1. Welcome Thank you for taking the time to attend our public consultation event for a residential-led development of around 1,600 open market and affordable homes, associated infrastructure, public open spaces, a link road and a new primary school on land to the South West of Birchington-on-Sea. GrENHAM BAY This is the very early stages of EppLE BAY our consultation process and MINNIS we are keen to work closely THE CENTrE BIrCHINGToN BAY with the local community over BIrCHINGToN RAILWAY STATIoN the coming months to bring CRISPE PARK A28 forward the best proposals for the village. BIrCHINGToN SquARE MINNIS RoAD RAILWAY SITE LoCATIoN BIRCHINGToN CE PRIMARY SCHooL BRooKSEND STREAM SITE LoCATIoN quEX PARK A28 B2050 ACoL HILL QUEX PARK SITE LOCATION PLAN our vision We are striving to create something aspirational, a place that we can all be proud of. Our site will be well integrated into the village, sympathetic to its surroundings, the environment and embody the principles of health and wellbeing. To achieve this we need your help. Today’s event is about us hearing your thoughts and aspirations for the site rather than presenting a completed masterplan. We embrace constructive engagement and we will not shy away from the difficult issues. The whole project team, covering a range of expertise, is on hand today to answer any questions you may have and to capture your comments and views. MINNIS BAY If you have any subsequent questions please do email us on [email protected] or pick up the phone on 0800 232 1794. A copy of the information on display is also available to download from our website www.SouthWestBirchingtonOnSea.co.uk. We would also encourage you to kindly fill in a feedback form and either leave it in the post box provided, or fill it in online from the website. INFORMATION WEBSITE: WWW.SOUTHWESTBIRCHINGTONONSEA.CO.UK You know your community and local area better than anybody and we value your feedback. Freephone: 0800 232 1794 Email: [email protected] 2. the team who we are Ptarmigan Land is one of the UK’s leading Strategic Land companies with over 25,000 homes in various stages of the planning process. We work hard to deliver high quality developments with a true vision of the long- term legacy for existing and new communities that everyone can be proud of. EXAMPLE OF A PREVIOUS PROJECT AT CHANNELS, CHELMSFORD Millwood Designer Homes is an award- winning homebuilder based in Kent, with exclusive developments in country, town, village and waterside locations throughout Kent, Sussex and Surrey. Millwood builds a broad range of individually designed homes from contemporary apartments to traditional two and three storey residences. EXAMPLE OF A PREVIOUS PROJECT AT ORCHARD GATE, DITTON project team Members of the project team from a variety of different disciplines are on hand to answer any questions you have today. Air Quality, Ecology, Energy, Flood Risk and Drainage, Engineers and Environmental Planning consultants Masterplanning & Urban Environmental Impact Design Assessment Public Engagement Landscape Architecture Transport Planning Archaeology & Heritage Freephone: 0800 232 1794 Email: [email protected] 3. planning context Thanet District Council’s emerging Local Plan establishes housing and employment growth requirements until 2031. The Council are required to deliver 17,140 houses by 2031 which is an average of 857 a year during the plan period. Our site has been identified at Policy SP14 for a sustainable strategic extension to assist in delivering to help deliver these new homes. The Local Plan also sets out the infrastructure required to support this growth such as roads, schools, community facilities, Doctors’ surgeries and open space provision. Policy SP 14 - Strategic Housing Site – Birchington Land is proposed to be allocated for up to 1,600 new dwellings at a maximum density of 35 dwellings per hectare net. The policy wording can be found below: 1. A new link road to serve the development and extending from Minnis Road and the A28; The development is also expected to provide 2. Access onto Park Lane and a footway an appropriate contribution and land for the connection to the entire frontage to connect expansion of Birchington Medical Centre. to the existing footway in Park Lane near to the access with Brunswick Road; Our masterplanning must also be informed by and address: 3. Multi-model access, including footway and cycleway connections and an extended • Predesign archaeological evaluation; bus service accessible to the residential development; • Assumptions on the impact of development on certain road junctions; 4. A minimum of 12.8 hectares of public open space (reflects comments by the Government • Liaison with service providers to assess the Inspector); need to upgrade the capacity of any utility services; 5. A fully serviced site of 2.05 hectare (to be provided at the cost of the developer) for a • The need to preserve the listed buildings on two-form entry primary school; site and respect the setting of Quex Park; 6. Small scale convenience retail provision • The need for integration of development and required to accessibly serve the day to day landscaping to enable a soft edge between needs of the development. the site and open countryside; • Appropriate noise mitigation for any development near the northern edge of the site which is adjacent to the railway line. Our proposals are being progressed in the context of the Council’s proposed policy for Birchington. Our extensive consultation with the community and other key stakeholders, alongside our technical and design work, will help us to refine and tailor the proposals to ensure we deliver a high quality scheme. Freephone: 0800 232 1794 Email: [email protected] 4. Collaborative process We look forward to engaging thoroughly with the local community over the coming months in order to bring forward an exciting vision for South West Birchington-on-Sea. Our engagement to date has included attendance at the Birchington Neighbourhood Plan Community Design Day hosted on the 6th June at All Saints Church. This event was very well attended with over 200 residents having the opportunity to provide their own ideas and aspirations for the future of Birchington. We were grateful for the opportunity to attend and look forward to continuing our constructive engagement with the Neighbourhood Plan team and other local stakeholders as the proposals evolve. Today’s event is your opportunity to help shape the proposals so please take the time to engage with us. Later in the year we intend on hosting a stakeholder workshop and a follow up public exhibition prior to the submission of an Outline Planning Application. BIRCHINGTON NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN COMMUNITY DESIGN DAY Indicative timetable Attendance at Birchington Neighbourhood Plan Community Design Day June 2019 First Public Consultation Event October 2019 Stakeholder Design Workshop November 2019 Further Public Consultation Event Early 2020 Submission of Outline Application Spring 2020 Thanet DC consultation on Application Spring/Summer 2020 Anticipated determination of Outline Application Late 2020 Signing of S106 Legal Document & Issue of Planning Consent Early 2021 Consultation, submission & approval of Design Codes Spring 2021 Reserved Matters applications, conforming to Design Codes, Autumn 2021 submitted for approval Construction works start on site Early 2022 First occupations End 2022 Freephone: 0800 232 1794 Email: [email protected] 5. our proposals There are a number of cross generational benefits of a new development. Those benefits explored on this board include the delivery of much needed new homes, Delivering the Link road improving choice within the local housing market, the delivery of a new link road to ease • A key benefit of the proposals will be the congestion in the village centre, the creation of delivery of a new link road between Minnis significant public open space and delivery of a Road and the A28 Canterbury Road and south new primary school. towards Park Lane. • The scheme will deliver a key element of the Delivering much needed new Council’s priority ‘Inner Circuit’ relief road, homes taking traffic out of Birchington centre and Westgate. • There is a desperate shortfall of homes, not • The road will help improve the environment just in Thanet but nationally, helping to keep on Station Road and congestion around The house prices unaffordable. Square and at other key junctions. • In Thanet, the average house price in 2018 was 10.5 times the average annual salary, compared to just 4 times the average salary Green infrastructure and New back in 1998. public open Space • By building new homes and with the Government’s Help to Buy scheme these • Landscape-led proposals will provide a affordability issues can start to be addressed. minimum of 12.8 hectares of new formal and informal public open space including play • The provision of affordable homes includes areas. social rented, affordable rented and shared ownership. This will help those most in need • A green edge to the development will be to get into a new home or onto the housing created that provides a more appropriate ladder. transition from the urban form to the wider countryside. • New and exciting habitats and ecological Improving choice enhancement will be created throughout. • The new homes will range in size, type and tenure significantly increasing the amount of Community Facilities choice in the local housing market both for first time buyers, and those wishing to ‘right • The proposals provide a unique opportunity size’ to a home more suitable for their needs. to improve the capacity and services of the Birchington Medical Centre to help better meet the needs of the new and existing community. • The site will deliver a new primary school to meet the needs of the development and help to create a focal point for the proposals.