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Building communities in Hampshire Masterplanning for delivery

Peter Frankum – Savills Urban Design Studio

The Hampshire context The pressure for growth Emerging solutions

Content

Historic growth of settlements Local identity

Lessons learnt

Implementation Examples

Hampshire context

Winchester

AndoverBasingstoke

Southampton Eastleigh

Fareham

Portsmouth

Havant

Gosport

urban centres

The challenge – the pressure for growthUnderstanding the place and delivering quality

The challenge• Pressure for growth

• Getting the right design response

• Hampshire specific and local identity

• Responding to local issues

• Understanding constraints

• Obtaining local buy in/ ownership

• Ensuring quality is a priority

• Viable and sustainable change

• Quality places – the lasting legacy

Typical issues• Setting out clear evidence based advice

• Quality of skills/ resources in placemaking

• Available, clear and constructive guidance

• Ensuring development should respond to site

and context

• Avoid one solution fits all policies and designs

• Poorly designed places (unwelcoming)

• Poor access to transport, facilities, jobs

• Unviable development areas

• Avoiding short-term development and places

• Is quality still a priority over other pressures for

development?

‘…there is no there there….’ Gertrude Stein

The pressure for growth in Hampshire

Policy and housing delivery

Local Plans•38% of LPAs in Hampshire have a post NPPF plan•Current adopted plans have a total housing requirement of 6,068•Average housing delivery across Hampshire over the past 3 years is 5% higher than total housing requirement•Adopted housing requirement represents a 0.8% increase to existing housing stock

The pressure for growth in Hampshire

Housing need

•MHCLG’s standard approach to housing need produces a total need of 8,088 across Hampshire•Average 3 year delivery is 78% of MHCLG housing need•This housing need represents a 1.1% increase to existing housing stock across Hampshire

Land supplyMost recently published land supply figures give Hampshire 6.0 years land supply

Focus on south Hampshire

Winchester

AndoverBasingstoke


Fareham

Portsmouth

Havant

Gosport

Buchanan Report 1965 for MoH


Fareham

Portsmouth

GosportSouthampton

Portsmouth

“Solent City” 1965

Harold Wilson's Labour government commissioned town planner Colin Buchanan in 1965 to study the region.

Growing economic importance, in desperate need of proper planning to avoid unplanned sprawl, and suggested the construction of a modernist urban area.

Focus on the M27 Corridor

Basingstoke

Southampton

Eastleigh

Fareham

Portsmouth

Havant

Winchester

Whiteley BerewoodWelbourne

Knowle

Horton Heath

Barton Farm

Whiteley – what was left of Solent City

Developed from the late 1980s via the Hampshire Plan in the 1970s

Taken forward I the Winchester Local Plan, with supporting SPG

DB32 street hierarchy and zoned planning


Over 6,000 population today

Schools

District/ regional retail

Business park

Strategy for further growth north with another 4,000 homes.

Zoned development

A change in directionPlacemaking for new communities

Master plan approach:Activities anduses

Avoid segregating facilities from housing which will only encourage reliance on the car.

Master planning quality places

How the design of places can influence where social issues and crime can take place.(example of Savills Study of Blackbird Leys, Oxford).

Step1: Understanding the place and people

Step2: Sustainable structure

Step3: Relate nature and density

Step4: Streets and spaces

Step5: Local identity

Step6: Safe and secure

Step 7: Design for change

Key steps to delivery quality

Whiteley – looking forwards..

North Whiteley


Connected and mixed used areas.

Masterplanners: Terence O’Rourke

Whiteley – looking forwards..

North Whiteley


Connected and mixed used areas.

Case study

• Major Development Area, land west of Waterlooville• MDA master plan for 3,000 homes• Employment of approx 13 ha• Local centre/ High Street• Health and community• Two schools• Sports pitches and open space

• Tools:• 3D Master Plan• Design Code• Stakeholder and public engagement• Consultation movie• EIA• Design and Access Statement

Site and context

Berewood – West of Waterlooville

Contextual analysis: Activities

Contextual analysis: Schools

Site and constraintsLandscape

Master plan rationale developmentCreating new communities

Existing character areas Connecting activities


Connecting landscapes Passive solar

influences


Walkable neighbourhoodsConnected place

Concept Framework ScenarioCreating new communities

Berewood – West of Waterlooville

Barton Farm

2,000 homesApproved after appeal processConnected grid of streetsLocal centre (mixed use)Phase 1 and 2 underway

Masterplanners:JTP

Welbourne Garden Village, Fareham

Garden Village6,000 homes

1million sqft employment5735 jobs

108 ha of natural green space

Upgrade to J10

Rapid bus system proposed to Farehamtown centre

AllocatedNot currently being delivered

Summary

Lessons learnt

Know the placeLocal identity and settlement context ConstraintsOpportunities – sense of placeConnected

Know the risksWhat creates a successful place?Need to a legible connected environmentWhat is flexible for the long term?Can the strategy be responsive? (economy/ market and need)

Summary

Good understanding of the site

Helps ensure that there is a logic to the design

Proposal will be responsive to context and need

Proposals more likely to be deliverable if based on sound appraisals

Above all - should improve quality of design and create a place

“These are my principles. If

you don’t like them, I have

others”Groucho Marx

CreditsJTP Grainger plcSnug ArchitectsCala HomesBloor HomesAdam UrbanismTerence O’Rourke LtdWinchester City Council Thank you!

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