FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN WELCOME
Unfortunately, the Covid 19 situation means that we have had to adapt our normal community engagement progress but that doesn’t mean we don’t want feedback. Far from it. To this end, we are distributing information to homes and have created a dedicated website for regular updates, to share designs as they are progressed and as a place to give feedback.
As a first step JTP would like to hear from the local community about the issues of concern and ideas for the regeneration of the site and its relationship with the surrounding area. JTP will be sending a newsletter and postcard to homes for residents to complete, detach and mail back via Freepost. Alternatively, residents will be able to fill in an online form.
JTP will feed comments into an initial design process and create a Vision e17 for the site which will be fed back to the community in mid July. JTP will ask for further comments on the Vision before the final design is prepared for planning submission to Waltham Forest Council later in the summer.
For more information please visit FulbourneRoadRegen.co.uk Inland Homes are committed to engaging with the local community in or contact the Community Planning team at [email protected] or drawing up the proposals and have appointed JTP to facilitate a community on Freephone 0800 0126 730. planning process. During June and July JTP will be holding engagement activities to gather ideas and suggestions on possible uses for this site and present the scheme’s design development.
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e17 THE TEAM
Who are Inland Homes?
Inland Homes is an established local Our in-house construction capabilities brownfield regeneration specialist based ensure that we fully understand building in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. We regulations and are able to utilise modern are devoted to providing high quality construction techniques to successfully residential and mixed-use developments. deliver our proposals. Cheshunt Lakeside, Broxbourne Borough Council Randall’s Department Store Uxbridge Town Centre Hillingdon Gardens, Hillingdon We understand the value of placemaking With our developments in West Drayton, and as such invest heavily in high quality Hillingdon and Uxbridge, we are landscaping and public realm, which we committed to delivering high-quality believe helps create vibrant communities. sustainable homes to the local communities of Hillingdon. This can be evidenced through our now completed Drayton Garden Village development, a thriving new sustainable garden suburb located in West Drayton.
Hillingdon Gardens, Hillingdon Cheshunt Lakeside, Broxbourne Borough Council Cheshunt, Broxbourne The Design Team
JTP is an award-winning international placemaking practice Founded in 1961 on an ethos of collaboration and people WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services of architects and masterplanners with extensive experience of focused design, BDP is now the largest interdisciplinary design- consulting firms. We are technical experts and strategic advisors delivering successful projects for both private and public sectors led firm in Europe. Our award winning Landscape Team sits at including engineers, technicians, scientists, project managers, throughout the UK, Europe, China, Russia and the Middle East. the heart of the practice and works across a variety of sectors planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well including residential and mixed use projects in towns and cities as other design and program management professionals. From our studios in London and Edinburgh we undertake on a national and international basis, including projects within We design and deliver lasting solutions in the Buildings, placemaking projects at every scale, from cities and towns, to Waltham Forest. Transportation, Infrastructure, Environment, Geomatics, Energy, neighbourhoods, streets and the design of individual buildings; Resources and Industry sectors as well as project delivery and creating new places and breathing life into old ones. strategic consulting services.
We approach all our projects through a process of understanding, engaging, and creating, which together we call ‘Collaborative Placemaking’. FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN
e17 THE LOCAL AREA PLANNING POLICY CONTEXT The emerging London Plan requires London to meet its Ambitious housing targets are proposed and parts of This includes maximising and drawing out the local The Forest Road corridor presents the opportunity, through own development needs (including delivering sufficient the borough have been identified as locations where distinctiveness of different parts of the borough, reconfiguration and investment, to substantially improve its housing) within its administrative boundary. This means substantial regeneration will take place in the plan period improving the public realm, greening corridors, further appearance, functioning, and its relationship to existing and a substantial increase in density is required. This will need at higher densities with taller buildings. expanding the facilities for use of public transport and new development. The aspiration to extend the Council’s to optimise development capacity, sometimes resulting in cycling, and delivering new development that positively “mini-Holland” cycleway network though the corridor is adds to the borough. identified. different density and heights to its surroundings. The emerging plan, includes a vision to build upon the strengths of the borough and to development the The emerging Waltham Forest Local Plan looks to put opportunities available form a key part of the strategy. The Forest Road corridor and the Wood Street area As part of the redevelopment proposals for the Homebase site, the London Plan vision into operation in Waltham Forest have been specifically identified as opportunities in the the Inland team have sought to explore how they can further Borough. emerging Local Plan where change is to be encouraged the aims of the emerging Local Plan positively. and redevelopment supported. Walthamstow heat map Wood Street Neighbourhood Centre A framework is created by the neighbourhood centres of Blackhorse Road, Walthamstow Central, Wood Street and the civic centres of Forest Post Office Super Market Cafe DIY Store Dry Road. The site is situated on a key corner of that framework. Duke Street Cleaner Pet Shop Willow House Wood Street Hairdresser Fish & Market Print Shop Chips Toy Shop KEY Cafe Supermarket
Lloyd Bus routes Park Epping Forest Overground Chestnuts Field Mini Holland Route Retail
Wood St Industrial
Religious Laundry Woodside Blackhorse Primary Lee Valley Bakers School Road Civic Florist Taxi Butchers Wood Street Library Florist Walthamstow St James Central Leisure Street Wood Street Education Station The Site FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN
e17 THE SITE
Site Aerial Constraints & Opportunities
Homebase Site sits at the junction of Forest Road and Wood Street - a key node for the local area.
The Southern boundary of the site is Forest Road, a busy East-West road. TPO-ed trees are screening the site from the road and presenting a landscape buffer.
Eastern boundary is a railway corridor as well as a 5 nature corridor along the tracks.
4 Delamere Court and Hawker Place are the neighbours to the North of the site. 3 2
1 Neighbouring Willow and Sterling House sites border the site along Development the Western boundary.
There is a significant level change along the boundary with Forest Road which increases towards East and is at it’s maximum on the South-Eastern corner of the site.
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Forest Road view of Homebase Homebase Carpark boundary with Forest Road Homebase Car Park Adjacent railway lines Boundary to the North FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN e17 DISCOVERY REPORT
In the 1930s a new civic centre 19 was formed along Forest Road LINKS TO THE PAST... 30 by the siting of the technical ...A PLACE OF FIRSTS college (1938), Town Hall(1941), 19 The population of Assembly Hall(1943), and Court Waltham Forest House (1971). 20 In 2019 Waltham Forest was 00 trebled between 1890- named the first ever London 1941 resulting in the 19 In Walthamstow, Edwin Alliot 19 Borough of Culture. It was proliferation of industry in Verdon-Roe assembled the first 20 Grayson Perry’s ‘The awarded £1.35m of funding the Lea Valley. 09 ever all-British plane, named Walthamstow Tapestry’ to deliver a programme of Dating from 1885, the Walthamstow used the Avro no1. triplane. In July 09 explores the emotional ambitious cultural activities 18 Walthamstow market is the to be the home of 1909 it made its debut flight on resonance of brand names 20 A £10.6 million celebrating the unique 85 longest outdoor street manufacturing Walthamstow Marsh. in our lives and our quasi- Walthamstow Wetlands character of its local market in Europe and spans industries as disparate religious relationship to 17 project has opened up to the people and places. roughly a km of Walthamstow as buses and bedroom consumerism, inspired public 10 Victorian reservoirs, High Street. furniture. by Walthamstow as the making up London’s largest birthplace of socialist and man-made body of water, artist William Morris. as a 520-acre wetland nature reserve threaded with nature trails and dotted with play areas and wildlife habitats, WALTHAMSTOW open to the public since October 2017.
The Walthamstow Stadium was built in 1908. Originally William Morris the used by Walthamstow English designer, Grange Football craftsman, poet, and Club, in 1929 it hosted early socialist was greyhound racing for The pop boy born in Walthamstow the first time. Though band East 17 in 1834. His designs the stadium closed began in 1991, for furniture, fabrics, 19 in 2008, the Grade who named EAST LONDON wallpaper, and other In 1892, Frederick II-listed front façade themselves decorative arts began Bremer built 08 remains. after the area’s the Arts and Crafts the first British postal code E17, Walthamstow is home to movement in England four-wheeled and titled their London’s only denim 18 and revolutionized motor car with an In 1936 the BBC 19 debut album The artwork for Blur’s Parklife jeans manufacturer, Victorian taste. internal combustion made the first ever 91 Walthamstow. album featured photos of Blackhorse Lane 34 engine. He lived public television the band at Walthamstow Ateliers. Based in in Walthamstow transmissions from Stadium, released in April 1994. London’s first denim and put the car Alexandra Palace Certified four times platinum in 20 factory it is now together in a in Walthamstow. the United Kingdom, in the year 16 producing jeans again. workshop behind Alexandra Palace is following its release the album 18 the family’s home on 19 known globally as the 19 came to define the emerging 92 Connaught Road. 36 birthplace of television. 94 Britpop scene. FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN
e17 CULTURAL ASSETS
2. NATURE 4. MARKETS 5. A WELCOMING 6. THE ART OF SHOP 1. ART & CRAFT 3. ACTIVE TRAVEL COMMUNITY KEEPING 7. STREET LIFE FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN
e17 SCHEME ASPIRATIONS
Residential Led Mixed Use Landscape Led Proposal Supporting Culture Network Promoting Sustainable Spaces for Community and Child Development of Walthamstow Modes of Transport Friendly Design
Protecting, Enhancing, Responding to New Spaces Social Value - Local Training Connecting Natural Assets Climate Change for Creatives Programme and Jobs FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN
e17 LONDON WILDLIFE TRUST KEY THEMES:
• PROTECT - EXISTING NATURAL ASSETS ALONG EDGE • ENHANCE - BY PLANTING NATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE SPECIES • CONNECT - THROUGH PERMEABLE DESIGN • NATURAL DRAINAGE - DIRECT SWALES AND SUDS TOWARDS WETLANDS • EMERGING WOODLAND - LINK LANDSCAPE TO FOREST • LANDSCAPE PERMEABILITY - NORTH/ SOUTH AND EAST/WEST • ROOFSCAPE - MOSAIC AND BLUE ROOFS • MINI HOLLAND - CYCLING FRIENDLY LANDSCAPE • NATURE AND CULTURE - REFERENCE THROUGH MATERIALS, TIE INTO WETLANDS DESIGN AND MORRIS GALLERY, ART FEATURES THAT CHANGE
‘NATURE’ The soft landscaped areas create permeability for ecology from the train tracks too
‘TOWN’ Gateway Square to the west makes connection to the civic and retail uses of Wood Street FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN
e17 DESIGN PRINCIPLES
1. Protecting Enhancing Connecting 2. Greening Forest Road
3. Welcoming Spaces 4. Connecting Spaces 5. Private Gardens FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN
e17 LANDSCAPE APPROACH
CONCEPT APPROACH
The larger context and nature of Walthamstow is a main influence to the landscape and public realm within the development. There is an opportunity to explore the natural landscape of Epping Forest and Walthamstow Wetlands and draw these characters through the site, leading to a range of green open spaces.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
A number of character spaces are proposed Open spaces will encompass a range of landscape types to maximize the amount and variety of spaces within an accessible, safe and inviting environment for outside the buildings. The larger context and all. Emerging ideas include greening Forest Road and nature of Walthamstow is a main influence to increasing the amount of tree planting across the site, the spaces within the development. alongside social hard and soft landscaped spaces and children’s play. Understanding these roles and how the spaces could perform helps establish a framework for concept development.
Entrance Space Wetlands Woodlands Play & Amenity Streets & Lanes Podium Gardens Communal Gardens FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN e17 MINI HOLLAND TO ENJOY WALTHAMSTOW
Enjoy Waltham Forest Current proposals are to extend the Mini-Holland scheme immediately adjacent to the Patchworks site, with “Mini-Holland” is one of many projects underway to make improvements along Forest Road up to its junction with Waltham Forest safer for walking and cycling, and is made Hale End Road. LBWF’s proposals allow for segregated up of a total of 13 separate schemes across the Borough. cycle lanes and new landscaping elements along both sides of Forest Road, which would further enhance cycling facilities along this strategic east-west corridor. It would There is an opportunity to integrate the proposals for the also help to alter the street environment by reducing car Patchworks with the wider Mini-Holland aspirations for the dominance and creating an enhanced experience for area, and in doing so for the development to complement active travel modes. and strengthen LBWF’s vision.
FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN e17 CLIMATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan 2019 & Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan 2019 London Plan (December 2019) requirements requirements Both documents list a number of planning legislations All new major residential and non-residential to promote sustainable development and to achieve development to meet the zero-carbon emissions relevant environmental, economic and social objectives target in line with the London Plan. in order to attain the vision and plan for the future of the borough. Requiring carbon offset contributions for all major developments where it is demonstrated that carbon emissions targets cannot be met through on-site measures. New developments to maximise use of decentralised energy systems. Major developments to be enabled for district energy connection. Waltham Forest Draft Local Plan 2019 London Plan (December 2019) requirements requirements To ensure that non-residential developments greater Development proposals referable to the Mayor should than 100m² achieves BREEAM ‘Very Good’ or calculate whole life-cycle carbon emissions through equivalent standards, and to encourage major non- a nationally recognised Whole Life-Cycle Carbon residential developments to achieve ‘Excellent’ or Assessment and demonstrate actions taken to reduce equivalent. To ensure that residential developments life-cycle carbon emissions. target higher standards of sustainability including the Home Quality Mark. FULBOURNE ROAD REGEN
e17 NEXT STEPS Community engagement Timeline
Website Launch stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 2 Further ESTIMATED COM- ESTIMATEDengagement COM - ESTIMATEDengagement COM Zoom - ESTIMATEDengagement COM - PLANNING engagement PLETION& stage 1 PLETION PLETION PLETION to Application engagement Deadline for Presentation Deadline for SUBMISSION comments of Vision commentS Determination
Stage 1 engagement Design Team Working Stage 2 engagement Design Team Working Stage 3 engagement
Mon 22 June Mon 6 July Wed 15 July Mon 27 July August 2020 August - December 2020
Ongoing Community engagement
Please let us know your thoughts by getting in touch via the details below: For more information and to complete the online form visit FulbourneRoadRegen.co.uk or contact the community planning Team at [email protected] or on Freephone 0800 0126 730.