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South Caldecotte Development Framework AMENDED DD 120319 Low Res.Indd ANNEX B Urban Design & Landscape Architecture South Caldecotte Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document REVISED CONSULTATION DRAFT www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/udla February 2019 South Caldecotte Development Framework SPD This document has been prepared by Milton Keynes Council’s Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Team. For further information please contact: David Blandamer Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Placemaking Milton Keynes Council Civic Offices 1 Saxon Gate East Milton Keynes MK9 3EJ T +44 (0) 1908 254836 F +44 (0) 1908 252329 E [email protected] 2 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture Contents SECTION 1 SECTION 3 INTRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 1.1 Introduction 7 3.1 Introduction 35 1.2 Role of the Development Framework 7 3.2 The Vision 35 1.3 Status of Development Framework 7 3.3 Land Uses 36 1.4 Planning Policy Background 73.4 Landscape and Open Space Strategy 36 1.5 Planning Summary 103.5 Movement Framework 38 3.6 Design 41 SECTION 2 3.7 Sustainability 44 3.8 Indicative Development Framework Plan 46 THE SITE AND ITS CONTEXT 2.1 Introduction 13 SECTION 4 2.2 South Caldecotte 13 DELIVERY 2.3 Surrounding Area and Edge Conditions 14 2.4 Topography, Views and Drainage 18 4.1 Infrastructure Delivery 49 2.5 Landscape Character 20 2.6 Habitat and Vegetation 22 4.2 Management and Maintenance 49 2.7 Access and Movement 244.3 Outline Application 49 2.8 Heritage 284.4 Design and Access Statements 49 2.9 Utilities 30 2.10 Opportunities and Constraints 32 www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/udla 3 South Caldecotte Development Framework SPD FIGURES 1.1 Boundary of the Development Framework Area 8 1.2 Oxford to Cambridge Expressway Corridor 1.3 Alignment of Potential Railway Bridge Crossing at Bow Brickhill Level Crossing 2.1 Surrounding Area 15 2.2 Edge Conditions 17 2.3 Topography, Views & Drainage 19 2.4 Landscape Character 21 2.5 Natural Environment 23 2.86 Heritage 29 2.67 Public Transport 25 2.78 Movement Network 27 2.9 Utilities 31 2.10 Opportunities and Constraints 33 3.1 Open Space and Landscape Strategy 3.12 Movement Network 39 3.23 Spine Street Cross-section 40 3.34 Character Areas 42 3.45 Development Framework Plan 47 4 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/udla 5 South Caldecotte Development Framework SPD SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Oxford to Cambridge Arc 1.3 Role of Development Framework 1.3 Status of Development Framework 1.4 Oxford to Cambridge Arc 1.5 Oxford to Cambridge Expressway 1.6 East- West Rail 1.47 Planning Policy Background 1.58 Planning Summary 6 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture 1.1 Introduction stakeholder expectations for the site, and respect the requirements of MKC planning 1.1.1 The site extends to approximately 56.8 ha (140 policy. acres) and is located within Bow Brickhill parish. The site is strategically located next to the A5 1.2.23 It is a requirement of policy SD12 in the Trunk Road (see fi gure 1.1) which connects to Submission Version of Plan:MK that junction 11a of the M1 via the recently opened Development Frameworks are prepared for link road. strategic development sites prior to planning permission being granted. 1.1.2 The site is allocated for employment development in the Submission Version of a 1.3 Status of Development Framework Strategic Employment Allocation Plan:MK 2016- 2031. 1.3.1 The Development Framework will be adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) 1.1.3 Milton Keynes is in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc. to once Plan:MK has been adopted. In the East-west rail proposals and growing up to interim it will be used to guide discussions with 500,000 people means this development can developers of the site, and to demonstrate capitalise on these opportunities and provide the site’s deliverability. The Development jobs for the projected population growth. Framework accords with the National Planning Policy Framework, and Plan:MK and the Core 1.2 Role of the Development Framework Strategy. 1.2.1 Formal consultation on the draft Development 1.3.2 It is being prepared according to the Town and th Framework took place between the 5 March Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) th and the 27 April 2018. As a result of comments Regulations 2012. These regulations require received, changes have been made to the that the SPD is subject to public consultation. draft Development Framework. A further 6 week period of consultation will be undertaken 1.4 Oxford to Cambridge Arc on a revised draft before the Development Framework is adopted as a Supplementary 1.4.1 In March 2016, the National Infrastructure Planning Document (SPD). Commission (NIC) was asked to provide Government with proposals and options to 1.2.12 The purpose of this document is to provide maximise the potential of the Cambridge- planning and design guidance for the Milton Keynes-Oxford arc as a connected, development of this site. This will aid the knowledge-intensive cluster that competes on a development process, by allowing developers global stage, protecting the area’s high quality to submit informed proposals that respond environment, and securing the homes and jobs to Council (MKC), landowner and other local that the area needs. www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/udla 7 South Caldecotte Development Framework SPD Figure 1.1: Site Location 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture 1.4.2 The Commission’s fi nal report “Partnering for 1.6.1 The east-west rail project will re-establish a rail Prosperity: a new deal for the Cambridge - link between Cambridge and Oxford to improve Milton Keynes - Oxford Arc” was published in connections between East Anglia and central, November 2017. The central fi nding of the southern and western England. report was that rates of house building will need to double - delivering up to one million 1.6.2 The existing Marston Vale Line from Bletchley new homes by 2050 - if the arc is to achieve its to Bedford which runs to the north of the economic potential. site is part of the western section of the East West Rail route. Phase 2 of the Western 1.4.3 National investment in the East West Rail Section will upgrade and reconstruct existing project and the proposed Oxford-Cambridge and mothballed sections of the line that link Expressway is central to achieving the Bedford with Bicester, and Milton Keynes with report’s vision. These schemes will enhance Aylesbury. Public consultation was undertaken connectivity across the arc, as well as improving in September-October 2015, June-August 2017 connections with international gateways such and January-February 2018. as Heathrow. But crucially, these schemes can 1.6.3 Following public consultations, a Transport play a key role in tackling the arc’s housing and Works Act Order (TWAO) application was crisis, unlocking major new development submitted to the Secretary of State for Transport locations and enabling transformational growth on 27 July 2018. The TWAO does not involve around existing towns and cities. any works that will aff ect the site. 1.5 Oxford to Cambridge Expressway 1.6.4 Depending on funding and progress of the TWAO, construction of the line between 1.5.1 The preferred corridor for the Expressway, was Bicester and Bletchley will start at the end of announced by Highways England, in September 2019 with trains operating from 2023. 2018 (see fi gure 1.2). A preferred route will be announced in Autumn 2020, following 1.6.5 Currently there is one passenger train per hour consultation on shortlisted routes in 2019. each way between Bedford and Bletchley on weekdays and Saturdays, and then the level 1.5.2 The likelihood of the expressway passing crossing gates at Bow Brickhill are closed for through the site is considered low as this would a total of 14-15 minutes per hour, more if a aff ect the consented Eaton Leys residential freight train (not at peak times) also uses the scheme and the scheduled monument of line. As a result, there are notable queues of Magiovinium that lie immediately adjacent traffi c on Brickhill Street on both sides of the south-west of the site. level crossing when the gates are closed, and also along Station Road into Bow Brickhill, 1.6 East West Rail particularly during the morning and afternoon/ www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/udla 9 South Caldecotte Development Framework SPD Figure 1.2 Oxford to Cambridge Expressway Corridor Source:Highways England 10 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture Sp Sp R: 78.75 R: 77.82 F: 77.67 Figure 1.3 Alignment of Potential Railway Bridge Crossing at Bow Brickhill Level Crossing. Source: Milton Keynes Council www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/udla 11 South Caldecotte Development Framework SPD evening rush hours. The number of passenger • Requiring good design Achieving well-designed trains on the railway line is due to double in places 2024 when the upgrade is complete. • Conserving and enhancing the natural environment 1.6.6 Stakeholder engagement on the Development • Conserving and enhancing the historic Framework has identifi ed traffi c delays at the environment level crossing as an important issue of concern to local people. 1.47.3 The NPPF states that Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) “add further detail to 1.6.7 A long term solution to these delays is the the policies in the development plan Local provision of a bridge over the railway line in Plan.” and “are capable of being a material place of the level crossing at Bow Brickhill.
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