MAIDENHEAD TOWN CENTRE TOWN FORUM

03rd October 2017 01 COUNTRYSIDE 02 THE JOINT VENTURE 03 CONRAN + PARTNERS 04 OUR PROPOSALS WHO ARE COUNTRYSIDE? Overview of Countryside

 Countryside is a leading UK home builder specialising in place making  30 year track record in regeneration projects, often in partnership with local authorities  Operations in London, the South East and North West of , and most recently the West Midlands  Two divisions:

Partnerships New Homes & Communities

5 We create places of character and qualityWe create designed places to strengthen of character people’s and sensequality, of belonging designed and to strengthenbuild lasting people’s sense of belonging, and valuebuilding for all lasting value for all

4 Active Sites

72 Active sites with 43 open selling outlets

42 Housebuilding active sites

30 Partnerships active sites including the recent expansion into the West Midlands

7 COUNTRYSIDECountryside Partnerships PARTNERSHIPS South SOUTH - Regions - REGIONS

Acton 2,881 homes Partnership with LBE & L&Q South Oxhey 514 homes Partnership with TRDC & Home Group Ltd

Maidenhead 1,200 homes Partnership with RBWM Slough Hounslow 258 homes 284 homes Partnership with Partnership with SBC LBH & Network THE JOINT VENTURE Four key town centre locations

SAINT CLOUD WAY

WEST STREET

REFORM ROAD

YORK ROAD Vision – High quality design, town wide approach

WEST STREET SAINT CLOUD WAY

YORK ROAD REFORM ROAD

10 Vision – Improved pedestrian and bicycle connectivity

Improved Pedestrian and Bicycle Connectivity

Improved Waterway Connections Vision – New and improved public spaces

• NeNeww civic civic space space

• NNewew green green spaces. spaces, pocket pocket parks, parks, waterfront waterfront parks parks

• ImprovedImproved links links to toKidwells Kidwells Park Park and the Moor

• ImprovedImproved linkages linkages to toand and from from the waterwayswaterways

• PrivatePrivate balconies balconies and and terraces terraces

Waterfront park at Reform Road

Civic space at York Road Connections at Saint Cloud Way Vision – Investment, new work space, economic uplift

Significant construction spend, local labour and New office apprentices New live- space at work space West Street at Reform Road

New retail and cultural space at York Road Vision – New homes across a variety of ownerships

Whole scheme 12001250 new homes

Whole scheme 30% 70% Private tenure mix Affordable

Whole scheme 350 delivery of new 850 Private homes Affordable

Shared ownership and affordable rent homes

Exclusivity period for Maidenhead residents

14 WHO ARE CONRAN + PARTNERS? We are a collaborative design studio working across Masterplanning, Architecture and Interior Design

STAY EAT LIVE SHOP WORK We work across a range of scales and settings

Butler’s Wharf | Bermondsey Green Man Lane | Ealing

Coppetts Wood | Muswell Hill Porthleven | Cornwall Portobello Square Walthamstow Stadium UNDERSTANDING MAIDENHEAD MAIDENHEAD’S STRATEGIC HISTORY.....

Beginnings Early Connections An uplift in passers-by Establishing a centre The Great Western Railway

Purportedly a Roman In 1208 a bridge over the The London-Bath road was With these early When this grand project settlement on the Thames Thames was erected, re-routed later in the 13th connections in place, the came to the town, it began known as Alaunodunum, replacing the ferry - Century, making use of the settlement slowly grew to expand. Muddy roads located on the route bringing an uplift in bridge and bringing more and became an important were replaced and public linking Colchester to travellers passing the people through the area Market Town within services were installed. Silchester settlement at this crossing the local area, and a Substantial Victorian red- point significant coach-stopping brick expansion occurred, point on East-West journeys Maidenhead became its own entity in 1894 .....AND CURRENT CONNECTIVITY.....

HIGH BEACONSFIELD WYCOMBE

LONDON

40 mins PADDINGTON OXFORD HENLEY 37 mins

35 mins

30 mins

1hr6mins

SLOUGH READING 6 mins

12 mins

25 mins EALING MAIDENHEAD BROADWAY

30 mins 1hr36mins HEATHROW

18 mins

18 mins BRISTOL 25 mins

LEGOLAND

BRACKNELL WINDSOR

NATIONAL RAIL

CAR .....WHICH IS SOON TO EXPERIENCE AN UPLIFT.....

48mins 55mins Liverpool Stratford Street Intnl.

Maidenhead Heathrow Tottenham Canary 25mins Court Road Wharf 44mins 55mins .....CONSEQUENTLY, MAIDENHEAD IS CHANGING.....

FURZE PLATT

GREEN LEYS BOULTER’S ISLAND

PINKNEYS GREEN Taplow Riverside + Skindles Berkeley Homes development SUMMERLEAZE c.200 new homes

Joint Venture Sites HIGHWAY Town Centre Regeneration Over 1,200 new homes

THE MOOR

TOWN CENTRE BOYN HILL

STATION ALTWOOD

Vanwall Business Park COURTLANDS Major employers Tech, Pharma, Corporate HQs Maidenhead Golf Club Potential for up to 2,000 homes Schools, health facilities, infrastructure

BRAY COX GREEN BRAY WICK .....THIS INCLUDES SUBSTANTIAL TOWN CENTRE SITES

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Nicholson Town Hall Shopping Centre 04 05 06

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Station LOCAL LANDMARKS : AS IDENTIFIED IN THE TOWN CENTRE AREA ACTION PLAN

The Bear Hotel, early C19 Town Hall, 1962 Maidenhead Library, 1972 Painted stucco with parapet and moulded cornice coping. Slate roof. Designed in the late 1950’s the Town Hall is constructed in brick with Designed by Ahrends Burton and Koralek (ABK). Reinforced concrete 6 double hung sashes with glazing bars in reveals on upper floors with stone window surrounds. Stone motif decoration is set into the brickwork. frame with suspended floor slabs on piled foundations. Clear span stone cills. 4 similar but wider windows on ground floor and central door Window size hierarchy banding and stone frieze reinforces the building’s space frame roof. under late C19 glazed porch with large carved wooden bear over. presence.

Post Office, 1894 The Methodist Church, 1877 The United Reformed Church, 1785 Three storey red brick with stone dressings and brown glazed brick plinth. Nineteenth-century Methodist church in Perpendicular Gothic Revival Built in 1785, the frontage was altered in the 19th century. Constructed Tudor revival style by Sir Henry Tanner, large gables, transomed style. Built of yellow stock bricks with stone window tracery and steeply in red brick and stone, the main feature is the stone arch and Corinthian windows, with gutters running between semi-dormers on long brackets pitched slate roof. columns around the large church window. LOCAL LANDMARKS : AS IDENTIFIED IN THE TOWN CENTRE AREA ACTION PLAN

Cresset Towers, 1892 45-51 The High Street 41 Queen Street, 1903 An asymmetrical design in red, hand-made bricks punctuated at the Located at the corner of High Street and Queen Street, this building Built for the Metropolitan Bank. Three storeys with attic dormers, stone roofline with cupola turrets. Cresset Towers rises to three storeys, built in is a prominent marker within Maidenhead Town Centre. The building faced on the ground floor with engaged doric columns flanking corner moulded red brick,terracotta ornaments and gauged brick niches. currently has a modern shop frontage at ground floor, with brick and door. Brick upper storeys with some stone dressings and brick pediments Architecturally it is one of the most distinctive building in the High Street. stone detailing to upper floors. The building is capped with a stucco over first floor windows. rotunda with a copper spired roof

Clock Tower, 1897 House, 2017 (redevelopment) Sainsbury The clock tower was erected in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria’s The tallest building in Maidenhead with 68 units over 14 floors along with The Sainsbury’s faces Saint Cloud Way as part of the Providence Place Diamond Jubilee. One side has an entrance door, the other a drinking ground floor retail space. mixed use development. The scheme provides retail spaces, flats, a fountain, a window and a commemorative stone plaque. The tower was public square and an extension to the Hines Meadow Car Park. designed by local architect E. J. Shrewsbury. OUR PROPOSALS FOR YORK ROAD SITE HISTORY

High Street

Park Street St.Ives Road

Broadway

St Ives Place,1950s prior to demolition Queen Street The medieval manor of St Ives Place was at one time home to Anne of Cleaves. The property was demolished in the 1960’s - the current Town Hall being completed in 1962

York Road 1890's York Road

Active Frontages

The sites comparatively recent emergence as the civic centre of Maidenhead means that it suffers from a feeling of disconnection from the High Street and Queen Street © LandYorkmark Inform aRoadtion Group Ltd a1890’snd Crown copyright 2017. FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY.

Scale 1:2500 Jul 07, 2017 09:15 Densification has occurred to the 0 West20 40of the60 80site,100 with120 140pockets160 180 20of0 m open land being builtM yleon.s Tur neTher London Metropolitan University parkland occupying the site still remains. Projection: British National Grid EXISTING PUBLIC REALM MAIDENHEAD’SEXISTING PUBLIC EXISTING SPACES _PUBLIC ONLY SPACESLINEAR SPACESARE ALL LINEAR

The existing public spaces in Maidenhead consists of pedestrian streets, passages and small areas in front of prominent buildings, all of which are linear.

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5. ST. Mary’s Walk 6. Providence place to Saint-Cloud Way

7. Space in front of Bear Hotel 8. Maudesly Memorial Garden

MAIDENHEAD TOWN CENTRE l YORK ROAD PRE-APPLICATION 01 l 5 OURPROPOSED PROPOSAL UNIQUE, OFFERS FLEXIBLE A UNIQUE, AND SPACIOUSFLEXIBLE AND CIVIC SPACIOUS SQUARE CIVIC SQUARE

The masterplan proposes a fantastic new square in the heart of Maidenhead offering places to meet, sit and enjoy the scenery in front to York Stream.

Flexible area for different activities

Leisure and caffe area

Soft areas

Multilevelled spaces near York Stream

MAIDENHEAD TOWN CENTRE l YORK ROAD PRE-APPLICATION 01 l 6 A MIXTURE OF PERMANENT AND TEMPORTARY PUBLIC REALM INTERVENTIONS PRINICIPLES OF THE MASTERPLAN

1. INTEGRATE WITH SURROUNDING STREETS 2. MAXIMISE BLUE RIBBON 3. RESPECT CIVIC SETTING

CIVIC ZONE

RESIDENTIAL ZONE

• ROUTES DEFINE SITE LAYOUT • ENHANCE EXISTING BLUE RIBBON • CIVIC AND RESIDENTIAL OVERLAP TO CREATE KEY CIVIC SPACE • NEW -PEDESTRIAN ONLY- ROUTES PROPOSED • CREATE ACTIVE WATERFRONT • CREATE VIEWS TO WATER PRINICIPLES OF THE MASTERPLAN

4. CELEBRATE COMMUNITY FACILITIES 5. RANGE OF TYPOLOGIES 6. EXTEND THE GREEN NETWORK

MIDRISE FLAT BLOCK

HIGH RISE

ONE OFF CIVIC & CULTURAL BIG URBAN HIGH DENSITY MIXED USE BLOCK

RESPONSIVE

LOWRISE FINE GRAIN RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE MIDRISE FLATBLOCK

• ACCESS TO KEY COMMUNITY FACILITIES FROM CENTRAL LOCATION • PROPOSAL WILL RESPOND TO DIFFERENT TYPOLOGIES/CONTEXT • GREEN NETWORKS ALONG KEY ROUTES THROUGH SITE HELP DETERMINE LOCATION FOR MAIN PUBLIC SPACE • GREEN NETWORKS LEAD TO YORK STREAM • MAIN CIVIC BUILDINGS TO HAVE PRESENCE ON SQUARE • MAIN GREEN AVENUE ALONG YORK STREAM

OUR PROPOSALS FOR WEST STREET CONNECT THE OPEN SPACES - BRINGING KIDWELLS PARK TOWARDS THE TOWN CENTRE

BAD GODESBERG WAY

WEST STREET

HIGH STREET ENHANCEMENTS TO THE LINK TO THE HIGH STREET AND KIDWELLS PARK

Potential link to the High Street

Enhancements to the urderpass

Soft areas

Landscape stepped spaces A PIECE OF PUBLIC REALM TO EXPLORE AND INTERACT WITH AN ACTIVE, FLEXIBLE FORM

OUR PROPOSAL

RESIDENTIAL

Establish a flexible form There is a positive tension in the town centre between the demands for residential space and office space. Both are important given Maidenhead’s role as both a commuter town and a business node. The form of buildings which are set out should be capable of development either for business use or for residential use.WEST Ideally STREET they should SPD be long-life-loose-fit structures which are capable of sustainable conversion in the longer term. OFFICE

FLEXIBLE GROUND FLOOR

54 • Create a flexible floor plate • Ground floor could house food, drink or retail land use, but may be most suited to work place use initially • Floors above could accommodate office • Typical upper floors could accommodate residential • These uses could all work within a flexible floorplan COMPLETING THE STREET

Opportunity to complete the street

Sainsburys Adobe Market Pearce Premier BT JV Site Systems Street Building Inn Exchange Kidwells Park Drive POTENTIAL FOR A LANDMARK BUILDING

defines the edge of Kidwells Park defines the edge of the Town Centre local node to signify the Town Centre local node to signify Kidwells Park

Kidwells Park Bad Joint West Street High Street Maidenhead The Godesberg Venture Town Centre Landing Way Site (Proposed)

Key Plan SETTING UP THE ‘RULES’

01 A PLACE TO PAUSE, AN EXTENSION OF KIDWELLS PARK 02 BE A RESPECTFUL NEIGHBOUR, ENABLE FUTURE LINKS 03 BRING ACTIVE FRONTAGE TO WEST STREET

Kidwells Park Kidwells Park Kidwells Park

West Street West Street West Street

High Street High Street High Street SETTING UP THE ‘RULES’

04 CREATE A GREEN EDGE TO BAD GODESBERG WAY 05 IMPROVE NATURAL SURVEILLANCE ON WEST STREET 06 ADDRESS BOTH THE PARK AND THE TOWN

Kidwells Park Kidwells Park Kidwells Park

West Street West Street West Street

High Street High Street High Street A ‘SIGN-POST’ BUILDING

VIEW FROM BAD GODESBERG WAY VIEW FROM KING STREET VIEW FROM CASTLE HILL thank you!