SAT NAV REF: KINNAIRD VILLAGE CENTRE, LARBERT FK5 4GY DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AT THE HEART OF THE NEW VILLAGE COMMUNITY M9 A88 VILLAGE CENTRE M876 BELLSDYKE ROAD BELLSDYKE THE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY The vision for Kinnaird Village is forging ahead to build a whole Having completed and successfully sold a number of residential phases, the consortium have submitted detailed proposals to create the Village Centre, which will include a mix of varying house new thriving community. Cala Homes and Persimmon Homes, (the types, and will incorporate various commercial elements which will be developed into the overall consortium) have been working alongside NHS Forth Valley to community masterplan. masterplan the 218 acre former NHS site. The opportunity therefore exists to acquire sites for occupation or development, for the village pub/restaurant, children’s nursery facility, care home, assisted living residences and supermarket. 6 . 4 EMA & PERSIMMON HOMES The new neighbourhood will provide up to 1,700 new homes, in addition to the existing 500 Further brief details are provided below. homes in the adjascent Inches development, set in a high quality, natural landscape combining The architecture has been designed on the following key principles rooted in an understanding of traditional Scottish village quality open space, safe children’s play areas, environmental features, all of which will create architecture: physical, social and economic links to the rest of Larbert and Stenhousemuir. • Simple fenestration patterns of single and double windows with variation of window opening sizes between ground, upper and top floors • Vertically orientated openings A new community primary school has already been constructed and will allow the community • Using repetitive elements to reflect traditional feu plots • Building frontage broken by vertical projecting bays of contrasting materials a chance to develop and grow in a brand new learning environment. • Well considered proportions, solid to void ratio etc • Steep roof pitches at varying heights with dormer type features providing variety in a broadly unified skyline An integral part of this community will be the village centre, at the hub of the community, • Recognition of corners, using building forms that turn the corner in a positive manner The choice of materials reflects the housing design on the other side of the road and the precedent set by the previously incorporating commercial elements including supermarket, pub/restaurant, care home and approved developments at Bellsdyke. The predominant material is smooth white render used in conjunction with blue brick to enhance the sharpness of the contemporary detailing. Dark grey flat concrete tile is to be used at roof level in imitation of assisted living and children’s nursery facilities. traditional slate. Windows are dark grey uPVC to reinforce the contemporary aesthetic. The live/work units allow for more glazing to be incorporated into the primary frontage and an increased storey height The construction of the new Forth Valley Royal Hospital is now complete and accepting at Ground Floor. These devices ensure that a balance is struck between the residential and commercial character of the patients, situated only a few minutes from Kinnaird Village. This 860 bed/bed spaces facility neighbourhood. provides a range of services normally associated with an acute services district hospital, MAINTENANCE providing employment for 3,500 staff. The new hospital will treat in excess of 58,000 A management company will be put in place to deal with the maintenance of all internal communal areas along with external landscaping and parking areas. inpatients per year and hold in excess of 280,000 outpatient consultations per year. The EMA PUBLIC SPACE 3D VISUALISATION EMA 3D VISUALISATION OF TYPICAL RESIDENTIAL STREETSCAPE CONCLUSION resultant effect on the local economy will be considerable. 9 EMA 3D VISUALISATION OF TYPICAL RESIDENTIALA905 STREETSCAPE The design for the Persimmon part of the site results in a positive relationship with the CALA part of the site. Together with The continuous built form along the HighM80 Street and secondary roads on both sites results in the enclosure of the streets in a LAYOUT the commercial uses proposed, they will create a neighbourhood with a strong identity which become the heart of the traditional urban manner. This is also reflected in the built formM9 of the CALA development across the road. The parking courtyards are also hard landscaped, with either monoblocks to the roads and porous paviors to the parking Airth Bellsdyke masterplan area. The proposals are located on Sites 11 & 14 of the Bellsdyke Masterplan (please see Masterplan on page 52). The sites are bays. The rear gardens within the courtyards are enclosed with 1.8m close boarded timber fencing in order to provide a within the area designated as the ‘village centre’ of the Masterplan and are orientated along the key distributor road, which at The parking courtyards are located behind the frontages and are designed to be fully screened from the public spaces. The good level of screening to rear gardens. this point is defined as the ‘High Street’. courtyards to Site 11 are entered along an adopted road framed by chamfered corner blocks, which visually terminates in the mews terrace. At Site 14, vehicular access is through a pend. There are also pedestrianA9 routes from the High Street to the The key design concept to this area of the masterplan, is to create a reinterpretation of the traditional High Street. It is courtyards through pends. The courtyard arrangement provides a high level of natural surveillance of the parking areas. SCALE AND MIX proposed that this is to be achieved through the creation of the typical spaces and the provision of the mixed uses and The proposed flatted blocks are three to four storeys and accommodate a range of flat types with either one or two bed increased density associated with a village centre. EMA has bought into this concept, of applying a legible urban form in Falkirk Council’s Environmental Services Department has been consulted on the provision and location of waste and LOCATION bedrooms. The density and scale of the developmentLetham achieved though the flatted accommodation is in accordance with the order to create a greater sense of place for residents. recycling containers and how they are collected. The bin stores are accommodated at ground floor of the buildings and are generally shared between 2 flatted blocks. The stores are accessed either from the street or courtyard. M9figures set out in the masterplan information and appropriate for the village centre location. A smaller number of 2 and 21/2 storey townhouses are provided on Site 11. M876 Kinnaird Village is strategically sited betweenBoth sites are also bounded Bellsdyke by vehicular and pedestrian Road routes (A88)on their NE and SWand sides. Sitethe 11 borders Site 10 on its NW A9 side and Site 14 borders a landscaped area, accommodating a care home, nursery and assisted living block. 100% cycle storage provision is provided for the flats within secure stores at the ground floor of the buildings. A905 In order to provide the range of uses appropriate7 to a village centre, it is proposed that live/work units are incorporated Torwood towards the east end of the frontage onto the High Street. M876 and is approximately 1 km from LarbertThe buildings on Site Railway11 are arranged parallel Station to its NE, SE and SWwhich boundaries, forminghas a clearly direct defined urban block. Within LANDSCAPE A88 this block is a terrace of townhouses, adopting the traditional form of mews buildings. On Site 14, there is a block defined by DETAILS AND MATERIALS services to Stirling, Edinburgh and Glasgow.buildings on its NEBuses and SE sides andpass open to thethe NW, together site with aalong separate block Bellsdykelocated on the prominent SW corner. The streetscape at the frontages along theM80 High Street is to be hard landscaped to create usable and identifiable public space. The building frontages form a hard edge defining the public space and are uncluttered by boundary walls. The hard It is crucial in a development such as this, which requires to be legible as the centre of a large extent of new housing, that the landscaping includes a variation in surface treatments to define varying uses such as seating areas. Proposed andM876 existing Road and connect with the Railway Station and Larbert Town Centre. Further buildings can contribute to a sense of place and identity. improvement to the services is part of the overall Green Transport Plan which trees are also incorporated in to the overall design. M9 2 Stenhousemuir formed an integral part of the original outline planning application. A872 Larbert Carron DESIGN STATEMENT FOR THE PROPOSED KINNAIRD VILLAGE CENTRE MASTERPLAN NOVEMBER 2007 Junction 2 on the M876 is the subject of improvement proposals to create a 4 6 DESIGNGrangemouth STATEMENT FOR THE PROPOSED KINNAIRD VILLAGE CENTRE MASTERPLAN NOVEMBER 2007 P A G E 55 Denny way interchange/slip road (currently 2 way) and offers fast travel and linkages to 1 Bainsford Central Scotland’s main motorway network. A883 A9 M876 A803 Camelon M80 5 A803 M9 Bonnybridge 4 Lauriston Glen Village 6 . 5 FEATURE PROJECTS Supermarket Village Pub/Restaurant CHILDRENChildren’s’S NURSERY 3D VISUALISATION Nursery The supermarket will be positioned at the entrance to the The architectural intention is to contrast the old with the new A 60 place children’s nursery, adjacent to the care homeCHILDREN’S NURSERY Village Centre, situated on the ground floor of a proposed and the stone façade of the original building has been retained and close to the new school development will be a bespoke The village centre proposals include a 60 place Children’s Nursery adjacent to the Care flatted development, with adjacent car parking being provided. at the front entrance.