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June 2020 Basildon Town Centre Masterplan Basildon Town Centre Masterplan Draft for consultation: June 2020 Contents 1.0 p5 4.0 p27 5.0 p61 Introduction Proposals Phasing and 1.1 Introduction 4.1 Focus areas: 1.2 Wider & Strategic context St. Martins quarter and Westgate area 1.3 Town centre: past and present Town Square and East Square Delivery Station environs Eastgate Great Oaks 3.0 p11 4.2 Inclusivity 4.3 Design Quality Appendices Strategy 4.4 Sustainability & Response to the Climate Appendix 1: Basildon Town Centre 3.1 Vision Statement Crisis Masterplan urban appraisal 3.2 Guiding Principles Appendix 2: Planning Policy 3.3 Strategic Aims: Appendix 3: Property Market Drivers Land use Appendix 4: What We Learnt from Local Connectivity and movement Engagement Public realm and open space Building heights Culture Biodiversity net gain and greenery Local economy Deliverability Inclusivity Design Quality Sustainability and response to climate change Introduction 1 2.1 Introduction Introduction About This Project Purpose of the consultation and next steps The Council are pleased to present an exciting and ambitious Basildon Borough Council commissioned architects and This document is a draft version of the masterplan which has new masterplan for Basildon town centre. We want to redefine urban designers We Made That and real estate consultants been prepared for public consultation in line with Government what the town centre offers, meeting the needs for housing, Cushman & Wakefield to develop a Masterplan for the future guidance regarding the production of Supplementary Planning retail, leisure and business opportunities. This is about a total of Basildon Town Centre. The Masterplan aims to build on the Documents (SPDs). The purpose of this consultation is to transformation – a re-imagining of what Basildon town centre current assets of the town centre and identify where there are capture ideas, thoughts and opinions on the proposals for stands for – its purpose and its character. opportunities for improvement and development. It sets out the future of the town centre from as wide a group of different a clear vision for the town centre that will guide regeneration interests as possible – local people and businesses, other This new masterplan will enable Basildon town centre to activity by the council as well as encourage investment into public sector bodies, infrastructure providers and town centre become the beating heart of South Essex. The new town the town centre by landowners, investors, developers and landowners and developers. The feedback that is received centre will further strengthen the local economy ensuring other public sector bodies. It also aims to deliver the Council’s will feed in to a final version of the masterplan which will be that it plays a strategic role within the region as a hub for commitment to Climate Change as an integral driver for adopted by the Council as an SPD later in 2020, and the business and innovation. The new cultural, educational and growth and inward investment to the centre. timing of this will depend on the feedback. entertainment facilities will cultivate a community of local entrepreneurs and will attract talent from the South East The Masterplan builds on current momentum for change region and new businesses looking to move into the area. generated by a 2012 masterplan for the town centre including the cinema development at East Square and the introduction Basildon Town Centre will also be the centre of the area’s of South Essex College into Market Square. It also sets out delivery of public sector and community services providing ambitions for improving the public realm and routes through, local residents and businesses with the support and resources around and in and out of the town centre, making it better they need. By building on its improved accessibility to all connected to surrounding neighbourhoods and to transport types of local transport, the new Town Centre will also connections. improve its connectivity with the wider region. An integrated greener landscape, will deliver attractive, safe spaces in The masterplan has been guided by the views of the people which people love to spend time and enjoy the town centre’s who use the town centre to make sure that it serves the needs vibrancy and life. of local people. The design team carried out public events in the town centre and offered online options to gather the views This is a truly ambitious masterplan, and we invite you to work of people who use the town centre. This engagement built on with us to help deliver it, and to believe in Basildon. what the council has heard from the #Ourspace survey about what residents, workers and visitors want from their town centre. Key themes of this consultation were: • Improvements to restaurants, shops and entertainment • A greener town centre would make people spend more time there • Making pedestrian environment feel safer and better • Better connections from public transport and improving the bus station The masterplan will be adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) to the Local Plan to inform the development of the town centre over coming years. Draft Basildon Town Centre Masterplan p 7 3.1 Strategic Billericay context Key Ward boundaries Basildon town centre is the heart of South Essex and plays 2 mile radius an important role in the economic and community life of this Green spaces expanding sub-region. Located between two bands of Green Green Belt boundaries Belt, it serves a broad catchment area (including from out Basildon Town Centre NOAK BRIDGE of the borough) which includes the growing population of boundary NATURE RESERVE Basildon New Town as a place to shop, enjoy leisure time, work, access community services and live. It benefits from N 0 600m WHITMORE PARK a strategically important location along national and regional road and rail networks linking it to London, Greater Essex and beyond. Basildon is the largest economy in South Essex and the town centre is one of the county’s regional centres and the linchpin of a network of other town centres in the Borough – GLOUCESTER Pitsea, Laindon, Billericay and Wickford. PARK NORTHLANDS PARK LAINDON PARK Basildon Laindon MIDDLE HALL NATURE RESERVE MARKS HILL Pitsea LANGDON HILLS WAT TYLER COUNTRY PARK LANGDON HILLS COUNTRY PARK Strategic Transport Network Surrounding Basildon Borough; Basildon Borough Revised Publication Local Plan 2014 – 2034 p 8 Draft Basildon Town Centre Masterplan 3.2 Town centre: past and present Basildon was one of the first New Towns built under the New Towns Act of 1946 and was officially designated a New Town in 1949. It was planned as a bold vision looking forward to a utopian future. Set piece buildings and landscaping framed and articulated pedestrianised public spaces. “Basildon will become a City which people from all over the world will want to visit. It will be a place where all classes of community can meet freely together on equal terms and enjoy common cultural recreational facilities.” Rt. Hon. Lewis Silkin. Minister of Town and Country Planning, September 1948 In its original incarnation, Basildon’s town centre was open and outward looking with a central retail spine that opened up to neighbourhoods at the east and west, with greenery at its heart. It was also notably smaller than it is today. Basildon town centre remains a busy and well used town centre. Smaller units away from the main retail spines have accommodated an eclectic mix of independent commercial uses. The town centre also has an important social function that is working well. It is recognised though that there is currently and over-provision of retail space and an under- provision of other uses such as leisure and food and drink to bring diversity to the town centre. There is great potential to make Basildon town centre a better connected place; improved connectivity will be a significant factor in unlocking Basildon’s potential. This includes the Council’s strategy for delivering sustainable infrastructure through development (such as electric car charging) and recognising the benefits of green infrastructure, as part of natural capital. Above: Greenery in Town Square in the 1960s Above: Asian Food and Martial Arts shop, 1st floor in the Below: Good, well used cycle routes at Roundacre Eastgate Centre Below: St. Martin’s Square public realm Draft Basildon Town Centre Masterplan p 9 Strategy 5 5.1 Our Vision Over the coming years, Basildon town centre will grow to become the beating heart of South Essex. This document sets out our vision to achieve this, by setting our aspirations for the town centre and to guide future development and encourage ambition. A town centre open to all, it will be home to a vibrant, mixed community of people and boast new cultural and entertainment facilities that befit the town’s strategic importance and its pioneering, New Town spirit. It will become a town centre in which companies start up and want to move to, and which people visit to enjoy their leisure time and shop. It will be the centre of the area’s delivery of public sector and community services, building on its improved connectivity and accessibility by all modes of transport to local neighbourhoods and the wider region. All these activities will be integrated into a greener landscape, with attractive, safe spaces in which people love to spend time and enjoy the area’s vibrancy and life. An impression of what the St. Martin’s Square and Town Square could look like, based on the principles in the SPD Draft Basildon Town Centre Masterplan p 13 5.2 Guiding Principles The following guiding principles underpin our vision and aspirations for Basildon town centre. They are to act as a guide to those wanting to develop in the town centre and support our re-imagining of what Basildon town centre stands for – its purpose and its character.
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