Micklegate Public Realm Proposals a presentation to the City of York Council Micklegate is a ‘Through Route’ into the City Centre Successful retail models persuade people to pause outside shops
You need to give people a reason to go there Stigmatised by the label ‘Micklegate Run’ MAKE MICKLEGATE A ‘PLACE’ Make Micklegate a ‘Place’
• Transform Micklegate from a ‘through route’ into Dining Shopping Market Points attractive destination
Cafe Culture Green Spaces Social Meeting Points • Provide residents west of river with their own locality
• Enhance the dining and Micklegate cafe culture
• Revitalise the retail offer & improve quality of shop fronts at street level Bishophill
The Mount
Bishopthorpe Rd Strengthen Micklegate’s connection with the City centre
Businesses Offices • Provide Micklegate with a Hungate Development Shops Cafe & Dining new identity
York City Centre • Provide a significant book- end opposing the new Hungate development on the same main axis through
Micklegate city centre St Mary’s Abbey & Yorkshire Museum Reinforce the York Minster Historical significance
• Micklegate Bar is the most important of York’s medieval gateways & the York City Centre main entrance to the city
Micklegate • The focus for grand events has witnessed half a dozen York Dungeon & Jorvik Viking Museum Monarchs passing through
Low Ousegate Bridge the gate
Holy Trinity & St Martins Church • Opportunity to showcase externally the area’s Clifford’s Tower & York Castle heritage & reinforce links Micklegate Bar to York’s major tourist attractions Opportunities within the immediate context
• Introduce temporary business through the various seasons Prioritise pedestrians and cycles
• Psychologically allow people feel safe once they have entered through Micklegate Bar
Poor city transport design
How cities should be designed Add recreational and cultural activities
• Create community engagement
• Provide spaces for adult and family recreation
Adult & family recreation CONCEPT IDEAS Divert Traffic around Toft Green
• Reduce the number of cars on Micklegate
• Cars access the City Centre via George Hudson Street Concept
• Bring the focus back to pedestrians and cyclists
• Change the hard surface materials to a pedestrian friendly approach
• Introduce a central spine of soft landscaping, trees, al-fresco dining, street furniture, cycle parking, flexible / temporary market stalls & enhanced lighting
• Running at least up until the junction of Trinity Lane & Barker Lane
• Or the entire length of Micklegate? Reinforce Micklegate as a ‘Place’
• A ‘Place’ is created rather than a simple street
• Micklegate is transformed into a ‘Destination’ and its overall perception is changed Introduce a controlled and speed restricted one-way system
• Allows deliveries to existing and new commercial units
• Maintains access for public service vehicles
• Space for temporary parking
• Shared surface maintains pedestrian priority Concept Proposals
• People inhabit the street
• Social interaction is encouraged
• Footfall is increased
• Retail experience is transformed - empty shops are revitalised, existing businesses are reinvigorated
• Opportunity to incorporate an historical visual exhibition within the new fabric - an external ‘tapestry’ charting significant historical events
• Micklegate becomes a ‘Place’