The urban quarters are separated from one another by areas of green space incorporating elements of the preexisting farms and woodland in an attempt to create permeability for the wildlife displaced by the development.

Large areas of publicly accessible "country park" buffer the site against its southern boundary adjoining the edge of Elburton, including cycle routes and sustainable urban drainage systems and biodiversity measures.

In February 2022, archaeologists led by Rob Bourn, managing director of Orion Heritage, announced the discovery of the remains of a woolly mammoth, reindeer, rhinoceros, bison, wolf and hyena in a cave system near the town.

Remains of a tusk, a molar tooth, other bones of a wooly mammoth, a partial skull and mandible of a woolly rhinoceros date to the middle of the last Ice Age between 60,000 and 30,000 years ago.

[10][11][12][13] Wessex archaeology, working in the business district, announced the discovery of a hitherto unknown ancient, presumed Roman road in early 2023.

[14] Constructed of crushed slate with drainage channels, it appears to cross the entire site through a landscape of square enclosed Romano-British farmsteads.