1 | Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 Kilnwood Vale Design & Access Statement | July 2010 2 | Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 Issue Date June 2010 July 2010 July 2010 Job Number 12241 12241 12241 Document Status DAS DAS DAS Revision a 1a 2a Author Various Various Various Barton Willmore Beansheaf Farmhouse Bourne Close Calcot Reading RG31 7BW T: 0118 943 0000 F: 0118 943 0001 E: [email protected] Desk Top Publishing and Graphic Design by Barton Willmore This artwork was printed on paper using fibre sourced from sustainable plantation wood from suppliers who practice sustainable management of forests in line with strict international standards. Pulp used in its manufacture is also Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF). Copyright The contents of this document must not be copied or reproduced in whole of in part without the written consent of Barton Willmore LLP. All plans are reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Map with the permission of the Controller of HMSO. Crown copyright Reserved. Licence No. AR152684. Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 | 3 Contents Vision 5 Introduction 9 Phasing and 1. Site Location and Designation 10 Implementation 189 Introduction 2. Application Site Planning Status 10 Phasing and Implementation 24. Phasing and Implementation 190 3. The Proposed Development 12 4. Scope and Content of the DAS 12 Phase 1 Residential Assessment of Context 15 Development 195 5. Site Context Appraisal 16 25. Scope and Content of Phase 1 Development 196 6. Site Constraints and Opportunities 26 Assessment Phase 1 Residential 26. Context 196 of Context 7. Planning Policy Context 34 Development 27. Opportunities and Constraints 198 8. Character Analysis 38 28. Site Layout 200 9. Density Analysis 66 29. Urban Design Strategy 202 30. Street Typology 204 Involvement 31. Car Parking 206 32. Density / Land Use 208 and Evolution 69 33. Building Massing 210 Involvement 34. External Building Finishes 212 and Evolution 10. Stakeholder Consultation 70 11. Design Evolution 76 35. Architectural Style and Detail 214 36. Phase 1 Landscape 216 37. Public Realm – Streets and Squares 218 38. Access 220 39. Drainage and Services 222 Master Plan and Building for Life Master Plan and Development Description 85 Development Description Building for Life 225 12. Design Concept 86 40. Building for Life 226 13. Design Principles 88 14. Masterplan 92 15. Use and Amount 94 16. Scale 100 17. Access and Movement 102 18. Landscape and Key Spaces 114 Strategic Strategic Design Code 19. Layout 152 Design Code 20. Appearance 166 See separately bound document 21. Illustrative Tile & Elevations 172 22. Community Safety 184 23. Sustainability & Climate Change 186 4 | Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 | 5 Vision ‘Kilnwood Vale will embrace the unique opportunity to create a new mixed use, sustainable neighbourhood of the highest design quality west of Crawley, with exemplary public transport opportunities and unprecedented integration of open space’ The Vision for the proposed development at Kilnwood Vale is consistent with the vision statement set out in the Joint Area Action Plan (2009). This articulates: “A sustainably built and located development, based on the neighbourhood principle, where residents can become involved in their community and share the benefits of a high quality of life. A wide range of local services will be accessible to local residents and there will be strong and sustainable links, with Crawley. The neighbourhood will be served by excellent public transport opportunities, which will give access to a wide range of services and facilities, Crawley town centre and employment opportunities. There will be high quality open spaces and informal leisure facilities but there will also be links into the surrounding countryside, the character of which will be respected.” (JAAP. 2009) 6 | Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 Development Objectives and Key Drivers • Provide for approximately 2500 dwellings in accordance with the JAAP; • Deliver a development that embraces best practice and creates attractive, safe and sustainable communities • Provide a new neighbourhood based upon the neighbourhood principle and including a mix uses; • Create a long term landscape structure that encompasses usable informal and formal public open space for both residents and the wider community; • Integrates with the physical, social and landscape infrastructure of Crawley; • Provide for a balanced mix of housing types and sizes, including up to 40 percent affordable; • Create a neighbourhood with a unique character and identity, inspired by the locale and the New Towns influence, and expressed through a strong sequence of spaces and the architectural approach; • Deliver a neighbourhood with the opportunity to be self sufficient for day-to-day requirements • Provide opportunity for significant ecological biodiversity including mitigation for that lost through the new development • Has the potential to create modal shift towards pedestrian, cycle and public transport use by delivering exemplary connections and integration with existing networks. Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 | 7 ‘A sustainably built and located development, based on the neighbourhood principle, where residents can become involved in their community and share the benefits of a high quality of life.’ Introduction 10 | Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 1. Site Location 2. Application Site and Designation Planning Status 1.1 Kilnwood Vale is situated on the boundary of the site is defined by mature 2.1 The site is allocated in the West of 2.3 Land to the south west of the site, western edge of Crawley to the north trees north of the railway line, the wooded Bewbush Joint Area Action Plan for a new around the site’s primary junction with of the A264, west of Bewbush and area of Pondtail Shaw and a mature hedge neighbourhood of approximately 2,500 the A264 is identified in the JAAP as being east of Faygate. The Application Site is to the south of the railway line along the dwellings and associated uses including safeguarded for a Western Relief Road approximately 132 ha (326.2 acres) in Holmbush Farm access. Three areas of between 1,250m2 and 2,500m2 net retail, until it has been determined by West size and is located in the administrative woodland within the site (Capon Grove, open space, a primary school site and Sussex County Council whether such a boundary of Horsham District Council Pondtail Shaw and an area to the north land for a nursery or equivalent facilities, route will be necessary to serve further (HDC), with the eastern boundary of west of Capon Grove) are designated as employment land, library facility, development West of Crawley, or to meet the site lying on the border of Crawley Ancient Woodland. Beyond the A264 to community centre and primary care centre wider sub-regional objectives. The period Borough Council (CBC). the south lies the High Weald Area of site. for safeguarding will be 5 years from May Outstanding Natural Beauty. 2009 or up to the date of the adoption of 1.2 The site is bisected to the north and 2.2 The Joint Area action Plan (JAAP) the last of the two Core Strategy Reviews. south by the Arun Valley Mainline Railway 1.3 Vehicular access to the site is states that the development of the and incorporates greenfield land as well currently via the existing A264, which neighbourhood is to occur in a phased as the area of former inert landfill and runs along the southern boundary of the approach in line with the delivery of key an active construction waste recycling site. A railway line runs through the site infrastructure and services and facilities. facility. The site is generally well enclosed serving the stations between London and by development, hedgerows, trees and Horsham and beyond. The nearest railway woodland. It is bounded to the south by stations are Faygate to the west of the site the A264 and to the east by the existing and Ifield to the north east. M25 A23 neighbourhoods of Bewbush and Spruce A24 Hill Brook. Kilnwood Lane, which bounds the site to the north, follows a ridge line A3 7 M25 8 6 that separates the West of Bewbush site A217 A25 from the land to the north. The western Guildford A25 Redhill A31 A25 A22 A3 M23 A24 A217 9a Gatwick 9 Airport A264 Arun Valley 10 Mainline Railway A22 A24 Crawley 10a M23 A264 11 A283 Horsham A24 A23 Figure 1.1: Regional Site Location Plan A22 A272 A272 A272 A272 A283 A24 12241 - AI11A Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 | 11 Figure 2.1: Application Boundary Plan 12 | Kilnwood Vale Design and Access Statement | July 2010 3. The Proposed 4. Scope and Development Content of the DAS 3.1 The hybrid application at Kilnwood 3.4 A comprehensive network of green 4.1 This Design and Access Statement and 4.3 Particular consideration has been Vale comprises an outline application for open spaces will incorporate the Strategic Design Code has been prepared given to the importance of demonstrating the area identified in the JAAP Plan (2009) designated Ancient Woodland at Pond on behalf of Crest Strategic Projects the mechanisms for the delivery of design and a detailed application for Phase 1. Tail Shaw and Capon Grove and the (CSP) in support of the development at quality within the built environment. The other significant established copses and Kilnwood Vale. The document is part of document also has the following