York Civic Trust York Castle Gateway -- a prompt to start thinking about significance David Fraser and Peter Gouldsborough Planning Committee York Civic Trust Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow • Urban Form: the Archaeological Heritage • Urban Form: the Architectural Heritage • The Intangible Heritage • Issues to consider Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York Civic Trust Urban Form: the Archaeological Heritage Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow YORK Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow General topo of yorkshire YORK Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Roman York Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York from 500 - 900 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York from 900 – 1066 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York in 1100 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York c.1100 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York c.1500 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York c.1600 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York Castle Area 1610 John Speed Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York Castle 1685 Jacob Richards Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Clifford’s Tower and Castlegate Postern Anon c.1680 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York in 1700 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Samuel Buck c.1722 York’s First Promenade Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York Castle c.1730 Francis Drake Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Clifford’s Tower in the Garden of Samuel Waud c.1735 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Whittock 1858 Bird’s Eye View of the City of York (Detail) Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York Civic Trust Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York Civic Trust Urban Form: the Architectural Heritage Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York Civic Trust 1850 Source: Addyman, P,(ed.), (2017), British Historic Towns Atlas 5: York 2017 Source: Google maps Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow King’s Staith King’s Arms Cumberland House Seventeenth-century 1710 by William Cornwall, Remodelled 1898 & 1974 Twice Lord Mayor of York Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Tower Place Cottages begun in 1828 behind a stretch of the City Walls with original narrow walkway. No 9 Tower Place An early eighteenth-century summerhouse built onto the fourteenth-century Davy Tower of the City defences Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York Magistrates Court Clifford’s Tower 1890-2 by Huon A Matear Origins 1069 1881 TowerPromoting Heritage Street/Clifford – Shaping Tomorrow Street Fire Station, 1938 Magistrates Court, 1890-92 Incorporating the former Trinity Chapel By Huon A Matear of Liverpool of 1856, by J.B. & W. Atkinson Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Clifford Street 1881 Friends’ Meeting York Institute of Arts, Science and House 1871 by Literature 1883-4 by G.W Penty W.H.Thorpe Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Fossgate 11-12 Fossgate Former Electric Theatre Formerly W.H. Waudby fishmonger York’s first purpose-built cinema 1898 1911 by WH Wincup Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Foss Bridge 1811-12 by Peter Atkinson junior Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow No 5 Walmgate No 2 Walmgate 1830, probably a public House: Dorothy Wilson’s Hospital, known in 1850 as The Three Cups rebuilt 1765 and again in 1812 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Piccadilly widened and linked to Parliament Street 1911-12 Travelodge Hotel and Fishergate Postern Postern Gate pub 1504-7 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow post-modern 52-54 Piccadilly, 1930s? former garage 36 Piccadilly, Banana Warehouse. 1925 Fruit warehouse in the Art Deco style Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Piccadilly street art 2017 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Shops at the Piccadilly/Parliament Street junction 1920s? Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Merchant Adventurers’ Hall Begun 1357 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Debtors’ Prinson York Castle 1701-5 by William Wakefield? Female Prison (left) and York Crown Court (right) 1773 by John Carr Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow St Mary Castlegate Fairfax House Early 1740s? Eleventh-century onwards including remodelled 1759, part-reconstruction by William with interiors by John Carr 1760-2 Butterfield 1868-70 restored 1982-4 by Francis Johnson Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow No 31 Castlegate, 1825 Built as the offices of P.F. Robinson and G.T. Andrews during their work to enlarge York Castle Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow RiverYork Foss Civic Trust River Foss and Blue Bridge 1929-30 River Ouse replaces an original bridge of 1738 Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow York Civic Trust River Foss Castle Mills basin and lock Original lock 1796, but reconstructed in 1889 for Henry Leatham & Sons, flour Flood defences 1988 millers by Clouston Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Raindale Mill Ryedale House Victorian, originally from Newton-upon-Rawcliffe 1972 reconstructed 1960s; restored 2012 by Diamond Redfern & Partners Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Two oppositions • Frozen in time for fear of the future – Gill Chitty • If a building’s no longer fit for its use, tear it down and build a new one -- William Morris Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow The Council’s Vision • relocate surface level parking away from Clifford’s Tower • replace the car parking capacity • create a high quality mixed use commercial development on the site of the existing car park • create a new public space on the site of the existing car park • redevelop Castle Museum and Clifford’s Tower • create a new pedestrian cycle bridge across the Foss • create new riverside walkways along the Foss • revitalise the Coppergate Centre by extending the lease • redevelop the low quality sites on Piccadilly (including Ryedale House, Banana Warehouse, NCP car park, Castle Mills Car Park and 17-21 Piccadilly) • realise the potential of St George’s Field and the Foss Basin Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow Urban Form: Issues for the Future • New layers of heritage • Quality of the built form -- good architecture • Reuse of existing resources of land, buildings and urban form • Economic • The tourist economy • Encouraging diversity in shops/retail • The night-time economy -- races, hen and stag parties • Transport and Traffic • The pedestrian and cycle city • Car parking • Enforcement of parking • Existing circulation • Remembering intangible heritage • Scale – the human scale • Flooding • Any others? Promoting Heritage – Shaping Tomorrow.