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Corsham Design Guide 2016-2026 CORSHAM DESIGN GUIDE 2016-2026 Corsham Town Council. November 2019. Final version This document has been produced by Johns Associates Ltd in partnership with Corsham Town Council. This document is copyright © Corsham Town Council, 2019 All drawings in this document have been produced by Johns Associates, unless otherwise stated. The majority of the photographs have been provided by Corsham volunteers, with the remainder being taken by Johns Associates. Aerial photography by Red Forge Studios. Ordnance Survey mapping has been reproduced with permission of Her Majesty’s Stationary Office © Crown copyright and database rights 2019, Ordnance Survey 0100031673 Johns Associates Ltd, Suites 1 &2, The Od Brewery, Newtown, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, BA15 1NF Tel: 01225 723652 Email: [email protected] Website: www.johnsassociates.co.uk CORSHAM DESIGN GUIDE CORSHAM: PROUD OF ITS PAST, PREPARED FOR ITS FUTURE Prepared for and in association with Corsham Town Council Date: 15/11/19 November 2019 4 CORSHAM DESIGN GUIDE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 7 3 DESIGN GUIDANCE 35 3.1 Existing Design Guidance 36 1 INTRODUCTION 9 3.1.1 Wiltshire Core Strategy 36 3.1.2 The Corsham Community Area Framework 37 1.1 Aims and Objectives of the Corsham Design Guide 9 3.1.3 Corsham Public Realm Stage 1 and Stage 2 Reports 38 3.1.4 Wiltshire Open Space Study 40 1.2 How to Use this Design Guide 10 3.1.5 Wiltshire Green Infrastructure Strategy 41 3.1.6 Conservation Areas 42 1.2.1 Layout of the Design Guide 10 1.2.2 Application of the Design Guide 10 3.2 Design Principles for Corsham Neighbourhood Plan Area 45 3.2.1 Good Design 45 1.3 Policy and Planning Context 11 3.2.2 General Design Principles 47 3.3 Design Guidance Specific to Character Areas 55 2 CORSHAM TODAY 13 3.3.1 Hartham Park 58 3.3.2 Pickwick Lodge 64 2.1 Sense of Place 13 3.3.3 Middlewick 70 2.1.1 Location 13 3.3.4 Rudloe 76 2.1.2 Historical Development - Summary 14 3.3.5 Copenacre and Pickwick 82 2.1.3 Local Distinctiveness 17 3.3.6 Kings and Queens 90 2.1.4 Character 19 3.3.7 Dickens and Arnolds 96 3.3.8 Priory Street 102 CONTENTS 3.3.9 High Street 108 3.3.10 Bradford Road 118 3.3.11 Valley Estate 124 3.3.12 The Corsham School 130 3.3.13 Pickwick Road 138 3.3.14 Katherine Park 144 3.3.15 Station and Stokes 150 3.3.16 MOD Corsham 156 3.3.17 Pockeridge and Leafield 162 3.3.18 Lypiatt 168 3.3.19 Broadmead and Brook Drive 174 3.3.20 Westwells and Wadswick Green 180 3.3.21 Neston 186 3.3.22 Gastard 192 CORSHAM DESIGN GUIDE 5 Executive Summary Corsham Town Council is committed to developing a programme of the Corsham Neighbourhood Plan Area, selecting the defining characteristics of improvements and initiatives throughout Corsham in order to reinvigorate the each area to form the principles for its future development in order to respect the town to establish it as a ‘vibrant, dynamic visitor destination’ (Destination individuality of each neighbourhood. Corsham - Destination Marketing Plan 2015-18, Corsham Town Council). It also takes into account the Corsham Batscape Strategy. The Batscape The Town Council’s overall vision is – research was carried out in order to provide a tool for safeguarding the landscape resources that are valuable to local bats associated with the nearby ‘Bath and ‘CORSHAM – A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO BE’ Bradford on Avon Bats’ Special Area of Conservation (SAC). It identifies important landscape features for the bats as well as highlighting potential enhancements. The aims of these improvements are to increase the enjoyment of the town This information is applied to each character area in this design guide to ensure for the locals and residents, to create an exciting tourist ‘destination’, building that future development can take place without further impacting on existing bat on Corsham’s history and locality and to preserve and enhance the heritage habitat and to enhance it further, creating a viable network of habitats. This links features within the Neighbourhood Plan Area in order to safeguard the local with measures for the improvement of green infrastructure as a whole and all the landscape and environment. The aspirations for these measures are to set out benefits associated with it. a plan for development to enhance the appeal of the town and its surroundings for the present day and into future town expansion. This Corsham Design Guide is a supporting guidance document for the Corsham Neighbourhood Plan and is to be read in conjunction with the Corsham Neighbourhood Plan and the Corsham Batscape Strategy. This Design Guide forms a vehicle for the sustainable implementation of the policies within the Corsham Neighbourhood Plan and draws on the raft of initiatives and measures being brought forward by Corsham Town Council in order to achieve this vision. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It builds on the invaluable work, guidance and information gathered in the development of the current Corsham Community Area Framework, Visit Corsham, Destination Corsham Destination Marketing Plan 2015-18, Corsham Railway Station proposals, Creative Corsham Strategy, Public Realm Strategy and Conservation Area Statements. This Design Guide aims to establish an overall design structure for Corsham as well as a guide for each neighbourhood that will fit within this guidance for the town. It captures the main elements of each of the 22 Character Areas within CORSHAM DESIGN GUIDE 7 8 CORSHAM DESIGN GUIDE 1 Introduction 1.1 Aims and Objectives of the Corsham Design Guide This Corsham Design Guide was commissioned by Corsham Town Council in and as a result, is subject to stringent legal protection under the 2010 Habitats 2017 as part of the development of the Corsham Neighbourhood Plan and in Regulations. However, habitat features in the surrounding landscape used by the context of the Corsham Community Area Framework document (Wiltshire the bats are susceptible to loss and damage, particularly as the available bat Council, June 2016). data is sparse with significant gaps. This means that the impacts of incremental development have the potential to result in significant impacts on the bat The initial objective of this document has been to draw on the involvement and populations, and therefore the SAC, through cumulative loss of habitat; and support of the whole community. The contribution of the general public has been degradation of habitat through increased light levels. an important part of the re-envisioning of Corsham, from the consultation process through to the fieldwork and photographic survey carried out for the Corsham This situation highlights the importance of taking a strategic approach to Character Assessment. The majority of the observations and photographs used preserving and enhancing both the built and natural heritage features within within this document have been based on this fieldwork material, gathered by the town and its surrounding landscape. This document has been prepared the community at the assessment stage. alongside the Corsham Batscape Strategy, which aims to guide all future development towards the preservation and enhancement of suitable landscape The Corsham Neighbourhood Plan sets out the overall planning context for permeability and connective habitats within the Corsham area in order to the town, containing a series of policies, that, once adopted, will guide the ensure conservation of the SAC’s bat populations in the long-term. The aims preparation of development proposals within the Corsham Neighbourhood Plan and objectives of the Corsham Batscape Strategy, together with specific spatial Area. This applies to development subject to the standard planning application requirements, have been integrated into this Design Guide. For details see the process, but also to those proposals, which, for whatever reason, fall outside of Corsham Batscape Strategy. the planning system. In addition to the above, this Design Guide also aims to encourage appropriate, The aim of this Design Guide is to serve as a vehicle to assist in implementing long-term maintenance of the existing town fabric in order to retain the standards 1 INTRODUCTION these policies, targeting planners, developers, residents as well as any other of quality and design advocated by this Design Guide for the future benefit of relevant or interested parties or stakeholders. Corsham and its inhabitants. It will set out the overall vision for sustainable future development, with the As such, the aims and objectives of this Design Guide are to provide clear, aspiration for it to complement, improve and be sensitive to the existing built concise, ecologically sensitive and locally-focused guidance for high quality heritage and character and to protect and enhance the environmental assets design criteria, materials and workmanship, to be applied to any new within the Corsham Neighbourhood Plan Area. development within the Corsham Neighbourhood Plan Area, be it an extension, refurbishment or complete new-build. This applies to all development subject Particular emphases is placed on the proximity of the Corsham Neighbourhood to planning approval, but equally to minor development outside of the planning Plan Area to the European-designated ‘Bath and Bradford on Avon Bats’ Special system, as well as long term maintenance operations. Area of Conservation (SAC), focused around the Box mine complex. The bat populations associated with this designated site are reliant on the landscape within the Neighbourhood Plan Area for foraging and commuting between roosts. The SAC is of known international importance for the bat roosts it supports CORSHAM DESIGN GUIDE 9 1.2 How to use this Design Guide 1.2.1 Layout of the Design Guide 1.2.2 Application of the Design Guide Section 1 of this Design Guide sets out the aims and application of this document.
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