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URBAN REGENERATION 2015 SECTOR GUIDE

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CONTENTS

2015 SECTOR GUIDE

URBAN REGENERATION Redactive Publishing Ltd 17 Britton Street, London EC1M 5TP 020 7880 6200

4 Urban regeneration in numbers

Profiles 14 PROFILE: Line Planning

5 Introduction EDITORIAL Tel: 020 7324 2736 editorial@theplanner.co.uk Editor Martin Read Features editor Simon Wicks Reporter Laura Edgar Consultant editor Huw Morris Sub-editor Deborah Shrewsbury Picture editor Claire Echavarry Consultant creative director Mark Parry A D V E RT I S I N G & MARKETING Senior sales executive Lee-Anne Walsh – 020 7324 2753 Senior sales executive Darren Hale 020 7880 6206 Recruitment sales Sabmitar Bal — 020 7880 7665

15 PROFILE: Pegasus Group

Issues 6 Policy

16 CASE STUDY: Nicholas Pearson

7 Legal

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17 CASE STUDY: Liz Lake Associates

8 Financial 9 Demographic

18 CASE STUDY: Adams Urbanism

10 Community 11 Influential People

19 CASE STUDY: Prince’s Trust

16 12 Resources

P RO D U C T I ON Production manager Jane Easterman Senior production executive Aysha Miah PUBLISHING Publishing director Joanna Marsh SUBSCRIPTIONS Ryan.hadden@redactive.co.uk

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INFO: REGENERATION IN NUMBERS THE REGENERATION INVESTMENT ORGANISATION (RIO) WAS SET UP IN 2013 TO ATTRACT OVERSEAS INVESTORS INTO UK REGENERATION PROJECTS.

£25.235BN TOTAL ‘GROSS DEVELOPMENT VALUE’ OF PROJECTS

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UK REGENERATION PROJECTS IN THE RIO PIPELINE

£5BN

£2BN £75BN

THE LIVERPOOL WATERS REGENERATION IS THE BIGGEST PROJECT ON THE RIO LIST AND FORMS PART OF THE

LONDON’S LARGEST PROJECT ON THE RIO LIST IS THE NEW COVENT GARDEN MARKET REGENERATION, TO PROVIDE 2,800 NEW HOMES AND 115,000 SQ FT OF COMMERCIAL ACCOMMODATION

SCOTLAND NORTHERN IRELAND Scotland

ATLANTIC GATEWAY PROJECT TO DEVELOP A 40­MILE STRATEGIC CORRIDOR FROM LIVERPOOL TO MANCHESTER

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NUMBER OF RIO PROJECTS IN SCOTLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND AND WALES, TOTALLING £7.503BN GDV. THE LARGEST IS GLASGOW’S

Northern Ireland

UNITED KINGDOM IRELAND England Wales

£2.7BN

CLYDE GATEWAY REGENERATION WALES

SOURCE: REGENERATION INVESTMENT ORGANISATION. FIGURES CORRECT AS AT 12 FEBRUARY 2015 FIND OUT MORE: HTTP://BIT.LY/1C6NR6T

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INTRODUCTION

A SNAPSHOT OF URBAN REGENERATION IN 2015

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Martin Read Editor, The Planner

“EACH GUIDE DISTILS THE POLICY, LEGAL, FINANCIAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY ISSUES INFLUENCING DEBATE AND PRACTICE” theplanner.co.uk

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ou hold in your hand the first in The Planner’s series of A5 ‘snapshot guides’ to specific aspects of planning activity. As we have others planned, and since this is the first of its kind, I’ll use this column as an explanation of what you can expect to find.

Each guide is a distillation of the policy, legal, financial, demographic, cultural and community issues influencing debate and practice as relevant in the year of publication. Designed as a quick-facts desktop reference, these guides are for those wanting to know the factors influencing the sector a year either side of publication. So you’ll find an assessment of activity over the past 12 months and an assessment of the issues set to influence the 12 months yet to come. When someone in 2020 picks up this 2015 guide, readers wanting to compare now with then will find these guides the perfect way to assess the challenges of the day – those that are new, and those that remain stubbornly in place. Readers should be able to frame the development of the sector from one year to the next.

So, this snapshot guide highlights the reports published in the past 12 months; the themes influencing decision-making; and the people influencing thinking and activity in the sector. Next year, the 2016 version of this guide will update each element. Compare and contrast.

You’ll also find a number of case studies from planning consultancies active in the field – these guides are as much a showcase for them and their work as they are a reference product.

As for this first guide’s topic, so much has been published over the past year that it’s difficult to pick a single defining ‘moment’. Issues surrounding the realities of brownfield development, the prospect of increased city region governance and the not inconsiderable matter of an impending general election have all loomed large. So too has the need for creativity and compromise in order to make the most of the space in our cities. The RTPI itself has published a range of research papers in the past 12 months which seek to bring these issues to the fore, not least its Planning Horizons paper on Creating Economically Successful Places.

I hope you enjoy the format of this guide. We’ll be tweaking it as we get up to speed, so if you think we’re missing a trick in how we present this information – or if you just want to suggest new sectors for us to focus on – then please contact us at editorial@theplanner.co.uk Finally a request. If you represent a consultancy and would like to see examples of your work displayed in our next guide – which focuses on heritage planning – get in touch. using the details on pages 20 and 21.

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POLICY

FINDING A MORE FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT

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egeneration was a key Labour government policy, with many programmes to improve the physical environment, promote new jobs, revamp homes and tackle worklessness and anti-social behaviour.

The coalition swept away almost all, mainly for financial reasons.

This has had the possibly unintended effect of freeing localities to design their own regeneration programmes without having to fit into national ones, financed from sources including planning gain, public borrowing, business rates retention or resulting from infrastructure investment.

Localism was the coalition’s big idea in planning, intended to remove central and regional direction and to win public consent for development both through neighbourhood plans and financial rewards from the

New Homes Bonus (NHB).

“PLACES ARE SO DIFFERENT THAT YOU CANNOT REALLY COME UP WITH A SINGLE REGENERATION POLICY FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY”

Cuts in national programmes have not been entirely unpopular in the regeneration community as there are no longer national programmes to which areas must bid against preset criteria not necessarily tailored to their needs.

As Centre For Cities has noted: “It allows for spending to be targeted at issues relevant to each city economy, as cities develop the best approaches and learn from each other, and incentives for local growth, assuming fiscal devolution, allows cities to retain a certain level of improved local tax receipts.”

Waheed Nazir, director of regeneration at Birmingham City Council, says: “In the past we had very prescriptive ways of doing regeneration that set down the routes that could be taken with New Deal for Communities, City Challenge and so on.

“Now there is more flexibility and you can work at a sub-regional level. Places are so different that you cannot really come up with a single regeneration policy for the whole country.”

Debates remain about whether this localisation of regeneration has benefited areas that are relatively prosperous anyway, leaving the most deprived without easy access to funds.

Another unresolved debate is that over place-based versus person-based interventions.

Some argue that work needs to be focused on individuals’ needs rather than whole areas.

The RTPI has made the case for place-based initiatives in its Thinking Spatially publication, arguing that spatial planning can avoid the failures of previous place-based initiatives by making them more spatially sensitive.

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LEGAL

DEVOLVING POWERS WILL CHANGE LEGAL LANDSCAPE

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lthough this year’s Infrastructure Act 2015 included some reforms peripheral to regeneration, the real change came not in formal legislation but in how the government and councils began to use existing laws to devolve powers and create combined authorities.

This process has gone furthest in Greater Manchester, where the 10 boroughs have won powers from the government including over health, transport, a housing investment fund and an ‘earn back’ facility to profit from economic growth.

Other conurbations from north-east England to southern Hampshire are pushing for similar deals, as are some counties, but each is intended to differ according to local circumstances.

This builds on the series of locally tailored City Deals and Growth Deals concluded by the government with localities.

With the abolition of the regional development agencies in 2011, combined authorities could become the vehicles for sub-regional regeneration.

How they will fit with the coalition’s creation of 39 local enterprise partnerships – intended to cover functional economic areas across administrative boundaries – remains less than clear.

Neil McInroy, chief executive Centre for Local Economic Strategies, says: “The big legislative issue is devolution to cities and moving powers to them.

“If that takes off it might allow these issues to be tackled more effectively with policies devised locally.”

One specific coalition initiative to promote regeneration has been the enterprise zones, in which there has been an early introduction of tax increment financing, which allows local authorities to borrow for infrastructure projects against the future growth in business rate receipts that will result from these.

Also sure to influence regeneration, though not yet the subject of specific legislation, is the government’s drive for garden cities, with the implication that housing demand will be met in standalone semi-rural developments rather than from the regeneration of urban brownfield sites as in the past.

So far Bicester and Ebbsfleet have been designated as garden cities, but neither is a real trial of the idea – the former being four existing urban extension projects and the latter a long-stalled proposal for villages adjacent to Kent’s Bluewater retail complex.

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FINANCIAL

WHERE WILL THE CASH FOR REGENERATION COME FROM?

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“COUNCIL TAX REMAINS UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT MUCH REGENERATION AS IT’S EFFECTIVELY CAPPED”

ike much else, finance for regeneration has been scarce since the banking crisis of 2008 and most programmes that distributed money from Whitehall have stopped.

Private credit and public spending constraints have limited the appetite for large-scale physical led regeneration - with exceptions like the site of the London 2012 Olympic Games - and instead encouraged more targeted investment.

With local government also short of cash, money for regeneration has largely come from planning gain – section 106 agreements or the community infrastructure levy, for example.

The New Homes Bonus has been a two-edged sword. As part of the local government finance system it pays money into areas with active house building, but takes it from those without this.

Because the latter are very often areas that would have benefited from past regeneration programmes, this has led to criticism that the bonus is regressive – indeed, shadow communities secretary Hilary Benn has said Labour would scrap it.

Local authorities can now retain part of business rates income, a system designed to give them a stake in encouraging economic growth.

The abolition of the old housing finance system has freed up councils to an extent to borrow against future rent streams to improve their homes, but councils are pressing for the removal of all remaining restrictions such that they could use this source as they do any other security for prudential borrowing.

Council tax remains unlikely to support much regeneration as it’s effectively capped. Any increase above 2 per cent requires endorsement by a local referendum, a step no local authority has dared take.

With regeneration increasingly left to market forces there are concerns about whether schemes necessarily help the deprived areas in which they take place.

In London in particular there is controversy about new homes going for higher prices and rents than existing residents cannot afford, leading to gentrification that might improve an area’s physical appearance but brings little benefit to its original inhabitants.

Private renting may become more important given the continued squeeze on mortgage lending and lack of public money to build social housing. Politicians perennially wish to attract large investment funds into a sector still dominated by small landlords.

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DEMOGRAPHIC

IMPLICATIONS OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC ‘TIME­BOMB’ The impact of an ageing society dwarfs other demographic issues, because as baby boomers get older the number of economically inactive or semi-active people that the working-age population must support will continue to grow.

This economic balancing act will become harder to maintain, unless younger people are provided with the necessary skills and jobs.

An ageing society will lead to demand for homes designed for the needs of the less mobile and active, either as part of existing settlements and close to shops and amenities, or perhaps in standalone retirement

villages.

Coastal towns tend to fare poorly economically and have been

“THERE IS AN IMBALANCE BETWEEN PLACES THAT ARE GROWING AND PLANNING TO EXPAND”

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the object of many regeneration initiatives, but some have successfully cultivated the market for retirees and care homes.

Thus, while some places may benefit from the arrival of retired people, deprived areas may be left with a predominantly retired population as any younger people who can do so leave to find work.

McInroy says: “In some areas depopulation of working-age people has taken place as jobs have gone, leaving behind an older population.”

Conversely, the more successful cities are becoming more youthful, in particular those where the creative and information technology industries are king.

Bailey says: “The ageing society is important, but in cities we are seeing some become more youthful and growing as they create jobs, in particular in the creative industries and IT.” This creates pressure for single-person flats, leisure facilities and catering outlets, but can also see a loss of families to sustain schools and traditional shops, as seen in areas prone to ‘studentification’.

Larger-than-average families are common in some ethnic minority communities, McInroy notes, and becuse they predominantly live in urban areas this will create demand for more homes and schools.

There is an imbalance between places that are growing and planning to expand – where property price rises may lead to physical improvement by gentrification – and others that are losing population and stuck in a downward economic spiral dominated by older and/or poorer people and in need of regeneration investment now hard to access.

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COMMUNITY

THE FINE ART OF CREATING ‘COMMUNITY COHESION’

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“THERE ARE RUMOURS – NO MORE – OF A SIMILAR PAYMENT­ BY­RESULTS APPROACH BEING APPLIED TO OTHER SOCIAL PROBLEMS”

ommunity regeneration was always the hardest kind to promote and evaluate – it is not always self-evident that a community has been ‘regenerated’.

The Labour government created the former Social Exclusion Unit to try to tackle ingrained worklessness and disadvantage in deprived communities. It was also concerned with measures to build community capacity in areas where this was weak or absent.

That approach was ended by the coalition, with one significant exception. As McInroy puts it: “There used to be New Deal for Communities and other programmes to try to tackle the culture of worklessness, but that has been abandoned and the approach now seems to be that this can only be improved by increasing employment, but that doesn’t take account of deep-rooted cultural issues.”

The exception is the Troubled Families programme, under which the government in 2012 offered local authorities £448 million over three years on a payment-by-results basis. Progress was judged by how effectively they helped 120,000 families identified as ‘troubled’ because of truancy, involvement in youth crime and worklessness.

Having been the subject of several favourable evaluations, the programme was last year extend to pre-school age children. There are rumours – no more – of a similar payment-by-results approach being applied to other social problems.

The other main emphasis of the previous government’s social exclusion work concerned the integration of ethnic minority communities under the banner of ‘community cohesion’.

Some local authorities maintain similar activity, but this government interest is largely concentrated in the Prevent programme for combating violent extremism. As Nick Bailey, professor of urban regeneration at the University of Westminster, says: “In community cohesion, the formal programmes have largely gone.”

McInroy notes: “We now just have Prevent, which is all about tackling extremism. But you need something to deal with neighbourhood cohesion issues that are not related to that.”

Under previous programmes there were resources devoted to building community capacity – training people to do things for themselves and to take an interest in and responsibility for their area. Some of this approach survives in the coalition’s legislation that allows communities to take over land and buildings deemed of ‘community value’.

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INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE

GREG CLARK, MINISTER OF STATE FOR UNIVERSITIES, SCIENCE AND CITIES Originally the coalition government’s decentralisation minister, Clark has been the driving force behind City Deals and devolution and settles disputes between Whitehall departments over what may be devolved.

The Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells has long been interested in this field and is likely to remain active in or out of office.

GEORGE FERGUSON, ELECTED MAYOR, BRISTOL Bristol’s independent elected mayor is an architect by background and oversees the regeneration of a core city, including the £500 million Knowle West framework. Bristol was the only core city to choose an elected mayoralty in the 2012 referendums and will be watched to see if this is more effective at driving regeneration than the traditional council model.

ALEXANDRA JONES, CHIEF EXECUTIVE CENTRE FOR CITIES The leading think tank on urban issues, led by Jones since 2010, the centre will launch three work streams this year looking to the next comprehensive spending review on how cities can deal with continued austerity, the reasons why people and businesses choose certain locations and how cities will change over the next decade. theplanner.co.uk

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SIR RICHARD LEESE, LEADER, MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL After 18 years as Manchester City Council’s Labour leader, Sir Richard led the ‘devo Manc’ deal for the first major devolution from Whitehall to a city region combined authority, initially over economic development and transport, but later extended to include health. Other conurbations are watching and envying.

ALISON MUNRO, HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT FOR HS2 The High Speed 2 line from London to Birmingham, and later Leeds and Manchester, was conceived to drive economic growth in the North and Midlands and will engender massive regeneration. HS3 from Leeds and Manchester is expected to follow. HS2 is also stimulating large-scale regeneration in West London through a development corporation for Old Oak Common.

WAHEED NAZIR, DIRECTOR OF REGENERATION AT BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL Nazir controls one of the largest urban regeneration budgets and is masterminding such major projects in the heart of Birmingham as Paradise Circus and Arena Central and the extension of the region’s metro rail in the city.

He is also a pioneer of using tax increment financing (TIF) to support regeneration.

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REPORTS, RESOURCES AND ORGANISATIONS RESEARCH AND POLICY

Greater London Authority

ORGANISATIONS

RTPI (Planning Horizons series)

London Infrastructure Plan 2050 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen09

RTPI regeneration network http://www.rtpi.org.uk/knowledge/ networks/regeneration/

Creating Economically Successful Places – November 2014 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen01

Institute of Public Policy Research

Making Better Decisions for Places ­ November 2014 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen02

Decentralisation Decade – September 2014 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen10

All Party Urban Development Group

Policy Exchange

www.allparty.org/all­party­groups/ urban­development Going for Growth: Reviewing the Effectiveness of Government Growth Initiatives tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen03

Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) www.cpre.org.uk

From Wasted Space to Living Places ­ November 2014 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen04

Centre for Cities

www.centreforcities.org Cities Outlook Report 2015 ­ January 2015 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen05 Industrial Revolutions: Capturing the Growth Potential ­ July 2014 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen06

The Estate We’re In: Lessons from the Front Line – August 2014 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen11

ResPublica

www.respublica.org.uk Restoring Britain’s City States: Devolution, public service reform and local economic growth tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen12

RSA City Growth Commission Unleashing metro growth – October 2014 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen13 Powers to Grow: City Finance and Governance – September 2014 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen14

University of Southampton

Academy of Urbanism www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/ All Party Urban Development Group www.allparty.org/all­party­groups/ urban­development Centre for Cities www.centreforcities.org/ Core Cities www.corecities.com Create Streets www.createstreets.com/ Future of London www.futureoflondon.org.uk Future Cities Catapult www.futurecities.catapult.org.uk Policy Exchange www.policyexchange.org.uk/ Regeneration Investment Organisation tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen16 SURF – Scotland’s independent regeneration network http://www.scotregen.co.uk/

High Street Performance and Evolution: A guide to the evidence http://tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen15

Future of London

www.futureoflondon.org.uk Estate Renewal in the Real World – January 2015 (with New London Architecture and Urban Design London) tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen07 Delivering Infill Development – January 2015 tinyurl.com/UrbanRegen08

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PROFILES + CASE STUDIES 14 Line Planning

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P R O F I L E : L I N E P L A N N I N G LT D

LINE PLANNING LINE PLANNING LTD 12­14 Berry Street London EC1V 0AU T: 020 7281 6248 M: 07718 588735 E: liz.loughran@ lineplanning.com Web www.lineplanning.com Twitter @LizLinePlanning Linkedin Liz Loughran

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OUR COMPANY ine Planning Ltd was set up in 2012. We offer town planning and environmental planning services for development and infrastructure. We distinguish our services by combining our planning and legal know-how on projects. We bring solutions that are well grounded in policy, law, and design. We make planning applications advising on project planning from inception to delivery. We have experience of working on planning appeals at all levels including the courts. We have a fantastic record of success.

We draft policy papers to assist clients with strategic positioning from local plans to Parliamentary proposals including Hybrid Bills. We advise businesses on corporate and planning obligations linked to development and all forms of sustainability. We advise on Green Belt development and AONBs. Notable experience includes Crossrail, High Speed 2 (HS2, roads including M3 Twyford Down and the Newbury Bypass, London hotel and residential developments. Airport experience spans Manchester, London Southend, and Charles de Gaulle. We deliver planning proposals for renewables and advise on sustainable energy planning.

We give advice on the relationship between planning, environmental and public law also advising councils and politicians across the country.

Line Planning works with other businesses, architects, engineers, and public affairs companies. The company is managed by Liz Loughran, director, who is a dual qualified town planner and former solicitor including City law firms. Liz has advised the Mayor of London and London councils.

Contact us regarding your development proposal, legal issue or appeal.

We also offer training.

“We draft policy papers to assist clients with strategic positioning from Local Plans to Parliamentary proposals including Hybrid Bills.”

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PROFILE: PEGASUS GROUP

PEGASUS GROUP 5 The Priory, Old London Road, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, B75 5SH CONTACT: Tony Bateman T: 0121 308 9570 E: birmingham@ pegasuspg.co.uk Web www.pegasuspg.co.uk Twitter @PegasusPG Linkedin Pegasus Group ­ Consultancy Other offices Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cirencester East Midlands Leeds London Manchester

PEGASUS GROUP

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OUR COMPANY stablished in 2003, Pegasus Group has expanded over the past 12 years and is now one of the leading independent national planning consultancies. The company specialises in town, environmental, renewable, sustainability and retail planning; urban, landscape, and graphic design; and public consultation.

Operating from offices in Birmingham, Bracknell, Bristol, Cambridge, Cirencester, East Midlands, Leeds, London and Manchester, and with more than 230 staff throughout the UK, Pegasus prides itself on providing a service that is second to none and by employing specialists we can ensure optimal results and outstanding service.

Pegasus has been involved in some of the country’s highest-profile development proposals, providing expertise to our national and international clients.

Our teams have an acute understanding of the changing nature of planning policy, at local and national level, as such we are able to inform and advise clients upon the implications of emerging planning and environmental planning policy, thus offering the most informed and sustainable solutions.

In response to the needs of our clients, Pegasus Group continues to evolve and expand the services available and now has in-house heritage, arboriculture, architecture and housing market specialists. These experts complement our core planning, design, environment and economic services.

Our experience is essential when addressing the specific needs and aspirations of our clients, when realising the opportunities and confronting the constraints generated by proposed developments.

“Pegasus has been involved in some of the country’s highest-profile development proposals, providing expertise to our national and international clients.” theplanner.co.uk

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CASE STUDY: NICHOLAS PEARSON ASSOCIATES

NICHOLAS PEARSON ASSOCIATES LTD.

Simon Kale, Managing Director 30 Brock Street Bath BA1 2LN Tel: +44 (0)1225 445548 Email: Info@npaconsult.co.uk www: www.npaconsult.co.uk LinkedIn http://tinyurl.com/ NicholasPearson

Our Services • Landscape Design • Site appraisals • Historic research • Development of concept designs • Production of scheme vision documents • Scheme visualisations • Stakeholder consultation and information boards • Attendance at information days • Liaison with statutory authorities and accessibility groups • Evaluation of paving stone supply options • Detailed designs for tender and construction stages • On­going site support to contractors

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icholas Pearson Associates’ track record of designing for urban regeneration continues with the revitalisation of a number of historic spaces within the City of Bath.

The Project: NPA was appointed through the Local Authority’s ‘Bath Transport Package’ to lead the creative design and assist in the delivery of urban regeneration schemes throughout the city centre. The High Street and setting of the Guild Hall and Abbey was completed in 2013 with further phases of work to Stall Street, Lower Borough Walls and Seven Dials beginning construction in January 2015.

Its impact: The work establishes a vision for change from the adopted ‘Public Realm and Movement Strategy’ including the transformation of streets to enhance public life, improve movement, stimulate the local economy, and to raise the quality of the urban fabric within the World Heritage Site. Each scheme redresses the balance between vehicular and non-vehicular users with footways enlarged, desire lines improved, clutter removed and ‘shared space’ principles introduced.

The Results: The completed High Street provides a stunning setting to the historic architecture and with works beginning on the next two project phases, the vision for the City of Bath’s public realm regeneration continues to take shape in 2015.

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CASE STUDY: LIZ LAKE ASSOCIATES

LIZ LAKE ASSOCIATES

Western House Chapel Hill Stansted Essex CM24 8AG Twitter @lizlakedesigner www: www.lizlake.com Email: office@lizlake.com Tel: +44 (0)1279 647044 Sean Vessey – Director Mark Flatman – Director

Our Company We are landscape architects with a truly holistic approach. We have a fresh vision and a portfolio we are truly proud of.

Our experience and reputation for paying tremendous attention to detail are good reasons to get in touch. We’ll do all we can to help.

Our Services • Landscape Design • Residential Landscape Design • Landscape Planning • Public Realm • Community • Heritage Landscapes • Restoration & Conversion • Leisure • Expert Witness • Ecology • Arboriculture • 3D / Graphic Design • Education • Masterplanning • Gardens & Estates • Retail

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THE MARCONI SITE, CHELMSFORD CITY CENTRE

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he Marconi Site is a mixed-use quarter in the heart of Chelmsford city centre. A design-led scheme for 437 new apartments and houses, as well as a range of flexible commercial uses, is proposed on the derelict Marconi factory site, which was the world’s first purposebuilt radio factory and location of the first transatlantic radio transmission.

The Project: The proposed scheme provides a new direct pedestrian and cycle route through the site, linking the train station in the south-west with Anglia Ruskin University and New Street to the north-east. This route delivers a key design objective in improving permeability in this part of the city centre..

Intended impact: The design brings together residential, commercial and amenity functions within a restricted condensed location. Integration with the context encourages use by the public by providing exciting public realm of a high quality. Private and public spaces are clearly defined using subtle hard and soft landscaping details. A new urban garden forms the principal communal amenity space in the heart of the development suitable for a range of programmes. Two roof terraces are essential to provide private amenity space for apartment dwellings and all residential terraced houses include private garden space.

A dynamic triangular shaped piazza will provide a commercial focus for the scheme in the south-western part of the site and features active commercial frontages within a vibrant retail hub.

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CASE STUDY: ADAM ARCHITECTURE

ADAM ARCHITECTURE

Old Hyde House 75 Hyde Street Winchester SO23 7DW

6 Queen Square London W1CN 3AT 01962 843843 www. adamarchitecture.com Twitter: @adamarchitectur Facebook: ADAM Architecture

OUR COMPANY ADAM Architecture is one of the leading practitioners of traditional and progressive architecture and contextual urbanism.

The practice is run by five directors: Robert Adam, Nigel Anderson, Paul Hanvey, Hugh Petter and George Saumarez Smith.

The portfolio of projects includes new town and country houses; conversions and renovations; historic, protected and Listed buildings; commercial and institutional buildings; masterplans and new urban extensions.

NEW PAVILION PORTICO AT THE KIA OVAL, LONDON

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bold new entrance forecourt at The Kia Oval, home to Surrey County Cricket Club and owned by The Duchy of Cornwall, includes a four-storey brick and stone portico on the existing pavilion, redevelopment of public realm previously occupied by turnstiles, and a banqueting suite on the site of the original Surrey Tavern.

The project: Surrey County Cricket Club’s brief was to redevelop the southern frontage, to open its entrance to the borough of Lambeth, to be inclusive and welcoming to its visitors. Throughout the development process, local residents and club members were consulted.

The Hobbs Gate, designed in 1934 by Duchy of Cornwall architect Louis de Soissons, has been restored and relocated as a new entrance into the ground. On axis with and below the backdrop of the new portico, visitors pass through into a new public square with handheld ticket scanners replacing cramped turnstiles. This has improved access, eased pedestrian congestion and provided a better experience for visitors.

Two staircases lead up to a first-floor terrace, set below a third-floor terrace supported by five-metre high Corinthian columns. The column capitals are styled on the Prince of Wales’s feathers, also depicted on the badge of Surrey County Cricket Club. The entablature above the columns is decorated by two large stone urns, replicating the iconic Ashes urn.

Commenting on the completed scheme, Club CEO Richard Gould said it had “Inspired a feeling of pride within the club staff, as well as the local community”.

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CASE STUDY: THE PRINCE’S REGENERATION TRUST

THE PRINCE’S REGENERATION TRUST

14 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0QP

Tel: 020 3262 0566 Web: www.princesregenera­ tion.org https://www.facebook. com/princesregen­ eration Twitter: @PrincesRegen Key individual: Ros Kerslake, Chief Executive

OUR COMPANY The Prince’s Regeneration Trust is a world­leading regeneration charity that rescues and reuses important UK buildings at risk of being lost through demolition or decay for the benefit of the surrounding community.

OUR SERVICES PRT offers expert advice, project management services and technical work to developers, local authorities, government bodies and other organisations on a cost recovery basis through our social enterprise company.

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MIDDLEPORT POTTERY, STOKE­ON­TRENT

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iddleport Pottery is one of the UK’s oldest working Victorian potteries, and has been the home of world-famous Burleigh pottery since 1888. In June 2011, The Prince’s Regeneration Trust (PRT) stepped in to save it from closure and ensure that Burleigh stayed in Stoke.

The issue: In 2010, the site was at risk of closure. The historic fabric was in a state of disrepair and it seemed Burleigh might move out of Burslem, losing a precious piece of British industry. Local jobs and buildings were at risk, which would mean Stoke suffering a blow to its industrial heritage.

The project: In June 2011, PRT put together a £9million private and public funding package to acquire the site and embark on a three-year restoration and regeneration project. A programme of training and educational activities to boost the skills of the local community, including apprenticeships and heritage construction training for residents, was instigated. The site is a catalyst for the wider regeneration of Burslem.

The results: The Pottery was opened by PRT president, HRH The Prince of Wales, in July 2014 and is now a major visitor destination.

The restoration has allowed Burleigh to remain on-site as a tenant, safeguarding 50 local jobs and creating 66 more. The Pottery’s unused buildings have been transformed into a café, a gallery, a heritage visitor centre, workshops, enterprise space, and craft and community areas. We are running tours of the Burleigh factory, supported by local volunteers.

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SECTOR SNAPSHOT GUIDES Throughout 2015 The Planner is publishing several desktop reference guides, covering key sectors from urban regeneration to conservation, transport to major infrastructure. Each is targeted at planners and professionals of all types, offering a snapshot of the issues affecting the sector in the current year and the events likely to influence it in the year to come. Case studies and details of planning consultancies in the field are also showcased.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF THESE GUIDES PLEASE CONTACT

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Make sure your recent work and contact details appear in these new planning consultancy reference guides

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■ Ecology

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