City Centre Vision 2 - Southampton Connect

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Charlotte Place
Gateway to the city
centre
Charlotte Place marks the north-eastern
approach to the city centre.
Charlotte Place:
A key landmark building, a 270 bedroom hotel, on the northern corner that
relates to the scale of the existing tall buildings on Brunswick Place and Dorset
Street. This adds to the proposed backdrop of tall buildings fronting onto the
central parks.
A visual corridor and landscaping across the site, linking the central parks with
St Mary’s Road; incorporating a new public plaza and surface level crossings as
part of the gyratory traffic light scheme.
Commercial offices (9,800 sq m).
An underground public car park (80 spaces).
St Mary’s Road:
The Southampton Healthy Living Centre, will provide a mix of health and leisure
facilities, student and key-worker accommodation and primary care medical
facilities. There will be strong links to a refurbished and remodelled St Mary’s
Leisure Centre, which, in addition to new sports facilities, will contain a suite of
consulting and training rooms providing lifestyle services.
Student accommodation will be incorporated into a 13 storey building to the
north of the site reducing to 4 storeys on St Mary’s Road.
A new stepped public plaza on the south side of the development, maintains a
visual and landscaped link from the central parks to St Mary’s Road.
© Stride Treglown
Main: Hotel from north-west, Charlotte Place
(architects impression)
Right top: Hotel nearing completion – April 2005
Right bottom: Impression of the proposed Southampton
Healthy Living Centre, St Mary’s Road,
courtesy of Stride Treglown.
East Park Terrace:
Redevelopment of the existing ambulance station and Central Health Clinic site
on East Park Terrace will include a mix of residential, commercial and
educational uses.
New buildings will increase in scale towards Charlotte Place.
Taller buildings of significant scale will be encouraged in keeping with all new
development fronting onto the central parks.
See also:
Southampton City Centre Urban Design Strategy (2001)
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