Bradford-West Gwillimbury, the village is expected to grow from an existing population of 500 residents to a population of approximately 7,000 people over a period of 20 years.

The major urban design challenge was to develop a plan that would structure limited growth in a manner that protects and enhances the urban design amenity of the existing village in its rural landscape.  The major urban design structuring elements include:

• a by-pass road system
• improved main streets and civic and commercial centre of the village area
• a pattern of improved existing local streets and new local streets to provide physical and visual connections between areas of the village and to areas beyond
• a pattern of well-defined and linked parks, trails, natural areas and accessible open spaces to provide physical and visual connections through and to the boundary of the community and  
          the areas beyond the village
• a “natural” boundary for the village, comprised of the existing natural features and open spaces associated with Penville Creek, existing woodlots and new recreational parks.