CASE STUDY KINGSWAY VILLAGE, QUEDGELEY Residential and Mixed Use CLIENT VALUE ADDED SERVICES Client: Consortium of Existing knowledge of the study Landscape Planning Developers area. Long term project involvement and Design from the production of the five Location: Quedgeley, development frameworks, with open Gloucestershire space design strategies, through to implementation and handover. Date: 2004 - Ongoing SCHEME DESCRIPTION OUR ROLE ground modelling along the A38 corridor; ground remediation of asbestos tips; and A major urban extension, comprising Development of the green infrastructure on-plot landscape design for individual some 3,500 new homes, a new has included the reinstatement of a housing parcels. business park, local centre and two historic orchard; enhancement of a primary schools, set within a significant Scheduled Monument centred on a moat SLR has been responsible for the detailed open space network. This former RAF and listed building complex; improve- landscape design of the open space site was divided into four residential ments of the existing riverside corridor infrastructure and clearance of related framework areas and one employment in association with a site-wide SuDS planning conditions, coordination of felling framework area, with SLR producing scheme involving a network of planted licences and TPO applications, preparation of individual landscape design strategies and attenuation basins and swales; provision tender documentation, contract administration accompanying Design Code documents of new rugby, football and cricket for the implementation of the early phases produced for each. The first three housing pitches; BMX circuit; a series of NEAPS of open space provision, preparation of phases are now complete, with the and LEAPS; two allotment garden a series of management plans for the fourth framework area largely built. areas; noise attenuation planting and different recreational spaces and habitat contiued overleaf CASE STUDY CASE STUDY KINGSWAY VILLAGE, QUEDGELEY, GLOUCESTER areas, and negotiation of commuted sums Redevelopment of the south-west pursuant to the adoption and handover of employment quadrant is also open spaces and recreational facilities. underway. SLR has designed the landscape around the new Asda SLR was also involved in the liaison store; and also, for the office building programme with the local community complex at the southern site entrance. group, including police, parish and local A key design objective has been the authority representatives, to address anti- protection and enhancement of the social behaviour issues, opportunities for designated Landscape Conservation outreach workers, safe routes to schools, Area and sensitive habitat areas, and young person preferences in terms together with the incorporation of of skateboard and NEAP play equipment. the upgraded RAF tributary corridor. “It is rewarding to see so many different members of the local community using the open space network” Julian Cooper Jane Jarvis T: +44 (0)117 906 4280 T:+44 (0)117 906 4280 [email protected] [email protected] www.slrconsulting.com.