TUDELEY CHARRETTE

Saturday 14th March – Saturday 21st March 2020

In the development of its Draft Local Plan, Tunbridge Wells You may have seen the Government’s Building Better Borough Council has identified a number of strategic Building Beautiful Commission report ‘Living with housing sites. Our land at Tudeley has been included Beauty’, published at the end of January. Our approach within that list. The Estate is our home and, if this is in tune with many of the recommendations in land is to be developed, we care about getting it right. the report, from advocating early involvement and consultation with the local community, to the inclusion Our intent is to produce a long-term vision for a new of trees within masterplans and a focus on creating village community, built beautifully, to last. In order beautiful places. to achieve that goal, we’d like to hear your ideas, understand your concerns and involve you in the We understand that not everyone will support the process. So, we have invited Andrés Duany of DPZ to plan for a new village at Tudeley. We want to reassure lead a ‘charrette’ between the 14th and 21st March to everyone invited that participation or attendance at take place in Tunbridge Wells. our charette will not be seen or interpreted by us as support for the proposal. The charrette will address A charrette is an in-depth master planning design one question: if change comes to Tudeley, how might process conducted over several days. It consists of a it be sensitively designed and implemented? series of workshops where a team of town planners, architects, environmental experts, heritage consultants The consultation process is an opportunity for you to and engineers prepare a vision for a new development be involved in this discussion at an early stage and play in consultation with the community and other a part in shaping the community for the future. stakeholders. The programme for the event can be found on the The DPZ team have run charrettes all over the world. back page of this paper. At the heart of their approach is a commitment to delivering sustainable, walkable, mixed-use communities, We look forward to welcoming you to the Tudeley informed by the site’s landscape character and historic Charette. precedents. Andrés is one of the most experienced and respected master planners working today. He has designed and delivered many award-winning, beautiful schemes across the globe. Harry Teacher We are delighted to be working with Andrés and his team, and his appointment as the master planner for this project illustrates our intention to design and Contents build a new village that is exceptional. The Hadlow Estate 2 This approach differs markedly from the one usually taken The Design Team 4 by volume housebuilders. Our inspiration comes from Design Principles 6 a variety of sources, including The Prince’s Foundation’s The Charrette 8 approach to development that has successfully delivered A Vision for Tudeley 10 homes and mixed-use communities of true quality. Programme 12 The Hadlow Estate

The Hadlow Estate lies between Many of the homes in the local area were built by and Tunbridge Wells and, for many the Estate to provide good-quality accommodation for farm workers and their families. They range from generations, it has played a significant role Victorian farm cottages, many of which are listed, in the social, environmental and economic to post-war houses and flats. All properties benefit wellbeing of the area. from an ongoing programme of maintenance and improvement, which is testament to the Estate’s long- This family-managed, working Estate comprises much of term commitment to stewardship. the former Somerhill Estate, which was once the home of the d’Avigdor-Goldsmid family. It was renamed when As landowner, employer and neighbour, the Estate the family moved to Hadlow Place outside . is very aware of its role within the community and Today, the descendants of the d’Avigdor-Goldsmids are a strategic vision guides our decision-making. This the Teacher family who manage the day-to-day business ongoing commitment to the area means that our of the Estate. This includes mixed arable farmland, investments are for the long-term; to contribute to and orchards, pasture, heathland and woodland, with a long- enhance the local economy, housing, environment and standing focus on the importance of conservation and landscape. This is evident across the Estate’s portfolio, environmental stewardship. Our farming and forestry which comprises heritage assets, commercial property, operations demonstrate a balance between effective a livery business and renewable energy projects, all of production and careful environmental management. which help to support a sustainable local economy. The Estate employs a core team as well as contractors and One example of our stewardship is the Tudeley Woods trades who service and support all areas of the business. Reserve – 850 acres of semi-ancient woodland and heathland - owned by the Estate and run in partnership The proposal to create a new community at Tudeley is in with the RSPB. This provides a valuable habitat for keeping with our values, vision and genuine commitment wildlife including rare birds, plants and more than to doing our very best to ensure a vibrant and sustainable 1,100 species of fungi. future for this area and for many generations to come.

2 The Local Plan Evidence Gathering 2016–2019 Tunbridge Wells Borough Council is developing a Local Plan to determine the strategy and location for growth across the Borough from now until Issues and Options consultation 2036. An early stage of this process is a ‘Call for June 2017 Sites’, during which the Council asks for land to be nominated that could be suitable for future development, and which might be incorporated into the Local Plan. As a local landowner, the Draft Local Plan consultation (Reg 18) September-November 2019 Hadlow Estate has responded to Tunbridge Wells’ Call for Sites by putting forward land to the east of Tudeley as a potential site for a new THE TUDELEY CHARRETTE settlement. This is the site of Tudeley Village.

Pre-submission Local Plan consultation (Reg 19) The preparation of a Local Plan is a detailed August-September 2020 and lengthy process which is led by the local planning authority in consultation with the local community. It is a procedure defined by law, which sets out a framework for the future Submission to Secretary of State development of an area over a period of 15 years December 2020 or more. Late last year, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council published a Draft Consultation Plan, part of the ‘Regulation 18’ consultation on the Examination contents of the plan, inviting comment from all May 2021 the bodies, individuals and communities with a stake in the process. Inspector’s Report At this point, Tudeley Village was identified as a September 2021 development site. As such, the Hadlow Estate feels that it is now an appropriate time to further develop the vision for the area, in consultation Adoption with both the local community and other December 2021 stakeholders in the district.

The preparation of a Local For generations, the Hadlow Plan is a detailed process that takes place over several Estate has been an important years. As the diagram economic, social and shows, the Regulation 18 consultation is one of the environmental contributor to the early engagement exercises that takes place during the borough of Tunbridge Wells. writing of a Local Plan.

3 The Design Team

The Hadlow Estate has assembled an A significant aspect of DPZ’s work is its innovative expert team to run the Tudeley Charrette. planning regulations which accompany each design. Tailored to the individual project, the codes The workshop will be led by a design address the manner in which buildings are formed team from DPZ CoDesign, an innovative and located to ensure that they create useful new urbanist architecture and town and distinctive public spaces. Local architectural planning practice. They will be joined by traditions and building techniques are also codified within the regulations. a highly experienced team of architects, planners, engineers and environmental Brooks Murray Architects consultants, who will collaborate to inform the preparation of a vision for Brooks Murray Architects is a UK-based practice with Tudeley during the week-long charrette. extensive experience of planning and development projects, from the masterplanning and urban design of new towns and villages, to historic buildings and DPZ CoDesign individual homes. The practice has worked closely with DPZ CoDesign at charrettes in Hertfordshire With close to four decades of experience, DPZ has and Scotland, and it is town architect for Chapelton, long been recognised as one of the world’s leading a new town being built near Aberdeen. town-planning firms. Having designed over 300 communities around the world, in Europe, the US, Asia and South America, the DPZ team will bring Turnberry an unmatched wealth of expertise. The firm has Turnberry is a consultancy with over 20 years’ planned neighbourhoods, villages and towns of many experience in providing development strategy sizes and types, including settlements of the scale and town planning advice. The company has envisaged at Tudeley. It has significant experience influenced the direction and approach of many working within the UK, having designed masterplans major development projects, particularly in the field for new settlements at Chapelton, Grandhome and of new settlement planning. It has pioneered the Tornagrain in Scotland, and projects of various scales development of charrettes in the UK, managing in Hertfordshire. many such events across the country including at Tornagrain, Chapelton, Grandhome and in The DPZ team at the Tudeley Charrette will be led Hertfordshire, and continues to be involved in these by Andrés Duany. One of the founding partners of projects to ensure that the vision set out during DPZ and a co-founder of the Congress for the New the charrette is carried through into the design and Urbanism, Andrés has dedicated his career to proposing construction of these new communities. beautiful and practical solutions for sustainable urban development. He has influenced the town-planning profession worldwide, contributed to government EnPlan policymaking in the US and worldwide, and produced plans for hundreds of new and renewed communities With extensive experience ranging from the strategic of enduring value. Andrés and his team conduct all planning of new settlements to landscape design their work using the charrette methodology, which and green infrastructure, EnPlan has worked encourages intense and meaningful public participation, with the Hadlow Estate on the initial call-for-sites and collaboration between all the individuals and process and continues to advise on landscape and groups party to a plan or project. environmental matters.

4 Stakeholders critique the Andrés Duany discusses a developing proposals at Erie, masterplan with members of the Colorado, during a mid-week public during a drop-in session at presentation. a charrette in Vero Beach, Florida.

Applied Ecology Andrew works closely with The Prince’s Foundation to engage communities through Dr Duncan Painter, the Managing Director of Applied their Enquiry by Design process and champions Ecology, will attend the charrette. Duncan has over the design of liveable, long-lasting and 30 years’ professional experience as an ecologist. He beautiful places, that bring joy to all those has extensive project management experience gained who experience them. from managing a diverse range of environmental projects in both terrestrial and aquatic environments, Orion Heritage particularly in relation to infrastructure development. Orion Heritage is an archaeological and Duncan’s ecological specialisms include aquatic heritage company built on over 30 years ecosystems and protected species survey and of collective experience. Will Bedford is a mitigation. He has extensive experience in designing Technical Director at Orion Heritage and an and implementing European Protected Species (EPS) expert on development and planning-related mitigation schemes to enable development and is one of heritage issues. He and other members of the only a handful of ecologists in who is a Registered Orion team have completed initial desk-based Consultant under Natural England’s Great Crested Newt assessments on the topics of heritage and and Bat Low Impact Class Licence schemes. archaeology, and he will advise on these issues during the Tudeley Charrette. Andrew Cameron & Associates WSP Andrew is an engineer with a background in transport, architectural engineering and urban design. He is WSP is an engineering and professional services passionate about how we can plan for low-carbon consultancy with a global reputation. Led by movement whilst at the same time creating great Alan Lewis, the team has been commissioned to streets and enjoyable places. With 25 years’ experience provide civil engineering advice relevant to the he has contributed to many masterplanning and key infrastructure requirements at Tudeley. To regeneration projects for villages, towns and cities date it has advised on private and public transport in the and around the world. These requirements and flood risk matters. This work include Poundbury in Dorchester, Derwenthorpe in will ensure that any development is appropriately York, Chicago Lakeside and the new town of Madinat resourced and cohesively integrated with new Khalifa in Bahrain. and existing infrastructure in the area.

5 Design Principles

Smart Growth Transect-based planning

Most traditional — and well-loved — cities, towns and The Charrette design team uses a tool called the villages evolved over time as compact, walkable, transect to analyse the range of human habitats mixed-use places reflecting the geography and and incorporate this variety into the design economic circumstances of their time and location. of a new community. Successful settlements The ‘Smart Growth’ approach endeavours to emulate include a range of environments, which allows the fundamental aspects of such places, whilst building them to sit gracefully within the surrounding sustainable new communities for the 21st century. natural landscape and provide residents with an interesting urban environment. The Charrette design team has significant experience working on new towns and settlements, which The form of transect-based planning used by DPZ follow the Smart Growth approach. These places are CoDesign, measures the transect within six transect sustainable and pleasant places in which to work and zones (or T Zones). Densities, building types, live as they share the following characteristics: building setbacks and other aspects of town design then correspond with transect zone designations. • Neighbourhoods include a mix of uses, with These zones include T1 (natural), T2 (rural), T3 (sub- residences, shops, businesses and civic gathering urban), T4 (general urban), T5 (urban centre) and spaces located in close proximity. All your daily T6 (urban core). These six habitats vary by the level needs can be satisfied within walking distance; and intensity of their physical and social character, providing immersive contexts from rural to urban. • Streets are designed to encourage pedestrian This allows for the development of a diverse variety activity, with lively ground floor retail and ample of living environments within a single settlement. parks and civic spaces; The accompanying diagram illustrates these • Variety in the size, design and cost of housing principles. appeals to a wider range of ages and incomes. Neighbourhoods are more diverse;

• Instead of cul-de-sacs, streets and footpaths connect into a greater network, dispersing traffic and avoiding bottlenecks to reduce congestion and improve air quality;

• Neighbourhoods have discernible centres, which are typically well-connected to public transport;

• Cars are accommodated through ample car parking facilities, many of which are shielded from the street to improve neighbourhood aesthetics; and

• Architectural styles reflect local climate, topography, history and building practices. T1 Natural T2 Rural

6 Below: Crockhurst Street Below: Park Farm Oast, Cottages, built by the a recently converted Estate in the nineteenth residential property. century. Bottom: Billy Bucks Barn, a newly converted, Grade II-listed commercial property.

T2 Rural T3 Suburban T4 General Urban T5 Urban Centre T6 Urban Core

7 The Charrette

The Tudeley Charrette will be What is a charrette? a week-long series of meetings, presentations and working sessions, A charrette is a community-based planning workshop, often held over a period of a week or during which the design team will so. Comprising an intensive series of meetings, generate a development framework design sessions, presentations and consultations, and initial plans for Tudeley village. a charrette is a forum for the generation and testing of ideas, offering the advantage of an The Charrette is open to the public immediate feedback loop between designers at various times during the event, and stakeholders. Most importantly, the and we encourage you to collaborate process means that anyone who wants to can with us this March. collaborate in the joint authorship of an emerging masterplan.

The term ‘charrette’ has its origins in nineteenth-

Below: The design Opposite: Members of century Paris. Meaning ‘cart’, the term was once team debates the the public and other used to describe the final period of intense work merits of a proposal stakeholders attend the with stakeholders opening presentation at a completed by art and architecture students to at the Chapelton charrette in Erie, Colorado, meet a project deadline. At the École des Beaux charrette in Aberdeen. in November 2019. Arts, proctors circulated carts to collect final drawings while students frantically made finishing touches to their work (sometimes by climbing up onto the cart itself). Embodying the energy and excitement of this last-minute endeavour, today’s charrettes combine creative, intense working sessions with public workshops and open studios.

Bringing a full team of designers and consultants together, the Tudeley Charrette will be an intense week. The team will set up a full working office, called the ‘Design Studio’, in Tunbridge Wells. Without other distractions, this process focuses the mind to generate good ideas quickly and efficiently.

More than anything, a charrette is about collaboration. This includes everyone who is connected to the end product: the developer, the local authority, local residents, businesses, and members of societies and forums who may have an interest. Participation ranges across formal and informal meetings, workshops, seminars and design sessions, with discussions held at key intervals to consolidate work completed by the team.

8 What will the Tudeley Charrette • Open studio sessions. Anyone with an interest be like? in the project is invited to drop in to the studio during these sessions, to discuss emerging ideas The Tudeley Charrette will be a concentrated planning for Tudeley with members of the design team as session where the public, designers and consultants they work. collaborate on a vision for the development of the site. The charrette will include: • Completion and refinement of the drawings and other materials. After the charrette, the design • A site tour. The team will already be familiar team continues to work on the masterplan and with the Tudeley site, but a comprehensive site other documents, to add detail and refine the tour, informed by a raft of preparatory studies, is outline scheme. essential at the beginning of the project.

• Topic-based meetings on technical issues. Project What will happen after the meetings will be held to discuss a broad range charrette? of issues relevant to the development, including highways, transport, heritage, drainage, education, Following the charrette, the design team will analyse health, water and utilities, community, public and and test the plans. Additional stakeholder input is social services, landscape, and green infrastructure. gathered, final changes are made, and the updated plans are presented at a follow-up meeting. • T eam meetings and presentations. The design team starts work right away, producing draft masterplans The goal of the plan implementation phase is to and designs. The design team’s proposals are ‘reality refine and finalise the outcomes of the charrette – tested’ on a daily basis, which means that inefficient the masterplan – in a form that will guide the project or unsuitable proposals are swiftly discarded. through its development.

9 A Vision for Tudeley

The Estate’s vision for Tudeley is inspired by the Below: The site for the proposed new village is raft of new communities that have been built in adjacent to the hamlet of Tudeley. It is between the UK in recent years, not least the mixed-use the towns of Tonbridge and Paddock Wood, and it is bounded by the B2017 Tonbridge to Five Oak developments built by the Duchy of Cornwall at Green road to the south and Sherenden Lane to the north. The village of is Poundbury in Dorset and Tregunnel Hill and Truro to the east and Golden Green lies to the north. The London to Ashford & Dover railway runs in Cornwall, and by landowners in Scotland at through the centre of the proposed village site. Currently the land is used by a livery business, Tornagrain and Chapelton. centred on Bank Farm. The wider area is farmed for arable crops, and land to the north of the railway includes commercial orchards and soft The Estate has provided housing and jobs for people in the area fruit crops. for many years. Its plan for Tudeley aims to continue that provision of The land area is approximately 280 acres to the good quality, well-built homes and workplaces for the next generations south of the railway line and a further 120 acres of local residents. to the north.

River Medway

Tonbridge

Five Oak Green Tudeley Village Paddock Wood

10 The Hadlow Estate vision for Below: Our proposals Bottom: Tudeley will will be mindful of reflect ’s fruit a new village at Tudeley: heritage buildings in the growing heritage in area, and in particular orchards and allotments • To build a new, masterplanned village All Saints’ Tudeley. for the enjoyment of the residents and community in Tudeley that includes to promote outdoor housing, workspaces, a school, community activity and connection to nature. hall, shops, cafes and a GP surgery.

• To provide a number of different housing types and tenures, for all ages, that contribute to a cohesive, walkable new community with generous green spaces: gardens, greens and woodland; paths and cycle paths.

• To ensure true ‘place making’, which is achieved by high quality, generous provision of green infrastructures and long- term stewardship.

• Built with quality and craftmanship by consortia of local housebuilders, proven specialist developers (experienced in this type of development) and landscape architects underpinned with investment in necessary infrastructure and services.

• To meet the needs and aspirations of the local community, and make a positive economic, social and environmental contribution to the area.

• To contribute to employment opportunities both during the build phase and thereafter via provision of well-designed workspaces: small offices and workshops, cafes, shops etc.

• To create a place that reflects, and is inspired by, its location in Kent, via the quality of its architecture, materials, craftmanship and design.

11 Programme and Venue

The Opening Presentation and Closing Presentation will be held at The Spa Hotel, The Spa Hotel

Tunbridge Wells. A26

Mount Ephraim All other meetings, presentations and the Langton Rd Design Studio itself will be hosted at One Major York’s Road Warwick Park Hotel, Tunbridge Wells.

A26 High St The venue will be signposted at the entrance to each hotel. One Warwick Park Hotel Warwick Place

Open sessions By invitation A26 Frant Rd Frant The Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells

Sat 14th Sun 15th Mon 16th Tues 17th Weds 18th Thurs 19th Fri 20th Sat 21st March March March March March March March March

9am Team Design Design Design and Design Design and preparation, preparation preparation studio set up for mid-point for closing and design presentation presentation 10am

10.30am - 12.30pm 10.30am - 12.30pm Topic meeting: Topic meeting: 11am Infrastructure, Housing and Flooding, Employment Sustainability and Access 12 noon

Design Design

1pm

2pm

3pm 3.00pm 3.00pm - 4:30pm 3.00pm - 4.30pm 3.00pm - 4.30pm 3.00pm Opening Topic meeting: Bio- Topic meeting: Topic meeting: Closing Presentation, diversity, Landscape Education and Community and Presentation, The Spa Hotel, and Visual Impact, Health Stewardship The Spa Hotel, 4pm Tunbridge Green Infrastructure Tunbridge Wells Wells and Heritage Design Design Design 5pm

5.30pm Mid-point 6pm 6.00pm - 7.30pm 6.00pm - 7.30pm Presentation, 6.00pm - 7.30pm Open studio Open studio One Warwick Open studio Park Hotel, Tunbridge Wells 7pm

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