Milford-on-Sea Village Design Statement - New Forest District Council

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M I L F O R D O N S E A V I L L A G E D E S I G N S T A T E M E N T• Sea Road, Gillingham Road and Lucerne Road. A new Medical Centre has beendeveloped adjoining the existing War Memorial Hospital. The prefabricatedstructures have been demolished and a replacement car park constructed. In SeaRoad four bungalows have been built on a small single plot. Even though a greaterdensity must at times be expected, over-development and ‘cramming’ should beresisted where it adversely affects the quality of the local environment.North Central Area• Deans Court, Canon’s Walk and Dacres Walk are pleasantly grouped with openspaces. Some parts would benefit from more planting of ornamental trees, andspecial care should be taken of the street trees that have suffered from strimmerdamage. Indeed, many such trees have been lost in Knowland Drive, and shouldbe replaced. If any additional streetlights are required, especially in Deans Courtand the Walks, they should be of the same design as those in Deans Court and thevillage centre.• Lymington Road, on the eastern side from opposite the Old House to SchoolLane, is an Area of Special Character that should be maintained by theprotection/replanting of any trees or hedges lost. Manor Road is an important‘edge’ to <strong>Milford</strong>, facing the Green Belt. Its houses have individual character, beinga mixture of older ones, the earliest being 1916, and recent bungalows. At leastfour of the houses at the western end are of architectural interest and though notlisted as such, they should be preserved. The northern side of the road is tree linedand bordered by an informal footpath of gravel and grass verge that is in keepingwith the rural quality of the area and should be retained. The boundary of theGreen Belt is fenced with wire and would benefit from a traditional hedge beingplanted along the full length of the road. In the front gardens of the bungalows atthe eastern end of the road are significant pine trees, in keeping with much of theoriginal character of <strong>Milford</strong>, and these should be preserved. There is aconsiderable parking problem in Manor Road and Knowland Drive in school termtime, at 9am and between 3 and 4 pm when parents are dropping off or meetingtheir children. This has been looked at in the past, one solution being to provide alandscaped car park in a field near the school, but it has not been possible to reachagreement with the several parties involved. The issue needs to be addressedagain, urgently.New Medical CentreManor Road footpath• Kitwalls Lane is a private road with grass verges and large detached houses ofvarying age and style and with substantial gardens. It is one of the Areas ofSpecial Character shown in the Local Plan, and infilling would destroy its spaciousfeel. It is important to keep the hedges that separate the houses from the road, asthis adds to the character, and all utility supply lines should be put undergroundwhen possible.Sketch of Deans Court Lamppost18
M I L F O R D O N S E A V I L L A G E D E S I G N S T A T E M E N TEastern Area• Swallow Drive, Grebe Close and Plover Drive form a well thought-out estate, andthe co-ordinated design and choice of materials give it an attractive character. Thisharmony might be spoilt, however, if the front gardens should lose their opennessand replacement windows became too incongruous. More tree planting in opengreen areas either side of Swallow Drive is desirable.Swallow DriveKeyhaven Road overhead utility cables• In Eastern Way, Solent Way and Aubrey Close, some planting of hedges andshrubs, and a general tidying up of boundaries to front gardens and redecoration ofgarage groups would be an improvement. The same comment is true of frontgarden boundaries in Lawn Road. In this whole area, including Carrington Lane,Carrington Close and Northfield Road, overhead power and telephone lines areunsightly, and should be put underground whenever the opportunity arises.• The small industrial estate at Laundry Lane is an important provider of jobs in<strong>Milford</strong>. It is crowded, and if further development were needed it would be worthlooking at the possibility of replacing single storey units with two storey ones, ifnecessary with separate access to the first floors. The area would be improved bygeneral tidying up and rationalising the layout to avoid overcrowding at the front ofthe site and wasted space behind.• Keyhaven Road, at the <strong>Milford</strong> end, contains a mixture of styles, with attractiveolder cottages within the Conservation Area which need to retain their original frontelevations. Along this road to the east, cars tend to be parked in the road on apermanent basis, causing an occasional traffic hazard that should be looked atwhen wider traffic management measures are considered for the village. At theKeyhaven end of this road it is imperative that the open Green Belt countrysidebetween <strong>Milford</strong> and Keyhaven is kept as a visual and physical break between thetwo places. This is only a quarter of a mile wide, and even new agriculturalbuildings or temporary caravan rally sites there would have a very unfortunateeffect.As with some roads in the Eastern and South Central Areas, parts of KeyhavenRoad would benefit if unsightly overhead power cables and telephone lines were tobe put underground.• The open views from New Lane towards Sturt Pond, Hurst Spit and the Solent arean essential part of the coastal setting of the Parish, fringing the Area ofOutstanding Natural Beauty. Again, no intrusion should be allowed into this GreenBelt area, nor intensification of the existing caravan site.• The seafront area between the Needles’ Eye Café and Marine Café is bleak andunattractive. Grassing part of this area and re-siting some of the car parking to thewest of the Marine Café would greatly improve this section of the seafront.Key h aven Road - fo ot p a th pro p o s e d19
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