Rectory Farm, Hounslow Formal Investments 21St January 2016

Rectory Farm, Hounslow Formal Investments

21st January 2016 Rectory Farm, Existing, Aerial view looking North East Looking East towards residential edge from public right of way from Bath road to Brabazon Estate

Looking West towards Rectory Farm building

Looking North towards the Queen‘s Head Inn carpark Public right of way from Bath road to Brabazon Estate

Existing site 1.2km

600m

Site dimensions Mineral Extraction opportunity Information This map, together with Map 2, presents the policy Scale: 1:51 100 designations of the London Borough of Hounslow Local This map is based upon ordanance survey material with permission of Plan 2015. Ordinance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majestys An online version of this plan can be found at: http://www. Stationary Office Local Plan hounslow.gov.uk © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to Published by the Planning Policy team November 2015 prosecution or civil proceedings. 100019263 2015 Policies Map

Map 1 - West (Feltham and Hounslow)

Local Plan Policies Map West (Feltham and Hounslow)

Information This map, together with Map 2, presents the policy Scale: 1:51 100 designations of the London Borough of Hounslow Local This map is based upon ordanance survey material with permission of Plan 2015. Ordinance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majestys An online version of this plan can be found at: http://www. Stationary Office Local Plan hounslow.gov.uk © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to Published by the Planning Policy team November 2015 prosecution or civil proceedings. 100019263 2015 Policies Map

Map 1 - West (Feltham and Hounslow) SITE ALLOCATIONS 58 CRANFORD AND HESTON - RECTORY FARM KEY INFORMATION District: Cranford and Heston Site Reference: 58 Address: A312/The Parkway and A4 Bath Road (Bath Road/Cranford Lane) Heston, TW5 9UU Source: Minerals Background Study 2011 PTAL: 2 Site Area (ha): 42.55 Existing use: Green Belt and farmland

ALLOCATION AND jUSTIFICATION Allocation: Minerals Proposed use: Minerals extraction and restored parkland Justification: In accordance with national policy the council should safeguard sites to protect its potential aggregate supply. This supply will contribute to the London wide apportionment of providing five million tonnes to 2031. The safeguarding of rectory farm as a potential extraction site will meet the boroughs London Plan apportionment of 700,000 tonnes. Phasing: 2015-25 Land ownership: Private Context and constraints: Green Belt; Public Safety Zone; Grade II Agricultural Land

Site Allocations : Hounslow Local Plan 2015 – 2030 (Adopted 15 Sept 2015) Top soil

Gravels

Clay

Gravel deposits 1. 5.

2. 6.

3. 7.

4. 8.

Proposed Sealed top-down construction method N

0 100m

Sectional model investigating drainage, spatial quality and materiality, VOGT, 2012 Community Park Rectory Farm, Hounslow TW5 Pre Planning Consultation January 2012

Comparative green space across London The redevelopment of the site proposes to create The character of tree planting to reflect localised a new park for West London as a new public conditions and relate to the surrounding botanical amenity. There are a number of vibrant and context. The site has been referred to in the differentiated communities adjacent to the site current UDP as Comprehensive Project Area 6 who will benefit from the redevelopment of the (Green Belt open land identified as requiring site. renovation landscape work). To the northeast the back gardens of houses fronting Brabazon Road 1 The site has the potential to contribute as a and Armytage Road about the site boundary. The 2 public amenity for London and Hounslow to the northern boundary of the site fronts Cranford open space network, provide public amenity Lane, which joins the High Street at a T-junction. and connect to local places of interest. The site A formal double alley is proposed along the main has the capacity to provide key urban linkages residential thoroughfare at the eastern edge of Rectory Farm,between Hounslow Hounslow TW5 and the Cranford Countryside the site. Across the site the embankments are Pre Planning ConsultationPark, part of the London Green Belt, and the River planted with trees screening views of low flying January 2012Crane, part of the Blue Ribbon Network. aircraft and surrounding primary traffic routes.

As a new park for London, the landscape concept We are aware that the gravel extraction of this is to create an integrated engineering and scale has a very large time-scale. As such we have landscape structure that provides local and designed the park to be delivered in phases that regional connections is topographically diverse, allow the local community and London to benefit botanically rich and ecologically sustainable. from the use of the park at the early stages of In addition to the strong connections to the development. surrounding context, a central aspiration of the design is to develop a landscape that references 2. A new public amenity the English tradition of landscape parks. The site Comparative green space across London The redevelopment of the site proposes to create The character of tree planting to reflect localised will provide generous open spaces and activity a new park for West London as a new public conditions and relate to the surrounding botanical zones. As part of the gravel extraction process the amenity. There are a number of vibrant and context. The site has been referred to in the topsoil and upper sand, gravel and silt layer will differentiated communities adjacent to the site current UDP as Comprehensive Project Area 6 be used to form a new topography across the site. who will benefit from the redevelopment of the (Green Belt open land identified as requiring The topography will form raised embankments site. renovation landscape work). To the northeast the defining routes and edges and buffering sound. N back gardens of houses fronting Brabazon Road 1 The site has the potential to contribute as a and Armytage Road about the site boundary. The 2 public amenity for London and Hounslow to the northern boundary of the site fronts Cranford open space network, provide public amenity Lane, which joins the High Street at a T-junction. Hounslow and connect to local places of interest. The site A formal double alley is proposed along the main has the capacity to provide key urban linkages residential thoroughfare at the eastern edge of between Hounslow andSyon thePark Cranford Countryside the site. Across the site the Greenwichembankments Park are 1 Park, part of the London Green Belt, and the River planted with trees screening views of low flying Crane, part of the Blue Ribbon Network. aircraft and surrounding primary traffic routes.

As a new park for London,Gunnersbury the landscape Park concept We are aware that the gravel extraction of this is to create an integrated engineering and scale has a very large time-scale. As such we have landscape structure that provides local and designed the park to be delivered in phases that regional connections is topographically diverse, allow the local community and London to benefit Hanworth Park botanically rich and ecologically sustainable. from the use of the park at theVictoria early Park stages of In addition to the strong connections to the development. surrounding context, a central aspiration of the 2 design is to develop a landscape that references 2. A new public amenity the English tradition of landscape parks. The site will provide generousGreen open Park spaces + St. James’ and activityPark Regents Park zones. As part of the gravel extraction process the topsoil and upper sand, gravel and silt layer will be used to form a new topography across the site. The topography will form raised embankments defining routes and edges and buffering sound. N Clapham Common Primrose Hill

Syon Park Greenwich Park 1

Gunnersbury Park

Hanworth Park Victoria Park Comparative London green spaces 2

Green Park + St. James’ Park Regents Park

Clapham Common Primrose Hill

9 Zone 10 Hayes Gravels Zone 12 Hounslow Gravels

Minet Country Park Osterley Fields and Park Crane River Bedfont Lakes

Minet Country Park Osterley Fields and Park Hounslow Heath Bedfont Lakes

Regional landscape context Rectory Farm, Proposed, Aerial view looking South Rectory Farm, Proposed, Aerial view looking East Rectory Farm, Proposed view Rectory Farm, Proposed view Rectory Farm, Proposed view Access Access and egress traffic strategy Rectory Farm, Proposed view Rectory Farm, Proposed view Rectory Farm, Proposed view Phasing Proposed landscape, Day 1 Proposed landscape, Phase 1 2

Phase One PhaseTwo Phase Three Phase Four

5 6 7 P7

Phase Five Phase Six Phase Seven Legacy Phase

Landscape phasing sequence diagrams Rectory Farm, Proposed, Aerial view looking South