Saffron Park, a landmark mixed-tenure neighbourhood from Chase New Homes, will deliver 101 properties for private sale, along with 67 affordable homes in partnership with B3 Living. With the average Saffron Walden property price standing at £455,032[1], compared to a UK-wide average of £378,304[2], the affordable properties will do much to support local buyers to rent or own a home of their own.
The affordable homes will include 38 apartments and 29 houses, ensuring they meet a diverse range of needs at the 13-acre Saffron Park site. 70% of them will be allocated for Affordable Rent, offering below-market rents to qualifying locals. The other 30% will be available through Shared Equity, which helps buyers to get onto the property ladder through a part-buy, part-rent model.
In both cases, residents will have access to high-quality new homes in one of the region’s most charming and desirable locations. Saffron Walden made headlines as the Sunday Times’ Best Place to Live in the UK in 2025 and remains a highly sought-after location with both renters and homebuyers. With construction now well underway at Saffron Park, the new homes will provide an outstanding new housing option from as early as 2027. Every home includes innovative energy-efficient technologies to further support affordability by keeping running costs low.
The affordable homes will be delivered via a partnership between Chase New Homes and B3 Living, a highly regarded Registered Provider with a strong track record of delivering quality affordable housing across Hertfordshire and Essex. B3 Living’s commitment to well-managed, well-maintained affordable homes means residents across all tenures at Saffron Park will benefit from a consistent standard of living.
Saffron Park has been carefully designed to complement its setting within this historic Essex market town. The landscape-led development offers a thoughtfully curated mix of homes to suit a wide range of lifestyles, set within generous public open spaces, with green buffers, attenuation ponds and dedicated nesting areas for protected bird species supporting local biodiversity.
Construction is progressing apace, with the foundations, substructure block and brickwork, and block and beam already complete for the first 24 plots. With the above-ground brickwork now beginning, the transformational Thaxted Road development is truly beginning to take shape. The formation of the roads serving these first 24 homes is also underway, with tarmacking scheduled for completion by the end of June.
In terms of foundations, these are now complete for 71 houses in total. Along with the four apartment blocks (for which the substructure brickwork is also complete), this means foundations have now been laid for over half the site, providing a clear footprint of the future neighbourhood.
Paul Bennett, Sales and Marketing Director at Chase New Homes, comments: “We are incredibly proud of the progress being made at Saffron Park. This development represents so much more than new homes – it is an opportunity to deliver something genuinely inclusive for Saffron Walden: high-quality private homes alongside a meaningful affordable housing offer, provided by a first-class partner in B3 Living. With over half of our foundations now complete and above-groundwork beginning imminently, we look forward to welcoming our first residents in 2027.”
Designed to suit a wide range of needs, Saffron Park’s homes for private sale include a superb selection of houses offering between two and five bedrooms. Prices start from £600,000. Sales are expected to launch in early 2027, when a brand-new show home and sales area will open at Saffron Park. Until then, interested buyers can contact the sales team at Chase New Homes’ development The Waldens, just a few miles from Saffron Park. Those interested in Saffron Park’s affordable homes should contact B3 Living.
