Ohme partnership: Welborne Garden Village

Welborne garden village is a new community-driven project by the South Downs, that is designed and delivered by the Buckland Group.

With 6000 homes planned for 15,000 residents, the Buckland Group has chosen Ohme as its home EV charging partner for Welborne, helping its future residents to charge their cars at the cheapest and greenest times through Ohme’s unique software and technology.

Unusually, more than half of the land within Welborne’s design has been given over to publicly-accessible green space. Ancient woodland, playgrounds, parks, an orchard as well as allotments, tree-lined streets and wide grass verges, the site will boast 444 acres of green space and is being built in conjunction with three local house builders – CG Fry and Son, Pye Homes and Thakeham.

As well as these spaces, there will be 12 miles of cycleways and pedestrian routes as well as plenty of amenities including a primary school, nursery, independent shops and cafes, a GP surgery and a pub/ hotel.

The homes themselves will be fitted with cutting edge technology. As well as Ohme ePod home chargers and solar panels, Welborne will feature a state of the art groundwater-source energy network providing efficiency and economical heating and cooling to all homes. This is the UK’s largest deployment of such innovative technology.

“We chose Ohme as our EV charging partner because it was a quality brand which matched with Welborne’s ethos,” said Karen Guibeleguiet from Welborne. “One of the main stand out points is that they are connected via an internal SIM card rather than requiring wi-fi to be live in the house, so this was a very important point for us.”

The site at Welborne will have a gradual opening process with the first homes being completed on and moved into by the end of 2025.

Full details on Welborne Garden Village are available here