Rummey Design Brochure - Residential Design & Planning

Welcome to the second WYE3
consultation event.
We’re here to present the results of our consultation The emerging concepts and land use ideas we are
events to date including the issues and ideas that have presenting today illustrate possible ways in which
emerged from your feedback. Working with these we Wye could develop in future years while retaining the
have developed two emerging concepts that consider qualities that are important to the community. They also
how WYE3 might evolve. Based on these emerging identify land uses for the WYE3 sites.
concepts we have also developed a number of land use
ideas for the WYE3 sites.
We would like you to comment on these concepts and
The need for Wye to retain its village character has ideas so that we can understand your preferences
emerged as the most important factor for the local better prior to assessing the viability of the ideas and
community when considering the future of WYE3. The transport impact. We will then produce a first draft
unique character of Wye is seen as being enhanced masterplan for further consultation.
by the variety of architectural styles in the historic
core, tied together by a common street frontage to
the pavement, its small palette of materials, and by its
wider landscape setting.
WYE3 consultation timeline to date
meeting withWYE3 tenants
neighbourhood plan workshop 6
tours of the WYE3 sites 28/29
WYE3 Sounding Board event 2
stakeholder meetings
january february march
7 14 21 28 4 11 18 25 4 11 18 25
third WYE3 consultation event 15/16
september october november december
3 10 17 24 1 8 15 22 5 12 19 26 3 10 17 24
WYE3 Consultation Café 19/20
neighbourhood plan workshop 3
WYE3 Sounding Board event 1 3
meeting with Wye Business Association 14
meeting with WYE3 tenants 19
Head of Wye Primary School & Wye Juniors 26
meeting with Councillor Steve Wright 27
neighbourhood plan workshop 1
WYE3 development ideas consultation 7/8
What’s next?
Sewage
A ce s to
Ecology
ADAS
was
Traffic
Housing
itself.
The principle of development at WYE3 has been We have named these concepts The Compact illage’
established through its predominantly brownfield status and Clustered Development’.
and its inclusion in the Tenterden and Rural Sites
Development Plan Document. Based on your feedback They both respond directly to your comments but in
and on our observations made at the Neighbourhood different ways. As discussed, these are emerging
Plan workshops, two concepts have begun to emerge concepts our first thoughts and have yet to be tested
that look at how the future of the WE3 sites will fit against viability.
into, and be of benefit to, the village as a whole.
We would like to receive your feedback on these
These concepts look at development on the WYE3 sites, concepts and ideas before progressing any further. We
taking two different approaches to addressing your can then use this feedback to develop these concepts
comments:
and present a more refined draft masterplan at our next
consultation event on the 15 th /16 th February 2013.
the potential effect of development on the village’s
compact nature;
the pressures of traffic on the existing infrastructure;
the impact on the surrounding countryside;
how it might meet your aspirations for a sustainable
future for the village.
Concept 1: ‘The
Compact Village’
The compact settlement has
been identified in the emerging
Neighbourhood Plan workshops and
within our consultation feedback. This
theme identifies a walkable settlement
defining the limits of the village at 500m
from Church Street (being the current
distance from the centre of Church Street
to the Station and southern tip of the
village).
This theme therefore means that
the WYE3 sites are reduced in their
development potential (particularly
ADAS and Withersdane). By limiting
development land this means that the
land allowed for growth is more dense,
and similar to the village centre (although
with a better parking strategy). It does
mean that the edges of the village can
be more extensively landscaped with
woodland to provide sufficient visual
buffer to mask this density.
Concept 2: ‘Clustered
Development’
The Clustered Development concept is
the opposite to the compact settlement
in that it provides for lower densities
in more land and encourages new
landscapes (woodland) to permeate
between the blocks and thus reducing
any visual or physical impact whilst also
providing a green infrastructure within
which development sits.
The benefits to this approach are to bring
the ecology into the village (as identified
during our consultation) and connect to
existing open spaces such as the Church
Field, Church yard and The Green.
Sco ton Str et
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Vi lage.
Sco ton Street
busine s use
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think of these.
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buildings
buildings
listed buildings
Dark Lane
This potential development of up to 220 houses is on a sensitive
site adjacent to Grade I and II Listed buildings, in a conservation
area and an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Existing
residents have strong feelings about the re-development of the
land owned by a university. Rummey Design’s role has included
extensive consultation, strategic design and preparation for a
Planning Application (Outline and Detail).
strategic design
Olantigh Road
Occupation Road
Scotton Street
consultation
WYE3 consultation event 2:
Welcome...
WYE3 consultation event 2:
Your feedback ...
At our first consultation event, the Consultation Caf
held at the Kempe Centre on the 19 th and 20 th October,
we asked you to share your views and ideas, asking
the fo lowing questions:
1. What do you believe are the i sues that
need to be addre sed when considering the
future of WYE3?
2. What are your ideas for WYE3 and what
opportunities might be presented there?
community?
There were 59 responses, as we l as many discu sions
with members of the design team over the course of
the two day event. This feedback was then considered
further during our first sounding board event.
During the course of these events you also suggested
specific land uses for the WE 3 sites. These, along
with the rest of the feedback are i lustrated by the
diagrams below. The larger the circle the more
important or popular the i sue or idea was.
Employment opportunties
Shared use of co lege facilities
Decent IT infrastructure
Arboretum fo recreation
Riverside walk
Increased custom for shops
Gym/sports facilities
Swimming pool
Sustainability
Visual Impact for North Downs
Compact Vi lage
Parking
A fordable housing
for young people
Lack o facilities
for young people
Withersdane Gardens
Secondary School Vi lage Ha l
Community meeting rooms
Training space
Automatic ba rier on railway
o benefits for the community
Retai l outlets
Education
Religious retreat
Issues to be addressed
You would welcome local employment opportunities
and the provision of sports facilities. The community
use of the listed buildings is also important.
Ideas for the listed buildings
and Kempe Centre
Receptions/events
Listed buildings
Community use
Kempe centre
Community centre/library
existing infrastructure
Sustainability
Heritage
There is widespread desire for Wye to become a
sustainable vi lage. This means di ferent things
to di ferent people. Particula responses to our
consultation include:
o f grid energy generation;
walkable se tlement;
integrated busine s and housing to reduce vehicle
movements;
a mix of housing including a fordable;
decentralised facilities (such as WyeCycle);
local community based food production.
WYE3 consultation event 2:
General issues
The need for Wye to remain a vi lage is the most
important i sue that comes across. Wye i seen as a
local service centre for the Wye with Hinxhi l Parish
and neighbouring Parishes. It is considered to be as
large as desired from the south in particular due to the
historic growth of the se tlement in this direction.
The compactne s of the se tlement is paramount to
retaining this vi lage character. Of importance is also
an understanding of building materials used in Wye
and an appreciation of the character of the historic
core are also important.
The centre of Wye and its conservation area define the
character of the vi lage. The listed co lege buildings
are considered to be an integral part of the vi lage
centre and there is a desire to use these buildings for
the benefit of the community, particularly the grade 1
parts. The a tractive centre was frequently pointed out
and the fact that Wye has a particularly sma l pale te
of materials used that a lows it to sit in the landscape
without being visua ly intrusive and that ties the
di ferent period buildings into a Wye character’.
Listed buildings need to be protected and used
Demolish large
dilapidated buildings
You are most concerned that development on WYE3
wi l have a negative impact on traffic and alter the
compact nature of the village.
WYE3: Ideas and opportunties
Local f od production
Local electricity generation
Encourage people to walk and cycle
Environmental research centre
Community orchard
Land based industry/agri-centre
Sustainable, green development
Gr en Infrastructure
Su port busine ses currently
using Wye college facilities
Self-build plots
3rd east-west road
Improve roads
No o portunities
Good quality housing with a real mix
ADAS
Light industry
Forestry
Free school
Busine s park
Hotel/Conference centre
Sma l busine s, consultancies
Warden’s lodge
Offices T hub
Free school
A ce s to the listed co lege buildings for community
uses is most important to you. The Kempe Centre is the
most popular site for busines space (ou responses
also came back with the Kempe Centre being a
prefe red location for the Free School - we have since
understood that this is not the case).
Sustainability is important to you. Equally, the
creation of busine s facilities, land based industries,
and sustainable green housing was identified.
Ideas for ADAS and
Withersdane
Withersdane
Hotel/Conference centre
Care vi lage
Low Density
Housing
Sma l businessoffices
Footprint relocated near the vi lage
Nature Reserve
WYE3 consultation event 2:
Emerging concepts...
Transport and Infrastructure
There are two separate issues to be addressed. The
railway crossing and parking/congestion in the vi lage
The rail cro sing is considered by some as beneficial
in keeping the vi lage quiet, also the majority of
respondents believe the crossing represents a restriction
to movement that a fects the ability for Wye to become
the important local’ hub.
The i sue of parking and congestion in the vi lage
seems to stem from peak time movement and parking.
The drop off and waiting at school times causes
particular problems in the vi lage in the morning.
Landscape and Ecology
The landscape su rounding the vi lage is considered to
be integral to the unique identity of Wye and through
the historic research and land based businesses located
here (working agricultural). The landscape is also
considered to be important for visua ly protecting the
vi lage when viewed from the North Downs as well as
defining the edge of the vi lage.
The landscape is also considered to be of importance
for increasing biodiversity and ecology, bringing it into
the vi lage.
Community farm
ADAS was most popularly seen as a site suitable for
low density housing and you thought that Withersdane
should become a care vi lage or hotel/conference
centre. Siting housing on Withersdane was a le s
popular idea.
WYE3 consultation event 2:
WYE3 land use ideas...
Having identified two di ferent As you can see, the ADAS site
concepts for developing WYE3, is returned to nature (po sibly as
what has yet to be established is the a community woodland) when
type, style, location and land use the land use ideas are combined
of this development and the part it with the concept of The Compact
plays in the growth of the vi lage.
Working with your feedback, we
have developed three land use When combined with the Clustered
ideas. These land use ideas build Development’ concept, development
upon our emerging concepts. These i spread over more of the site but
have yet to be viability tested or for at a lower density and integrated
transport impact but are presented with landscape (po sibly new
as ideas for land use locations. woodland to screen it from the
su rounding countryside).
Compact village Clustered development
1. Vi lage Hub
Olantigh Road
Olantigh Road
Olantigh Road
Olantigh Road
agricultural/land-based industry
residential development
community facilities
hotel (or other commercial use)
Olantigh Road
Olantigh Road
A l three land use ideas incorporate
your ideas for uses for specific sites,
and addre s the aspirations and
concerns outlined in your feedback.
We would like to know what you
community use of grade 1 listed
busine s centre at grade 2 listed
small scale agri busine s to south east
of site
residential development on the rest of
the campus north sites
Free Sch ol Option 1
Located in the Edwardian buildings and labs
fronting onto Olantigh Road
WYE3 consultation event 2:
Withersdane...
WYE3 and the Free School ...
Wye Free School
agricultural/land-based industry
residential development
busine s use
community facilities
2. New Community
and Business Hub
hotel use for the listed buildings
new community facility at the
Kempe Centre with high tech
commercial hub and agri
business to east
residential to edges of the site
3. Dispersed Facilities
community use for the grade 1
Coldharbour Lane
residential use to the remainder of
the listed buildings and lab site
commercial use to the Kempe
Centre and adjacent lands
residential use to eastern most sites
of campus north
Fr e Sch ol Option 2
Located in Kempe Centre and its car
park and the old hop field
There were a number of ideas for
the redevelopment of Witherdane.
This include:
Care/retirement
vi lage
The idea of returning the site to
A popular choice for Withersdane a single house (the Ha l) was
for some residents who consider considered. This would return
the variety of accommodation to be the site to a landscape se ting
important to a low elderly residents and would have li tle impact on
to remain in the vi lage. Others the vi lage or the Sco ton Street
believe there is already enough bottleneck in particular. The
over 50’s housing in the village and brownfield land’ would be added
it should not happen. In this option to the campus north sites for
the gardens would most likely be development.
a ce sible to Wye residents.
Hotel and
conference centre
Another popular use for the site
although it was recognised that
the hotel would need a unique
selling point and brand to be able
to compete with local hotels (such
as Eastwe l Manor and the Ashford
International). The gardens would
not be available for local residents
in this option.
There is a strong community desire to
be a lowed access to the Withersdane
Gardens and the open space in front of
Withersdane Ha l.
The majority of respondents favour
the grade I listed (Edwardian)
college buildings as the prefered
site for the Free School.
The Kempe Centre and adjacent
space was the second location
suggested for the Free School.
The feedback indicates that
although you feel that the Kempe
Centre is a suitable building,
siting the Free School here has the
potential to create traffi congestion
without securing the listed buildings
for the community.
We have ensured that the concepts
and land use ideas for WYE3 can
a commodate the Free School
regardle s of the site fina ly chosen.
Single house
Field research
centre
The Withersdane site could become
an ideal centre of agricultural
or ecological field research. Or
similar facility such as the Centre for
Alternative Technology in Wales.
masterplan