St Cuthbert's Garden Village Stage 2 Masterplan Framework Baseline Report August 2019 Carlisle City Council Contents 2 CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT 1 / Introduction 3 / Overview of Baseline 4 / Constraints & Opportunities 7 / Case Studies & Precedents Information 4.1 Constraints & Opportunities 3.1 Planning and Strategic Summary 2 / Key Drivers & Principles Context 4.2 Development Potential 8 / Next Steps 3.2 Topography 4.3 Opportunities 2.1 Strategic Context 3.3 Drainage and Flood Risk 2.2 Key Drivers and Principles 3.4 Infrastructure 2.3 Additional Themes and 3.5 Energy and Waste 9 / Appendices Strategic Influences 3.6 Ground Conditions 5 / Village Context Studies 2.4 Assessment of Spatial Options 3.7 Air Quality 5.1 Carlisle Urban Edge 1 Planning Control 3.8 Highway and Public Transport 5.2 Durdar 2 Drainage and Flood Risk Connectivity 5.3 Carleton 3 Utilities and Infrastructure 3.9 Active Travel 5.4 Cummersdale 4 Energy and Waste 3.10 Cultural Heritage and Ecology 5.5 Brisco 5 Ground Conditions Designations 6 Air Quality 3.11 Noise and Vibration 7 Transport 3.12 Landscape Character and 8 Heritage Features 6 / Land Budget 9 Ecology 3.13 Green Space 10 Noise and Vibration 3.14 Townscape and Character 6.1 Outline Land Budget 11 Green Space 3.15 Land Use 6.2 Homes 12 Landscape 3.16 Economy and Employment 6.3 Education 13 Local Facilities Requirements 3.17 Key Stakeholder Comments 6.4 Sports and Green Space 6.5 Delivery 6.6 Outstanding Information CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT 3 1 / 4 CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT 1. Introduction CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT 5 In early 2017, Carlisle City Council was successful in obtaining Garden Village status as part of the Government’s Garden Town and Villages programme for a 1,323ha site to the south of Carlisle. The project is now known as St Cuthbert’s Garden Village, and Carlisle City Council have “St Cuthbert's will provide connected villages been active in the promotion of the project as an ambitious and exciting opportunity to develop a Garden Village embedded in stunning healthy landscapes within which is future-proofed and forward thinking. the world class setting of the Lake District National Arup has been commissioned to undertake the Stage 2 Masterplan Framework, which will build upon the work Park, the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural undertaken to date during Stage 1, which set the vision and concept. The Framework will critically inform and Beauty and Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site. A support the preparation of a Development Plan Document (DPD) for St Cuthbert’s which will include site allocations. cluster of distinct Garden Villages set in an attractive Its primary role will be as a planning instrument, guiding future detailed masterplans / design stages and serving as recreational, riverside and landscape setting will be a material planning consideration to help de-risk and bring forward development proposals that will deliver against the well connected to Carlisle and the wider countryside. vision and objectives for the Garden Village. The output of Stage 1 was a Concept and Vision document. St Cuthbert's will actively promote healthy lifestyles The document introduced nine guiding principles for the development of the Garden Village, all of which underpin providing integrated communities focused around the overarching vision: high quality homes, locally distinctive spaces and inclusive facilities. Innovation and technology will support attractive employment opportunities and exemplary low carbon living.” 6 CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT Primary Stage 1 Outputs Stage 1 Concept Framework Plan (from Concept & Vision report) 3.5 ConCept framework plan 100ha Site Boundary Existing Built Form Carlisle Citadel Rail Station Existing Local Centre Watercourse Existing Parks Existing Green Corridors ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE Railway Road VISION & CONCEPT Stage 1./2. InceptIon - BaSelIne RepoRt Emerging Carlisle Southern Link Road MARCH 2018 Shared Footway / Cycleway KEY St. Cuthbert’s Greenway Enhanced Public Green Infrastructure Potential Residential Potential Employment Potential Mixed Use Potential Local / District Centre Key View Point S Replacement Site for Newman’s School 0 250 500 1000m ST CUTHBERT’S GARDEN VILLAGE CONCEPT & VISION Fig 14. ConceptDRAFT Framework Plan GILLESPIES JANUARY 2019 40 CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT 7 Throughout this commission, Arup will build upon the • Section 2 considers the Key Drivers and Principles for the established vision and guiding principles through the development of options for each of the settlements, Masterplan. It provides a concise review of the guiding finalising with a framework for the preferred option for the principles and the key priorities within these. Garden Village. • Section 3 provides an overview of the Technical Studies Since the completion of Stage 1, £102m was allocated prepared as part of the baseline review and the spatial from the Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) to deliver the Carlisle Southern Link Road (CSLR). At the time of implications for the Garden Village. writing, the CSLR has entered design-freeze period and has undergone a further period of public consultation. At the • Section 4 provides a summary of Constraints and time of writing, the final planning application is due to be Opportunities which, alongside Section 5, which contains submitted in Autumn 2019. Village Context Studies of the existing built form, is the The first stage of this commission is to develop a starting point for guiding the Framework Masterplan proportionate and robust baseline for the Framework options development. Masterplan. The purpose of this is to understand the characteristics of the study area which underpins the • Section 6 sets out our initial thoughts on Land Budget, placemaking and spatial framework process. considering initial testing of density scenarios to understand The baseline work has drawn primarily on a review of the the potential scale of development at each of the identified evidence base collated at Stage 1, supplemented by the existing and emerging evidence from the CSLR scheme settlement areas of the new Garden Village Community. and a site visit by the urban design team. • Section 8 provides some Case Studies and initial thoughts on The report seeks to capture the initial outcomes from the development precedents to be taken forward through the technical reviews, the vision and principles workshop and options development stage. urban design analysis. • Section 9 summarises the Next Steps in the preparation and The Baseline Report is structured as follows: delivery of the Masterplan Framework. • The appendices provide the full technical studies that have been completed during the baseline review. 8 CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT M6 LONGTOWN NORTHUMBERLAND NATIONAL PARK A6071 HADRIAN’S WALL SOLWAY FIRTH A7 CARLISLE LAKE BRAMPTON DISTRICT AIRPORT SOLWAY COAST AONB A689 KINGSTOWN IND. EST. A69 CARLISLE A689 WETHERAL NORTH PENNINES AONB RIVER EDEN ST CUTHBERT’S A596 CSLR DALSTON WIGTON CUMBRIAN COAST LINE A595 M6 PETTERIL A6 RIVER KEY Motorway A-Road NCN7 Railway WEST COAST Railway station MAINLINE AONB / National Park CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT LAKE DISTRICT 9 Cycle network RIVER CALDEW NATIONAL PARK 2 / 10 CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT 2. Key Drivers & Principles CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL / ST CUTHBERT'S GARDEN VILLAGE STAGE 2 MASTERPLAN FRAMEWORK / BASELINE REPORT 11 2.1 / Strategic Context This is an exciting time for Carlisle: it is the key city as part In July 2019 the Heads of Terms for the Borderlands The LIS identifies that if the government’s population of the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal, St Cuthbert’s Growth Deal were announced. The projects benefitting projections materialise, it will lead to a very significant Garden Village is the most ambitious Garden Village in the from the growth deal, and of particular relevance to fall in the available workforce over the next decade, with UK, £102m of funding for the Carlisle Southern Link Road St Cuthbert’s Garden Village, include improvements at least a 20,000 person shortfall in people available to has been announced as part of the Housing Infrastructure to transport and digital connectivity and the Carlisle meet Cumbria’s existing job requirements. Consequently, Fund to unlock development land for the Garden Village Station Gateway project which focuses on the economic this has been identified as one of the greatest challenges and Carlisle plays a key role in delivering Cumbria’s Local regeneration of Carlisle City Centre. Innovation and skills facing Cumbria, given that the labour market is already Industrial Strategy. projects in the rural and tourism sectors have received very tight. The LIS is explicit that Cumbria needs to build funding, as well as investment into a Borderlands Energy houses at a much greater rate to ensure a steady workforce Carlisle City Council has ambitious plans to grow the city,