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NUNEATON ROAD MANCETTER DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT MAY 2017 CONTENTS 1.0 2.0 3.0 INTRODUCTION STRATEGIC SITE CONTEXT ANALYSIS 1.0 Introduction p4 2.0 Strategic Context p8 3.0 Site Analysis p20 1.1 The Site p4 2.1 Regional Location and Connections p8 3.1 Access & Movement p20 1.2 Gladman Developments Ltd p4 2.2 Strategic Landscape and Visual Context p10 3.2 Topography, Hydrology & Geoenvironment p22 1.3 Purpose of Document p6 2 2.3 Strategic Growth p16 3.3 Landscape & Visual p24 1.4 Document Structure p6 1.5 Consultation p7 2.4 Local Amenities p18 3.4 Arboriculture & Ecology p26 3.5 Built Environment & Noise p28 3.6 Heritage p30 3.7 Constraints & Opportunities p32 Version: 1.1 Version date: 22 May 2017 Comment Final Draft This document may contain: Ordnance Survey material by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. Reference number 0100031673 OS Open data / © Natural England / © DEFRA / © DECC / © Historic England. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2016 | Aerial Photography - Bing Maps NUNEATON ROAD, MANCETTER 1.0 INTRODUCTION 4.0 5.0 6.0 DESIGN DESIGN CONCLUSION PROPOSAL ILLUSTRATIVE PROPOSAL 4.0 Design: Proposals p34 5.0 Design: Illustrative Proposals p36 6.0 Conclusion p48 4.1 Development Framework p35 5.1 Illustrative Masterplan p36 6.1 Key Parameters p48 5.2 Birds Eye View p37 6.2 Conclusion p48 5.3 Land Use Framework p38 3 5.4 Drainage Framework p40 5.5 Access & Movement Framework p42 5.6 Green Infrastructure Framework p44 5.7 Urban Structure Framework p46 NUNEATON ROAD, MANCETTER 1.0 INTRODUCTION Gladman Developments Ltd are 1.1 THE SITE bringing forward for development The Site is located at the south eastern edge of Mancetter and comprises two arable fields. The Site is bounded to the north by a local road known as Quarry Lane and associated approximately 8.6 hectares of properties, to the east by Nuneaton Road and associated properties, to the south by a hedgerow and to the west by an embankment associated with the West Coast Main land on the south eastern edge of Line railway. At the centre of the Site is a small stream lined by a hedgerow and block of Mancetter, near Atherstone. This woodland. land is being promoted for a new residential scheme capable of 1.2 GLADMAN DEVELOPMENTS LTD delivering up to 115 homes along Gladman Developments Ltd have successfully invested in communities throughout the UK over the past 30 years, developing high quality and sustainable residential, commercial with a large area of open space, and industrial schemes. Gladman Developments have assembled and project managed a 4 comprehensive and skilled multidisciplinary team to develop the proposals for Mancetter. helping North Warwickshire The process has been collaborative with each discipline working together to achieve a Borough Council in meeting its comprehensive response to the Site. 5-year land supply. NUNEATON ROAD, MANCETTER 1.0 INTRODUCTION River Coventry Canal ATHERSTONE WITHERLEY Coleshill Road A5 / Watling Street MANCETTER Manor Road West Coast Mainline 5 River Quarry Lane Coventry Canal Nuneaton Road WOODFORD LANE River Coventry Canal NORTH FIGURE 01: SITE LOCATION NUNEATON ROAD, MANCETTER 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.3 THE PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT 1.4 DOCUMENT STRUCTURE This Design and Access Statement (DAS) has been prepared by LDA Design on behalf This DAS follows the requirements as set out in The Town and Country Planning of Gladman Developments Ltd in support of an outline planning application for a new (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 and the guidance outlined in residential development at Nuneaton Road, Mancetter. Planning Practice Guidance, Design (paragraphs 29 - 31), CABE (2007) “Design and Access Statements: How to write, read and use them” and Building For Life Partnership (2015) The aim of the DAS is to present a coherent explanation for the development of the Site, “Building For Life 12”. how the design was derived and how it sits within its context. A comprehensive analysis of the Site is provided and the relationship between the proposed development and its Accordingly, this DAS describes the context for the application and the way in which the surroundings is explored. The document sets out the Site’s specific design principles and scheme has evolved through an understanding of the setting, scale, massing, access and objectives and presents an illustrative masterplan that explains how development on the movement and through community engagement. Site could be accommodated within the existing constraints and proposed Development Framework. Section 1: Introduction Section 2: Strategic Context The content of this document has been informed by a number of studies undertaken Sets out the scope and aim of the Provides an analysis of the Site between 2014 and 2017 which examine the Site and its context with regard to landscape, document and provides information within its wider spatial context in 6 ecology, flood risk and transportation. It draws from the following related documents: on the methodology followed. terms of location, services, transport, settlement growth and landscape and outlines how these strategic elements Planning Statement; have helped formulate the design of Arboricultural Survey and Assessment; Section 3: Site Analysis the Site. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment; Provides analysis of the built and Ecological Appraisal; natural environment of the Site and Flood Risk Assessment; its local context, including a brief summary of the key studies related to Ground Conditions Survey; Section 4: Design - Proposals this document. This section sums up Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment; Presents the Development Framework the main constraints and opportunities which responds to the Site, its context Noise and Vibration Assessment; of the Site and offers an interpretation and the constraints and opportunities Transport Assessment; and of the findings, translating them into a identified in Section 3. Travel Plan set of constraints and opportunities. Section 5: Design - Section 6: Conclusion Illustrative Proposals Provides a brief summary of the Presents the Illustrative Masterplan key parameters and concludes by and explains the principles that defining the key assets of the proposed underpin the design regarding land development. use, drainage, access and movement, landscape and green infrastructure, ecology and urban structure. NUNEATON ROAD, MANCETTER 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.5 CONSULTATION The strategy towards delivering the submitted design proposals has included a consultation process in order to ensure the preparation of a robust planning application that addresses feedback from Warwickshire County Council, North Warwickshire Borough Council, Mancetter Parish Council and the local community. In order to seek to reach the widest number of residents and businesses in the area, the Applicant undertook a twofold public engagement exercise. In the first instance, a leaflet drop and a newspaper advert (Atherstone and Tamworth Herald) and secondly, dedicated website pages. Full details are set out in the Statement of Community Involvement submitted with the application. Details of the proposed development have been available on the Gladman website. The website provides background to the proposals and identifies the factors which will impact on the surrounding area. Members of the public have been encouraged to leave comments via email or letter. 7 PUBLIC CONSULTATION MATERIAL PUBLIC CONSULTATION: CONSULTATION LEAFLET NUNEATON ROAD, MANCETTER 2.O STRATEGIC CONTEXT Section 2.0 provides an analysis of the Site within its wider spatial context in terms of location, services, transport, settlement growth and landscape and outlines how these strategic elements have helped formulate the design of the Site. 8 2.1 REGIONAL LOCATION AND CONNECTIONS MANCETTER: ST PETER’S CHURCH MANCETTER: NUNEATON ROAD LOCAL BUS STOP Mancetter, along with Atherstone forms one of the larger settlements within North Warwickshire Borough, located off the A5/Wattling Street between Nuneaton and Tamworth. The village has excellent transport links, within 10-15 minutes driving from the M42 and M69 motorways, within 30 minutes of Birmingham International Airport and within 45 minutes of Coventry and Birmingham City Centres. Regular bus services (No’s 48, 766, 767 and X48) runs along Nuneaton Road, five minutes walk from the Site approximately every 20 minutes. These routes run between the major urban centres of Coventry and Leicester, providing an important link for many towns, including Atherstone and Mancetter. The nearest railway station is in Atherstone with regular services between Crewe and London, with links to Nuneaton, Rugby and Milton Keynes. The combination of excellent transport links to major urban centres and access to the open countryside within The National Forest has made Mancetter an attractive place to live. Key to the success of the proposed development will be ensuring the new members of the community have good connections to the village, its facilities and businesses, encouraging movement and activity towards the town centre whilst providing residents of Mancetter with greater access to surrounding countryside via the Site’s proposed open spaces. MANCETTER: WEST COAST MAIN LINE WITHERLEY: VIEW TO MANCETTER NUNEATON ROAD, MANCETTER 2.0 STRATEGIC CONTEXT 9 LEGEND APPLICATIONApplication boundary BOUNDARY DISTANCEistance from siteFROM 1 m SITE (10 KM) STRATEGICStrategic road networ ROAD NETWORK RAILWAYRailway line LINE RAILWAYRailway station STATION FIGURE 0?:02: XXXREGIONAL CONTEXT NUNEATON ROAD, MANCETTER 2.2 STRATEGIC LANDSCAPE & VISUAL CONTEXT A Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment of the Site and surrounding area was under taken in March 2017 and forms the basis of the strategic landscape analysis. 2.2.1 TOPOGRAPHY Figure 3 illustrates that the landform in the study area rises to a series of low hills 2-3km to the southwest of the Site and to the northeast falls slightly towards the River Anker beyond which the landscape remains relatively flat. The Site sits between the river and the Coventry Canal, both of which run broadly northwest/southeast across the study area.