Ore Valley, Hastings Millennium Community Urban Design Codes
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ORE VALLEY, HASTINGS MILLENNIUM COMMUNITY URBAN DESIGN CODES Final Version May 2005 executive summary In 1997 the Government launched its Millennium The Millennium Community provides an opportunity • A vibrant sustainable community, Communities Programme. One of the main objectives to radically transform the valley. A combination of • An integrated mix of uses, of the Programme is to influence the house-building high quality urbanism that responds to the industry and to encourage higher standards of topography of the valley combined with best practice • Design excellence, innovation and energy efficiency. Seven projects were in sustainable design and construction can reshape • High quality of life, identified each intended to demonstrate new the area, improve the quality of life for its inhabitants • Social inclusion and local empowerment, and sustainable approaches to residential development and provide a catalyst to further regeneration in the and promote mixed use, socially inclusive area. • Low crime. communities in which people will enjoy living. One of In September 2001, a group of influential public The principal elements of the Framework are: these projects is the Hastings Millennium bodies came together to form the Hastings & Bexhill • Delivering Millennium Community/Task Force Community, which is spread across three sites along Task Force. This partnership comprises: the railway corridor in Hastings and includes the Ore objectives for 700 new homes, employment, Valley. The South East England Development Agency educational, health, leisure and other community (SEEDA) facilities, The Ore Valley is a challenging site. Much of the area is steeply sloping, the existing built form is of low Hastings Borough Council • Redevelopment of substantial derelict or underused land and buildings, quality and the valley is poorly served by public Rother District Council transport. The lack of connections to the wider area, • Improved open and green spaces and enhancement East Sussex County Council together with the low economic base of many of the natural environment, residents leads to isolation. English Partnerships • Integrated transport with a new station, better The Government Office for the South East local roads, good bus and taxi services, and safe The area’s two Members of Parliament. and secure local paths and cycleways, The task force has created a regeneration delivery • New neighbourhood centres with local shops and company called Sea Space with responsibility for services located in the northern and southern ends implementation of physical projects. In November of the valley, and 2003, Sea Space together with Andrew Wright • Affordable housing which meets local need and Associates, prepared a Framework Plan for the Ore provides for first time buyers. Valley. This document elaborates on the vision in the The Framework sets out a vision of the Ore Valley as Framework Plan and sets out an Urban Design Code place that offers: for the Ore Valley Millennium Community. The urban design code is site specific and provides mandatory design requirements for new development within the Ore Valley. ORE VALLEY MILLENNIUM COMMUNITY URBAN DESIGN CODES 01 Introduction 04 Urban design codes: How to use them Landscape + Public Realm 1.1 Introduction . .4 4.1 Introduction . .29 LAN1 Introduction to public open space 1.2 Document format . .5 The preparation of design codes for Ore Valley LAN2 Ore Valley Park 1.3 Urban design codes . .6 How to use the codes LAN3 Boundary treatment for Ore Valley Park Why produce design codes? 4.2 The Regulating Plan . .30 LAN4 Ore Valley Station Square What design codes are … and what they are not? LAN5 Ore Valley North – Village Green Where do the codes apply? 05 Urban design codes: Development form LAN6 Ore Valley East – Valley Gardens Layout LAN7 Pedestrian and cycle routes 02 Background LAY1 Introduction to Character Areas LAN8 Street lighting 2.1 Site context . .8 LAY2-6 Character Areas LAN9 Services infrastructure and ICT provision General LAY7 Introduction to streets LAN10 Play provision Built Form LAY 8-11 Street types LAN11 Street drainage and SUDS Landscape LAY12 Traffic calming LAN12 Street trees 2.2 Planning and policy context . .11 Planning policy Built Form Details + Materials Design guidance BF1 Introduction to blocks D1 Ore Valley Station Character Area Crime prevention BF2 Land use and frontage D2 Ore Valley West, North and East Character Area BF3 Millennium Community blocks D3 Ore Valley Parkland 03 The vision for the Ore Valley BF4 Development density 3.1 Ore Valley Development Framework . .14 BF5 Building heights Appendices 3.2 The vision for the Ore Valley . .15 BF6 Blocks and streets Appendix 01 . .Planning and Policy Context 3.3 Urban design objectives . .18 BF7 Corner treatment Appendix 02 . .Millennium Community Standards 3.4 Urban structure . .19 BF8 Plot widths Appendix 03 . .Glossary of terms 3.5 Movement and streets . .20 BF9 Building Interface Appendix 04 . .The Regulating Plan 3.6 Public transport facilities . .22 BF10 Building Interface - Mixed-use Appendix 05 . .Proposed redevelopment 3.7 Pedestrian and cycle routes . .23 BF11 Building Interface - Residential 3.8 Character areas . .25 BF12 Plot boundary/gardens 3.9 Built form and massing . .26 BF13 Response to topography/access 3.10 Landscape strategy . .27 BF14 Roofscape 3.11 Children’s play provision . .28 BF15 Parking standards 3.12 Managing the asset . .28 BF16 Parking design BF17 Parking within building interface BF18 Parking within blocks BF19 Recycling facilities BF20 Cycle storage 01 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction One of these projects is the Hastings Millennium This document sets out site-specific design guidance In 1997 the Government launched its Millennium Community, which is spread across three sites along for the Ore Valley in the form of an Urban Design Communities Programme. One of the main the railway corridor in Hastings and includes the Ore Code. In November 2003, Sea Space together with objectives of the Programme is to influence the Valley. Andrew Wright Associates, prepared a Framework house-building industry and to encourage higher A local agency, Hasting and Bexhill Renaissance Ltd. Plan for the Ore Valley. These codes have been standards of innovation and energy efficiency. Seven (trading as Sea Space), was established by SEEDA, developed to ensure that the vision and aspirations projects were identified that are intended to English Partnerships, The Housing Corporation, and embodied in that Framework will be carried forward demonstrate new sustainable approaches to Hastings Borough Council, East Sussex County into the new development proposed within the Valley. residential development and promote mixed use, Council and Rother District Council to deliver, The Framework promotes a vision of a vibrant socially inclusive communities in which people will amongst other regeneration projects, the Hastings sustainable community where a mix of uses are enjoy living. Millennium Community. integrated and where the highest quality of design and innovation will offer a high quality of life. A public exhibition was prepared detailing the proposals set out within the Framework and the public consulted in November 2003. The proposals were strongly supported. A second public exhibition was prepared and the public consulted on the content of the codes in November 2004. The codes have been prepared by Urban Initiatives (Urban Design) supported by Alan Baxter Associates (Transport), HTA Architects (Sustainable Development) and Studio Engleback (Landscape Design and Ecology). LEFT The Ore Valley is one of a series of Hastings Millennium schemes located on brownfield land alongside the east-west railway corridor. ORE VALLEY MILLENNIUM COMMUNITY URBAN DESIGN CODES 4 1.2 Document format A spatial plan, the ‘Regulating Plan’, indicates the proposed arrangement of blocks and streets within This document has been prepared as a reference the Millennium Community. The form and character tool for those involved with the delivery or control of of development will vary dependant on its location development within the Ore Valley. It is designed to within the Valley. ‘Character Areas’ and street type be simple to use with the codes set out so that they codes are referenced on this drawing. The can be easily reproduced, circulated and updated if Regulating Plan also locates the special elements necessary. within the valley, for instance the landmark The early part of the document provides background buildings. The Regulating Plan is appended to this on the planning and policy context, the Millennium document. Communities programme and the underlying urban The Urban Design Code has been prepared with design principles that have informed the close reference to the DETR and CABE best practice development of the codes. guide ‘By Design’ and the complementary English The Urban Design Code is site specific, and provides Partnerships / Housing Corporation ‘Urban Design mandatory design requirements for new Compendium’. development within the Ore Valley Millennium This document is set out in the following format Community. Each code deals with an element of development form, and includes a statement 2.0 Background accompanied wherever possible with explanatory 3.0 The vision for the Ore Valley diagrams and a justification for the code. Developers 4.0 Urban design codes: How to use the codes must also meet the Millennium Community aspirations for sustainable development. (Refer to 5.0 Urban design codes: Development form Millennium Community Standards in Appendix 2) A glossary of terms is included to the rear of the document (Appendix 3). ORE VALLEY MILLENNIUM COMMUNITY URBAN DESIGN CODES 5 1.3 Urban design codes Design codes can: What design codes are… and what they are not • ensure that development is responsive to place; Urban Design Codes are not new, in fact they have Why produce design codes? through codes that are specific to place and been part of planning in Europe for centuries. Codes ‘The concept of an urban design code starts from the respond to local conditions and patterns of dictated building in the City of London after the Great proposition that the design of a new development development.