A Vision for South Worcester · • Loss of trees and existing hedgerows will ruin the wildlife...
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July 2011
A Vision for South Worcester
Masterplanning &
Community
Planning
Sustainable
Transport &
Engineering
Planning &
Real Estate
Cost Consultants
Environmental
Planning and
Design
Design TeamClient /
Land Promotor
• BACKGROUND
• COMMUNITY PLANNING
- Workshop
- Hands on Planning
• COMMUNTY BRIEF
• THE VISION
- CONCEPT MASTERPLAN
- VILLAGE CENTRE
- RESIDENTIAL AREAS
- JOBS/ BUSINESS
- LANDSCAPE STRATEGY
• WAY FORWARD
Content
Why do we need more houses in
South Worcestershire?
• 21,600 new households will be required in South Worcestershire 2008-2030
• household growth mostly in one-person households – rise by 15,600 (70%)
• 9,600 (75%) required for 75+ age bracket
SOUTH WORCESTERSHIRE
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Worcester City Proposals Map
Extract showing Draft Allocation SWDP 8/1
8 WEEK CONSULTATION 26th September – 18th November 2011
DROP-IN-EVENTS
10th October: Kempsey
25th October: St Peter’s
Promotion of event
St Peter the Great
Norton
Norton Barracks
Wetland areas
Upper Broomhall Farm
Crookbarrow Hill
Traffic counting on Ketch roundabout
Congestion on A4440
Poor environment for cyclists
Reception
Welcome
Introduction to Planning issues
Workshop• Residents were asked to identify
their concerns about the new
development. This included
thinking about the impact on the
wider area
• Each issue was written on a
separate Post-it note
Workshop - Process
Workshop• The Post-it notes were collected
up and read out one-by-one
• People then had the chance to
expand on what they had written
or comment on other‟s issues
• The team noted down anything
which was said in addition to what
was on the Post-it notes and also
recorded important statements as
direct quotes
Workshop - Process
Workshop• After being read out, the Post-it
notes were grouped under
headings which highlighted the
most important topics
• When there were no more issues
to discuss, residents were asked
to repeat the process. Firstly,
writing down their dreams for the
area and secondly, their solutions
for how these might be achieved
• The following slides provide a
summary of the key issues and
ideas which came out of this
Workshop process
Workshop - Process
Movement
& Transport• Traffic is already congested and
new development makes it worse
• Ketch and Norton roundabouts are
dangerous for pedestrians and
cyclists
• Cars speed on rural roads and rat
run to the M5
• Buses are too expensive, limited
and infrequent
• Not enough cycle paths
• Pedestrian routes are unfriendly
and unsafe
Workshop - Summary of issues
Environment• Kempsey has suffered from
serious flooding and new
development will make this worse
• Loss of trees and existing
hedgerows will ruin the wildlife
habitat
Workshop - Summary of issues
Community• St. Peter‟s, Norton Barracks &
Kempsey fear loosing their distinct
identities if new development
comes too close
• Concern that new homes will be
built without adequate facilities
• Existing schools and services will
be unable to cope with the number
of new residents
• Not enough parks, community
facilities and gathering places
• New affordable housing will drag
down property values
Workshop - Summary of issues
Community • A range of accommodation from
supported independent living to
extra care homes is required for
the increasing number of elderly
people
• No-one wants to live near a gypsy
and traveller site.
• There are not enough youth
facilities
Workshop - Summary of issues
“Existing Gypsy and travellers sites are
unused - why build more”
Workshop - Summary of issues
“People want to get us off the streets, but with a lack of activity centres and the constant nag of parents to get more fresh air, this is the only place we have to go!” - Local young person
Economy• Not enough existing jobs to
warrant a new community
• Concern that Tesco in St Peter‟s
will be replaced with new
supermarket on A4440
Workshop - Summary of issues
“Provide new jobs in a new village centre that
will benefit all the nearby towns and
villages as well”
Hands-on
Planning (HOP)• After the Workshop, residents were
invited to join smaller groups
focusing on particular subjects of
interest to them such as traffic or
landscape
• Sitting around tables, these groups
worked with team members to
produce plans and lists of ideas
• After an hour or so, each group
presented their ideas back to the rest
of the room and answered questions
from other residents
Hands-on Planning (HOP) - Process
Hands-on
Planning (HOP)• The following slides illustrate the
plans which came out of each group
and include a key highlighting the
main ideas in each
• Because each group had different
members, with different interests, the
plans illustrate a wide variety of ideas
• These ideas are not necessarily
compatible with each other, and in
some cases might not be capable of
delivery, but reflect the input of the
residents in each group
Hands-on Planning (HOP) - Process
HOP 1
GETTING SOUTH
WORCESTER MOVING
1. A4440: Decrease
congestion
2. Park and Ride
3. Commercial area
4. Community
centre and
primary school
5. Bus Route
6. Alternative North
/ South route
past Norton
7. Recreation area
Getting South
Worcester
moving
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8. Enlarged
Junctions
9. Pedestrian
crossings at
grade
10. Enlarge A4440
11. Gateway
entrance
12. Boulevard
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Getting South
Worcester
moving
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HOP 2
MAKING
CONNECTIONS
“We don’t have a medical centre here, you have to go into Worcester all the time.”
1. New footbridge
2. Visual connection
to Malvern Hills
3. Linkage to River
Severn
4. Better connection
to the West
5. Pedestrian
connection to
sports pitch and
green areas
6. Roundabouts act
are barriers
Making
Connections
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7. Appropriate
density and
green space
8. Keep trees and
hedgerows
9. Ponds /green
outside floodplain
to retain water
10. Cycling loop
11. New centre to be
well connected
Making
Connections
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HOP 3
COMMUNITY
HEART
“Hanley Castle has spare capacity to take children from the new
development – a secondary school is
not required.”
1. New street kinked
to avoid speeding
2. Community Hub at
centre of Village
with
Primary school
Police station
Health services
Social services
Advice centre
Youth club
Adult education
Library
Meeting
rooms/halls
Community
Heart
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3. Green Links with
active frontage
4. Employment
should be located
to avoid nuisance
to residents
5. Secured by
Design should be
achieved by whole
development
Community
Heart
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HOP 4
CONSTRAINTS
“I hope you will learn from the flooding in 2007 and it will make you wiser!”
1. Existing
development
2. Possible flood
area
3. A38
4. A4440
5. M5 Motorway
Understanding
Constraints
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6. Existing
community
centre
7. Species rich
hedgerows
8. New
development
9. Noise from M5
Motorway
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Understanding
Constraints
10. Taylors Lane
(rural road)
11. Historic farm
house and
associated
buildings
12. Broomhall
Cottages
13. Garden centre
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10Understanding
Constraints
14. Broomhall
Brook
15. Pond including
great crested
newts
16. Historic farm
and
associated
buildings
17. Broomhall
Lane (rural
road)
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Understanding
Constraints
HOP 5
LOCAL
LIVELIHOOD
“Everyone gets in their cars to go to work. Can we have a different type of employment
that doesn’t create more traffic.”
1. List of community –
based employment
uses – to avoid
unwanted traffic
generation
2. List of other
community uses
3. List of local themes
of interest
4. Possible new
station to reduce
traffic congestion
5. Employment uses
that generate traffic
to be located closer
to M5 junction
Local
Livelihood
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Local
Livelihood1
21. List of community –
based employment
uses – to avoid
unwanted traffic
generation
2. List of other
community uses
5. Commercial activity
along A4440
6. Links to E-W spine
road
7. Site‟s good
southern
orientation, with
northern edge to
A4440
8. Park and ride at
Ketch roandabout
9. Potential interest
from surrounding
villages in new
facilities
Local
Livelihood
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HOP 6
YOU‟VE GOT TO CREATE A HEART
“Finding the right location for the centre is important!”
Pros and Cons -
whether to locate new
central functions and
services:
close to A 38
Or
closer to the
middle of the
new developent
Create a
HEART
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Create a HEART
Character
- New / Modern, or
- Traditional
Warndon Villages (similar size to South Worcester)
- No focal point, difficult to find
- It has: Shops, Petrol, Doctor, Dentist, Community
centre, Pub, Post Office
- Lots of facilities for young and old
- But, doesn‟t feel local, just a dormitory suburb
Broad mix of uses to be ensured
- Employment, Shops, Homes
To create sustainable jobs
- Emphasis on technology jobs
- Cluster of Live-Work units
- Marketing needed for target group
Create a HEART
Design should
- not be “chocolate box”
- allow individual design/ variety
- avoid “suburban” appearance
- allow a freedom of design within agreed overall parameters
- encourage self-built homes
Centre
- Community facilities (things to do / place to go)
- to be located at the heart of the new village
- easy to get to, especially by pedestrians and cyclists
(separate routes)
- start to plan the centre right from the beginning –
different functions brought together – similar to the church
in St Peter‟s
HOP 7
ECO-ENTERPRISE
“With the many new residents and people it needs a proper supermarket.”
1. Self build homes
2. Community
centre
3. Supermarket
4. Commercial
5. Cycle track
Eco-
Enterprise
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6. Recreation area
7. Sports area
8. Primary school
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Eco-
Enterprise
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HOP 8
GREEN
FRAMEWORK
“We will contain the flood water within the site and so won’t make
anything worse for Kempsey.”
1. Green spaces
follow water
courses and
floodplains
2. Join existing
hedgerows and
woodland to create
green network
3. Green network
creates parcels of
land for
development
4. Road network links
development
parcels
Green Framework
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5. Listed buildings set
within green
network
6. Green link to
Severn Way
7. Housing within
woodland
8. New woodland
along M5
9. Access to sports
facilities
Green Framework
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HOP 9
SETTLEMENT PATTERNS
“To improve connections we need much better footpaths and
cyclelanes across the A4440.”
1. Norton „buffer‟
2. New pedestrian +
cycle crossings
on dualised
A4440
3. Pedestrian +
cycle bridge from
St Peter‟s
4. New road link to
sports facilities,
from Norton
Road
5. Possible
improved
pedestrian link
Settlement
Patterns5
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6. New employment
7. New residential
over-looking
Severn
8. Park and ride
9. Internal roads will
avoid additional
pressure on
existing network
10. Character of
existing rural
lanes preserved
Settlement
Patterns
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11. Traditional footbridge
involves long ramps
and high steps.
Inconvenient, and
users feel exposed
and vulnerable
12. Footbridge using
existing or enhanced
topography to bridge
over widened A4440.
More likely to be
used, as more
convenient and less
intimidating. Bunds
also improve sound-
proofing
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Settlement
Patterns
HOP 10
RESOLVING EXISTING ISSUES
“If we can’t get the current traffic issues solved it could be a stumbling block for any further development.”
1. Dual A4440
2. Enlarge junctions
with improved
pedestrian
crossings
3. Park and ride
4. New orbital bus
route
5. New radial bus
route through to
Kempsey
Resolving
Exisiting Issues
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HOP 11
BROOMHALL COTTAGE
GREENS
“If there is going to be a green buffer people want it to be full
of active uses and well maintained - not full of litter and
shopping trolleys!”
1 Broomhall Cottages
on Broomhall
2 Ideas about how new
development could
respond to existing
Broomhall Cottages
3 Buffer zone – green
strip requested by
Norton community
4 Concern about poor
use of green strip due
to lack of management
– rubbish tipping and
poor landscaping
5 Ideas about proper
use of green strip –
allotments, sports, bio-
diversity, local park
with play space
3
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4Broomhall
Greens 5
6. Possible solutions
to resolve existing
parking
arrangements
7. New public open
space to retain
openness at rear of
properties
8. New dwellings
fronting onto open
space
9. Possibility for
houses to have
direct connections
to their rear
gardens
Broomhall
Greens
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HOP 12
BROOMHALL
GARDEN VILLAGE
“We tried to find a solution that connects
communities but does not merge
them together.”
1. Green spaces follow
water courses and
floodplains
2.. Higher density
development
3. Lower density housing
4. Park and ride
5. Footbridge
Broomhall
Garden Village
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Broomhall
Garden Village
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6. High value housing
or retirement village
with view across
Severn River to
Malvern Hill
7. Severn Way
8. Pedestrian routes
to Severn way
9. Existing Yacht club
10. Listed buildings
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Broomhall
Garden Village
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4. Park & Ride
5. Footbridge
6. High value housing
or retirement village
with view across
Severn River to
Malvern Hill
7. Severn Way
8. Pedestrian routes
to Severn way
9. Existing Yacht club
10. Listed buildings
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5
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Broomhall
Garden Village
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11. Village square
12. Community building
as focal point
13. Shopping/mixed
use quarter around
square
14. Primary school
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Broomhall
Garden Village
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15. Approved
development by
others
16. Garden centre
17. Woodland housing
18. Sports facilities
19. Possible new
access to sports
facilities 17
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Broomhall
Garden Village
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15. Approved
development by
others
16. Garden centre
17. Housing in
woodland
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Team Working• Following the public events on Friday
and Saturday, the team worked in a
local hotel from Sunday to
Wednesday
• They began by analysing all the
information gathered at the event
• This helped to define a „Community
Brief‟ representing the key issues and
aspirations to be addressed
• This brief was used as a basis for the
creation of a „Vision‟ masterplan for
the study area representing an initial
idea of what development might look
like
Team Working