Design and Access Statement NEWLANDS LAND SOUTH OF LONGFIELD AVENUE, FAREHAM February 2014 DRAFT All plans are reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Map with the permission of the Controller of HMSO. Crown copyright Reserved. Licence No.LAN1001412 Urban Wilderness Ltd The Bungalow, Water Lane, South Stainley, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG33NB T: 01765677813 E: [email protected] Desk Top Publishing by Nathan Edwards Copyright: The contents of this document must not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of Urban Wilderness Ltd. UW:\149\DAS\CURRENT DAS\DAS JAN 15.indd Project Ref: 149/DAS Status: PLANNING Issue/Rev: 3 Date: Feb 2015 Prepared by: Nathan Edwards Checked by: Nathan Edwards Based on original Design and Access Statement prepared by Nathan Edwards on behalf of FPCR Environment and Design Ltd. Original material used with permission and thanks to FPCR. SECTION 1 - Existing Situation - Access and Circulation Environmental / Services INTRODUCTION The Stubbington Bypass Methodology • Air Quality • Noise and Vibration Streets and Spaces Our Vision • Services Design and Safety: Creating Why South Fareham Existing Situation - Access and Safer Places Movement Design Summary Parking • A Bypass for Stubbington Pedestrian and Cycle Links SECTION 2 - SECTION 3 - CONTEXT EVALUATION Appearance of Development Planning Policy Context Physical and Environmental Design and Safety: Creating Considerations Safer Places National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) Access Considerations Landscape Strategy (includes offsite strategy) Local Planning Context Social and Neighbourhood Considerations • Fareham Local SECTION 6 - PHASING Development Framework Evaluation • The South Hampshire Strategy SECTION 7 - • The Green Infrastructure SECTION 4 - SUSTAINABILITY Strategy for PUSH CONSULTATION • Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) Post Application Consultation Existing Situation - The People SECTION 5 - of South Fareham DESIGN PRINCIPLES • Socio Economics Our Proposals Existing Situation - Local Design Objectives Facilities Design Evolution Existing Situation - The Site and its Wider Context The Proposed Scheme Existing Situation - Green Parameters Plan Infrastructure Illustrative Masterplan • Vegetation and Open Space • Ground Conditions Amount, Use and Scale • Agriculture and Soil Resources Layout and Character • Heritage Broadlaw and New High Street Existing Situation - Character Bishopsfield Road South • Landscape Resources and Visual Amenity Longfield Avenue and Urban • Strategic Gap Interface Existing Situation - Townscape Peak Lane and rural Interface Character • Wider Context • Local Context Contents There is a demonstrable need for new housing in the Fareham Borough, including affordable housing. The development will make a valuable contribution towards meeting this identified need. Located close to a range of services and facilities and accessible by a variety of modes of transport, the provision of new housing, a health centre, school, local shopes, care home, pub and public open space at Newlands will be truly sustainable. Newlands will provide jobs and homes for local people, families and business leaders. INTRODUCTION - PAGE 6 -1- Introduction This Design and Access Statement accompanies the Outline Planning Application made by Hallam Land Management Ltd (HLM) for the development of land to the south of Longfield Avenue and Rowan Way in Fareham, Hampshire (‘Newlands’). The application seeks outline Methodology 1.4 The Masterplan permission with all matters outlines the design principles reserved apart from access for a 1.2 Design and Access which will ensure that the new residential led development Statements (DAS) are development is capable of of up to 1,100 units, a new required by the Planning and providing: healthcare facility, a primary Compulsory Purchase Act school, a care home, local shops, 2004. The purpose of this • A high quality sustainable a public house/restaurant, Green document is firstly, to provide neighbourhood which Infrastructure to include public information concerning accommodates a range of open space, equipped areas of the design evolution of the house types and tenures play, Sustainable Drainage development; secondly, to • An urban realm which Systems (SuDS), tree, hedge outline the broad design draws upon the best and shrub planting, meadows, principles that have led to the examples of local structural woodland planting, form and type of development distinctiveness from allotment gardens and permissive proposed and thirdly to set the Fareham, Stubbington and footpaths and cycleways. The application site in context with the wider area in order to application proposes the creation its surroundings. create a distinctive and of new primary and secondary appealing place to live. vehicular accesses from Longfield 1.3 This statement includes • A layout which maximises Avenue, along with associated a Parameters Plan (illustrated accessibility for all in the improvements to the existing on page 80), which underpins widest sense; and Longfield Avenue/Bishopsfield the Illustrative Masterplan • A masterplan which Road junction and carriageway; (illustrated on pages 83) protects and enhances the primary access from Peak Lane, a which in turn encapsulates Site’s landscape character new access to Newlands Farm and the disposition of land uses, and visual amenity access to the development via a development block structure, and which improves new Stubbington Bypass. building heights, street layout, connectivity and enhances indicative plot arrangement the bio-diversity of the 1.1 Besides access, all and landscape structure. Site with new green other matters are reserved infrastructure. for subsequent approval. The location of the Site is illustrated in Figure 01. INTRODUCTION - PAGE 7 1.5 This DAS has been prepared to be compliant “A Design and Access Statement Design and Access Statements with the Department of must: must also explain the applicant’s Communities and Local approach to access and how Government (DCLG) (a) explain the design principles relevant Local Plan policies have publication “Guidance on and concepts that have been been taken into account. They Information Requirements and applied to the proposed must detail any consultation Validation” (March 2010), and development; and undertaken in relation to access Section 2 of DCLG Circular (b) demonstrate the steps taken issues, and how the outcome of 01/2006; “Guidance on to appraise the context of the this consultation has informed the Changes to the Development proposed development, and how proposed development. Applicants Control System” which the design of the development must also explain how any specific remains in force. takes that context into account. issues which might affect access to the proposed development have 1.6 The key purpose of the A development’s context refers to been addressed.” DAS is to explain the design the particular characteristics of process, which has led to the application site and its wider 1.7 This document should the vision and application setting. These will be specific to be read in conjunction with proposals. The DAS follows the circumstances of an individual the Planning Statement (PS), the approach that is contained application and a Design and the Transport Assessment (TA) within National Planning Access Statement should be and Travel Plan (TP), the Flood Practice Guidance (NPPG), tailored accordingly. Risk Assessment (FRA), the which came into force on 6th Environmental Statement (ES), March 2014. Paragraph 031 the Statement of Community states that: Engagement (SCE) and other supporting documentation that accompanies the application. Figure 01: Site Location A3057 Winchester A272 A3090 South Downs Romsey National Park Eastleigh A3 M27 A32 A3090 New Forest Totton National Park Southampton Hedge End Horndeane A31 Swanwick Waterlooville M27 Locks Havant Hythe Heath A337 FAREHAM A35 Portchester M275 Portsmouth Stubbington A32 Harbour Blackfield Portsmouth Gosport South Hayling Cowes Ryde Our Vision “The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.” (Kofi Annan). Newlands will deliver a new, truly sustainable 21st Century neighbourhood for south Fareham with family provision at its heart. Newlands Will: create a distinctive new, mixed use, sustainable neighbourhood for south Fareham, designed to the highest quality with the potential to make a valuable contribution towards meeting the 1 identified housing needs of the borough. seize the opportunity to assist the delivery of a new bypass for Stubbington; in doing so it will help to alleviate local congestion and unlock the Solent Enterprise Zone at the Daedalus Airfield site, currently hampered as a result of 2 constraints to the local road infrastructure. aim to help realise Fareham Borough Council’s aspiration to regenerate the Broadlaw Walk local shopping area to the north of the Site as a result of additional services and townscape enhancements designed to promote the vitality 3 and viability of the area as a whole. create new site wide Green Infrastructure that will deliver significantly in excess of the 40% target promoted by Natural England and will go a significant way to addressing an identified deficit in existing accessible green space in the vicinity of the Site. Well planned green space will strengthen the physical and visual separation 4 of Fareham and Stubbington, and in doing so help to preserve their respective identities in perpetuity. provide jobs and homes for local