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CONSETT TOWN CENTRE Development Framework & Masterplan CONSETT TOWN CENTRE development framework & masterplan CONTENTS SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION SECTION TWO: BASELINE SECTION THREE: THE VISION SECTION FOUR: TRANSPORT AND MOVEMENT SECTION FIVE: PUBLIC REALM SECTION SIX: POSSIBILITES FOR CONSETT SECTION SEVEN: DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES SECTION EIGHT: DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK SECTION NINE : IMPLEMENTATION PLAN SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION SECTION ONE The overarching goal for Consett In November 2009 a Masterplanning Consortium led by GVA Grimley was commissioned by Durham County Council to Inception develop a strategy and masterplan for Consett Town Centre Meeting / Site Visits and to provide commentary on a wider development framework for the urban area of Consett and its surrounding suburbs. Business Market / Evidence Surveys Review The three stage process commenced with the establishment of the baseline and economic rationale for the vision. This Case Studies report records Part 2 of the masterplanning process – the development of the vision and the preferred options. Part 3 Resident and the final stage will detail the preferred option as a Surveys STAGE1 Site Analysis development framework and delivery plan. This report is Part 2 recording the iteration of the draft Public Exhibition framework. (A schedule of outputs produced to date to set the details in Fig 1 opposite). The report specifically assesses the relative merits of the different approaches explored and Produce Baseline the rationale behind the result and preferred approach. It Report provides an audit trail of the iterative process of developing and consulting on the options. This Part 2 report is divided into sections: Stakeholder Meetings Option Development Option Testing 1) Introduction, 2) Market Assessment Second Public 3) The Vision Exhibition 4) Transport & Movement STAGE2 5) Public Realm 6) Possibilities for Consett Select Preferred 7) Development opportunities Options 8) Development Framework 9) Implementation Plan Preferred Option Financial Development Analysis/Testing In addition, appendices form the fourth and final part of this report - these include details of consultation and community Surveys STAGE3 involvement and the preparation of the development Final Masterplan framework and masterplan. Figure 1 INTRODUCTION SECTION ONE The purpose of the Masterplan Why Does Consett Need A New Vision? When Consett Steel works closed for good, the future was • Establishes a vision for Consett Town Centre to guide its almost too bleak to contemplate. Unemployment was at development and improvement to 2025; 35% in some areas and there was nothing to fill the void. The • Incorporates improved links to and within the town centre areas population dwindled by 20,000 to just over 80,000 as for pedestrians and cyclists; people left in search of alternative locations of work. • Creates a linked system of high quality public spaces; • Provides a clear design structure for new development Today more than 200 different companies operate in and with an emphasis on sustainable design principles; around the town. More than 6,000 jobs have been created • Offers specific proposals for key sites based on sound since the Steel closure of 1980. New developments and commercial principles; investments have improved the economic stability of Consett • Identifies other sites and buildings which should be but there is a need to create a town centre environment that retained and those where redevelopment and will meet the expectations of businesses, residents and improvement will be encouraged; visitors. • Provides the basis on which development proposals for Front Street difficult to negotiate for pedestrians Middle Street is cluttered with ageing street furniture the town centre would be judged; and It is hoped that the final town centre masterplan will act as a • Sets out how the proposals will be funded, implemented guide for regeneration and investment activity over the next and programmed. fifteen years. It is to be supported by the development st framework to secure the creation of a 21 Century modern The eventual output of the final stage will be a masterplan environment town. From the above it is important to set a for the centre and a linked framework identifying wider town vision for Consett Town Centre. We would suggest this vision developments. This will comprise the development is as follows: framework and delivery plan, and it will set clear parameters for the long-term development of the town centre based on Consett Town Centre will be a successful, attractive and the overall design vision mission of the scheme. The vibrant place and improve its relative position in the hierarchy masterplan has been tested technically and costed broadly to of town centres year on year. give confidence to the public sector partners of the merits of the preferred option and to highlight key issues to be In providing the above vision, the objective that a great town addressed in the delivery. centre contributes to a great place is where our direction st should be set. Consett needs to offer a 21 Century town Status of the Masterplan centre that provides for all the needs of the town and the The current principle planning policy guidance for the town surrounding areas, promoting its future for decades to come and its centre is set out in the Derwentside Local Plan which providing visitors to the north east region with an alternative was adopted in 1997 . This is supported by a number of other Looking south toward Front Street The Derwent Centre offering. documents which provide commentary on issues in relation The purpose of the Masterplan is to secure a successful to retail, residential and open space provision. Together future for the town centre by developing its strength and these documents carry significant weight in the addressing its weaknesses. In particular it: determination of planning applications and appeals. INTRODUCTION SECTION ONE The brief and its objective The Area and Project Brief arrangement and the heritage it contributes to growth of the The Masterplan seeks to work with the above documents The town of Consett originally described as an acropolis of town and its town centre. acting on a current up-to-date evidence base. It provides the mining communities in the north west of County further detailed guidance on uses and design and pays close Durham, had its origin in 1841 when the Derwent Iron In recent years continued growth following the demise of the attention to current statutory planning documents. It has Company commenced to work iron stone. Accommodation Steel Works was rapid. That growth was fuelled through also been prepared in light of the emerging Core Strategy for the workmen was necessary near to the works and what residential housing development and some employment and and Local Development Framework process. In light of this amounted to a prospectus camp was pitched on the higher retail activities which took place and were promoted in and the extensive public and partner involvement in its land forming the east bank of the Derwent Valley in the wild locations adjacent to the Project Genesis site. At the same preparation, the masterplan carries some weight and is a moorland district of the county. time some investment was provided for the town centre in material consideration in the determination of planning the forms of development surrounding the current bus applications and appeals. The original nucleus “the road” existed at the heart of the station, as well as to its south western edge. town centre. In time surrounding this, shops, hotels, Consultation churches and theatres sprung up as needs required and The main object of this Masterplan may be broadly stated as From the very start of the masterplanning process, the public demand increased, to form a town with a population in 1925 being a desire to improve the town centre and to link it with along with key partners and stakeholders have been closely of some 13,000. Throughout the decades to follow, the its wider functions including that proposed for the new involved. steady increase of population resulted in the building of academy, and the retail activities that take place to the south additional houses, schools which had been constructed as west at the Hermiston Retail Park and beyond onto the Berry In February 2010 the team undertook a day of visioning the needs of the moment dictated, without much thought Edge site forming part of Project Genesis. (See figure 2) on seeking comments from locals on what they wanted to see for the future. The result is that we now have a somewhat the following page). within their town centre. That coupled with residents and confused system of streets and an illogical intermingling of business surveys undertaken during the period December domestic and business properties. In the towns growth few Such proposals are brought within the bounds of practical 2009 to February 2010 provides the foundation to drive schemes have been followed and during recent years politics entirely due to the far sited action of the Council and forward this Masterplan. development has been controlled by the planning system the public spirited co-operation of its partners including which demanded certain standards of provision. Little Project Genesis, and principle property owners within and control has been exercised in relation to the town centre, surrounding the town centre. what it provides, and movements to and from such, particularly towards the former Steel Works site on Project With the above we seek to address the following set of Genesis. Some may conclude that these tend to make a objectives: characterless and inefficient town with the feeling of indefiniteness and an appearance of deformity and lacking • Provide a sustainable and vibrant town centre; the orderly arrangement indispensable for the successful • Identify opportunity sites for a potential redevelopment; functioning of a normal town centre. • Improve linkages between the town centre and the wider area; Consett had a worldwide reputation for its iron works with • Make recommendations that are deliverable; its originally ultra-modern plant which had a justifiable claim • Identify issues associated with infrastructure delivery; to importance.
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