1 EXISTING SITE

Railway Station

Chartham Conservation Area (Highlighted pink)

Railway Line

Post Office & News Agent

Bolts Hill Corner Shalmsford Street Primary Existing Site Sch.

Shalmsford Street

Arnold Rd. 2

7 B Brice Avenue Highland RoadBakers Lane

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6 5 Shalmsford Street Chartham Primary Chartham School A Sports Pomfret The Crescent The Rd. Local

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The Downs

Augustine’s 3 Site Estate Access

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1 Public Transportation Railway Station 2 Denoted Photograph Key View 7 Public Footpath 3 Perspective Image (Artist Impression) A 4 Public Transportation Bus Stop N 5 Community Asset A0NB (Highlighted Yellow) 6 AONB (Area of outstanding natural beauty) 7 Conservation Area

Existing Site Plan

Site Context The 0.99ha linear site on Shalmsford St. sits south of and parallel with the road between Chartham Primary School and where the road turns and becomes The Downs. The terrain of the site rises to the east and to the south where a ridge line runs up along The Downs.

In the inter and post-war years, a number of semi- 1 2 3 detached houses were constructed initially along the road edge of Shalmsford St. An explosion of 1950s housing created a cul de sac and close set back from the road edge with a separate avenue

opposite the site. Throughout the twentieth century, 3 the two ends of Shalmsford Street continued to be developed and subsequently were joined together with infill development.

Baker’s Lane, due north of the site, connects with Chartham Village - where there are a collection of 5 amenities, St Mary’s church and the River Stour cycle path to Canterbury. From Chartham there are railway services to Canterbury, Thanet, Ashford and London.

There are a number of bus stops on Shalmsford Street providing services to Canterbury and Ashford. The closest to the site are Pomfret Road and Arnold 7 Road. The site is also within short walking distance 1 Footpath to the east of the site 5 View along Shalmsford Street of several local amenities inclusive of ‘The local’ 2 Approach from Arnold Rd. facing east Chartham Football Club, newsagents & post office. 3 View south from the site to 6 Footpath entrance to the east Thruxted Farm of the site 4 Brice Avenue, Site to the Left 7 Existing road edge to site 4 6

Public Presentation - Shalmsford Street, Chartham 2 SITE ANALYSIS

CREMER Local Context & Policy CLOSE TO ASHFORD Chartham is defined as a Local Centre within the 2017 Canterbury Local Plan, with the Plan acknowledging that development should be concentrated in the

HIGHLAND RD. urban centres of the District. SUN RISE - AM

The site falls just outside, (a few hundred metres) to SUN SET - PM the north west of the designated area of The Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. BRICE AVE.

Policy SP4 allows for the provision of new housing S H A L M S F O R D

in Chartham of a size, design, scale, character and LANDSCAPE BUFFER location appropriate to the character and built form of the village. Paragraph 71 of the February 2019 S T R E E T NPPF states that Local Planning Authorities should support the development of entry-level exception

sites, such as Shalmsford Street, suitable for first OPPORTUNITYACCESS

time buyers or those looking to rent their first home. BAKER’S LN. TO CHARTHAM VILLAGE VIEWS OUT ACROSS AGRICULTURAL FIELDS

Chartham is seen to be an appropriate location INFILL DEVELOPMENT AREA to deliver affordable housing within the District, given its status within the defined rural settlement hierarchy. The proposed scheme complies with the specific provisions of Paragraph 71 of the NPPF; with the proposed 30 dwellings representing 1.8% of the size of the village; below the 5% required by MIDDAY HIGH GROUND Paragraph 71. SUN Key

The site is an appropriate location for development (CB466) than other parts of the village or adjoining land, which Site Boundary PUBLIC FOOTPATH falls within the AONB, Conservation areas or have a Early c20 homes high risk of flooding. Overall, the site is suitable and Rising Agricultural Land an appropriate opportunity to provide much needed VIEWS OUT ACROSS AGRICULTURAL FIELDS affordable housing within both Chartham and the Post-war homes wider Canterbury District. Site access opportunity N Development area

Site analysis highlighting key site constraints

VIEWS OUT ACROSS AGRICULTURAL FIELDS AONB SHALMSFORD CREMER CLOSE ST.

DEVELOPMENT AREA

Site section from South to North, illustrating the rise in land level

Development Area

View To The West, showing site in the road edge foreground

Vernacular & Materiality

The majority of buildings in Shalmsford Street are two storey, semi-detached dwellings. Older Victorian buildings are terraced however. The elevation examples referenced adjacent illustrate the linear typology & character of Chartham.

Most houses are regular designs, typical of post-war new-town/social housing stock found throughout the south-east. They are usually of red brick construction with clay tiled roofs. Houses further to the west include yellow stock brick. Others are white painted, with cladding or render. There is an even distribution of gable end roofs and hipped roofs.

The Augustine’s Estate has a broader typology of developer houses. The water tower and central clock tower building are all that remains of the once grander, institutional hospital architecture.

Public Presentation - Shalmsford Street, Chartham 3 LAYOUT, SCALE & LANDSCAPE

Isle of Thanet

Whitstable Blean Nature Reserve

Chartham Canterbury Hatch Stour Valley Walk

1 Access

Chartham Chartham Primary

Cremer Natural Close Screening

Brice Ave.

2 Extension of the Street Scene

Shalmsford St. Baker’s Lane Views to Field

Views Across 3 View towards the field from Shalmsford Street Kent Downs AONB

Proposed 4 Unit Terrace

Proposed 3 Unit Terrace 4 Planting and Road Edge Margin

Landscape & Nature

The scheme comprises a linear layout of 30 dwellings. The approach to massing, mixes terraces of 2, 3 and 4 bed units respectively. The 4 bed units are interspersed along the site, smaller units positioned at each end to soften the edge of the massing on approach to the scheme.

Arrival within the development creates a new access road and parking set back from the road edge. This minimises vehicular impact on the highway and enables landscape planting to bed the proposal on the site. In this way, the proposal mirrors the strip of green buffer opposite the site at Brice Avenue.

The landscaping of the scheme has been thought about at this initial stage, with the use of informal hedgerows and planting to divide plots and create an appropriate visual character seen in many Kentish hamlets. The informal landscaping will provide privacy and denote boundaries where necessary, and deformalise where not required.

1 2 Natural topography on the site blocks views from the AONB to the south. New planting will however look to compliment views from the highway approach.

Increased planting along the site boundaries is intended to create wildlife corridors around the site, increasing usable habitat for local wildlife. The local 1 Existing perspective illustrating the village area provides a great deal of landscape heritage entrance as existing and nature amenity space, encouraging an active 2 Proposed perspective illustrating the village entrance as proposed lifestyle and sense of well-being. 3 Tom Stuart Smith_Norfolk Garden 4 Piet Oudolf_Hauser & Wirth 5 Piet Oudolf_Napa Landscape 3 4 5

Public Presentation - Shalmsford Street, Chartham 4 LINEAR COLLECTION

Design Commentary ‘Cues have been taken from building heights and The proposed scheme is designed to complete orientation to ensure the scheme knits well into the current line of housing arcing up the hill towards the edge of Chartham Village. the local urban grain’

The architectural style is complimentary to the surrounding vernacular with material choice and form relating to the neighbouring buildings both opposite and adjacent to the site. Cues have been taken from building heights and orientation to ensure the scheme knits well into the local urban grain.

The rendered elevation (right) with accompanying visualisation illustrates the material and colour palette in coordination with the architectural language while attempting to illustrate the typical street scene.

Proposed North-East Street Scene (Artist Impression, Material Exploration)

‘100% Affordable Scheme’

‘Comprising a mix of affordable/social rent and affordable shared ownership housing’

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Proposed Ground Floor Site Layout Plan

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Precedent Key:

1 Goldsmith Street, mikhail riches 2 Kings Worth, John Pardey Architects 3 St Chads, Bell Phillips Architects 4 Dan Pearson Studio 1 2 3

Public Presentation - Shalmsford Street, Chartham 5 COMMUNITY

Proposed Perspective - Facing South-East Up Shalmsford Street

Overview Benefits Needs Housing Deficit The proposal is a high quality and appropriate design, The aim of the proposal is to develop Creation of an additional 30 homes to the local a strip of underused agricultural land which aims to provide the following: area helping with the districts need for affordable housing, and working to combat the local housing % into a residential development of 30 - The creation of a linear infill in context with pre- deficit. The scheme will be owned & managed by affordable homes. existing development in the area a preferred housing association.

- An opportunity to meet housing needs appropriate Home Ownership The development will be a well suited to the village of Chartham/Shalmsford Street and its Creating affordable housing through a range of government led affordable housing schemes. collection of 2, 3 & 4 bedroom affordable surrounds Such as affordable/social rent and affordable dwellings, which take inspiration from share ownership. - 100% Affordable housing the material vernacular of Shalmsford Street, allowing the scheme to settle - An opportunity for local people to own property Social diversity well within its immediate setting. The proposals will allow for a mixture of tenure - A range of unit sizes which create social diversity types ranging from moderate 2-bedroom to large 4-bedroom properties promoting community It is proposed that this development - High quality residential accommodation in a variety of integration & allowing for a mixture of residents. meets the exemplary standards elevational treatments Low Build Cost required and ensures that the design, - Homes that are considerate of the adjacent AONB and wider rural setting The development has been designed to allow for a scale and setting of the proposed deliberate number of homes ensuring the proposal development is appropriate and remains both feasible & viable whilst ensuring - A positive contribution to a vibrant community design intent is uncompromised. considerate to the wider landscape context of Shalmsford Street. - Connection of the site with the surrounding area and wider rural landscape Environment The proposed scheme allows for an expanse of new amenity space, allowing both nature and the local community to continue to benefit from the surrounding site context.

Public Presentation - Shalmsford Street, Chartham