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Sulis-Down.Pdf Welcome Welcome to this exhibition and thank you for taking the family, work and play. Being situated on the edge of a world Land Ownership time to come along and help us with the challenging job of heritage city, and near to some beautiful conservation villages designing a new community, which we are calling Sulis Down. and countryside adds substantially to our responsibilities as Three landowners are involved in the allocation for This is a very important project for the South of Bath, and it well as presenting great opportunities to achieve an outcome development: is our objective to make it a very special place to live, raise a of which we can be proud. Hignett Family Trust Odd Down Football Club Sulis Manor The Hignett Family Trust and Sulis Manor are working together towards a comprehensive masterplan. The Project Team The family are committed to very high quality design that will be worthy of this exceptional location, and will help to create a successful community at Sulis Down. They have studied Allocation of this land in the Core Strategy areas can be gathered, along with the experience completed similar projects elsewhere which respect both the provides southern Bath with opportunity to and views of people who do not live in Bath, but adjacent communities and the surrounding landscape. After a explore how development here can benefit the wish to do so. careful selection process they have reached agreement with economic, social and cultural life of the area. It All the project partners are very well aware that Bloor Homes who share their objectives and are committed is the next step in the evolution of the southern this project will be a significant extension to to delivering a carefully designed bespoke scheme. Together plateau of the City in the last three decades. the south of Britain’s only World Heritage City, they have appointed Bath based architects and urban Central to the development of the Comprehensive adjacent to the rich mixed agricultural and wooded designers Nash Partnership as the development’s lead Masterplan is the consultation process, through landscape of the valley to the south and its far designer, and Savills as their project managers. which the knowledge, experience and views of reaching views. They are all working to ensure this This will be supported by a team of specialist advisors Odd Down residents and those of neighbouring design will be worthy of such a situation. covering, amongst others, the following areas: Movement and Transport Design Ecology Archaeology and Heritage Assets Utilities and Drainage Landscape Evaluation DEEP SLUDGE Bench Mark: Little Greene Paint Co. ‘Grey Moss’ 234 Pantone 418 U Pantone DE 329-4 C (C:0 M:0 Y:20 K:70) R:95 G:96 B:75 Process and Programme towards a Comprehensive Masterplan This exhibition is the first stage of an engagement process In parallel with the public engagement, the HFT / Bloor team movement and many others, will all feed into this process, as which will inform the development of the Comprehensive will be working hard to analyse the site’s constraints and will the previous studies and evidence which informed the Masterplan. The diagram below shows the key stages of opportunities. Technical specialists with an understanding Core Strategy. this process. of archaeology, ecology, history, landscape, access and First Public Exhibition. Venue: St. Gregory’s School, Odd Down Stage 1 The purpose of this first exhibition is to explain the process, the vision for the site and gain an 03.11.2014 understanding of the views from all interested parties, stakeholders and members of the public focused on the Placemaking Principles in the adopted Core Strategy. Feedback from the public and stakeholders will be collected in the Consultation Statement. This will be shared with the Council and all stakeholders. forming draft website Consultation www.sulisdown.com statement 1st exhibition Sulis Down Community project team beginning feedback comprehensive public exhibition masterplan feedback forms Follow up community engagement sessions with key stakeholders. These will take the form of meetings and workshops to develop further understanding of the key issues and explore possible Stage 2 solutions. The team will help participants express their ideas in these meetings / workshops Nov / Dec 2015 which will capture views and responses for use in shaping the second public exhibition and inform the team’s work. refining draft Consultation statement Community Sulis Down engagement project team meetings refining comprehensive masterplan Second Public Exhibition Stage 3 This exhibition will display the output from the community engagement meetings and the draft Feb. 2015 Comprehensive Masterplan which has been developed following the public, stakeholder and officer engagement. It will explain the masterplanning rationale and the development principles. Comments will be sought on both. Stage 4 Completed Statement of Mar. 2015 Masterplan Community Engagement After completion, the Comprehensive Masterplan is submitted to the Council accompanied by a Consultation Statement which will summarise all of the comments and the responses made to these through the masterplanning process. DEEP SLUDGE Bench Mark: Little Greene Paint Co. ‘Grey Moss’ 234 Pantone 418 U Pantone DE 329-4 C (C:0 M:0 Y:20 K:70) R:95 G:96 B:75 Placemaking Principles Concept Diagram for Land adjoining Odd Down Strategic Site Allocation In adopting the Core Strategy, the Council also adopted a set of “Placemaking Principles” which apply specifically to the Sulis Down development area. These are intended to guide the preparation of a Comprehensive Masterplan, and are quoted in full below and on the following panel. In accordance with the second placemaking principle, the Project Team will be progressing the Masterplan following the guidance in “By Design”, with a programme of wide ranging consultation and a well-researched understanding of the issues raised by the site and the opportunities it presents. BathThe and Core North Strategy East Somerset Constraints Composite Plan Core Strategy - Adopted 10th July 2014 48 Policy B3A - Placemaking Principles: The following text is taken from the Council’s Core Strategy. 1. Residential led mixed use development (to include 40% New woodland planting along the southern boundary 6. Seek to conserve the significance of heritage asses. As affordable housing) of around 300 dwellings, in the plan of the plateau, particularly to the east of Sulis Manor part of the Masterplan the following should be addressed: period. The site should be developed at an average if all (i) within the site and (ii) off-site within the plateau in World Heritage Site the placemaking principles can be met. order to strengthen bar foraging and flight links with The Southern boundary of the site should remain Horsecombe Vale. 2. Preparation of a comprehensive masterplan, through undeveloped to limit the visibility of development public consultation, and to be agreed by the Council, A recreational strategy to minimise harm to adjacent in wider views. An acceptable southerly extend of reflecting best practice as embodied in ‘By Design’ (or grazing regimes and habitats. development and appropriate building heights will successor guidance), ensuring that it is well integrated need to be established as part of the Masterplan. with neighbouring areas. Particular attention is to be given to ensure satisfactory mitigation and or compensation as appropriate of protected The Easterly extent of development and 3. Provision of Green infrastructure including species and their habitat (including Priority species). appropriate Eastern boundary treatment should be multifunctional green space (formal, natural and established as part of the Masterplan. allotments); well integrated Sustainable Urban Drainage Landscape Requirements Control light pollution to protect the visual Systems and habitat, pedestrian and cycle connectivity Retention and protection of existing trees and significant screening of the site from views to the south. within the site and to the surrounding area. hedgerows by inclusion within public open space and 4. Include the new Public Rights of Way and provide enhance hedgerows by provision of additional planting. Wansdyke Scheduled Monument enhanced public access within the suite and connecting Protect the tree belt on the southern edge of the site Within the allocation, avoid built development in the well to the surrounding area. and enhance with additional planting to ensure visual field immediately to the south of the Wansdyke. To 5. A Landscape and Ecological Mitigation Strategy and screening of the site from views to the south. mitigate impacts, tree planting should be retained as Management Plan is required, as part of the Masterplan, to indicated on the Concept Diagram. Avoid or minimise detrimental impacts on (and provide ensure satisfactory mitigation and protection to include. A Management Plan setting out a strategy for enhancements to important landscape features and the long-term and effective management of the Ecological Requirements significant views): monument including detailed measures of for Protection of dark skies to the south and east of the à The Cotswolds AONB its positive enhancement will be developed in location including zones of no artificial light adjacent to à South Stoke conservation area and its setting consultation with English Heritage and form part of the protected tree belt and other ecological features any development proposals. This should
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