Building communities in Hampshire Masterplanning for delivery Peter Frankum – Savills Urban Design Studio savills.com Content The Hampshire context . The pressure for growth . Emerging solutions . Historic growth of settlements . Local identity Implementation . Examples Lessons learnt Hampshire context Basingstoke Andover Winchester Southampton Eastleigh Fareham Havant Gosport Portsmouth urban centres The challenge – the pressure for growth Understanding the place and delivering quality The challenge • Pressure for growth • Getting the right design response • Hampshire specific and local identity • Responding to local issues • Understanding constraints • Obtaining local buy in/ ownership • Ensuring quality is a priority • Viable and sustainable change • Quality places – the lasting legacy Typical issues • Setting out clear evidence based advice • Quality of skills/ resources in placemaking • Available, clear and constructive guidance • Ensuring development should respond to site and context • Avoid one solution fits all policies and designs • Poorly designed places (unwelcoming) • Poor access to transport, facilities, jobs • Unviable development areas • Avoiding short-term development and places • Is quality still a priority over other pressures for development? ‘…there is no there there….’ Gertrude Stein The pressure for growth in Hampshire Policy and housing delivery Local Plans •38% of LPAs in Hampshire have a post NPPF plan •Current adopted plans have a total housing requirement of 6,068 •Average housing delivery across Hampshire over the past 3 years is 5% higher than total housing requirement •Adopted housing requirement represents a 0.8% increase to existing housing stock The pressure for growth in Hampshire Housing need •MHCLG’s standard approach to housing need produces a total need of 8,088 across Hampshire •Average 3 year delivery is 78% of MHCLG housing need •This housing need represents a 1.1% increase to existing housing stock across Hampshire Land supply Most recently published land supply figures give Hampshire 6.0 years land supply Focus on south Hampshire Basingstoke Andover Winchester Southampton Eastleigh Fareham Havant Gosport Portsmouth Buchanan Report 1965 for MoH Southampton Eastleigh “Solent City” 1965 Harold Wilson's Labour government commissioned town Fareham planner Colin Buchanan in 1965 to study the region. Portsmouth Growing economic importance, in desperate Gosport need of proper planning Southampton to avoid unplanned sprawl, and suggested the construction of a modernist urban area. Portsmouth Focus on the M27 Corridor Barton Farm Winchester Basingstoke Eastleigh Horton Heath Southampton Knowle Whiteley Berewood Welbourne Havant Fareham Portsmouth Whiteley – what was left of Solent City Developed from the late 1980s via the Hampshire Plan in the 1970s Taken forward I the Winchester Local Plan, with supporting SPG DB32 street hierarchy and zoned planning Whiteley – what was left of Solent City Whiteley – what was left of Solent City Over 6,000 population today Schools District/ regional retail Business park Strategy for further growth north with another 4,000 homes. Zoned development A change in direction Placemaking for new communities Master plan approach: Activities and uses Avoid segregating facilities from housing which will only encourage reliance on the car. Master planning quality places How the design of places can influence where social issues and crime can take place. (example of Savills Study of Blackbird Leys, Oxford). Key steps to delivery quality Step1: Understanding the place and people Step2: Sustainable structure Step3: Relate nature and density Step4: Streets and spaces Step5: Local identity Step6: Safe and secure Step 7: Design for change Whiteley – looking forwards.. North Whiteley Strategy for further growth north with another 4,000 homes. Connected and mixed used areas. Masterplanners: Terence O’Rourke Whiteley – looking forwards.. North Whiteley Strategy for further growth north with another 4,000 homes. Connected and mixed used areas. Berewood – West of Waterlooville • Major Development Area, land west of Waterlooville • MDA master plan for 3,000 homes • Employment of approx 13 ha • Local centre/ High Street • Health and community • Two schools • Sports pitches and open space • Tools: • 3D Master Plan • Design Code • Stakeholder and public engagement • Consultation movie • EIA • Design and Access Statement Site and context Case study Contextual analysis: Contextual analysis: Schools Activities Landscape Site and constraints Existing character areas Connecting activities Master plan rationale development Creating new communities Connecting landscapes Passive solar influences Master plan rationale development Creating new communities Connected place Walkable neighbourhoods Master plan rationale development Creating new communities Concept Framework Scenario Creating new communities Berewood – West of Waterlooville Berewood – West of Waterlooville Barton Farm 2,000 homes Approved after appeal process Connected grid of streets Local centre (mixed use) Phase 1 and 2 underway Masterplanners: JTP Welbourne Garden Village, Fareham Garden Village 6,000 homes 1million sqft employment 5735 jobs 108 ha of natural green space Upgrade to J10 Rapid bus system proposed to Fareham town centre Allocated Not currently being delivered Lessons learnt Know the place Local identity and settlement context Constraints Opportunities – sense of place Connected Know the risks What creates a successful place? Need to a legible connected environment What is flexible for the long term? Can the strategy be responsive? (economy/ market and need) Summary Good understanding of the site . Helps ensure that there is a logic to the design . Proposal will be responsive to context and need . Proposals more likely to be deliverable if based on sound appraisals . Above all - should improve quality of design and create a place Summary “These are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others” Groucho Marx Credits JTP Grainger plc Snug Architects Cala Homes Bloor Homes Adam Urbanism Terence O’Rourke Ltd Winchester City Council Thank you!.