shaping a place, creating a community Manydown Masterplan Consultation Document February / March 2016 shaping a place, creating a community For further information please contact: Remarkable Group The Pump House, Garnier Road, Winchester, SO23 9QG Telephone: 01962 893 893 Manydown Project Team Email: [email protected] Telephone: Freephone 08081 683 600 Website: manydownbasingstoke.co.uk 5556 Masterplan consultation document 16 February 2016 ❚ Contents Section 1: Feedback 5 Section 4: Themes 53 1.1 Feedback from engagement so far 6 4.1 Introduction 53 1.2 Key fi ndings 7 4.2 Transport issues 54 1.3 Towards a masterplan strategy 9 4.3 Opportunities for the wider transport network 56 1.4 Feedback on the scenarios and ideas 11 Questions: The wider transport network 58 Section 2: Principles 15 4.4 The Manydown central street 59 2.1 The draft principles 16 Questions: The Manydown central street 62 2.2 The principles in detail 18 4.5 Manydown centre 64 Questions: Principles 23 Questions: Manydown centre 66 Section 3: Masterplan Development 25 4.6 The country park at Manydown 67 Questions: The country park at Manydown 75 3.1 Introduction 26 4.7 Housing choice 77 3.2 Key assumptions 27 Questions: Housing choice 88 3.3 The three strategic approaches 28 3.4 Approach One - Section 5: Next Steps 89 Compact centres and co-located schools 30 Questions: Approach One - Compact centres and co-located schools 36 3.5 Approach Two - Western-focussed linear square 38 Questions: Approach Two - Linear market square 44 3.6 Approach Three - Linear high street 46 Questions: Approach Three - The linear high street 52 ©TIBBALDS FEBRUARY / MARCH 2016 Manydown Masterplan Consultation 1 ❚ Introduction This report is an update on progress for This document sets out the emerging ideas that the team are the masterplanning work for the northern assessing in order to understand and test the implications of key strategic decisions. part of the Manydown site that is in council A questionnaire accompanies this consultation document with ownership. This work builds on the testing the aim of inviting you to: and ideas developed at the community ■ Help us prioritise issues and options for Manydown. design event held in November 2015 and ■ Participate in sharing ideas and views on the future of other baseline surveys and information Manydown. gathering undertaken by the project team. ■ Use the opportunity to comment on masterplan approaches Baseline documents, including a technical before a planning application is submitted later in 2016. constraints plan, can be found at: Structure of this document www.manydownbasingstoke.co.uk ■ Section 1 of this document provides an overview of the feedback received at the last engagement event. ■ Section 2 includes the principles upon which the Manydown masterplan will be based. We would like your comments on these principles. ■ Section 3 explains three strategic approaches for Manydown. These are based on those developed at the community design event held in November 2015. Please let us know which aspects of any of the approaches you think would work best. ■ Section 4 includes a range of themes that we would like to explore with you. Are we going in the right direction? Manydown Masterplan Consultation ©TIBBALDS FEBRUARY / MARCH 2016 2 This report has been prepared as part a consultation exercise on Manydown that runs from 17 February to 29 March 2016. It is intended to help gather feedback on key issues related to the development and throughout this document there are questions for you to answer. These are also available as a separate questionnaire in a number of formats including both online and on paper. There will be an exhibition that includes selected information from this report, together with the questionnaire, in a number of locations between 27 February and 5 March - see below. This will also be an opportunity to ask the team questions. You can give us your feedback by: 1 answering an online questionnaire at: www.manydownbasingstoke.co.uk 2 downloading and completing the questionnaire and handing it back to us at any one of the drop-in events or posting it to 'Freepost Manydown’. Alternatively ask for a Freepost envelope from one of the project team at the events. 3 visiting the drop-in sessions at: - Winklebury - Saturday 27 February from 10:30am to 2:30pm, at the Basingstoke Sea Cadets and Community Centre, Sycamore Way, Basingstoke RG23 8AB - Buckskin - Monday 29 February from 3:30pm to 7:30pm, at the Buckskin Evangelical Church, Chiltern Way, Basingstoke, RG22 5BB - Oakley - Friday 4 March from 3:30pm to 7:30pm, at Oakley Village Hall, Andover Road, Basingstoke, RG23 7HA - Basingstoke Town Centre - Saturday 5 March from 10:30am to 4:30pm, in The Mall, outside Primark, Castle Square, RG21 7QU At these events you can either fi ll in a paper copy of the questionnaire or leave your feedback directly on the exhibition boards. ©TIBBALDS FEBRUARY / MARCH 2016 Manydown Masterplan Consultation 3 ❚ Introduction The Manydown Development What the draft Local Plan tells us Approximately 3,400 new homes have been proposed in the The submission draft Local Plan outlines the approach to be draft Local Plan for the northern part of Manydown, west of taken to the development of the Manydown allocation. This Basingstoke. notes that: As the joint owners of a 999-year lease on the land, Basingstoke “Manydown will deliver a high quality, sustainable new and Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council are development of approximately 3,400 new homes in the plan now looking at how the Manydown site can be developed. This period. The proposals will be designed sensitively to respond will take the form of a masterplan. to the site’s opportunities and constraints, in particular its This document and masterplan refers only to the land in the landscape context, heritage assets, and relationship with ownership of the councils shown below. existing communities” The draft Local Plan states that development of the site will be informed by a masterplan and that development will take place between 2017/18 and 2028/29. Wootton St Lawrence Winklebury Kempshott Key Policy SS3.10 - Proposed main modifi cations to the submission draft Local Plan following Extent of BDBC / HCC landownership subject to planning application (excludes Worting) draft Local Plan examination hearing (December 2015) Extent of site allocation SS3.10 (including country park) for masterplanning purposes Country park Development } (2017-2029) Timeline of events Where we are now May 2015 Summer 2015 November 2015 Winter 2015/16 Spring 2016 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Autumn 2016 Winter 2016/17 Appointment of Setting the baseline Shaping Manydown: Development of Masterplan Preparation of Consultation Refi nement of Submission of professional team (including surveys Community design masterplan consultation planning application planning application planning application and analytical work) event in the War approaches Memorial Park in Basingstoke Manydown Masterplan Consultation ©TIBBALDS FEBRUARY / MARCH 2016 4 Section 1: Feedback ❚ 1.1 Feedback from engagement so far In November 2015 we invited members Our Goals of the public to share their views on what ■ Design together Manydown could be like through a range of ■ Review together activities and a four-day community design ■ Listen and collaborate event ■ Working together to identify key issues and possible solutions Who has been involved so far? ■ 31 interviews were conducted with councillors, business and community groups. ■ 400 organisations, groups and representatives were invited to take part in workshops as part of the community design event. ■ 50,000 newsletters were mailed to the communities around the Manydown site and across Basingstoke. ■ more than 400 people came along and joined in the discussion at the community design event and provided us with immediate feedback on a range of key issues, priorities and concerns. ■ 95 completed feedback forms were received. ■ More than 70 people attended a feedback event in the Haymarket Theatre in early December. How did people get involved? The community design event in November 2015, offered: ■ 16 workshops on key issues and themes for the new development. ■ Three local community workshops involving Buckskin / South Ham / Worting / Kempshott / Oakley / Sherborne St John / Wootton St Lawrence / Rooksdown / Winklebury. ■ Public exhibition over the weekend of 14 and 15 November 2015 with the opportunity to talk to a member of the project team in detail and to input key issues, ideas and responses to the ideas that had been developed so far. What have we been doing since then? ■ Schools engagement - three workshops with people aged from 10 to 14 years old, from fi ve primary, two secondary and one special school. ■ Ongoing meetings with local groups and adjacent parish councils and wards. ■ Working group meetings across a range of topics in January and early February 2016. Manydown Masterplan Consultation ©TIBBALDS FEBRUARY / MARCH 2016 6 ❚ 1.2 Key fi ndings The feedback we received Greenery everywhere ■ Strong regret at loss of open space and views and risk to The notes below and overleaf summarise the key comments sensitive / precious habitat / ecologies. made during the community design event. ■ A strong emphasis should be placed therefore on this being a green urban place. General comments about the event and the future of ■ How to create an ecologically rich place? Manydown ■ Great to have a country park: but think carefully about its ■ Yes to development if it is truly excellent. purpose in the 21st century. ■ Acknowledgement of errors in previous developments ■ Naturalistic not over-designed. - what can we learn? ■ A greening strategy for the western edge of the site is needed ■ We can do (far) better than before - we have to. – a swathe. ■ Worry that good intentions will get lost along the way. ■ Need to plan for good views of the area of outstanding ■ We know it’s complex: have to put everything together in a natural beauty (AONB) and to the south.