Johnstone SW Charette

Edinburgh Research Explorer Johnstone South West Design Charrette: Evaluation Report Citation for published version: Forsyth, L 2011, Johnstone South West Design Charrette: Evaluation Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh. <http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built- Environment/AandP/Projects/SSCI/Mainstreaming/Johnstonerept> Link: Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer Document Version: Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publisher Rights Statement: © Forsyth, L. (2011). Johnstone South West Design Charrette: Evaluation Report. Edinburgh: Scottish Government. General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 06. Oct. 2021 Transforming Johnstone South West Masterplan Framework February 2012 1 2 Proposed Illustrative Masterplan - Johnstone South West Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right 2012. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey licence number 100023417. 3 Transforming Johnstone South West: The 2021 Vision The Best of Both - where countryside and town meet This Executive Summary highlights the main Johnstone South West is renowned as a outputs from the Johnstone South West good place to live. It is located on the edge Charrette held between 1 and 5 November of the Glasgow city region; where the urban 2011. The document provides an overview conurbation meets the rolling landscape of of the charrette process and considers the rural Renfrewshire. It is a place characterised emerging Masterplan for the area, focusing by a countryside setting with direct access on the future vision, design principles and key to nature, a first rate transport network proposals. and a range of reliable local services. It is a friendly, welcoming and vibrant place which has retained its best assets and enhanced them through ambitious, community focused regeneration. It is cited as an exemplar of sustainable urban renewal. 4 5 Place Making: Johnstone South West in 2021 The open spaces of Johnstone South West New development in the area has enabled Quality street design ensures car access will create a strong sense of place. By 2021 significant enhancement of the diverse throughout with reduced traffic speeds, the ongoing programme of deculverting the neighbourhoods in Johnstone South West. improved crossing points and excellent watercourses throughout the area, coupled Approximately 500 new homes have been connectivity to the regional road network. with the enhancement of nature corridors, built, helping to transform the area by bringing Beith Road has become the centre piece of community woodlands and parklands will have derelict brownfield sites back into use the area: the High Street for Johnstone South created a diverse array of open spaces. The and stitching the component parts of the area West. Through contemporary street design the sustainable urban drainage strategy being together. The new housing provides an array core area around the High School and Sports applied in the area is now regularly heralded as of different types of homes addressing the Hub has become the focus of the community a ground breaking example of best practice. needs of a diverse range of residents. with a new parade of shops and small businesses. This has created a new vibrant Established amenities including Thomas New housing stock is of a high design district centre adjacent to the main routes and Shanks Park have been augmented by new quality with energy efficiency built in. In community facilities. play areas, nature trails and a programme parallel with new development there have of art and interpretation which reveal the been programmes to improve the existing New investment has enabled the existing interesting local and natural history of the stock to enhance their durability, quality and neighbourhood centres to be retained area. The area is now well served by sport adaptability. The refurbishment of the landmark along with this new mixed use district centre and leisure facilities with the new Sports Howwood Road scheme designed by eminent developed on Beith Road. A network of Hub and the renovated McMaster Centre. early 20th Century architect Thomas Tait has local shops, community and leisure facilities The area is also recognised as a destination revitalised a signature housing project. throughout the area also ensures that the for outdoor pursuits with good access to 6,000+ residents of Johnstone South West walking trails leading to the braes. Johnstone South West is an easy place to have appropriate access to new housing, local get to and move around. The rail station services, employment, open space and public has frequent services to Glasgow and transport: the cornerstones of 21st Century Ayrshire, providing a park and ride facility sustainable communities. and comfortable passenger facilities. The bus services link the neighbourhoods together and the cycle path network is attractive, well maintained and safe. New nature corridors create a matrix of routes which allow safe and pleasant access for all throughout the district. 6 7 Transforming Johnstone South West Using The Intensive Charrette Process Masterplan: Aims The central purpose of the Masterplan is to The Johnstone South West Design Charrette The ten year plus Masterplan presented on establish a framework for the sustainable was held between 1 and 5 November 2011. the final day of the charrette offers a once growth of Johnstone South West, providing The charrette was a period of intensive in a lifetime opportunity to better design for the long term regeneration of the area. In activity for the design team of some 18 and co-ordinate priorities to exploit the this context the Masterplan considers land use, planners, architects, designers, engineers, existing assets of the area. The Masterplan character and form of development over the property specialists and others. They worked uses distinctive place-mending to repair next ten years and beyond, taking into account together over the five days and were based the existing built fabric, lower the area’s the emerging development plan and the in the Design Studio at Spateston Bowling carbon footprint and promote green aspirations of local residents, businesses and Club. This created a real buzz of creativity infrastructure. As a result, the Masterplan will key stakeholders. as they interacted with each other, individuals unlock competitive development opportunities who attended some nine workshops and and achieve the vision. The Masterplan aims to provide for an consultation events and visitors to the Design attractive choice of quality housing within Studio. Overall more than 300 people were a connected network of thriving resilient involved in the charrette over the five days and local centres, in a healthy and sustainable generated much helpful feedback on matters environment. These will be inspiring of both principle and detail. The proposal for a environments: places with real character district centre on Beith Road was for example a and a built environment that is inclusive. principle that was raised at the Opening Event. Over the five days the design team produced a series of structuring principle diagrams and around thirty iterative layout plans, undergoing ‘feedback loops’ based on working sessions with technical stakeholders, house builders, housing associations, the wider community and Renfrewshire Council technical officers as part of the process. More detailed analysis, including illustrations and diagrams, can be found in Chapters 3 and 4 of the Masterplan Report. New ‘District’ Centre Shared Campus School 8 Dundonald Avenue Craigbog Avenue Beith Road Johnstone High School Sports Hub Howwood Road / Beith Road - Artist’s Impression of Proposals Shared Campus School 9 Driving Urban Design Principles The Masterplan is underpinned by a range of The Masterplan’s urban structure is based key design principles, informed by Scottish on a hierarchy of thoroughfares and Government guidance, which address the public spaces, with the street network issues and opportunities identified during the efficiently linking to the greater Johnstone and charrette. These include:- Renfrewshire transport networks. Designed to be mixed-use, the plan offers a strong contrast • promoting layouts that create walkable with single-use suburban development in neighbourhoods; which residences are separated from business • providing a mix of housing types within development, shops and schools. a robust urban design framework; • supporting a hierarchy of local A wide variety of housing types should be neighbourhood and district centres; available within each neighbourhood, to provide • creating a framework of green spaces and for residents of a range of ages, incomes water corridors linked by a distinctive and preferences. Ideally, neighbourhoods path network; should allow residents to ‘age in place,’ with • maximizing connections to existing public appropriate houses

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