Sherford is a

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under construction in

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. Part of the land for development lies within

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and the rest with the

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. Development on the site was originally due to start in 2007 and its first 300 dwellings were to be built in 2009. In August 2015, the construction of the new town started on the first 700 homes after South Hams council accepted a new planning application in December 2011, formal planning permission was granted on 12 November 2013. Homes will be built by a number of developers including

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, Linden Homes and

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, with progress now managed by specialist development managers Brookbanks. The project is part funded by a £32 million repayable government loan. A new swimming pool will also be built in the town, which will be the closest pool to the residents of

Plymstock Plymstock is a commuter suburb of Plymouth and former civil parish in the English county of Devon. Geography Situated on the east bank of the River Plym, Plymstock is geographically and historically part of the South Hams. It comprises the vil ...

. It will include three primary schools, one secondary school, a library, a youth centre, a health centre and a new town centre with retail. Construction work on the first primary school and local centre square has recently started. Sherford Primary will open in September 2018. In total, the new town is expected to create 7000 new jobs. Once completed, it is expected to have 5,500 dwellings built over the period of 20 years. Over 1000 of the houses will be "low cost" due to the high discrepancy between house prices and wages in the area. The town planning will use traditional

urbanisation Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It is predominantly the ...

to make the town

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by constructing energy efficient buildings and laying out the town so that people live close to a main street. The aim is that shops, schools and businesses will be within walking distance of residents' homes. Whilst excavating the site, an ancient settlement was discovered, believed to be over 3000 years old. In February 2022, archaeologists led by Rob Bourn, managing director of Orion Heritage announced the discovery of the remains of a

woolly mammoth The woolly mammoth (''Mammuthus primigenius'') is an extinct species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with '' Mammuthus subp ...

reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

rhinoceros A rhinoceros (; ; ), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. (It can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species o ...

bison Bison are large bovines in the genus ''Bison'' (Greek: "wild ox" (bison)) within the tribe Bovini. Two extant and numerous extinct species are recognised. Of the two surviving species, the American bison, ''B. bison'', found only in North Ame ...

wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...

and

hyena Hyenas, or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek , ), are feliform carnivoran mammals of the family Hyaenidae . With only four extant species (each in its own genus), it is the fifth-smallest family in the Carnivora and one of the smallest in the clas ...

in a cave system near the town. Over 200 clusters of bones have been removed by the explorers to analize the life in Ice Age in Britain. Remains of a

tusk Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canine teeth, as with pigs and walruses, or, in the case of elephants, elongated incisors. Tusks share c ...

, molar tooth, other bones of a wooly mammoth, a partial

skull The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of four types of bone i.e., cranial bones, facial bones, ear ossicles and hyoid bone. However two parts are more prominent: the cranium and the mandible. In humans, the ...

and

mandible In anatomy, the mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human facial skeleton. It forms the lower jaw and holds the lower tooth, teeth in place. The mandible sits beneath the maxilla. It is the only movabl ...

of a woolly rhinoceros date to the middle of the last

Ice Age An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and gree ...

between 60,000 and 30,000 years ago.

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Populated places in Devon New towns in England New towns started in the 2010s