masterplan final July 20 09 Stage 4 Report Streatham Masterplan February 2009 Contents 0.0 Foreword p3 1.0 A vision for Streatham p4 2.0 Introduction p6 3.0 Baseline and Key Issues p10 4.0 Developing a brand for Streatham p14 5.0 Masterplan Objectives p18 6.0 Key Spatial Diagram p19 7.0 The Masterplan p20 8.0 Development Capacity p40 9.0 Strategy for the Road p47 10.0 Guidance on public realm development p54 11.0 Delivering the Vision in the Credit Crunch p64 12.0 Implementation and Delivery p68 Appendix A Glossary of terms p86 Appendix B Development Schedules p90 Appendix C Sustainability Assessment p94 2 Stage 4 Report Streatham Masterplan February 2009 A Foreword This Masterplan has been developed over the course of 2008 and early 2009 with the help of local residents, business people, Councillors, officers and other stakeholders. It is the product of a significant collective effort that demonstrates the depth of feeling and pride that many local people have for Streatham. The Masterplan sets out an agenda for change across Streatham over the next 15 or so years. By undertaking the necessary strategic planning now, Streatham should be well positioned for the future. Key proposals include the new Hub development (with an ice rink and leisure centre); a new Station Square and Market Square; a refurbished or redeveloped library; and additional retail, residential and commercial development to encourage more people to visit and spend time in the town centre. Improvements to the High Road through pavement widening, planting of trees and removal of the central reservation will contribute to the improved enjoyment of the centre’s facilities. Lambeth Council, working with public and private sector partners, has a vital role to play in taking this Masterplan forward. The Masterplan will help support core services and deliver key strategies through physical change to Streatham. Moreover, community involvement in the proposals will need to continue to build on the good work already undertaken to ensure full ownership of change in the town centre. Resident engagement has been phenomenal and has helped shape this masterplan. In addition input from Transport for London (TfL), London Development Agency (LDA), Network Rail, Lambeth Primary Care Trust, Metropolitan Police, London Fire Brigade, EDF and Thames Water is gratefully acknowledged. Please read this document. We hope it will engage and excite you about the potential change in Streatham. Then keep an eye out for further consultation and get involved in shaping the future of your area. Councillor Lib Peck Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration 3 Stage 4 Report Streatham Masterplan February 2009 1.0 A Vision for Streatham Vibrant and successful town centres play a critical role in the life of local communities. They offer “Streatham will become an the best way of providing easy access for local people to jobs, shops, and other facilities and increasingly attractive place to live, services. Strategies to promote town centres with schools, leisure facilities and and develop new or stronger roles for them are cultural activities catering for young encouraged by the Government. The London Plan encourages Councils to focus shops, leisure, families, people of all ages and the commercial activity, community facilities and area’s diverse mix of nationalities. The housing in town centres to ensure that more High Road will remain at Streatham’s people live and work in them and that they are more attractive as places to visit. This helps to heart and will be an asset to the whole strengthen the local economy, making town area. It will reflect the best features centres more attractive, and positioning them of Europe’s leading boulevards, more strongly within the communities they serve. with distinctive quarters possessing Lambeth Council has commissioned this high quality shops and restaurants, Masterplan to provide a framework for regeneration in Streatham over the next residential accommodation and public fifteen years. spaces. Streatham will have improved There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to public transport including tram links revitalising town centres. This Masterplan both north and south and dedicated takes into account and promotes the individual bus lanes. This will make Streatham a character and strengths of Streatham. It has been developed in close consultation with the place people can travel to, from and in local community’s aspirations by maximising with ease.” opportunity sites to release funds and deliver the infrastructure, facilities and services, public realm, and associated regeneration benefits. As well as improving services for local residents it will, over time, help to attract new people and investment to the area. The Masterplan is guided by the vision in the Council’s Regeneration Delivery Plan (2007), which states that: 4 Stage 4 Report Streatham Masterplan February 2009 Building on this vision the Masterplan has created and the centre will become a nicer place to walk a brand for Streatham ‘Real Streatham’. This around on foot. brand is much more than a strapline. It will be used to guide and shape the Masterplan’s There will be new community facilities provided proposals for the town centre. with the extension to the Tate Library, the new Caesars Development and the new building Streatham will become a sustainable major facing onto Streatham Green. Further leisure town centre with a good range of services that facilities will be provided as part of the Hub support the local economy and Borough-wide development. Detailed proposals for community offer. There will be new, higher quality shops facilities in these locations will be developed as and a better range of restaurants and cafes for specific projects are taken forward. people to enjoy. A market will take place in the new Market Square and along Gleneldon Streatham will become more energy efficient Mews, providing a focus for the community in and ‘green’ through the incorporation of green the town centre. There will be new employment walls, green roofs and through sustainable urban opportunities and homes and this will bring more drainage in new development. In addition, people to the town centre, which will result in enhanced green links will be provided to Streatham better shops and facilities. The homes will be Common and Tooting Bec Common through the mixed in type and ownership providing homes for town centre. Sustainability will underpin all new families wherever possible and making use of the forms of development in Streatham to ensure the upper floors of buildings for apartments where proposals meet the Code for Sustainable Homes desirable. Mixing tenure and typologies will help level 4 by 2010 rising to Level 6 by 2016 and bind existing and new populations to create one BREEAM ‘very good’ standard. integrated community. The new jobs will be in The heritage of Streatham’s key built and natural the new commercial and retail space around the assets encompassing the Conservation Areas transport nodes at either end of the High Road, will be celebrated and enhanced through the encouraging local entrepreneurs and businesses Masterplan to help create a greater identity and to locate in Streatham. sense of place. At the same time, the quality of the environment Above all, facilities for the existing community will will be improved with wider pavements and be improved. Where plausible the co-location the planting of a boulevard down the High of different services will be encouraged. The Road and the creation of two new public opportunity that new people will bring will be squares in Streatham Central and outside of further benefit in supporting shops, places to Streatham Hill Station. The railway stations work and the evening economy. will be redeveloped and improved in terms of accessibility to encourage their better use. People These changes will take place over the next 10-15 will inevitably still want to travel to Streatham years in a careful way that links development with by car and so a new central car park will be facilities and strives for contemporary architecture created on the existing Lidl site and Streatham balanced with the historic character of Streatham Hub in addition to improvements to the Leigham and respects the scale of existing buildings and Court Road car park. Sustainable travel options opportunities. will be encouraged wherever possible and new development will be expected to include This Masterplan represents an exciting milestone proposals to minimise the impact of traffic down in the history of Streatham as it evolves to the High Road. New pedestrian crossings will be embrace the opportunities and challenges of provided in key locations down the High Road the next 15 years. 5 Stage 4 Report Streatham Masterplan February 2009 2.0 Introduction Lambeth Regeneration Delivery Plan 2007 (RDP) Lambeth Council’s RDP encapsulates a vision for Lambeth outlining the approach to change and listing key projects to be undertaken. Streatham High Road is currently considered the longest shopping street in Europe, but there is a general dissatisfaction with the quality of the retail offer and the lack of focus in the town centre. A need Streatham High Road 1905 was therefore identified to enhance the town centre’s attractiveness as a retail centre and bring about an increase in the overall environmental quality. A key project for Streatham is the preparation of a Masterplan for the Town Centre, which should be based on the following interventions: • Emphasis on the creation of a European-style