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CONTENT INTRODUCTION

PART 2: DESIGN COMPONENTS

Introduction to the Design Codes

Placemaking and urban hierarchy

Vision Statement

Building groups typology Distinction

PART 1 : SITE DESIGN

Addressing the plot Key buildings and landmark strategy

Overview of masterplan

Variety

Route hierarchy Street design

Character areas

Street frontage and boundaries

1. Approach along Barnack Road;

Street furniture and materials

2. Main street;

Green infrastructure and play strategy

3. Commercial square;

Street planting

4. Play park; 5. Central greenway; 6. Central square; 7. St Martin’s crescent; and 8. Northern fringe

Streets and spaces Primary streets Secondary streets Tertiary streets Tertiary streets / shared surface Green lanes Mews / courts Other streets and routes Cycleways and footpaths

ADAM Urbanism project ref. HP/6178

Key spaces and squares

Author: Fredrik Carlsson

Checked by: Hugh Petter

St Martin’s Park Design and Access Statement - September 2020

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K INTRODUCTION TO THE DESIGN CODE This design code has been prepared by ADAM Architecture on behalf of Burghley Land Ltd. and South Kesteven District Council SKDC (hereafter ‘the applicant’) in support of an Outline Planning application on land occupied by the former Cummins factory and adjacent agricultural field to the east (the site) in South Kesteven. Subsequent Reserved matters consent(s) are subject to prior approval of the Design Code.

Purpose of the document The purpose of the design code is to explain the detailed design rationale underpinning the masterplan (see St Martin’s Park Design and Access Statement) and forms part of the comprehensive package of information submitted to accompany this planning application. It sets out design parameters and expectations for the delivery of streets and public realm areas in St Martin’s Park.

Street and placemaking code This document describes the aesthetic for typical streets and character areas within St Martin’s Park. It is intended to provide a vision for each street type and a typical ‘menu’ of design details for all public realm components. This typical standard ‘menu’ is supplemented by a sub-set of special street design details for specific important urban spaces. A clear and robust street layout will create a simple, legible and practical framework for the whole of St Martin’s Park. The street design strategy focuses upon the quality of the public realm and the built elements which will influence its success, including the scale of the buildings that will enclose it and how buildings address the public realm. This will ensure that all design components are coordinated at the detailed design stage to achieve a high quality, contextually appropriate public realm that can be implemented on a phase by phase basis in a coordinated fashion. The document should be read in conjunction with the Design and Access Statement and masterplan documents for St Martin’s Park and is divided into two parts: ‘Part One’ describes the overall street hierarchy and site wide design principles that underpin the strategy. ‘Part Two’ describes the specific street design components that will unify streetscape and built form as one cohesive composition. A coordinated palette of streetscape materials, street furniture, lighting and planting for each street in the hierarchy is also described. This Street and placemaking code set out dimensions and principles for public realm design but this is an outline application and thus should not be prescriptive to the point of no room for interpretation or design elevation; rather the code is an invitation for further creative exploration in the detail design stages of St Martin’s Park. It is, however, of importance that design teams and developers will work within the approach of the code and masterplanning work that precedes these stages.

Building design code Although there are design references to building material, composition and style in this document, prior to the submission of Reserved matters there will be a separate ‘Building design code’ detailing the proposed building composition, appearance, material and key details such as roofs, eaves, dormers, windows, doors and door surround. It is envisaged that the ‘Building design code’ will be drafted with developer input to create a document that is adopted and useful to all involved and promotes design solutions that are deliverable within a framework of viability, cost and design aspiration.

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VISION STATEMENT

The avenue

Wider Burghley vision

The site provides an opportunity to redevelop sympathetically the Barnack Road edge opposite to Burghley Park, carefully introducing built form which relates to the special character of Stamford within the existing landscape context beyond the site’s boundary.

Along the southern edge of St Martin’s Park will be a new avenue of trees that will develop over time, embracing the best existing specimens along that boundary and supplementing them with appropriate native species parkland trees. This new avenue, which will be retained and managed by the Estate, is a significant and appropriate landscape feature to find adjoining an historic park of national importance, reflecting something of the character of the latter. In this way, it will balance the experience for travellers along Barnack Road, whilst creating a subtle transition from the urban character of the heart of Stamford to the rural character of the farmed landscape to the east of the town. Within the new avenue of trees will be a pedestrian footpath and cycleway, offering people a more peaceful alternative to the adopted pavement along Barnack Road, whilst being bathed gently in dappled sunlight streaming through the canopy of parkland trees overhead. The avenue will be underplanted to encourage biodiversity, and the green space behind, which will be south facing, will become an attractive amenity area for both residents of the development and the wider community of Stamford. Within this green area swales will be integrated with the design, requiring only subtle adjustments to the natural contour of the ground, so enabling the area to be used for a wider range of activities. On the north side of this new public green space, a second mixed hedge will shield the sight of cars parked in front of the houses along that southern boundary of St Martin’s Park from people using the green space, and from traffic passing along Barnack Road. In time the avenue will help provide a degree of natural solar control to the houses along the southern boundary of St Martin’s Park, and will help to filter views of the development from Burghley House parkland. When compared with the existing situation, the proposed design will be a considerable improvement, and will blend seamlessly with its context, so integrating St Martin’s Park into the wider fabric of the town in this beautiful and historic setting.

Although outside of the site of this application, the vision of the Burghley Estate is that the avenue described above will continue east along Barnack Road beyond the St Martin’s Park site, and link up with the main north avenue that starts at Burghley House and extends to the River Welland. The field to the east of St Martin’s Park, and seen from the bridleway, is currently under plough but will in aspiration be planted as parkland, and grazed in an appropriate way. In this way the eastern edge parkland is incorporated in series of contextual changes delivering the subtle steps needed for a successful transition from the rural landscape to a new edge of town.

The idea of developing St Martin’s Park with a mix of uses that reflects the history of the site’s employment use and the character of neighbouring residential areas stem from a desire to deliver a truly mixed-use neighbourhood. The proposed mix of family homes reflecting local residential need and an integrated retirement village alongside commercial spaces will be inclusively beneficial for all and creates the opportunity for a vibrant community, by ensuring local activity throughout the day. As part of this application there is a strategic opportunity to deliver a number of improvements to the pedestrian accessibility along Barnack Road and connectivity of the site. Pedestrian movement and desire lines are the key drivers to deliver a permeable and legible urban design, which will afford pedestrians a safe and convenient route to Stamford town centre and local facilities. The site is visible from points in Burghley Park and Stamford town centre, this nation’s first conservation area. These are not uninterrupted views but are part of larger urbanised areas. Nevertheless the proposals seek to better the visual appearance by introducing a varied roof form and carefully place trees that will by their size and location break the roofscape as seen from afar. There will be big gains in replacing the current metallic white industrial buildings with natural roof materials to decrease the visual influence of the site. There will be a mix of uses where housing, retirement, employment and a neighbourhood store are key to its local and wider sustainability ambition. The new employment offer is centred on the opportunity to revitalise the 1904-building into a modern business hub, in a setting that provides enjoyment as part of a daily commute or lunchtime walk, along what is part of a green loop around the town. The architectural character of the new development will draw upon local precedent with high quality traditional materials and distinctive design details to help reinforce the special character of the town. It is of great importance that the development will be of Stamford and make references to what has made Stamford the attractive place it is today. The scheme will benefit from fibre optic broadband to every dwelling to enable efficient home-working, in highly sustainable homes designed with a fabric first approach to energy efficiency. The new neighbourhood services will also give local residents an opportunity to shop locally, south of the river Welland, so encouraging more sustainable patterns of living. A further key commitment is provision of electric charging points available for visitors as well as residents.

The eastern boundary Along the eastern edge of St Martin’s Park is an urban set piece: a new crescent of detached and semi-detached villas looking out onto an area of parkland. This particular and distinctively British phenomenon has its origins in the eighteenth century and features a new green area along the site’s eastern side. It will be used as amenity space for residents and workers within the development, integrating swales as subtle indentations within the natural contours of the ground as part of landscape design and planted too to encourage biodiversity within this part of the site. Stamford is recognised nationally as being one of the finest Georgian market towns in the country: the character and materials of these new villas and landscape character will fuse with that legacy, so providing an elegant, appropriate and permanent urban edge to this eastern side of the town.

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OVERVIEW OF MASTERPLAN

Site boundary Existing building Commercial development Mixed use development Retirement Village Green space Neighbourhood store Cafe

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K ROUTE HIERARCHY STRATEGY | Access and movement Site boundary Primary street Primary street traffic calmed area Secondary street Tertiary street Tertiary street traffic calmed area Shared surface tertiary street / Green lane Primary cycle and pedestrian routes Secondary pedestrian and leisure cycle routes Public space / square Existing Bridleway / public right of way

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ROUTE HIERARCHY

STREET DESIGN

The masterplan incorporates a clear and distinctive hierarchy of streets which is reflected in the design details proposed for each street. The hierarchy is illustrated in the accompanying plan. The street hierarchy will not only provide for the necessary vehicle circulation but also reinforce differences in urban character of the various parts of the site. The hierarchy consists of six main street types:

The illustrated design guidance for the proposed hierarchy of streets covers the main street types. The following illustrations give examples for each type and describes the relationship with the public realm and building enclosure..

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Primary routes

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Secondary routes

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Tertiary routes

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Green lanes

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Mews / courts

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Pedestrian routes and;

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Key public spaces

The specification for each street type is described in Part 2 Site design section under Street typology.

The approach to movement is based on the principles set out in the DfT document ‘Manual for Streets’ to produce a pedestrian friendly environment with natural traffic calming. The developments streets will be designed as places primarily for people, not just conduits for the efficient movement of vehicles. A high priority is therefore placed on meeting the needs of pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users, so that growth in these sustainable modes is encouraged. The objective of the street design for the Site will be to create a connected safe, convenient and attractive environment that encourages people to use the public realm and so enriches the experience of living and working in the area. The carriageway layout will be designed to control traffic speeds naturally. This will reinforce the vision that this is a place for people not just cars. The objective is to reduce the speed and flow of vehicles in order to minimise conflict between the various users of the street. In addition to this we would seek to apply ‘Homezone’ type principles to tertiary (shared surface) streets and impose a 20mph upper speed limit across the development area. The arrangements for car parking are an integral part of the St Martin’s Park masterplan. Reference should be made to Lincolnshire County Councils (LCC) parking standards. The development will be future proofed for the provision of electric vehicle charging points with service ducting provided for all houses with on plot parking, together with provision for spaces within the commercial, mixed use and retirement village areas.

Step-free pedestrian movement Pedestrian movement should take priority at junctions from Primary and Secondary streets into lower tier residential streets, thereby creating long stretches of step-free pedestrian and cycle routes that are convenient and easy to navigate. This will benefit pedestrians with children’s push-chairs, on mobility scooters or with visual impairment where steps are a big obstacle in everyday movement. It will also encourage early-years adoption of cycling where the step-free environment provides sufficient traffic calming at junctions to provide the extra safety needed at a young age. The design and materials used to provide necessary accessibility and safety measures will have to be in accordance with ‘LCC Streetscape design manual’ and agreed with LCC.

Street lighting The lighting design will be in accordance with best environmental practice and follow the guidance set out in ‘LCC Streetscape design manual’. The extent of lighting will be kept to the minimum level essential for pedestrian safety.

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K STREET FRONTAGE AND BOUNDARIES STRATEGY | Boundary treatments The below diagram illustrate the general locations of boundary treatments for sections of public street interface. The masterplan, which is indicative, is a supporting plan in the outline application. The final development layout will be determined at the detailed design stage and consequent variations to boundary treatments will be detailed accordingly. Front garden walls, railings (incl plint) and hedges will be designed in accordance with Manual for Streets not to obstruct visibility.

Low wall (rising to high at sides and rear) responding to the prevailing building material along a block front Low plinth with railing Low plinth with railing and hedge behind Hedge Hard surface privacy strip (pebbled or same as pavement behind delineation) Soft privacy strip (grass to edge of highway or low shrub planting)

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STREET FRONTAGE AND BOUNDARIES PRIVACY STRIP | Hard surface

PRIVACY STRIP | Soft grass or planting privacy strip

Privacy strip set-back: 0.5-1m Materials: Round pebbles, pavers, granite cobbles or setts

Privacy strip width: 0.5-1.5m Materials: Grass, low shrubs, hedge plants behind and edge of granite setts or double row of larger setts

No visual set-back or semi-private space at entrance. Pavement material to edge of building

Porch provide privacy around front door

0.5-1m low planting privacy strip (private)

0.5-1.5m grass privacy strip (private)

No set-back or change in material. Privacy by personalisation of space

0.5-1m pebbled privacy strip to building (private)

1-2m low planting privacy strip (private)

0.5-1.5m grass privacy strip (private)

0.5m low planting privacy strip in shared surface (private)

Cobbled privacy strip edging

0.5 pebbled strip along boundary wall (public)

Concrete strip edging

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K STREET FRONTAGE AND BOUNDARIES WALLS | Low

WALLS | High

Wall height: Approximately 900-1200mm Materials: Red brick, dry or mortared stone wall

Wall height: Approximately 1800-2100mm Materials: Red brick, dry or mortared stone wall

Low brick wall with brick coping

Low brick wall with half-round brick coping

High brick wall with brick coping

High brick wall with tile and brick coping

Low stone wall with half-round or pitched coping

Low stone wall with hedge. Cock and hen coping

Ashlar stone wall

Mortar capped high stone wall

Low rubble stone retaining wall with stone coping

High rubble stone wall

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STREET FRONTAGE AND BOUNDARIES WALLS | Hedges and soft boundaries

WALLS | Railing on low plinth Where railings are located adjacent to a cyclepath that is separated by raised kerbs to the carriageway, a minimum of 350mm pebbled strip must be provided outside the railing plinth as an unobstructed part of the foot/cycleway. This provision between railings and the area of footway surfaced for comfort will guide cyclists to a safe distance from railings. Wall and railing height: Approximately 1200mm Gate piers height: 1200-1500mm Materials: Ashlar or rubble stone plinth. Lincolnshire limestone coping and railings to match local examples.

Simple railings set in modest plinth

Railings set in coping stone on low stone wall

Semi-private front garden

Private front garden behind tall hedge

Local example of spearhead railing ornamentation

Detail of pebbled strip outside of railing plinth

Ornamental front garden boundary

Hedge behind railings

Local recent example of railing by front door steps

Railing gate

Semi-private front of property with notional boundary Low stone wall with hedge or shrubs features

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K STREET FRONTAGE AND BOUNDARIES SHOP FRONTS AND SIGNS Stamford shop fronts continuously evolve and renew themselves over time. A wide array of shop fronts exist but a common theme is a simple glazed front door beside a feature window, framed in timber and usually formed as one piece of joinery. Corner entrances are articulated more elaborately. Commercial and retail shop fronts will be designed to be an integral part of and proportionate to the building. Entrance door, shop window and signs must be considered as a whole for a coherent composition. Signage should be above the door and window and not on the side. Text and logos must be proportionate and be contained within its space allowing for typeface free borders.

Signs The style of shop signs vary but common in Stamford are signs hung from iron or black painted metal brackets, some with additional ornamentation. These are commonly wall-mounted in line or below first floor windows. The signs projection should not extend more than 600-800mm. Bracketed signs should in most cases be limited to one per commercial/retail space and be a consistent size and specification throughout the development.

Simple metal bracket for signs. Style to be coherent across the site.

Local example of ornamental wall mounted metal bracket for hanging sign

Shop front display windows and doors to be designed as a set piece

Shop front design to respect the scale of the building

Shop fronts colours to harmonise with building material. Primary colours to be avoided

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STREET FURNITURE AND MATERIALS STREET LIGHTING Lights in Stamford very much reflect and complement the historic town context and St Martin’s Park will be in return adopt a lighting strategy that is appropriate in this context. The selected lights should be part of a family of public realm light fittings that are able to be used as columns as well as bracketed wall lights. Final specification of fittings will follow the guidance set out in ‘LCC Streetscape design manual’ and need to be approved by LCC Highways for adoption.

Conservation style wall mounted corner light

‘Windsor’ light column in recent development at Cecil Square

Tall street light, free standing column

Traditional free standing light fitting

Low conservation light, free standing column

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K STREET FURNITURE AND MATERIALS STREET SIGNAGE

STREET FURNITURE

All the streets will be designed to give an inherently clear indication of appropriate speeds, give way points etc. The need for additional signage should therefore be kept to a minimum. Similarly, a legible and connected hierarchy of streets will ensure that the need for signposted wayfinding can be kept to a minimum. Where sign posting is required it will be minimal, robust, adaptable and durable and respond to Stamford design. To avoid unnecessary visual clutter, consideration will be given to signage mounted on buildings and garden walls or street furniture before resorting to the need for separate signposting poles.

The selection of street furniture must be considered in a comprehensive manner to ensure that a common language of elements is maintained across the public realm of St Martin’s Park. A palette is shown below but the choice of furniture to be used within adoptable areas will be subject to approval by LCC who will need to consider implications for future maintenance, repair and replacement. Street furniture should be obtained from established manufacturers and suppliers where possible. The following principles should apply for location and function of street furniture:

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Covered bins to prevent scavengers

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Wall mounted street signs are preferential where opportunity exist

Electric charging points should be located adjacent to visitor parking spaces. Combining electric charging apparatus with other pieces of street furniture or lighting columns should be considered. Seating should be orientated to a view of adjacent open space or the street. Seating must be perceived to be ‘safe’ from nearby vehicular traffic. If multiple seating is arranged in one location a mix of shaded and sunny locations should be considered. Litter bins should be provided near seating. Dog litter bins should be provided at all open spaces, as appropriate. Visitor cycle parking racks must be located at key locations such as the entrance to the retirement hub building, neighbourhood store, cafe, retail and employment to maximise convenience. Bollards must be of solid and robust design especially where adjacent to vehicular traffic.

Comfortable benches with no central divider in durable timber in key public spaces

Estate railing to frame larger green area

Stainless steel / non-painted bike racks to avoid maintenance of scratches

Timber bollard to prevent parking in green areas

Painted metal bollard to prevent vehicular movements into pedestrian and cycle areas

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STREET FURNITURE AND MATERIALS Overall, the palette of paving materials has been selected to reflect the local vernacular and will create a harmonious, integrated and contextually appropriate street composition. The materials list includes raw quarried materials such as York stone that will be used in key areas. It also includes appropriate and

economical paving materials that follow the ethos for the scheme and reflects local traditions of texture and colour and contributes to the overall impression of a natural, well established street scene. The palette of surfacing and paving materials includes:

PALETTE | Street materials

PALETTE | Shared surface / squares materials

Granite setts

Tarmacadam (black top) Buff colour macadam

Buff colour pervious pavers

Blue diamond pavers privacy strip

Tobermore ‘Fusion’ paver

Marshalls Tegula ‘Traditional’

Kirk buff York stone flags and sawn and tumbled setts Blue brick (or similar).

Macadam carriageway, brick paver pavement with granite kerb

Spray and chip / Conservation kerb

Marshalls conservation kerb

Tactile stone edging and drainage (edge of square)

York stone slabs with pebble edge strip

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PALETTE | Courts, private drives, special areas

PALETTE | Footpaths / footways

Breedon gravel

Cobbled or macadam street surface with drainage channel

Tactile paving at crossing in contrasting colour to overall paving material

Resin bound gravel

Tobermore ‘Fusion’ paver

Tarmacadam

Loose gravel, buff colour

Pervious pavers - colours to be varied to define area characteristics

Informal gravel path

Spray and chip

Tactile paving studs

Contrasting tactile paver for light colour surfaces

Marshalls Tegula ‘Traditional’

Self-binding, buff colour stone surface with pressure treated timber edging

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STREET FURNITURE AND MATERIALS UTILITIES | Drains, water meter caps, ground junction boxes

UTILITIES | Meter boxes, satellite dishes and burglar alarms

Undesired placement of utility meter boxes. Utility meter boxes must be avoided on front elevations.

Correct placement of utility meter boxes and burglar Preferred placement of grouped alarm. Location on side or rear elevation will be the utility meter boxes default position in building design.

Drainage and utility services should be a key consideration in the pattern of street material

Incorrect random placement of water meter caps

Service access aligned with paving material and kerb lines

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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLAY STRATEGY STREET PLANTING Planting within front gardens is to consist of a mixture of trees, ornamental hedges and shrubs/grasses/ perennials that are carefully selected according to aspect, location and size.

The soft landscape brought into the site is a feature that transitions character areas and defines spaces and spatial hierarchy. It will have a key role as defining the approach to Stamford from the east. Trees and vegetation should provide residents and visitors with an engaging planted environment that is surprising and attractive.

All proposed tree species should ensure that the ultimate size is appropriate to the location and that their positions are coordinated with utilities, services and car parking and that root barriers are used where appropriate.

All elements of the soft planting palette respond with structure form, colour, texture and scale with its location within the development. The approach to the development along Barnack Road, within the proximity to Burghley Park is treated with a formal leafy avenue of larger trees backed with native hedgerows.

All street trees should if possible be of extra heavy standard at the time of planting. Tree pit sizes and soil volumes should be appropriate to the tree species proposed and should be agreed with the adopting authority. All planting must be in accordance with the National Plant Specification.

A range of planting types are proposed including trees, hedgerows, shrubs, perennials, grasses and wildflower and amenity grassland mixes, in order to enhance the character of the area, promote habitat creation and biodiversity. Informal open space is to consist of tree planting, ornamental and native shrubs and understorey structure planting with areas of long grassland, wildflower meadow and amenity grass which in combination will provide an attractive setting for the proposed development and amenity areas.

Tilia monogolica Harvest Gold

Tilia cordata Rancho

Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’

Sorbus aucuparia

Sorbus torminalis

Castanea sativa

Juglans regia

Acer campestre

Betula pendula

Alnus cordata

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLAY STRATEGY STREET PLANTING Central greenway (see character areas)

Parkland trees

Street planting species are to be selected to enhance local distinctiveness and reflect the proposed street hierarchy creating interesting form, character and colour.

Tree species palette:

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Carpinus betulus (common hornbeam)

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Castanea sativa (sweet chestnut)

Tree species palette:

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Fagus sylvatica (common beech)

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Juglans regia (English walnut)

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Quercus robur (pedunculate oak)

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Tilia platyphyllos (large-leaved lime)

Tilia cordata ‘Rancho’ (small-leaved lime ‘Rancho’)

Public squares and shared surfaces Tree species palette:

Other public open space trees

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Tree species palette:

Tilia mongolica ‘Harvest Gold’ (Harvest Gold Mongolian lime)

Play park (see character areas) Planting species within the play areas are to be nontoxic and suitably robust providing colour, scent and texture. The planting chosen shall ensure that natural surveillance is achieved. Tree species palette:

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Acer campestre (field maple)

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Alnus incana (grey alder)

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Betula pendula (silver birch)

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Sorbus aucuparia (rowan)

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Tree Walk Avenue

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Tilia x europaea ‘Pallida’ (common lime ‘Pallida’)

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Alnus incana (grey alder)

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Betula utilis Jacquemontii (Himalayan Birch)

Woodland, copses and tree groups

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Sorbus aria ‘Majestica’ (whitebeam)

Tree species palette:

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Street Trees & Courtyards

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Acer campestre (field maple)

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Alnus cordata (Italian alder)

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Carpinus betulus (common hornbeam)

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Carpinus betulus ‘Frans fontaine’ (upright common hornbeam)

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Ilex aquifolium (common holly)

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Prunus avium (wild cherry)

Corylus colurna (Turkish hazel)

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Quercus robur (pedunculate oak)

Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’ (Callery pear ‘Chanticleer’)

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Sorbus torminalis (wild service tree)

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Taxus baccata (common yew)

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Viburnum lantana (wayfaring tree)

Corylus colurna

Tilia platyphyllos

Carpinus betulus Frans Fontaine

Hedgerow trees Tree species palette:

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Acer campestre (field maple)

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Quercus robur (pedunculate oak)

Quercus robur

Sorbus aria

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PLACEMAKING & URBAN HIERARCHY BUILDING GROUPS TYPOLOGY | Commercial and mixed use buildings

Study of potential new commercial brick building (east elevation).

Study for a new office building with design origins from typical manufacturing buildings in Lincolnshire and the 1904 building

Study of potential re-elevation of the 1904 original factory building. South elevation - view towards Barnack Road

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K PLACEMAKING & URBAN HIERARCHY BUILDING GROUPS TYPOLOGY | Commercial and mixed use buildings The original 1904-building and Lincolnshire 20th century warehouse style commercial buildings will be referenced in the design of office and workshop buildings in the commercial and mixed use areas of the site. Manufacturing and warehouse design of buildings has proven its ability to transform into modern use due to their well lit internal spaces and flexibility for internal division of units. This design language also lends itself very well for the design of the new retirement main hub building that will define the central square.

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PLACEMAKING & URBAN HIERARCHY BUILDING GROUPS TYPOLOGY | Three bay wide front buildings

BUILDING GROUPS TYPOLOGY | Linked and terraced buildings

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K PLACEMAKING & URBAN HIERARCHY BUILDING GROUPS TYPOLOGY | Special character buildings

Proposed character for St Martin’s Crescent

Principle of building view to green areas to be featured in St Martin’s Crescent character area

Principle of crescent form for St Martin’s Crescent character area

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PLACEMAKING & URBAN HIERARCHY DISTINCTION Stamford is rich in character and unique detail in the urban environment. These details should be a source for inspiration and insight into what makes Stamford attractive, distinctive and full of surprises. The development at St Martin’s Park will embrace and reflect this context and create a place that is of Stamford but also with its own identity.

Linked building form is a celebrated characteristic of Stamford, as are pinch-points in the streetscape

History woven into the fabric of buildings

Street widths and enclosure provides sense of place and a legible hierarchy of route network

Other facade materials but stone are featured throughout Stamford and provide richness

Visually rich roof form add to the overall character of Stamford

Unique features that become landmarks

Landmark buildings

Eye-catching doorways

...big features

Building features seem symmetrical at first glance

Small buildings create variety in scale

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K PLACEMAKING & URBAN HIERARCHY DISTINCTION Reference material used in the masterplan design process to inspire built form and enclosure of streets and spaces. The emphasis being close to local historic context but also by introduction of features not present in the vicinity to create a development with its own identity.

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PLACEMAKING & URBAN HIERARCHY ADDRESSING THE PLOT Key buildings and landmarks Layout design for the site must make great effort to use buildings as focal points and terminate views of internal routes. The main building and entrance must be the focus and not its garage or driveway in any vista. The layout design and plot arrangement must originate from a strategy of key buildings and landmark creation. There are numerous good examples of view termination in Stamford, which should be used as a guide. [See images to the right]. Buildings that are prominent in views within the site as set out above will have a role in making the area unique and locally distinctive. Building distinction can be achieved by choice of material and colour; a higher order and feature rich door and window surround; its height and roof form; or its use (i.e shop front).

Entrances It must be obvious where the entrance is for each building. Front doors should generally address the street with corner plots given a choice of orientation and variation in the streetscape. Front door location may vary on dwellings that are featured in a special building configuration or courtyard grouping that will create or enhance a sub-character placemaking event.

Building in focus has increased scale

Closing a vista - reveal views in sequence

Building use provides focus, not prominence

Street alignment shifted around protruding building

Incidental enclosure of street, no building in focus.

Curvature expose built frontage and close the view

Illustrative example of a variation in entrance location to create emphasis in a particular view

Garages and outbuildings Garages must always be subservient to the main house. Garages or car ports must generally have a set back that allow for cars parked in front to remain behind the main building line, thus creating a streetscape less dominated by parked cars in view.

Front gardens and set-back Buildings along the main street, incorporating Primary and Secondary Street typologies and Main Street character area, will generally have close set-back or short front gardens to create a tighter enclosure ratio akin to the historic street characteristics found in Stamford and surrounding villages. This will emphasise its function as a main street and make its place at the top of the route hierarchy obvious to visitors of the area. Front garden depth will be more varied at the development edges to green space for a soft transition between the built edge and along tertiary streets, which correlates closely with the route hierarchy. See street sections under ‘Character areas’ and ‘Street typologies’ headings..

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PLACEMAKING & URBAN HIERARCHY VARIETY The development will be built out using a variety of house types and although variation may be less in floorplan arrangement, each of the housetypes will be elevated to suit its location within the scheme. A particular housetype can then be expressed with elaborate door and window surround with stone detailing to suit a prominent or formal location within the site, or be constructed from bricks with a simple, albeit local, palette of detailing along a lower tier street type or for a cottage appearnce. This composition of buildings will create a balanced streetscene and avoid cluttered repetition in the streetscape where buildings appear to be fighting too hard for attention. Stamford is admired for its varied roof form as viewed from a distance and the development at St Martin’s Park will along with variation in building height create step changes in roof form, pitch and detailing for a visually rich roofscape. This will be achieved naturally in some areas by the development following the gently sloping topography of the site and will be deliberate design decisions in other areas to achieve the desired variety and gable reveals.

Variety in eaves height and number of storeys. Little variation in roof pitch

Increased storey height emphasised by set-back

Step change by increased storey height

Increased internal floor-to-floor height

Variation in building and eaves height

Formal examples of house elevations A2

Rich variation in roof and eaves height, pitch and detailing

Cottage or Arts and Crafts examples of house elevations

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K CHARACTER AREAS A hierarchy of spaces have been created to provide distinctive areas within the proposed development and to enhance the overall sense of place. These character areas form a series of linked and distinguishable spaces. Their character is derived from their location within the site and the natural attributes relevant of each area with the ambition to create a sense of place. Great emphasis has been placed on reflecting the architectural vernacular and a wider palette of regional examples for commercial building form. The future architecture, whether traditional or contemporary, should make reference to the following pages which illustrate in words and precedent images how each of the character areas should be developed. 1. Approach along Barnack Road;

2. Main Street; 3. Commercial Square; 4. Play Park; 5. Central Greenway; 6. Central Square; 7. St Martin’s Crescent; and 8. Northern Fringe

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CHARACTER AREAS 1. APPROACH ALONG BARNACK ROAD St Martin’s Park is an opportunity to redevelop sympathetically the Barnack Road edge that is opposite Burghley Park, carefully introducing human-scale built form that relates to the special character of Stamford within the existing landscape context that extends beyond the site’s boundary. Reference to the adjoining Estate Park will be made by the introduction of a new avenue of parkland trees along the site’s southern edge - Barnack Road. This wide, linear green space will provide an attractive outlook for residents of the new development edge and create a pleasant pedestrian route both into and out of the town away from vehicular traffic. It is envisaged the green space will widen to the east, so creating a soft transition from the rural landscape to the more

densely developed areas along the route to the historic core of Stamford. It will reflect the linear green characteristics already present along Barnack Road, notably in front of Abbott’s Close, and is designed to promote the health and well-being of a vibrant new and mixed community by providing an attractive and legible route to town centre jobs, services and rail station. The transition from country to town will be marked along the development edge by a sequence of building typologies, starting with detached and paired villas on approach from Barnack, before transitioning to short terraces - a familiar building form further west along Barnack Road. Main entry points to the site will be marked by more developed architectural character, and by uses other than residential in order to aid legibility. There will be a mix of uses where employment and a small retail offer is mainly located to the west, centered around the opportunity to revitalise the 1904 building into a modern business hub. A new building here will display an impressive gable front onto Barnack

Proposed character of frontage to linear green space along Barnack Road

Proposed character of linear green space along Barnack Road

Road, providing scale and importance to a part of the site that is projecting into the linear green. Residents and workers can enjoy the linear green space as part of their daily commute or lunchtime walk, along what is part of a green loop around the town, and with a particular character that is appropriate to its position adjoining Burghley Park.

are welcomed. Plain clay tile, slate or metal roofs in matte / muted finish is suggested to prevent excessive visual exposure from distant views from the north, including the SAM St Leonard’s Priory and Burghley Park. Solar panels must be mounted so that these do not to reflect light (glare) towards Burghley House, Park and Garden. This is a key requirement to prevent impact on the setting of the Listed Buildings and Registered Park. There will be multiple entrance points to create active frontage to streets and the architectural language should reference historical industrial architecture found in parts of Stamford and Lincolnshire. Buildings should include strategically positioned features, providing an overall uplift in quality and unique appearance of each building.

With the wide green space in front, front gardens are modest and follow a straight building line. Garden boundaries are generally formed of low stone walls to reflect the walls of Burghley Park opposite. Buildings will be two storeys and occasional 2.5 storey buildings. Residential ground floor ceiling heights are improved to emphasise the status and position of this development frontage. The buildings are more individual in style with some elaboration to detail, unified by a simple palette of materials. Residential building walls will be rubble stone, ashlar stone or lime render, with plain clay tile or artificial stone slates to buildings in key positions. Openings will tend to be uniformly aligned. Windows will be casements, with sash windows on more prominent houses. Buildings will have simple or classical door surrounds. Commercial buildings fronting onto Barnack Road in the western end will be predominantly red brick to reflect the material of the 1904 building. Roof form must vary between buildings, in both height and pitch to reflect the much admired roofscape of the historic parts of Stamford. Roof form usually associated with historic industrial or warehouse buildings, such as saw tooth

1904 building

The mixed use commercial buildings in the centre of site will vary in appearance. Gables fronting Barnack Road are stone or red brick due to their prominence around this entrance location and to both reference the commercial area and be sympathetic to the material palette of the adjacent residential buildings. Windows and doors will be metal or timber to Barnack Road, key public elevations and visually prominent internal courts. Fenestration should be a core part of a design language of imposed verticality and repeated elements. Painted signage and advertisement is preferred over standard cut advertisement boards but must be sympathetic to the longevity of the building and capable of adapting over time.

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Barnack Road indicative perspective view looking west

Barnack Road indicative street elevation

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CHARACTER AREAS Section A - typical residential lane and Barnack Road frontage / linear green space / avenue

Section B - typical residential lane and Barnack Road frontage / linear green space / avenue

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K CHARACTER AREAS 2. MAIN STREET On approach from Stamford town centre along Barnack Road, the original 1904-building and a cluster of new commercial buildings will define the western entrance to the site. Its design will differentiate itself from the residential frontages leading up to this point along Barnack Road, celebrating the 20th century warehouse style, and invite the passer-by to route through the site. The first part of a central street, passing the neighbourhood store, leads down to a small triangular square fronted onto by commercial and residential buildings, perhaps allowing an opportunity for a café in this location or in one of the buildings forming a cluster with the 1904-building. The experience from then on, eastwards, is first along a street with a shared surface where families,

This is the primary street within the development and it connects the B1443 Barnack Road in three locations. As described above, a sequence of public open spaces is provided along its length and street widths vary according to its position and land use within the site. The height and scale of buildings on Main Street will be sympathetic and respond to the width and nature of the street and key spaces – Commercial Square, Central Square and Play Park. The character of the Central Square is described under the Green Street character area below. Residential buildings will generally be 2 storeys with buildings in key spaces at 2.5 storeys. Mixed use, commercial and ancillary retirement buildings are positioned in key areas along the Main Street and will be 2.5 and sometimes 3 storeys. Ceiling heights to ground floors may be taller.

3. COMMERCIAL SQUARE The Commercial square forms a distinctive hard urban space on the Main Street and is the mixed use centre and heart of the new development. Office space, workshop units and/or incubator offices will provide daytime street activity. The buildings enclosing the Square will be of the highest architectural order and buildings will provide a sense of enclosure to the space. To achieve this, some of the parking is located in rear but overlooked courts and a substantial 3 storey commercial building will book-end the square as viewed from the east. Building frontages will provide an interesting combination of commercial industrial warehouse styles and residential vernacular style from 1904 building

occupants in retirement living and workers come to access their dwellings and place of work. A Central Square, located on a north-south Green Street defines the entrance of the retirement village hub, a destination in itself where the wider community can be welcomed in to enjoy a range of facilities. Buildings of some height and architectural prominence will provide enclosure to the square and the main street will deliberately divert around built form to create visual interest and slowly reveal the street continuing east into residential blocks. From being a traditional street with pavements, its scale will decrease into a shared surface and lanes opening out to St Martin’s Crescent. Cars can go no further and pedestrians are invited to continue their journey in the green space. Pedestrian routes continue along the Northern Fringe, a circuit back to either of the squares or southwards to Barnack Road and along the new avenue back towards town – offering a choice of routes through the site, whether for a lunchtime walk to get out of the office, taking your child to a natural play area or experience the change of seasons while walking the dog.

Indicative character for commercial entrance to the west from Barnack Road

Stamford. Generally, buildings will have a nominal set back of 0.6 - 2 metres from back-of-pavement. Building heights will be up to 3 storeys with taller ground floors. Trees, generously spaced to allow for individual specimens to grow large, will soften the hardscape and also help break skyline views from the north. South facing seating will provide people working in the area a place to have lunch or just enjoy a moment of fresh air outside the office. There is potential for car charging points integrated into this space. Building materials will be a mix of brick, rubble stone or lime render. The occasional building or feature of a building may be in ashlar stone. Commercial buildings are generally brick. See also the description of the commercial elements in the Approach along Barnack Road character area above. Roofs will be slate, clay plain tiles or metal. Interest is added to the facade of some buildings through the introduction of high buttressed ends, recessed panels and parapet details. Openings will be uniformly aligned. Windows will generally be casement, although more prominent buildings will have large metal framed windows giving the impression of a contemporary conversion of an older building.

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CHARACTER AREAS Section C - typical commercial main street access from Barnack Road

Section D - typical section of commercial square

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Indicative character for main street with single or dual kerb-side parking

Indicative character for commercial square and shared surface

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K CHARACTER AREAS Section E - typical shared surface main street

Section F - typical residential street

Indicative character for terminating views at junctions

Indicative character of sinuous streets and tighter spatial proportions, creating visual interest

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CHARACTER AREAS Section G - typical residential street with short sections of tree verges / swale / filter strip

4. PLAY PARK The Play Park to the south of the Main Street in the eastern part of the site is a softer key space, harmonious with its residential surroundings. Key buildings closing vistas along streets in this area are 2.5 storeys but generally the space is designed as a low-key space surrounded by cottages and short terraces at 2 storeys. Front gardens are small, only 1-2m to provide intimate definition to the park’s edge. To achieve an enclosure ratio that differentiates this space from the adjoining streets, parking will in some instances be arranged to the side of buildings and in courts. Building materials surrounding the play park will generally be red brick with occasional key buildings in rubble stone and roofs will be clay plain tile and artificial stone slate. Windows will generally be casements, with sash windows on some more prominent houses. Buildings will have simple bracketed porches or simple classical door surrounds.

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The Play Park is intended to accommodate a small natural play area, potentially with some play equipment for the youngest children residing in the new development. Low stone walls with wooden gates provide security to local Main Street traffic. The boundaries facing the dwellings to the south and east could potentially be estate railing for a more open view into the green areas from these dwellings. The access lane and pedestrian path around the park should be informal with low or no kerbing.

Indicative character of streetscape widening to introduce green / SUDs

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K CHARACTER AREAS Section H - typical main street adjoining pocket park or play area

Indicative character for frontage to play park or green space

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CHARACTER AREAS Indicative main street along the central greenway

5. CENTRAL GREENWAY The Central Greenway is a wider street, a simple elegant treelined space that forms part of the central residential access into the site. A sequence of placemaking events make up this character area, starting with a street with verges for greenery and street trees approaching the Central Square from Barnack Road. It is purposefully aligned with the removed hedge line and its green appearance is a reminder of the eastern extent of the Cummins factory site. Due to the mixed uses proposed in this area, the street is wider to accommodate on-street parking on both sides of the street. Parking bays could have contrasting surface treatment to match the pavement and visually reduce the appearance of the carriageway. Pavements are wider to announce the route’s primary function and to offer generous amount of space in front of entrances in to ground floor businesses. Buildings are 2-2.5 storeys.

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The route is not straight but gently bends to the west before returning eastwards beyond the Central Square. This sinuous routing combined with carefully placed trees will ensure that the pylon located in the river valley north of the site is not featured in view. The Central Greenway continues as a shared surface, including the Central Square (see below character description) beyond its primary route east into the residential areas. A generous green or semi-public front garden with trees, enclosed by buildings on its eastern side, opens up when approaching to the Northern Fringe. The Central Greenway is increasingly pedestrianised moving north from the square, overlooked by 2 storey residential retirement homes and continues as a footpath only along the remaining line of the former hedge. Walls are predominantly brick with occasional lime render. Stone facades will be used on buildings terminating key vistas or situated in other landmark locations. Roofs are either slate or clay plain tile. Casement windows are used predominantly on domestic retirement buildings (see separate description of ancillary retirement building under the Central Square character area). Buildings will have simple bracketed porches or simple classical door surrounds.

Section J - typical shared surface street and Central Square

Section I - typical main street access from Barnack Road leading to Central Square

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K CHARACTER AREAS Mixed use building frontages will provide a materialistically interesting combination of industrial warehouse style that is sympathetic to the adjacent residential areas that draws inspiration from residential Stamford vernacular.

Buildings will be predominantly brick with metal or slim frame windows. Balconies must be balanced in the façade composition whilst top floor outdoor terraces could potentially be recessed for an overall reduced volumetric appearance of the 3 storey building.

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The roof of the main ancillary building(s) must create a varied roofscape and can be a mix of plain clay tile, slate and metal with a matte appearance to the reduce potential visual interference in distant views. Retirement dwelling buildings have roofs of slate or plain clay tile, carefully mixed for overall cohesion but with insertion of variation.

The Central Square is a set-piece of the retirement village ancillary building. This is the main access and reception to facilities and apartment accommodation. The Central Square is a shared surface space that will accommodate multiple uses, from outdoor south-facing seating associated with a breakfast room, restaurant or café, outdoor display of items in the small convenience shop, event space linked with potential function or meeting rooms, visitors parking and electric charging points.

Section K - typical pedestrian footway link to Northern Fringe green space

Painted signage is preferred over standard cut or illuminated advertisement boards and must be sympathetic to the longevity of the building.

To the east the Square is fronted by 2-2.5 storey retirement dwellings and by a 5-6 m wide linear green or semi-public front garden with trees. A mixed use building with some architectural distinction defines the southern edge of the square and becomes a landmark item in the outlook from retirement flats. The retirement main ancillary building(s) are inspired by the brick warehouse loft and industrial style derived from the 1904 building and expanded into the Commercial Square to the west. Remaining retirement Village buildings will generally be sympathetic to Stamford vernacular but also draw inspiration from historic conversions or even warehousing lost to recent redevelopments.

Indicative spatial enclosure character / strong frontage for Main Street

Indicative character of footpath access to frontage of dwellings

Indicative spatial character of areas approaching the northern fringe

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CHARACTER AREAS Section L - typical commercial area railway edge condition

7. ST MARTIN’S CRESCENT The site offers a unique opportunity to redefine Stamford’s developed edge to the east, currently occupied by a group of uninspiring sheet metal industrial buildings, glimpsed through screening vegetation. Instead, a new development frontage overlooking a green space will be the first impression on approach from Barnack (east) along Burghley’s boundary wall. This frontage, must match the potential of its landmark location, in the same way that Rutland Terrace or Lord Burghley’s Hospital almshouses on the river Welland borrow the landscape for their setting. The design team is committed to deliver a distinct area defined not only by its architecture and detail but also the space it frames, resulting in a unique character area appropriate to adopt the name St Martin’s Crescent, in its parkland setting.

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The new development edge is visible to fields beyond but new groups of trees planted in the eastern green space will provide a naturally framed development edge as it matures. Although there is a wide green space ahead, front gardens will be wider (57m) to soften the transition from park to building line. Garden boundaries, along a shared surface lane, are generally formed of low stone walls and railing, defined by gate piers. Buildings will be 2 and 2.5 storeys. Residential ground floor ceiling heights are increased to emphasise the status and position of this development frontage and architecturally, the buildings perform with a harmonious appearance for the length of the edge. Elaboration to detail, particularly around doors, will set this area apart from other areas of the development. Residential building walls will be rubble stone, ashlar stone or lime render, with plain clay tile or artificial stone slate. Openings tend to be uniformly aligned. Windows will be casements, with enhanced verticality or sash windows especially on some prominent houses. Buildings will have classical door surrounds and canopies.

Perspective view looking southwest from a point near the bridleway

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K CHARACTER AREAS Section M - typical footway along the northern edge of the site

Rutland Terrace, Stamford

Section N - typical lane abutting green space

Indicative character of residential plots abutting shared surface

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CHARACTER AREAS Indicative development frontage overlooking northern fringe areas

Indicative informal footpath along northern fringe

Section O - typical section of dual use infiltration basin / amenity space

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K CHARACTER AREAS 8. NORTHERN FRINGE The Northern Fringe forms a key part in the pedestrian route network as it links St Martin’s Crescent with the Central Greenway along the site’s northern edge – offering a choice of routes through the site, whether for a walk with the dog, a wellbeing lunch break walk or going to play in the greenspace. The space is linear and overlooked by adjoining dwellings. The existing hedgerow along the railway will be retained and improved. New trees will break up the space into a series of landscape pockets and provides shelter. The tree groups will also help filter the new roofscape as seen from the north. The urban edge is informal and is a mix of residential and retirement homes. There should be a level of continuity between style and appearance between the two types of dwelling tenure. Building set-back varies from 2-6m front gardens. Retirement buildings can be arranged around green courts with gables fronting onto the Northern Fringe. Boundary treatments are more natural with low stone walls and long stretches of low hedging but allowance for gaps to provide natural surveillance of the pedestrian areas from domestic windows. Walls are predominantly brick with occasional lime render. Perhaps a stone façade or stone detailing can be used on buildings situated in a landmark location. Roofs are either slate or plain clay tile. Casement windows are used on residential and retirement buildings and will have simple bracketed porches or simple classical door surrounds.

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STREET TYPOLOGY PRIMARY STREETS

Shared Surface

Description

Shared surfaces provide traffic calming measures to maintain traffic speeds to maximum 20mph.

This is the principal and most important street in terms of hierarchy. The primary street provides access to the new development via two improved junctions with Barnack Road. The street connects the new neighbourhood to the existing network. Generally, the primary street will be a traditional street with a footpath on both sides. Shared surfaces are provided along its length to create traffic calming. The building form, structure tree planting, surface materials and street furniture should be designed to reinforce the form of these spaces.

Key dimensions Design speed Carriageway width On-street parking Footpath width Reservation for services Privacy margin / front garden Street trees

20-30 mph Generally 6.0m, with local widening 2.0m width parallel parking zone where appropriate for visitor parking 2.0m (min) with widening to 3.0-4.0m 1.0m zone within footpath 0.5-2m (limited variation up to 3m) Medium / large species

Materials Carriageway: Macadam Kerbs: Granite type Demarcations: Painted lines centrally on road (max 20m from Barnack Road subject to LCC agreement). No central road markings in other areas. Parking zones: Parallel parking bays finished to match carriageway surfacing material and to match pavement material for short stay / loading parking bays.

Carriageway: Macadam coloured to match local stone aggregate Footpath: York stone natural paving Kerbs: Flush or minimal upstand. Yorkshire natural paving slabs or conservation kerb Access points off the primary street into shared surface streets should be designed as pavement crossings rather than bell-mouths to ensure pedestrian priority. Textured paving to be provided each side of the crossing as tactile warning for visually impaired people.

Typical main street with parking either side of carriageway

Street Lighting Lights will be mounted on columns. Low pressure sodium lamps should be avoided. Warm white light – ceramic metal halide or similar should be used. Hooded or shielded lamps should be used to prevent upward and/or outward spillage. They should be part of a cohesive family of fittings Lights should be located at the outside edges of footpaths. They should be staggered down the street and co-ordinated with street tree locations to ensure illumination is not compromised. Final specification of fittings will need to be approved by LCC Highways for adoption.

Signage The signage philosophy will be as set out in part 1 of this document and kept to a minimum.

Typical shared surface area along sections of the main street

Footpath: York stone paving slabs

Typical main street access from Barnack Road leading to Central Square

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Recent example of development fronting onto a primary road

Residential tarmac street with dual footways

No central road markings

Wide street performing as shared surface

Street with parking on both sides of carriageway

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STREET TYPOLOGY SECONDARY STREETS

Shared Surface

Description

Shared surfaces provide traffic calming measures to maintain traffic speeds to maximum 30mph.

The secondary street is an extension to Main Street and provides a further junction with Barnack Road to east. It provides access to tertiary streets, green lanes and mews courts. It is less formal than the Primary Street, but retains the general consistent building line. The building form, structure tree planting, surface materials and street furniture should be designed to reinforce the form of the street.

Key dimensions Design speed Carriageway width On-street parking Footpath width Reservation for services Privacy margin / front garden Street trees

15-20 mph Generally 5.5m Within carriageway 2.0m (min) with widening to 3.0-4.0m 1.0m zone within footpath 1-3m (limited variation up to 6m) Medium / large species.

Materials Carriageway: Macadam Kerbs: Reconstructed (or cast granite) conservation kerbs with 100mm upstand. Footpath: Macadam Defensible Zone: Smooth rounded pebbles set in mortar or blue brick.

Carriageway and Footpath: Coloured macadam, resin-bound gravel, York stone paving Kerbs: Flush or minimal upstand conservation kerb Access points off the primary street into shared surface streets should be designed as pavement crossings rather than bell-mouths to ensure pedestrian priority. Textured paving to be provided each side of the crossing as tactile warning for visually impaired people.

Street Lighting Lights will be mounted on columns and in some instances bracketed from buildings. Low pressure sodium lamps should be avoided. Warm white light – ceramic metal halide or similar should be used. Hooded or shielded lamps should be used to prevent upward and/or outward spillage. They should be part of a cohesive family of fittings Lights should be located at the outside edges of footpaths. They should be staggered down the street and co-ordinated with street tree locations to ensure illumination is not compromised. Final specification of fittings will need to be approved by LCC Highways for adoption.

Special features: Granite setts rumble strip in transition areas between streets.

Signage The signage philosophy will be as set out in part 1 of this document and kept to a minimum.

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Street Lighting

Description

Lights will be mounted on columns and in some instances bracketed from buildings. Low pressure sodium lamps should be avoided. Warm white light – ceramic metal halide or similar should be used.

The traditional tertiary streets provide access from primary and secondary streets to shared surface streets, green lanes, mews streets and parking courts. They are less formal than the primary and secondary street, but retain the general consistent building line and localised pinch points. The building form, structure tree planting, surface and street furniture should be designed to reinforce the form of these streets. Tertiary streets will generally be designed to feel more intimate and domestic in scale.

Hooded or shielded lamps should be used to prevent upward and/or outward spillage. They should be part of a cohesive family of fittings Lights should be located at the outside edges of footpaths or in grass verge service area. They should be staggered down the street and co-ordinated with street tree locations to ensure illumination is not compromised. Final specification of fittings will need to be approved by LCC Highways for adoption.

Key dimensions Design speed Carriageway width

On-street parking Footpath width Reservation for services Privacy margin / front garden Street trees

15-20 mph 4.8m with incidental narrowing to 4.1m, 6.0m clear space opposite perpendicular parking, 7.0m clear opposite garages. Within carriageway 2.0m (min) 1.0m zone within footpath Varies Medium / small species

Signage The signage philosophy will be as set out in part 1 of this document and kept to a minimum.

Materials Carriageway: Macadam Kerbs: Reconstructed (or cast granite) conservation kerbs with 100mm upstand. Footpath: Tobermore ’Tegula’ paver (or equivalent) laid in 45 degree offset herring bone pattern. Single sided pavement, parking used to slow traffic

Narrowing of carriageway to restrict vehicle movements

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STREET TYPOLOGY TERTIARY STREETS (SHARED SURFACE)

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Description

Street lights should be wall mounted and designed to restrict light pollution with hooded or shielded lamps. They should be part of a cohesive family of fittings. Lamps should provide a warm white light from a ceramic metal halide source.

The shared surface street is where people and vehicles share the space safely and on equal terms. Quality of life takes precedence over ease of traffic movement. The form of the buildings dictates the shape of the space rather than in a conventional highway layout. The vehicular zone through the space will be defined by tracking movements. Features such as planting, trees, street furniture and space for informal parking may be included in these streets, but they should retain the local character of North-west Northamptonshire

Signage The signage philosophy will be as set out in part 1 of this document and kept to a minimum.

Shared surface streets will be accessed via pavement cross overs rather than carriageway bell mouths. This will immediately symbolise that the vehicle is entering the pedestrian domain. Texture paving should be used to indicate to visually impaired pedestrians that they are leaving the shared surface.

Key dimensions Design speed Carriageway width

Shared surface tertiary street with flush kerb

On-street parking

Walking pace Variable 4.1m min, 6.0m clear space opposite perpendicular parking, 7.0m clear opposite garages. Within shared surface area

Footpath width Reservation for services Privacy margin / front garden Street trees

Shared within carriageway 1.0m zone within shared surface Varies Medium / small species

Materials Carriageway: Tobermore ‘Fusion’ paver (or equivalent) laid in 45 degree offset herring bone pattern. Kerbs: Reconstructed (or cast granite) conservation flush kerbs

Shared surface with notional vehicular zone and flush kerb

Defensible zone: Smooth rounded pebbles set in mortar or blue brick Special features: Granite setts rumble strip in transition area between street types. The use of permeable surfaces will be encouraged, subject to approval from LCC Highways.

Step free surfacing material to building edge

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Street Lighting

Description

Street Lights on 4.0 metre high columns to be located informally along the edge of the public open space and bracketed on buildings at junctions with secondary and shared surface streets.

The traditional tertiary streets provide access from primary and secondary These routes on the edges of the development or large areas of public open space should achieve the character of a rural lane. In places lanes will give way to private drives connected by footpaths/cycle ways. This will provide a continuous route for pedestrians and cyclists to the development edges. The lane will be a shared surface route and the use of permeable surfaces will be encouraged. Kerb lines along the edges of the lane will meander to create an informal character. Parallel parking bays in places will reduce the carriageway width locally to control speeds.

Column mounted and bracketed fittings should be designed to restrict light pollution with hooded or shielded lamps. They should be part of a cohesive family of fittings. Lamps should provide a warm white light from a ceramic metal halide source.

Signage The signage philosophy will be as set out in part 1 of this document and kept to a minimum.

Key dimensions Design speed Carriageway width

On-street parking

Footpath width Reservation for services Privacy margin / front garden Street trees

Walking pace Variable 4.1m min, 6.0m clear space opposite perpendicular parking, 7.0m clear opposite garages. 2.0m wide parallel parking zones informally provided on open space edge. Shared within carriageway 1.0m zone within shared surface 1.0m wide grass verge outside front garden boundary Refer to landscape strategy for open space

Materials Carriageway: Tobermore ‘Fusion’ paver (or equivalent) laid in 45degree offset herring bone pattern.

Shared surface lane with flush kerb line

Kerbs: Reconstructed (or cast granite) conservation flush kerbs Defensible zone: Smooth rounded pebbles set in mortar or blue brick Special features: Granite setts rumble strip in transition area between street types. Special features: Where lanes about open space timber posts to be used to prevent parking on the greenway verge.

Narrowing of carriageway to slow vehicles to walking pace

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STREET TYPOLOGY MEWS / COURTS Description The mews courts incorporated within the perimeter block forms are primarily to accommodate resident’s car parking provision for the residents around it, in the form of either surface spaces or garages. They are designed as smaller scale, more intimate spaces. Part of the character of these streets will be that they have narrow entrances widening into the mews itself. Garden boundaries which are exposed to the mews court should be of 1.5 m high wall in stone, brick or render to match the house with a 0.3 m trellis on top. Rear gates to gardens should be close boarded of the same height as the garden boundary. As well as single storey garages or car ports, where courts are larger than 10 car spaces FOGS or mews houses should be introduced to achieve some passive surveillance. Where ever possible car spaces and garages should be associated with the dwelling. Bound gravel on private driveway

Where ever possible a building should be located opposite the entrance to car courts across the street to ensure that passive surveillance can be achieved. Small decorative species trees may be incorporated into the court to soften the space.

Key dimensions Design speed Carriageway width

Parking spaces

Footpath width Reservation for services Privacy margin Street trees

Walking pace Variable 4.1m min, 6.0m clear space opposite perpendicular parking, 7.0m clear opposite garages. 2.5m (min) x 5.0m. Where disabled spaces are required a 1.2m min additional transfer width is required. Shared within carriageway 1.0m zone within shared surface Defensible zone min 500mm Small species

Inspiration can be drawn from Stamford’s mews and lanes

Materials Carriageway/Parking Court: Tobermore ‘Hydropave Fusion’ permeable paver (or equivalent) laid in 45degree offset herring bone pattern. Kerbs: Reconstructed (or cast granite) conservations flush kerbs Defensible zone: Smooth rounded pebbles set in mortar or blue brick Special features: Parking bays demarcated by contrasting pavers or tarmac.

Lighting Lighting bracketed from corners of garages or mews houses. Recent local example of mews / court

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K STREET TYPOLOGY OTHER STREETS AND ROUTES In addition to the more traditional street typologies described above there are some further streets which have a very particular and distinct character as below.

BARNACK ROAD Barnack Road forms the southern edge to the development and the interface with existing development. This street provides access to the new development at St Martin’s Park via four existing junctions.

Key dimensions Design speed Carriageway width Parking spaces

40mph As existing As existing

Footpath width

Widened to accommodate pedestrian and cyclists movement between Park Lane and the Western residential access As existing / 1.0m zone within footpath Varies Medium / large species

Reservation for services Privacy margin Street trees

Materials Carriageway and footpath materials retained as existing.

Lighting and signage Street lighting along Barnack Road will remain as is today. Signage will generally be as set out in Part 1 of this document.

Barnack Road (looking east). Location (right side of street in the image) for improved cycle and pedestrian movement between Park Lane and Western residential access.

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STREET TYPOLOGY CYCLEWAYS AND FOOTPATHS

PARKLAND FOOTWAYS

A series of pedestrian routes and cycleways are proposed across the development area including the retention of the existing PROW. These are to be provided in accordance with the following design requirements:

Generally, footways will be 2m wide, minimum 1.2 metre wide. To be designed in a way that can be maintained to provide clear views from the footway centre line to either side for a minimum distance of 3.5 metres. Paths to drain into a grass verge or swales.

GREENWAYS Minimum 3 metre wide shared surface for cyclists and pedestrians. Greenways to be designed in a way that can be maintained to provide clear views from the greenway centre line to either side for a minimum distance of 3.5 metres. Clear views into open space will be maintained from the centre line for a further 5m by coppicing.

Material Self-binding stone surface, colour buff. On gradients of more than 1 in 15 dense bitumen macadam with a rolled bound gravel dressing, colour buff and shallower gradient alternatives to be provided for wheelchair users. Paths to be edged with pressure treated timber.

Material Self-binding stone surface, colour buff, edged with pressure treated timber

Informal footpath

Self-binding stone surface, colour buff., edged with pressure treated timber.

Pedestrian and cyclepath

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K STREET TYPOLOGY

Light should be used to create a sensory experience, creating a balance between well illuminated areas for desire lines but also allow low / reflected light in combination with street furniture and vegetation.

KEY SPACES AND SQUARES | COMMERCIAL SQUARE

Reflected light is encouraged over back-lit illuminated signs for commercial and retail signs.

The commercial square is a shared surface space on the Primary Street. In addition to the street characteristics set out for Primary Streets, this key space will be a level area surfaced as to appear as one coherent area. The vehicular zone will be set out by rows of paving bricks to match the width of drains. The vehicular zone must not be uniform in width but narrow in places to create a pedestrian focused and traffic calmed area. Tree planting in lined or bioretention tree pits, signage, seating, car charging points, parking and surface paving pattern will be designed to emphasise desire lines and guide movement without the need for signage. See more under Commercial Square in the Character area section of this document.

Key dimensions Design speed Carriageway width

On-street parking Footpath width Reservation for services Privacy margin / front garden Street trees

Walking pace Variable 4.1m min, 6.0m clear space opposite perpendicular parking, 7.0m clear opposite garages. 2.0m wide parallel parking zones Varies min 2.0m and level with carriageway 1.0m zone within footpath Min 0.5m pebbled or demarcated privacy strip Refer to landscape strategy for key spaces

Material Yorkshire paving slabs and bricks. Coloured macadam (buff colour to match York stone). Grey pervious paving. The surface materials considered are subject to approval from LCC Highways.

Lighting Lighting will be similar to Primary Streets but with the majority of lights bracketed from buildings. Low pressure sodium lamps should be avoided. Warm white light – ceramic metal halide or similar should be used. Lights can be used to highlight landmark building frontage but with consideration to prevent excessive light spillage. Light fittings should generally be part of a cohesive family but variations are encouraged to enhance the square’s own character.

Illustrative detail of Commercial square (see key on page overleaf)

Wall bracketed lighting

Shared surface and multi-use space

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STREET TYPOLOGY Building

KEY SPACES AND SQUARES | CENTRAL SQUARE

Grass / soft areas

The central square is a pedestrian space alongside the Main Street. In addition to the street characteristics set out for Primary Streets this key space will be a level area surfaced as to appear as one coherent area. Surface materials for this space must be considered with the design choices made for the shared surface area of Primary Streets and will be encouraged to encapsulate all areas from building-to-building. The vehicular zone must provide visual clues in surfacing and texture to achieve reduced vehicle speeds for pedestrian priority. Tree planting in lined or bio-retention tree pits will be used to frame space and seating and along with surface paving pattern emphasise desire lines to building entry points. See more under Central Square in the Character area section of this document.

Macadam Coloured macadam Traditional Tegula block paver Buff colour Tegula block paver Grey Tegula pervious paver Buff Tegula pervious paver

Key dimensions Design speed Carriageway width

On-street parking Footpath width Reservation for services Privacy margin / front garden

Street trees

York stone slabs

Walking pace Variable 4.1m min, 6.0m clear space opposite perpendicular parking, 7.0m clear opposite garages. 2.0m wide parallel parking zones / perpendicular parking bays Varies min 2.0m and level with carriageway 1.0m zone within footpath Min 0.5 m pebbled or demarcated privacy strip / Min 1.0 m low planting strip Refer to landscape strategy for key spaces

Tree Shrub & herbaceous planting Bio-retention area Water feature Seating / edge seating Dry swale Pebbles Flush or max 50mm raised kerb

Material Raised granite / conservation kerb

Yorkshire paving slabs and bricks. Coloured macadam (buff colour), resinbound surfacing gravel in buff colour. The surface materials considered are subject to approval from LCC Highways.

Lighting Lighting will be similar to Primary Streets with lights mounted on columns but more often bracketed from buildings. Low pressure sodium lamps should be avoided. Warm white light – ceramic metal halide or similar should be used. Light should be used to create a sensory experience, balancing adequate lighting for desire lines but also allow low / reflected light in combination with street furniture and vegetation to create guiding lights or beacons in the public space. Indirect or reflected light is encouraged over back-lit illuminated signs for commercial and retail signs. Illustrative detail of Central square (Central greenway)

Shared surface, flush kerb and tactile edging

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ST M A RTI N’S PA R K STREET TYPOLOGY KEY SPACES AND SQUARES | PLAY PARK The play park is a pocket park alongside the Secondary Street. In addition to the street characteristics set out for Secondary Streets, this key space will be a green area with natural play. Surface materials for the vehicular areas adjacent to this space must be considered with the design choices made for the shared surface area of Primary Streets. The vehicular zone must provide visual clues in surfacing and texture to achieve reduced vehicle speeds to encourage pedestrian crossing priority. See more under Play Park in the Character area section of this document.

Material Yorkshire paving slabs and bricks. Coloured macadam (buff colour), resinbound surfacing gravel in buff colour. The surface materials considered are subject to approval from LCC Highways.

Lighting Lighting will be similar to Secondary Streets with lights mounted on columns and bracketed from buildings. Low integrated wall lighting or bollards can be used as guiding light to keep overall lighting levels lower. Low pressure sodium lamps should be avoided. Warm white light – ceramic metal halide or similar should be used. Light should be integrated in the landscape design of the park and used to create a sensory experience whilst enabling safe play during the darker months of the year.

Street trees Refer to landscape strategy for key spaces

Natural and water play

Illustrative detail of Play park (see key on previous page)

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