Residential Development Public Consultation HAVE YOUR SAY Understanding the Site and Its Location

Welcome.... Today is a public consultation intended to give BURNOPFIELD local residents a key role in shaping the future residential expansion of Crookgate Bank, CROOKGATE BANK Burnopfield. HOBSON GOLF COURSE

This exhibition is hosted by George F White on behalf of iMpeC Real Estate. At this event we are showcasing our work in progress on the emerging masterplan for a new landscape-led residential development on land west of Barcusclose Lane.

These consultations are vital to ensure that the proposals take into BARCUSCLOSE account the needs and aspirations of the current and future residents LANE FARM of Burnopfield. As such we would welcome your thoughts and feedback before we draw up the plans in more detail.

Surveys have been undertaken and more are underway on the site to TANFIELD understand fully any constraints the development requires to take into account, but your local knowledge and understanding of the location and how it is currently used and enjoyed is essential to influence the next stage. Site location - existing conditions Who we are....

Promoter iMpeC Real Estate • IMpeC is a residential and iMpeC commercial Real Estate property developer with 15 years’ experience, 10 of which Durhamgate Hartwall, Spennymoor Millburngate House, include delivering Durham regeneration projects in Durham.

Architect Planning Transport Consultants Blake Hopkinson Consultants S.A.J Transport Consultants Architecture George F White Ltd • adviser on how • lead consultant • Advisors of the assessment development fits within for residential of transport related issues masterplan local planning policy. • establish a sense • compile planning of identity and application. character for the Rothbury Road, 121 homes at Dunblane 256 homes at Eldon development. Longframlington Crescent Denton Whins, Newton Aycliffe

Landscape Civil, Structural and Ecology Architect Geotechnical Engineer Barrett Environmental colour James Christopher Ltd Consulting • Establish design • advisor of current ecology parameters to • technical advise to fellow on site ensure existing design consultants on • advise on sensitive landscape, sustainable construction design to protect wildlife recreational and and drainage corridors and ecology place-making Wynyard Durhamgate Kirkleitham Walled enhancements features are retained Garden and enhanced to create a landscape- led masterplan. Process....

Public Developed Planning To leave us your thoughts you can:- Consultation Design Application • complete one of our comment forms and leave it with us, or alternatively you can submit your comments by letter or email to: Initial proposals Taking into Summer / Autumn • Post: Planning and Development, George F White consideration 2018 8 Front Street comments Wolsingham County Durham Land to the west of Barcusclose Lane timescale: DL13 3AA • Email: [email protected] You can also view these display boards on line at: • Telephone: 01388 529564 https://www.georgefwhite.co.uk/our-services/planning-and-development/ consultation-area/ • Comments by letter or email should be submitted no later than:- Friday 20th July . Once we have considered all of the comments received, further work will be undertaken and we will prepare a planning application for submission in the coming months.

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• Creation of an attractive suite of family house types with gardens

• Playable streets and play on the way opportunities

• A well-connected and sustainable family environment

• Street trees carefully integrated into design between drive accesses to provide a leafy character.

• Variable building set-backs distances of houses from back of footway to create a Houses to front onto green-spaces Housing is set back from the edge of Private access drive, extension of Green Streets - single-sided streets The main access road shall be dynamic hierarchy of streets and maintain active frontages. the footway, allowing cars to park in green streets. No through traffic. where housing faces onto greenspace. designed to include planted verges High quality front of houses. Verges to be included Creation of well over looked playable The building line is close to the edge and trees to provide a green arrival

family housing family • Parking carefully integrated into plots in residential streets to allow for streets. The building line is close to of the pavement, creating a stong into the development. ‘greening’ with plants and trees. the edge of the street and parking is frontage onto the street. carefully integrated,

• Create a new attractive, settlement boundary to the linear Crookgate Bank that strengthens the existing landscape structure

• Protect and enhance existing woodland

• Enhanced frontage to Barcusclose Lane with new street trees

• Management and enhancement of existing hedgerows around the site, encouraging the growth of hedgerow trees

• Pedestrian friendly and playable green Existing woodland and well-trodden Buffers to be incorporated to existing Layout to be family friendly and Opportunities to integrate natural Swale:- sustainable urban drainage woodland and field margins and encouraged the continued use of play and ‘play-along-the-way’ into features to be integrated into masterplan streets around the perimeter of the footpaths to be retained and scheme enhanced and opened up to the enhanced with native planting public rights of way which cross the perimeter green-space proposals

Landscape led Landscape public. site. • Sustainable Urban Drainage system

• Proposals guided by Durham County and National Landscape Character Assessments and Strategy

• Planting to promote biodiversity in line with local Biodiversity Action Plan

• Enhancement of wildlife corridors

• Creation of buffers around existing hedgerows and trees

• Areas of nectar-rich wildflower planting to be included within buffers

• New tree planting to be predominately native species

Ecology • Existing trees and hedges to be retained Wet area on site, opportunity to Existing woodland edge to west to be Design of residential layout and Native hedgerows to existing field Careful design and specification of where possible improve and develop into bioretention retained and strengthened as wildlife construction detailing would take into boundaries. Field boundaries gappy lighting to avoid light spillage into system for drainage proposals corridor account means to mitigate disruption in places. Opportunties to plant with woodland areas • Any dead trees or trees required to be to local wildlife new native species removed to facilitate the development shall be surveyed for bat roosts.

• Attractive outward views give a strong County Durham identity with the ever- changing landscape throughout the year

• Green gateway frames an outward view into the countryside

• New views to the golf course

• Perimeter of scheme optimises views out over the countryside

Views • A new tree structure would help minimise views of houses from the wider countryside Broad view westwards along Public View south from site down Public Panoramic views east across Tanfield Long view north from north western Filtered views south west into the golf Right of Way to the southern Right of Way to Tanfield Moor to Stanley corner of the site course boundary

• Strengthen the rich existing network of footpaths with a highly permeable site

• A new green gateway into the scheme

• Create a new link from Barcusclose Lane through to the Tanfield village footpath

• New off-road footpath parallel to Barcusclose Lane that would provide connection for Byermoor RC school

• As part of a perimeter path around the inside of the site along predominantly green streets Public Right of Ways cross the site Track to eastern edge of site used Public Right of Way leading to Informal well trodden footpath Public Right of Way leading up from and follow the southern boundary. by dog walkers. The masterplan will Burnopfield with golf course on the through woodland to western Tanfield. New houses along the

Connectivity These are to be retained, enhanced provide footpath links to this so that left and back garden fences of Lapwing boundary of site. This route shall be southern boundary would be designed and integrated into the development. the route can be used as a circular Ct on the right. This route is to be retained within a Landscape buffer to face the right of way as it weaves dog walking route. retained and enhanced within the and formularized to encouarage through the site to increase passive development. continued use. surveillance.

Land to the west of Barcusclose Lane Residential development public consultation HAVE YOUR SAY The emerging proposals..... we welcome your comments

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1 Retain and enhance existing woodland 10 New vehicle entrance to development 12

2 25m buffer to woodland and perimeter greenspace 11 Enhance Public Right of Way and integrate into the development 3 Existing well-trodden footpath formalized Properties to face onto rights of way to provide 12 6 passive surveillance, provide attractive active Houses to south eastern boundary 4 Opportunties for natural play [play along-the-way] frontages and encourage continued usage of routes to face outwards and provide an 15 Connect to and enhance existing offsite footpath attractive arrival into the village. i.e. 5 Opportunties to strengthen existing wildlife 13 corridor [i.e. further native tree and nectar-rich links not turn their back on the road in 11 wildflower planting] Street trees to be integrated to provide leafy 15 from Tanfield. Enhancements to be 14 made to edge to maintain rural leafy Streets to connect with existing footpaths to character to development 16 6 character. create a permeable landscape 15 Playable green streets 7 Integration of blue infrastructure / sustainable urban Perimeter houses to generally face outwards to drainage system to north western corner of site 16 allow residents to enjoy the views, maintain active 8 Proposed swale [drainage feature] frontages with good passive surveillance 17 Street network to be arranged to retain key 9 Enhanced frontage to Barcusclose Lane with new trees outward views at the end of the streets

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1.8m 2m 4.8m 1.8m 2m 2m 4.2m 1.8m 2m 5.5m 2m 1.8m [10.4m] [8.2m] [13.1m] Section through main access road Section through double sided residential street Section through private drive access lane KEY 1 Set back distances to be developed by Architect

2 1.8m wide footway 2m wide verge (to include tree planting and parking at intervals] 1 4 3 7 6 8 9 6 5 10 3 4 1 3 4 Carriageway

5 Existing line of public right of way footpath to be retained 1.5m 1.8m 2m 2m 4.8m Existing boundary hedge and 2m buffer 4.8m 2m 5m 2m 6 1m 2m [min] Proposed swale [shallow, broad and vegetated channels designed [12.1m] 7 [13.8m] to store and/or convey runoff and remove pollutants] 8 Existing verge Section through northern boundary with Barcusclose Lane Section through southern boundary [public footpath and green street] 9 Barcusclose Lane 10 Proposed verge / buffer to footpath

Land to the west of Barcusclose Lane Residential development public consultation HAVE YOUR SAY