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Harlow and Gilston Garden Town HARLOW AND GILSTON GARDEN TOWN VISION NOVEMBER 2018 The Garden Town sits in the Peterborough heart of the UK Innovation Corridor, which offers an unparalleled opportunity in an exceptional location close to London, Stansted Airport and Cambridge to deliver both housing and economic growth, and to build on the area’s key strengths as the next global knowledge region in the UK. Kettering C A M B R I D G E S H I R E A14 Bury St Edmunds Cambridge B E D F O R D S H I R E Bedford S U F F O L K Haverhill A10 Ipswich Royston Sudbury Milton M11 Keynes Letchworth Garden City Hitchin M1 Buntingford Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst Stansted Airport Stevenage Colchester Luton Braintree Bishop’s Stortford A120 A1(M) The Garden E S S E X Ware Town H E R T F O R D S H I R E Welwyn Garden City Hatfield Hemel Hempstead St Albans Broxbourne Chelmsford Epping Potters Bar Chipping Ongor Watford Loughton Enfield M25 Brentwood Wembley Basildon Southend - on - Sea Stratford 2 LCY LHR L O N D O N M25 LGW Garden City INTRODUCTION principles Harlow and Gilston was designated as a Garden A mix of house sizes and types, to cater for all, Town by the Ministry for Homes, Communities and including those most in need Local Government in January 2017 and will comprise new and existing communities in and around Harlow. Set in attractive countryside, with transformative investment in transport and community infrastructure, new neighbourhoods to the east, west and south and new villages to the north will be established. East Herts, Epping Forest and Harlow District Councils are working together with Hertfordshire and Essex A wide range of jobs in Beautifully designed County Councils to ensure plans for the Garden Town easy access homes and neighbourhoods - support sustainable living and a healthy economy; the best of town and provide a good quality of life for existing and future countryside residents; and respond to local landscape and character. Purpose of the Vision This document sets out the vision for the Garden Town and the principles which will inform its growth and management. It will help support the delivery of the locally-led Garden Town, furthering the joint-work that Enhancing the natural Good shopping, cultural is supported by Government. The vision and principles environment through and recreational facilities biodiversity and zero carbon in walking distance, for the Garden Town are informed by the Town and approaches, and ensuring that support sociable Country Planning Association’s (TCPA) Garden City climate resilience neighbourhoods Principles and from input from our stakeholders and the local community. Over the following pages, the Garden City Principles logos are shown alongside the headings of the Harlow and Gilston Garden Town four key principles of healthy growth (e.g. Placemaking and Homes), to indicate where they correspond to each other. Integrated sustainable Capturing land value transport, in which walking, for the benefit of the community The Vision has been prepared to help residents, cycling and public transport are the most attractive options business, investors and developers to understand the Garden Town and its quality aspirations. The Vision will be used as a consideration when proposals for growth and regeneration are presented to the Garden Town QRP. Reviewing and monitoring this document This document will be reviewed regularly (maximum every two years) to ensure that it remains fit for A strong vision, with Long term leadership and community stewardship of purpose, and updated as necessary. engagement land and facilities 3 VISION FOR THE GARDEN TOWN Hunsdon The pioneering New Town of Gibberd and Kao will grow into a Garden Town of enterprise, health and sculpture at the heart of the UK Innovation Corridor. Harlow and Gilston will be a joyful place to live with sociable streets and green spaces; high quality homes connected to fibre optic broadband; local centres accessible by walking and cycling; and innovative, affordable public transport. It will set the agenda for sustainable living. It will be.... ...ADAPTABLE ...HEALTHY • Buildings which are designed to • Accessible routes that encourage be flexible in their use over time people to move actively - to walk, rather than being replaced cycle and skate - and are inclusive to all abilities • Transport infrastructure that can adapt to new technologies and • Sociable streets and local centres changing habits that encourage daily interaction • Green infrastructure that • Space for food production - Roydon supports a variety of uses such improving mental health and as play, walking, cycling and access to good nutrition Roydon community events • An active and vibrant town Pinnacles • Local industry that can respond centre with a strong cultural and to economic shifts and the commercial offer emergence of new sectors. • A good range of active leisure • A place that can adapt to facilities climate change ...SUSTAINABLE ...INNOVATIVE • A fully integrated public transport • At the forefront of public rapid network that connects within transit technology WATER LANE and beyond the Garden Town • Innovative building design, • A place where people are construction and performance inspired to work locally and encouraged to travel actively • New models for housing types and housing delivery • Self-sufficient neighbourhoods with their own centres • Pioneering temporary interventions and quick wins • Efficient use of energy and wider resources over the life of • Spearheading the nation’s the Garden Town response to the UK Industrial Strategy through science, • A biodiverse place with technology and education continuity of habitats 4 Sawbridgeworth High Wych Gilston Park M11 G I L S T O N V I L L A G E S Gilston Harlow Mill Eastwick Junction 7a Templefields EZ EAST OF HARLOW Harlow Town London Road Enterprise Zone Newhall Pinnacles T O W N C E N T R E Public Health England WATER LANE M11 LATTON PRIORY Junction 7 HARLOW AND GILSTON GARDEN TOWN VISION November 2018 5 DRIVERS FOR THE GARDEN TOWN Sir Frederick Gibberd drew up the masterplan Sir Charles Kao pioneered the development, for Harlow New Town in 1947. As a place to and use of, fibre optics in telecommunications celebrate the arts, particularly sculpture, he in Harlow. Building on this great achievement, envisaged the town as an organism which creating the right environment for the would go on changing and being rebuilt as the innovators of the future is a key driver for the needs of people altered. Garden Town. The ethos of both Gibberd and Kao is embraced through these new drivers for the Garden Town. A central position in the UK Innovation Green environment and New Town optimism Corridor (LSCC) - one of the fastest growing - the existing town has a wonderful Green regions in the country - and a key part of Wedge network and Stort Valley setting, the UK Industrial Strategy transforming the access to which can be expanded and P20 national economy. improved to connect to country parks and rural paths. £400m P19 Arrival of Public Health England - £400 Harlow Enterprise Zone - delivering 5,000 million will be invested in New Frontiers jobs over 25 years and home to Harlow Science Park, with 3,500 new jobs Science Park, Kao Park and Data Centre introduced to the town. Campus, and Anglia Ruskin University MedTech Innovation Centre. An extensive cycle network - making A sustainable transport network - with use of Harlow’s existing network and plans for sustainable transport corridors transforming this so it is comfortable for with convenient and affordable rapid all users. transit. 6 KEY PRINCIPLES FOR HEALTHY GROWTH Four themes have been identified and each A series of indicators sit beneath these of these have a set of principles to help principles to shape and inform strategic guide development and growth across decisions and support the transformation of every aspect of the Garden Town. the Garden Town. P23 P8 To A A D P22 P9 A er plo B G Town C y C P21 Responsiv distinctiv P10 T or er acilities B d Pl an ac y on an e Hhy ti d m m a a o r H k neighbour n e o D n R D m in villages o e A g P20 c g S e E W T e H s P11 LS Iv R E T I Corridor P itage A S Hlow Gston S G Town E GA P T A hang e I d r G Wedg twork and future proofi ng S E n u infrastructure u a t P12 P19 M H c s e ta W u o S p tr v i a s e n A D c L D m a R s a b d fr masterplanning e le an In nt L n ee B Gr Biodiversity Iegrat ansport climat ity alternativ s eferr P13 ec P18 ener ener C vation C treets haract P17 P14 B D Revit twork A P16 P15 A diagram setting out the inter-relationship between the four themes, their set of relating principles and the page numbers to find them in this document. Long term stewardship ties these themes together. New facilities will not be sustainable without well organised management structures supported by consistent revenue streams. HARLOW AND GILSTON GARDEN TOWN VISION November 2018 7 PLACEMAKING AND HOMES Responsive and distinctive – 4. Densities will typically increase towards local sitting comfortably in its context centres and transport hubs, around a local high street A or small green space and villages should fragment at their edges. New neighbourhoods should reflect 1. The Garden Town will have a clear overall densities of adjacent existing neighbourhoods. identity, marked by good design and a sustainable 5.
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