WINCHESTER SPORT & LEISURE PARK DESIGN FRAMEWORK ADOPTED 6TH JUNE 2018 1 Winchester Sport & Leisure Park FILE REVISION 151111_R_Design Framework 1 Adopted by Winchester City Council 6th June 2018 PROJECT Winchester Sport & Leisure Park DF CLIENT Winchester City Council STRIDE TREGLOWN JOB No. 151111 PREPARED BY CHECKED BY PS | GKS | NR GKS | MH DATE REVISION No. 07.06.2018 1 PROJECT CONTACT PAUL SEAVER +44 (0)117 974 3271 [email protected] OFFICES SERVICES SECTOR EXPERTISE LONDON ARCHITECTURE OFFICE AND WORKPLACE BIRMINGHAM INTERIOR DESIGN TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MANCHESTER BIM AND DIGITAL DESIGN EDUCATION BRISTOL SUSTAINABILITY DESIGN STUDENT LIVING CARDIFF MASTERPLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN HOTELS AND LEISURE SOLENT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE RESIDENTIAL BATH TOWN PLANNING SENIOR LIVING PLYMOUTH BUILDING SURVEYING DEFENCE TRURO HISTORIC BUILDING CONSERVATION CIVIC, COMMUNITY AND CULTURE PROJECT MANAGEMENT HEALTHCARE PRINCIPAL DESIGNER RETAIL GRAPHIC DESIGN TRANSPORT 2 Winchester Sport & Leisure Park 1. Introduction 4 2. The Site and Surroundings 7 3. Key Sites and Related Opportunities 8 4. Public Consultation and Engagement Summary 11 5. The Design Framework: Key Features 12 Theme1: Getting to the Park 14 Theme 2: A Place to Enjoy 16 Theme 3: A Place to be Active 20 Theme 4: Areas for New Development 22 Theme 5: Delivering the Vision 24 6. Conclusion 25 Appendix: Public Consultation and Engagement Findings 26 3 Winchester Sport & Leisure Park 1. Introduction Following the purchase of the Garrison Ground by The Design Framework provides guidance for future The Design Framework Vision The City Council is progressing a scheme the City Council, and a technical evaluation, an considerations and decisions of the landowners area at Bar End has been agreed as the preferred in the area including the City Council, the County The overall vision for the whole Design to build a new high quality Sport & Leisure location for the new Winchester Sport & Leisure Council and the University of Winchester. It is not Framework area, including the Sports & Centre (WSLC). a formal planning document but does provide Leisure Park at Bar End, is to create an area Centre at Bar End, Winchester, as part guidance and sets out the aspirations for the area for sport and recreation, leisure, wellbeing By working with the University of Winchester, The derived through a thorough process of engagement and enjoyment which provides for residents, of a Sport & Leisure Park utilising existing Pinder Trust and the County Council, the Council is and which should be referred to when considering families, athletes, young and older people and seeking to create a new Winchester Sport & Leisure future investment/ improvement plans for the area. which fits and accords with its surroundings. community sports facilities in this location, Park at Bar End. This vision is the Council’s commitment to Its immediate use is to inform the design and layout neighbours and users of the Sport & Leisure including sports pitches and the Sports The Design Framework for Winchester of the new Sport & Leisure Centre, car parking, Park and reflects the support and input which Sport & Leisure Park landscaping and accessibility. It will also help has been given from these groups over the past Stadium. This facility will serve the needs of to inform the City Council’s investment plans for few years. In order to deliver an appropriate, viable and King George V (KGV) and the remaining Garrison local residents, sports groups and families in inclusive Sport & Leisure Centre within the Ground open spaces/ playing pitches and facilities, We want to create a high quality, highly Winchester Sport & Leisure Park, the City Council such as changing pavilions and play areas. valued and accessible facility for the Winchester and the wider District. has commissioned a design and technical team community. We want to establish a range of to analyse the relationship between the proposed The Aims of the Design Framework facilities to cater for all the family, whether uses and neighbouring residential areas and to utilising ‘clip and climb’ in the Leisure Centre engage thoroughly on this with residents, users • Encourage active and healthy lifestyles or walking around the park. We want to bring Below: Design Framework Boundary and stakeholders. Understanding this relationship together complementary uses and facilities is important in shaping the Sport & Leisure Park • Promote inclusive recreation, leisure and sporting such as hydrotherapy, treatment and recovery and meeting local and wider needs which are activities alongside sporting and competitive activities. acceptable to the community. It will also help This will be set within an overall theme and to shape an aspirational sporting, leisure and • Create an attractive environment for people of all vision which can be reflected in any potential development vision for the wider area including ages and abilities to enjoy future development in and around the area. emerging proposals, initiatives and interventions in the years to come in the form of a Design The King George V Framework. Depot Site Winchester Playing Fields Bar End Road University Sports Stadium The Garrison Ground Above: King George V playing fields 4 Winchester Sport & Leisure Park Engagement Feedback Feedback received and how its has been A full drainage study and strategy are being Response - The Highcliffe Community Plan Response - The Park is being considered in relation addressed prepared which will be submitted as part of the provides a good basis for considering local issues to the wider Winchester Transport Study and A great deal of feedback has been received on a planning application for the new Sport & Leisure such as: Crime and Community Safety, Travel Strategy. Relocating the Leisure Centre will change wide range of issues from many different people 1. Environment and Landscape: Centre. These have been informed by detailed and Transport, the Local Living Environment and people’s travel behaviours and it is therefore and groups. hydrological assessments and soil investigations. Community Amenities. We have kept these issues important that these changes are considered in • Preserve natural qualities of the area; retain / and the overall plan in mind when formulating this relation to other potential changes taking place These views have been captured and carefully create new areas and or facilities to enhance Parking demand for the new Sport & Leisure Centre document. and how they will feed into and complement other reviewed. The feedback received is from ecological value has been carefully considered which makes use of measures being considered. Key considerations many different perspectives and therefore nearby Park & Ride car parks for special events, We are seeking to provide a mix of facilities which in this regard are providing good facilities for highlights different concerns. Local residents • Consider peripheral routes for running, training thus reducing the amount of parking required on will meet all these needs and aspirations. The Park pedestrians, cyclists and bus users and making sure are understandably concerned about issues that and walking the site. On street parking in adjacent areas is also will be accessible to everyone and a new link will that parking provision fits with the overall parking will affect them directly, such as impact on their being considered and following a consultation with be provided connecting King George V playing strategy for the City. everyday activities whereas, while sports users are Response: The Design Framework addresses this, as residents, a new residents parking scheme will be fields with the Garrison Ground. Some areas of the more focused on the types and quality of sporting shown in Theme 2: A Place to Enjoy, by identifying implemented in Chilcomb Lane. A consultation with park, such as parts of the Sport & Leisure Centre A full transport impact assessment is being provision. The Design Framework seeks to balance areas for biodiversity enhancement and for physical Highcliffe residents will also be undertaken over the and the Sports Stadium, will have controlled access, prepared, which will quantify the impacts and these interests carefully and feed them into in the activities. A network of paths has been identified summer of 2018 to determine whether amendments but other areas such as the café will be available for appropriate measures required to address them and design of the new Sport & Leisure Park. around the park. or additions to the existing residents parking scheme everyone to use. A full district-wide Playing Pitches has fed into the wider Study referred to above. This are required. assessment which will evaluate the impact of the will include consideration of cyclist and pedestrian Centre on playing pitch provision is currently being facilities and access by bus. It is hoped that a new We have formulated a high quality landscape undertaken. Engaging with users of the playing cycle and pedestrian link can be provided from the 2. Relationship between the Sport & Leisure Park strategy to provide screening to nearby residential pitches at Bar End is taking place and will continue National Cycle Route Network Route 23 to the new and adjacent uses: properties and to ensure that the park and its to do so to ensure that all needs are met both during Centre and a new link to the South Downs Way Below: Public engagement events facilities, such as parking, fit with the overall and after construction of the new centre. Part of from the Park is being considered. • What are future plans for the Depot Site? parkland setting. A visual impact assessment has King George V playing field is already in Trust and Concerns over its impact both visually and from been undertaken based on views from key points the remaining part which isn’t, is currently in the The local area is served by Bus Service Number 4 traffic around the Park and utilising a 3D model of the process of being dedicated, thus protecting its use in and Park & Ride buses.