Consultation Draft 1 - Stoke-on-Trent City Council

DESIGN PRINCIPLES 7
7.3 General Design Principles for Hardworks
• The application of the materials matrix to the hierarchy of
streets and spaces will help to control cost, design quality and
pedestrian flows (refer to Chapter 6 for the City Centre spatial
hierarchy plan)
• In order to emphasise the hierarchical nature of the spaces,
feature paving should be included within the public squares
and feature spaces. Design features within feature paving
should incorporate feature bands, literary inscriptions, use
of contrasting blends, best use of textures, percentage ratio
blends and differing module sizes.
• Within the retail heart and public squares the specification will
be for natural stone materials that demand very high quality
detailing
• The concept for the surface treatments to the streets is based
on the little black dress, that you can dress up or down according
to the occasion. This will facilitate the expansion of the City
Centre in the longer term.
• The approach to the retail heart from the Potteries Way shall
be articulated through the increasing use of colour within the
paving materials: the colour range at the periphery of the City
Centre shall be grey, with the colour range increasing to grey,
cream, yellow and terracotta within the retail heart.
• Road markings should only be used where absolutely necessary,
and the width of line markings should be reduced from
standard widths in primary areas.
• consider raising paving levels where stepped access to shop
frontages is consistently required within individual streets, to
minimise adaptation of entrances to facilitate inclusive access
through ramps and handrails.
• A co-ordinated palette for hardworks should be adopted that
complements materials used in the surrounding buildings (refer
to the materials matrix for paving materials over the page).
A consistent palette will contribute to an overall branded image
• Selected materials should be robust enough to withstand regular
pressure washing and long term on-street trader and event
use; they should be maintainable in the long term, resistant to
vandalism and weather well.
• Retractable service supply units incorporating water and electricity
supplies should be incorporated into paved areas intended
for outdoor trading and events througout the City Centre.
• PV electrical charging points for electrically fuelled maintenance
vehicles should be incorporated on Town Road and near
the Town Hall, subject to further discussions.
• The current practice of red or green paint on City Centre roads
to define bus and cycle lanes should cease - these lanes will
need to be defined as part of the paving design.
• Sheffield City Centre, Ancoats Manchester and More London
schemes are to be used as best practice examples for incorporation
of hazard warning paving - hazard paving to be integrated
sympathetically into the design of the paving as a whole.
• Cycle lanes shall have a cycle paviour integrated into the paving
design, placed at 10m intervals.
dished sett drainage channel
stone setts and flags within the street
corduroy paving and inlaid strip to steps
cycle lane paviour, Bristol
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