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Building communities in Hampshire Masterplanning for delivery
Peter Frankum – Savills Urban Design Studio
The Hampshire context The pressure for growth Emerging solutions
Content
Historic growth of settlements Local identity
Lessons learnt
Implementation Examples
Hampshire context
Winchester
AndoverBasingstoke
Southampton Eastleigh
Fareham
Portsmouth
Havant
Gosport
urban centres
The challenge – the pressure for growthUnderstanding the place and delivering quality
The challenge• Pressure for growth
• Getting the right design response
• Hampshire specific and local identity
• Responding to local issues
• Understanding constraints
• Obtaining local buy in/ ownership
• Ensuring quality is a priority
• Viable and sustainable change
• Quality places – the lasting legacy
Typical issues• Setting out clear evidence based advice
• Quality of skills/ resources in placemaking
• Available, clear and constructive guidance
• Ensuring development should respond to site
and context
• Avoid one solution fits all policies and designs
• Poorly designed places (unwelcoming)
• Poor access to transport, facilities, jobs
• Unviable development areas
• Avoiding short-term development and places
• Is quality still a priority over other pressures for
development?
‘…there is no there there….’ Gertrude Stein
The pressure for growth in Hampshire
Policy and housing delivery
Local Plans•38% of LPAs in Hampshire have a post NPPF plan•Current adopted plans have a total housing requirement of 6,068•Average housing delivery across Hampshire over the past 3 years is 5% higher than total housing requirement•Adopted housing requirement represents a 0.8% increase to existing housing stock
The pressure for growth in Hampshire
Housing need
•MHCLG’s standard approach to housing need produces a total need of 8,088 across Hampshire•Average 3 year delivery is 78% of MHCLG housing need•This housing need represents a 1.1% increase to existing housing stock across Hampshire
Land supplyMost recently published land supply figures give Hampshire 6.0 years land supply
Focus on south Hampshire
Winchester
AndoverBasingstoke
Southampton Eastleigh
Fareham
Portsmouth
Havant
Gosport
Buchanan Report 1965 for MoH
Southampton Eastleigh
Fareham
Portsmouth
GosportSouthampton
Portsmouth
“Solent City” 1965
Harold Wilson's Labour government commissioned town planner Colin Buchanan in 1965 to study the region.
Growing economic importance, in desperate need of proper planning to avoid unplanned sprawl, and suggested the construction of a modernist urban area.
Focus on the M27 Corridor
Basingstoke
Southampton
Eastleigh
Fareham
Portsmouth
Havant
Winchester
Whiteley BerewoodWelbourne
Knowle
Horton Heath
Barton Farm
Whiteley – what was left of Solent City
Developed from the late 1980s via the Hampshire Plan in the 1970s
Taken forward I the Winchester Local Plan, with supporting SPG
DB32 street hierarchy and zoned planning
Whiteley – what was left of Solent City
Whiteley – what was left of Solent City
Over 6,000 population today
Schools
District/ regional retail
Business park
Strategy for further growth north with another 4,000 homes.
Zoned development
A change in directionPlacemaking for new communities
Master plan approach:Activities anduses
Avoid segregating facilities from housing which will only encourage reliance on the car.
Master planning quality places
How the design of places can influence where social issues and crime can take place.(example of Savills Study of Blackbird Leys, Oxford).
Step1: Understanding the place and people
Step2: Sustainable structure
Step3: Relate nature and density
Step4: Streets and spaces
Step5: Local identity
Step6: Safe and secure
Step 7: Design for change
Key steps to delivery quality
Whiteley – looking forwards..
North Whiteley
Strategy for further growth north with another 4,000 homes.
Connected and mixed used areas.
Masterplanners: Terence O’Rourke
Whiteley – looking forwards..
North Whiteley
Strategy for further growth north with another 4,000 homes.
Connected and mixed used areas.
Case study
• Major Development Area, land west of Waterlooville• MDA master plan for 3,000 homes• Employment of approx 13 ha• Local centre/ High Street• Health and community• Two schools• Sports pitches and open space
• Tools:• 3D Master Plan• Design Code• Stakeholder and public engagement• Consultation movie• EIA• Design and Access Statement
Site and context
Berewood – West of Waterlooville
Contextual analysis: Activities
Contextual analysis: Schools
Site and constraintsLandscape
Master plan rationale developmentCreating new communities
Existing character areas Connecting activities
Master plan rationale developmentCreating new communities
Connecting landscapes Passive solar
influences
Master plan rationale developmentCreating new communities
Walkable neighbourhoodsConnected place
Concept Framework ScenarioCreating new communities
Berewood – West of Waterlooville
Berewood – West of Waterlooville
Barton Farm
2,000 homesApproved after appeal processConnected grid of streetsLocal centre (mixed use)Phase 1 and 2 underway
Masterplanners:JTP
Welbourne Garden Village, Fareham
Garden Village6,000 homes
1million sqft employment5735 jobs
108 ha of natural green space
Upgrade to J10
Rapid bus system proposed to Farehamtown centre
AllocatedNot currently being delivered
Summary
Lessons learnt
Know the placeLocal identity and settlement context ConstraintsOpportunities – sense of placeConnected
Know the risksWhat creates a successful place?Need to a legible connected environmentWhat is flexible for the long term?Can the strategy be responsive? (economy/ market and need)
Summary
Good understanding of the site
Helps ensure that there is a logic to the design
Proposal will be responsive to context and need
Proposals more likely to be deliverable if based on sound appraisals
Above all - should improve quality of design and create a place
“These are my principles. If
you don’t like them, I have
others”Groucho Marx
CreditsJTP Grainger plcSnug ArchitectsCala HomesBloor HomesAdam UrbanismTerence O’Rourke LtdWinchester City Council Thank you!