Land at Beeston Business Park, Technology Drive and Sports Ground and Pavilion, Trent Vale Road, Beeston, Nottinghamshire
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Beeston Business Park 13015 - D&A - Rev P2 Land at Beeston Business Park, Technology Drive and Sports Ground and Pavilion, Trent Vale Road, Beeston, Nottinghamshire. NG9 1LA Design & Access Statement April2014 Beeston Business Park 13015 - D&A - Rev P2 Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Development Description 1.2 Planning Application Proposal Details 1.3 Scope and Content of the D&A 2.0 CONTEXT 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Physical Context 2.3 Social & Economic Context 2.4 Planning Context—Incl Public Consultation 3.0 SITE ANALYSIS 3.1 Constraints 3.2 Opportunities 4.0 DESIGN EVOLUTION 5.0 SCHEME DESIGN 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Use 5.3 Layout 5.4 Scale & Massing 5.5 Phasing 5.6 Access 5.7 Flooding 5.8 Technical Reports 6.0 DETAILED SCHEME DESIGN Some of the images within this document represent design 7.0 CONCLUSION development – reference should be made to the planning application drawings for up to date information. 8.0 APPENDIX Beeston Business Park 13015 - D&A - Rev P2 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Development Description This Planning Statement has been prepared on behalf of M7 Real Estate LLP to support a planning application for the redevelopment of the Beeston Business Park, Beeston Rylands. The Applicant seeks planning permission for the following development: Full planning permission for Industrial/offices (Class B1, B2, and B8), health centre ( Class D1), social club (Class D2/A4) and general retail (Class A1), new/replacement sports pitches with ancillary sports club buildings, and associated road infrastructure, car parking including a new car park for the Beeston Railway Station. Outline planning permission for up to 285 residential units including means of access. 1.2 Planning Application Proposals This Design & Access Statement is in support of a planning application submitted for these proposals by PlanIT Planning & Development Ltd on behalf of M7 Real Estate Ltd. 1.3 Scope & Content of The D&A This Design & Access Statement covers the new build development elements and conforms to Government guidelines on which issues should be covered. Beeston Business Park 13015 - D&A - Rev P2 2.0 Site Context 2.1 Introduction The site was purchased by VBR Investments Ltd(VBRi) in December 2012 and proposals for the site are being prepared under the supervision of VBRi’s asset management team at M7 Real Estate Ltd. M7 Real Estate is a European investor and asset manager of multi-let light industrial real estate and is one of the leading specialists in this sector. They are currently operating throughout the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Netherlands. Formed in 2009, M7 Real Estate is owned by 11 shareholders who are the Directors of the company working with an additional 36 members of staff. The team is extremely experienced in this sector with a strong and positive market profile and with a portfolio currently consisting of over 260 assets, providing over 17 millon sq ft of predominantly light industrial accommodation and with a capital value in excess of £600 million. Beeston Business Park is a major brownfield site covering an area of some 48.6 acres (19.6 hectares) which has, over the years, been occupied for various industrial and office uses. Beeston Business Park 13015 - D&A - Rev P2 2.2 Physical Context The site has frontage onto Meadow Road and comprises a mixture of differently designed commercial buildings (flat and pitched roofs), constructed of a variety of differing materials and across a range of single to eight storey heights. The front of the site is dominated by a three storey office building occupied by ATOS which was granted planning permission in 2007 and is the most modern building on the site. This building is close to The Plessey Sports and Social Club. VBRi also own the 9 acre sports field with its pavilion/gym and squash and tennis courts which are accessed from Trent Vale Road and Riverside Road. Much of the site lies derelict and underutilised, and the brief was to re-vitalise this declining site to produce a modern mixed use scheme with the business park at its heart that would attract new businesses to the borough. Beeston Railway Station lies adjacent to the main site entrance from Meadow Road. This station lies on the Midland mainline from Nottingham to London and provides an excellent mass transit link to the city centre and beyond. The westbound platform has a direct access to the site down existing steps and an adjacent footpath. Due to the long history of employment use on the site the surrounding area contains large volumes of residential accommodation. The majority of this is to the south and east of the site and there are new residential developments on the other side of the railway line. Beeston Business Park 13015 - D&A - Rev P2 The western edge of the site faces out over the Attenborough Nature Reserve, which includes the Attenborough Gravel Pits Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The reserve was designated in 1982 mainly for its importance to over-wintering wildfowl. 2.3 Historical Site Usage The Beeston area has a long history as a key industrial employment centre for the Nottingham Conurbation. The Broxtowe boundary along the river has, for over one hundred years, been a large source of employment for the city. Apart from the Beeston Business Park site itself, the area has housed such names as Boots, and the Humber Group, less than 1km from the site. The site has been occupied for employment purposes for over one hundred years, being established by the National Telephone Company in 1901. The firm was taken over by Ericsson Manufacturing Ltd in 1903, before changing to Plessey. The site was used as a cabinet making factory for many years afterwards. Many of the tenants are focussed around the IT and communications services, with tenants including SMS, Siemens, and ATOS Origin. 2.4 Existing Site and Topography The existing site Beeston Business Park is a major brownfield site covering an area of some 48.6 acres (19.6 hectares) which has, over the years, been occupied for various industrial and office uses. The site has an eclectic mixture of different designed commercial buildings with both flat and pitched roof, and a variety of cladding materials including pre-cast concrete panels, timber, brickwork and metal cladding. There are 680,000 sqft of office and industrial buildings on Beeston Business Park but not all of that is being put to effective use. Not all of the existing space is even fit for purpose. Approximately 200,000 sqft is currently unusable. General Existing Site Photographs Beeston Business Park 13015 - D&A - Rev P2 Existing Sports Pavilion Local Housing Victory Road Existing Tennis Courts Existing Sports Pitches Existing Bungalows Trent Vale Road Derelict Office Building Victory Road Beeston Business Park 13015 - D&A - Rev P2 2.5 Planning and Public Consultation Policy It is considered that the proposals fully comply with the relevant national, strategic and local planning policies as well as other material considerations. National and local Policies are addressed in more detail in PlanIT’s supporting Planning Statement. Involvement Several pre-application meetings have been held with the LPA which has developed the mix of uses and the siting on the site, the LPA officers have been supportive of the proposals and the proposed uses . Further details are in PlanIT’s supporting planning statement. Public Consultation The presentation boards are included in this D&A statement in the appendix. This section includes a detailed summary of the resident/stakeholder feedback received in relation to these proposals. Consultation was undertaken within the month of February 2014 with the local residents; the consultation took the form a 1 day exhibition at the Beeston Business Centre which was manned by representatives from the Applicant and the project technical team. The Consultation process. The consultation event was held on the 18th February 2014 and was advertised through the local Newspaper media (The Nottingham Post and the Beeston Express); invitation letters were also sent to approximately c500 properties in the vicinity of the application site and the existing site tenants. Posters advertising the event were also displayed at the Beeston Library, supermarket notice boards, the rail station and on the site frontage. Copies of the invitation letter, the publicity poster are included below. Development Sketch Model Beeston Business Park 13015 - D&A - Rev P2 The purpose of the exhibition was to raise awareness of the planning application proposals . The exhibition was held on site between the hours of 2pm and 7.30pm on the 18th February 2014. A number of information boards were displayed to explain the background to the application, the history of the site, and details of the proposed development. Members of the project team were on hand to answer questions and to respond to comments raised. A copy of the exhibition boards are included below. All of the displayed material was also made available to view on line via the PlanIT Planning and Development website to ensure that those who were unable to attend the event had the opportunity to comment. Those who participated in the public consultation were invited to complete a feedback form either on the day of attendance or by email/post. Participants were also able to comment on line via the consultation website. A copy of the feedback form is included below. Consultation Feedback. 173 people attended the consultation event and signed the visitor book. This was an excellent attendance rate .156 feedback forms were returned to the Applicant which represents a 90 % response rate; 103 comment forms were completed on the day of the Public Consultation Flyer consultation event and another 53 comment forms were returned either through the post, by email, or via the consultation website.