WELCOME Grainger plc, one of the UK’s leading residential property companies and the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has been selected by Network Rail and West Berkshire Council to develop the site. Located between the railway station and Market Street the site includes the existing bus station and council car park. Grainger has appointed a team of consultants to look at various technical aspects of the site. As part of this team, architects and masterplanners John Thompson & Partners (JTP) is working with the local community to create a Vision for the ‘urban village’ and its relationship with the town centre. This process began with a Community Planning Weekend, held in July 2015, when it was decided to establish the Market Street, Newbury Community Forum. This exhibition has been prepared for the first Community Forum. This event is an opportunity to see and discuss the latest proposals, including a new physical Introduction model. Our ideas continue to develop, so we welcome your feedback on the proposals presented here. Team members are on hand to discuss your ideas, experience and comments; feedback forms are also available. Supplementary Planning Document Adopted 9 June 2005 Market Street Urban Village, Newbury: Planning and Design Brief Defining the Site 2.12 The site offers a major opportunity to ‘fix’ the missing link between the station gateway and the town centre, to improve the 2.09 The site boundary for the planning and design brief is identified in interface between Market Street and the Kennet Shopping Centre Figure 3 and covers approximately 8 hectares. The Market Street and the wider quarters framework identified in the Newbury 2025 PLANNING CONTEXT site is located in the southern part of the town centre, between Vision. Newbury Railway Station and the Kennet Shopping Centre. The The Market Street site in Newbury has been well neighbourhoodsite incorporates with the Districta range Council of uses Offices, but Newbury with anBus and Railway Station and associated surface car parking. represented in planning documents for over a decade emphasis on housing, a public transport interchange 2.10 The area is defined by Market Street to the north, Bartholomew setting out how the local planning authority, West improvingStreet toaccess the west, from Cheap theStreet station to the east to and the Station town Road centre to the Berkshire District Council, hope that the site will come and tosouth. assist The the central vitality section andof the viability site, including of the Newbury town railway station car park and the area directly north incorporating the bus forward. In 2005 it was referred to as a potential Urban as a whole.station, Comprehensiveoffers significant potential redevelopment for redevelopment. of this The Village and also referred to in the Newbury Town brownfieldCouncil intendssite atto takehigh forward density the redevelopmentwas recognised of the centralas vital. section of the site (the ‘Core Area’ including the car parks serving Centre Plan as a scheme that would contribute to the the rail station and Council Offices, the bus station, car park better integration of Newbury Railway Station with the In thefronting recent Market West Street Berkshire and premises Housing on Highfield Site Allocations Avenue) in association with Network Rail. In providing planning policy and The Site town itself. document,urban design these guidance, key themes therefore, were the emphasis reiterated of this andplanning this fits wellbrief iswith towards the the redevelopmentWest Berkshire of the CoreCore Area. Strategy (2006- The Market Street development or ‘Urban Village’ forms 2.112026) It whichis important, sees however, at least that 10,500consideration homes of the Corebeing Area delivered is set within a wider context. The Brief purposefully covers a site larger a key part of West Berkshire Council’s Newbury Vision acrossthan the the county core area andin order Newbury to ensure redevelopment being the ismain considered 2026, which was published in 2003 and has already focus infor context housing with the growth surrounding over town the centre period, and takes providing into account wider site considerations, including access routes and linkages delivered projects such as Parkway, the cinema, and the approximately(particularly 5,400from the new secondary homes retail between areas of Bartholomew2006 and popular pedestrian areas in the town centre. 2026.Street and Cheap Street), the Conservation Area, listed buildings and townscape. The boundary pictured above is Market Street as identified in The site was seen as one of the very few opportunities Newbury Vision 2026. The development site is within this area. for significant Town Centre redevelopment including Source: West Berkshire Council, 2005, Market Street Urban Village, Newbury Planning and a high level of residential development. The document Design Brief Supplementary Planning aspired for an Urban Village, creating a mixed-use Site Boundary SPD3 5 Newbury Vision Boundary COMMUNITY PLANNING WEEKEND PROPOSED PROJECT TIMELINE Design Design Community Detailed planning Detailed design & Community development development Anticipated application Enabling works Start on site Planning Weekend Forum determination procurement July – July – submission 24 September Spring / Summer Autumn 2016 2017 10-16 July 2015 October October Spring 2016 2015 November 2015 2016 2015 2015 Grainger plc is the UK’s largest listed residential John Thompson & Partners is an international property owner and manager, with c.20,000 placemaking practice of architects and urbanists homes under management across the UK and with extensive experience of delivering successful Germany. Grainger was established in 1912 projects for both public and private sectors in Newcastle upon Tyne, where it remains throughout the UK, and internationally. We use headquartered. Grainger is a constituent of the participatory techniques pioneered and honed FTSE 250 on the London Stock Exchange and over two decades to build collaborative visions for the FTSE4Good index. Grainger was awarded the our projects with the very people who will go on UK’s Residential Asset Manager of the Year at the to use them. RESI Awards in 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012. Macaulay Walk Hungate, York is a brownfield site located on the • Redevelopment of 1.8acre brownfield site banks of the River Foss on the south-east edge • 97 residential units – 65 private, 32 affordable. of the historic centre and within 800m of York • Mix of new build and warehouse conversion. Minster. It was the largest remaining development • Variety of apartments and mews houses. opportunity within the city’s walls and outside its • Winner: WhatHouse? Awards - Gold Award - Conservation Area. Archaeology and flooding issues Best Apartment Scheme , Gold Award - Best constrained the site. Brownfield Development , Silver Award - Best Mixed Use Development, Bronze Award - Best The City of York’s planning brief set out a vision to The Team Development. (logo attached) create a sustainable and attractive new riverside • Winner: Sunday times British Home Awards – quarter. Best Mixed Use Scheme and Best Development Wellesley, Aldershot French Quarter is located within the historic old town Wellesley, delivered by Grainger PLC, is an exciting of Southampton. War-time damage combined with development of 3,850 homes on the 255 hectare post-war traffic planning had destroyed the historic former Aldershot Garrison site. urban fabric of French Quarter. The existing buildings • A new slip road onto the A331 and further were of poor quality with frontages set back behind highway improvements wide pavements, destroying the sense of enclosure • Two new primary schools and impeding activity on the streets. A four lane • Extensions to two secondary schools, providing carriageway cutting across the historic grid of the city over 675 new school places resulted in loss of spatial definition to key streets. • Two new pre-schools and day care centres • 110 hectares of new managed green space, play A development was created that recreated the fine areas, sports and community facilities grain of the medieval street pattern, helping to enrich • The refurbishment of six listed buildings, including the spaces between the new buildings. the Cambridge Military Hospital and Headquarters 4th Division and provision of a Heritage Trail. Park Centrale, the former New College site on The Avenue, Southampton develops 3.39 ha of brownfield land into a high quality sustainable mixed use, mixed Berewood, Waterlooville tenure development, which is situated within close Berewood is 209 hectares (516 acres) urban proximity to the city centre and all its facilities. The site extension to the west of Waterlooville. falls within two Conservation Areas and contained a significant number of existing trees, many of which Up to 40% affordable housing COMMUNITY PLANNING WEEKEND • were retained as part of the masterplan vision. • Approximately 2,550 residential units • Land for 2 primary schools (3ha + 2.2ha) Through the understanding of local context • Leisure facilities and character, community involvement and the • Employment space establishment of a design philosophy and approach, • New public park the aim was to ensure the development created a positive sense of place that contributes to the wider urban grain and the creation of a strong local identity. DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS Newbury is already one the best connected towns in the Network Rail is the owner and operator of Britain’s rail First