SPD: Freckleton Street Masterplan

Freckleton Street Masterplan Supplementary Planning Document Part of the Blackburn with Darwen Local Development Framework November 2007 Supported by Blackburn with Darwen Freckleton Street Masterplan pages pages List of figures 1 Chapter 6: Masterplan Proposals 27 6.1: Introduction 27 Chapter 1: Introduction 2 6.2: Masterplan Vision 27 1.1: The Purpose of the 2 6.3: Masterplan Principles 28 Supplementary Planning 6.4: Masterplan Proposals 30 Document 1.2: The Study Area 4 Chapter 7: Delivery and 32 Implementation Chapter 2: Context 5 7.1: Introduction 32 2.1: Regeneration Context 5 7.2: The Projects 32 2.2: Supporting the Town Centre 5 7.3: The Funding of Projects 33 2.3: Connecting Communities 7 7.4: Phasing of Development 34 2.4: The Emerging Highway 8 7.5: Project Information Forms (PIF) 35 Proposals 2.5: Historic Environment 9 Chapter 8: The Way Forward and 54 2.6: Relationship to Other Initiatives 10 Form of Planning Application for Major Chapter 3: The Vision 12 Developments 8.1: Design Statement 54 Chapter 4: Strategic Framework 13 4.1: Strategic Framework 13 Chapter 9: Contacts and Further 55 4.2: Key Opportunities 14 Information 4.3: Masterplan / SPD Objectives 16 Chapter 10: Planning Context 57 Chapter 5: Development Principles 17 10.1: Introduction 57 5.1: Overarching Development 17 10.2: Statutory Planning Framework 57 Principles 10.3: Principal Planning Policies Of 58 5.2: SPD Area Development 19 The Blackburn With Darwen Principles Borough Local Plan 5.3: Galligreaves Street Area 20 (April 2002) 5.4: Chapel Street Area 22 10.4: Local Development Framework 59 5.5: St Peter Street area 23 10.5: Other Planning Considerations 60 5.6: Bolton Road 25 10.6: Blackburn With Darwen Local 60 Transport Plan 2 2006-2011 Appendix 1 62 Statement of Consultation Adoption Statement Freckleton Street Masterplan List of fi gures Page Figure 1 The Study Area 4 Figure 2 SPD Areas – including the proposed Central Corridor / Orbital Route 19 Figure 3 Illustrative Masterplan 31 Figure 4 Phasing Plan 34 Figure 5 Movement & Road Hierarchy App. 2* Figure 6 Development Strategy App. 2* Figure 7 Uses & Activities App. 2* Figure 8 Existing Urban Form & Layout App. 2* Figure 9 Proposed Urban Form & Layout App. 2* Figure 10 Public Realm & Open Space Strategy App. 2* Figure 11 Indicative Traffi c directions / fl ows App. 2* Figure 12 Public Transport Strategy App. 2* Figure 13 Proposed Highway Infrastructure App. 2* Figure 14 Option 1 - Key Section AA Looking north through Public Square & the Orbital App. 2* Route Option 2 - Key Section AA Looking north through Public Square & the Orbital App. 2* Route Figure 15 Key Section BB St Peter Street App. 2* Figure 16 Key Section CC Sumner Street App. 2* Figure 17 Key Section DD The New Fire Station looking west App. 2* Key Section EE The New Fire Station looking east App. 2* *Appendix 2 published as a separate volume 1 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council 1 Introduction 1.1 The Purpose of the Supplementary Planning Document This Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) sets out the This SPD supplements and develops existing Local Plan Council’s planning policy approach for the Freckleton Street ‘saved’ policy. The SPD will act as a material consideration in Area. The policy contained within this SPD provides more determining development proposals assisting in the delivery of detailed planning guidance to the Blackburn with Darwen Local key aspiration for the area. Given its status, the SPD cannot Plan adopted in April 2002. allocate development land but rather expands upon the existing planning policy framework. The primary Local Plan policy This SPD was sponsored by the North West Development relevant to the area is listed in Table 1. Agency (NWDA) and commissioned by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council (BwDBC) in March 2005. The formulation The SPD was subject to a public consultation in February / of the SPD was led by Masterplanner EDAW, supported by March 2007. It was adopted by the Council’s Executive Board King Sturge and Capita Symonds in association with Keith in November 2007. Martin, who as a former Forward Planning and Transport Policy Manager with BwDBC provided specialist transport planning Under European Directive 2001/42/EC, there is a requirement advice to the team. for a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to be carried out on the SPD. The resulting SEA/Sustainability Appraisal The SPD has three primary purposes: (SA) report documents the process by which the SPD has been appraised, the fi ndings of the appraisal, the ways in – To formulate a clear and comprehensive spatial vision for which the appraisal process has infl uenced the SPD, and the area how the effects of the SPD are to be monitored. As well as – To identify key development opportunities within the area the mainly environmental considerations covered by the SEA, – To act as an urban design guide for the area the appraisal also considers a range of social and economic issues, to ensure a comprehensive Sustainability Appraisal is The SPD for Freckleton Street will form part of the emerging provided. The separate SA Report avoids repeating detail of the Local Development Framework which will replace the Local actual Masterplan and should therefore be read alongside the Plan. It will aid the regeneration of the area reconnecting Freckleton Street Masterplan SPD document itself. Freckleton Street to the socio-economic and physical fabric of the Town Centre. 2 Freckleton Street Masterplan Table 1: Local Planning Policy Context* Policy Title Brief Description EC6 Mixed Use Areas Much of the Masterplan area is designated a mixed use area. Therefore, a variety of uses will be acceptable provided proposals accord with other policies in the Plan. Mixed Use Areas 1. Within Mixed Use Areas as defi ned on the Proposals Map a variety of uses will be acceptable provided proposals accord with other policies in the Plan 2. In appropriate cases planning permission may be restricted to the use applied for T3 Rail Freight Applies to the Wrangling and associated railway sidings (Shown in the Proposals Map as a mixed use site). Rail Freight Measures which encourage and facilitate the transfer of freight from road to rail will be supported provided the appropriate mitigation measures are in place to prevent adverse impact on road conditions. In pursuit of this aim: i. planning permission for development which would result in the loss of rail freight facilities will not be granted; ii. in locations suitable for industrial or warehousing uses, planning permission will not be granted for trackside sites which have the ability to connect to rail if the development would prejudice subsequent rail connection. *Site specifi c policies BTC3a and BTC3b were not included in the policies “saved” from the adopted Local Plan on 27th September 2007. The SPD considers other additional national and local policy outlined within Chapter 10. 3 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council 1.2 The Study Area Figure 1: The Study Area The regeneration area falls within an area of dramatic landform. The Bolton Road corridor runs along a steep north west facing slope, which falls away into the study area. Impressive vistas overlooking the area from the higher vantage point of the Freckleton Street Bridge exist and include local landmarks such as the church spire on St Peter Street and the Fire Station Building. A new, dramatic bridge (a dual carriageway bow- string structure) will be constructed over the next two years transforming the existing restricted entry point and creating a new high quality gateway for the area and the town centre. Running through the centre of the area is the River Blakewater which fl ows east to west forming a physical link between the town centre (Cathedral Quarter) and the SPD area. Access to the river is limited, which remains hidden behind buildings and service yards. Generally, it runs within a retained cutting of low visual quality. Freckleton Street today is predominately mixed use in character providing an edge of centre fringe location where secondary low-density employment uses predominate. Employment fl oorspace varies dramatically through the study area from 17000sqm down to 20sqm. Overall the image of the area is poor and lacks any coherent sense of place. The prominence of the location is frustrated by a number of site constraints which include: – Poor internal circulation and barriers to movement associated with the limited capacity of the existing Freckleton Street Bridge and the low headroom bridges Cities Revealed© copyright by The GeoInformation® Group, (Darwen Street Bridge and Galligreaves Street); 2006 and Crown Copyright© All rights reserved. – A confusing one way traffi c system with poor junctions; – Poor quality environment typifi ed by secondary low value The Freckleton Street area is located directly to the south west and uncomplimentary uses, vacant and underutilised land of Blackburn Town Centre. The area is physically separated and buildings and poor quality buildings; from the Infi rmary Waterside community to the south by – Lack of quality open space; the Blackburn-Preston Railway line and a strategic corridor – A fragmented public realm; of the A666 (Bolton Road). To the west, the boundary of – Lack of investor confi dence; the regeneration area is defi ned by Duckworth Street and – Multiple complex land ownerships particularly in the redundant railway sidings which separate the area from the eastern section of the Masterplan area; Griffi n and Galligreaves communities. The A674 (Whalley – Possible contaminated land; and Banks/King Street) makes up the northern boundary of the – Medium to high risk of fl ooding. area. The Freckleton Street area and surrounding neighbourhoods Locational advantages include: suffer from acute physical, economic and social deprivation in contrast to the rest of the Borough.

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