5 THE MASTERPLAN 5.1 Estate Wide Vision 5.1 Estate-Wide Vision 5.2 Landscape Masterplanning Principles 5.3 Intervention Area Masterplan Vision 5.4 Intervention Area Masterplan Details Hawkins\Brown © | May 2019 | 9028 | Alton Estate, Roehampton 49 5 THE MASTERPLAN 5.1 Estate-Wide Vision 5.1. 1 A New Centre The original (LCC) Alton Estate Masterplan envisaged a new civic space at the eastern end of Danebury Avenue. This would be marked by a retail parade as well as a public square. This ambition was never delivered in full. While the existing Danebury Centre provides a viable retail parade including Roehampton Library, there is no clear focal point in the form of a cohesive public space or significant . Looking further afield, while communal green space is not lacking, there is also a very limited amount of civic public space throughout Alton West, Roehampton Village and Alton East. We propose to create a new Village Square to create the focal point that these three areas are in need of. As described in more detail later in this section, the square is carefully positioned to allow each of these urban areas visibiilty, access and frontage Roehampton onto the space. The location diverges from that proposed in the Village 2014 Alton Area Masterplan, which included a square further to the west. This previous location was surrounded predominantly by new development rather than a combinaton of new and Alton West existing buildings. Critically, our new location reveals the existing - and previously hidden - St Joseph's Church along the square's eastern edge. This respects the church's setting as an important piece of local heritage and allows Roehampton Village to sit equally alongside the new Alton Green development. The square sits at the centre of a Venn diagram, helping to stitch together three urban areas of disparate character. It is the first move in tackling the disjointed urban fabric and creating a more cohesive part of the city. Alton East Proposed New Square Hawkins\Brown © | May 2019 | 9028 | Alton Estate, Roehampton 50 5 THE MASTERPLAN 5.1 Estate-Wide Vision 5.1. 2 Connectivity Plan The regeneration of the Alton offers an opportunity to significantly improve the way people move across the estate and access surrounding neighbourhoods. The landscape strategy prioritises the creation of safe, attractive and healthy streets. • North/south pedestrian links through the estate will connect the retained and improved streets that predominantly run east/west. • Improved streets will be well proportioned and easy to navigate, drawing people into and through the estate, to access the range of amenities on offer. • Planting and street trees will be used to screen parking Increased Improved areas and create a more attractive environment. routes to accessible routes Roehampton through scheme • Car parking, cycle stands and street furniture will be Village incorporated carefully, so that streets are uncluttered, Potential Future safer and more easily usable particularly for pedestrians connections to and cyclists. Richmond Park New centre • The creation of a new village square and multi-purpose at Village community building at the gateway to the estate will establish Square a new focal point for community interaction, recreation, relaxation and engagement events, to draw residents from Alton West, Alton East and Roehampton Greater North - South • Alterations to the junction between Danebury Avenue and Connections Roehampton Lane will improve conditions for pedestrians, through the cyclists and road users, allowing a greater number of proposal vehicles to exit the estate during each traffic signal cycle. • The relocation of bus turning and standing from Downshire Field will reduce barriers to movement and provide better connections to Portswood Place. • The design of Block Q will improve access to the Mosaic School New centre at Village Square Primary existing connections Proposed routes through / Connections Potential Future Connections Hawkins\Brown © | May 2019 | 9028 | Alton Estate, Roehampton 51 Initial Placemaking Principles The detailed analysis 2. Mending the Urban Fabric undertaken as part Like any other part of London, the Alton area has evolved with layer upon layer of this process has added over time, gradually changing the nature of the place. A new perspective is demonstrated that now required to modernise the housing the Alton would ? offer, to reconsider building orientation and layout to increase the capacity Initial PlacemakingInitial Principles Placemakingbenefit from5 focused THE MASTERPLAN Principles of some sites, to repair edges and 5.1 Estate-Wide Vision interfaces, to frame streets and public regeneration of key spaces, to rationalise car parks and components5.1. of3 the Delivering the 2014 Masterplan Vision service areas and to create a more people friendly place. estate. As described in Section 1, the proposals for Alton Green sit within a planning and masterplan lineage which includes the 2014 Alton Area Masterplan and 2015 Roehampton Supplementary A bespoke and sensitivePlanning programme Document (SPD). The 2014 Masterplan provides the grounding for all later work. It describes? the case for change and of intervention is proposed which incorporates the principlessuggests of intervention areas for strategic development. The 2014 Masterplan also provides the grounding for the Roehampton “protecting”, “strengthening”SPD that and in turn formed the basis for Wandsworth Council's “repairing” the fabricdevelopment of the estate brief as for Alton Green. well as, where appropriate “replacing and redeveloping”. The interventions 1. Breathing New Life2. Mending into the Centresthe Urban Fabric 2. Mending the Urban3. Fabric Strengthening the Roehampton The detailed analysis The detailedproposed analysis at the options and preferred Lane Frontage undertaken as part undertakenoptions as part stage were guided by the Like any other part of London, the Alton Like any other part of London, the Alton following principles. 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