The East Midlands Development Company have a vision for the three major development sites across the East Midlands. The see the Toton & Chetwynd development as “The Home of Next Generation Living and Working”. Go to their home page to take a closer look at their latest prospectus.
Chetwynd Barracks still contains a rich collection of Heritage buildings. The WWI Memorial for those civilians who lost their lives in the explosion in July 1918 (134 died, 250 injured) when the original site was National Shell Filling Factory No6 is today Grade 2 listed and is in a prominent position at the head of the memorial gardens. There are other buildings that are also original and date to the original site designed by Lord Chetwynd. They are: Building 157 (the former shell filled store), that you can see from Swiney way; Building 137 (the former infirmary); Building 125 (the former drawing offices, now command building); Building 101 (Woodside House, officers mess); Building 102 (Williams Barracks, the former press house) that is the prominent building up on the hill.
We would like to see where possible, these building preserved and given new leases of life that would benefit our community. As such we went through these buildings with the KEFA team and came up with our preferred options to be considered. As such KEFA went further and drew up potential plans to help us realise our ambitions, if feasible. The odd one out in this respect is Building 157. This is a 9 acre building. As such we have offered a series of options, with the “nuclear option” of taking it down, that we currently think would be the DIO’s option, in which case we have suggested a possible housing outcome as you will see.
As ever feel free to comment on these ideas or offer other solutions on the link attached and we will respond where we can and so all have access to the comments made.
This was an important asset that we needed to ensure would be included in the emerging development. As such we worked once more with KEFA on this subject informing them of our views and helping with our local knowledge of our area. KEFA took the lead and had meetings with the relevant medical authorities that helped shape this study and ensured it carried the correct gravitas, that we are very please to present to you as part of our series of studies that go to support our Design Codes and our Master Plan.
You will see in the study that it is very in depth, both in comparing other practices in the area and highlighting the fact that a health centre is essential and its location identified within the Chetwynd site fully supported.
As ever please feel free to comment on the attached link and we will endeavor to feedback accordingly. The information will remain live on this link, so all can peruse at your leisure.
Just a couple of things this week.
The Forum is working with Students at Nottingham University to see if there is an opportunity for a “Community Energy” project in the area. They have created a brief questionnaire to move the project forward. Your views would be appreciated
We would similarly appreciate your views on the next of our Masterplan Supporting documents. Continue Reading …
We took this on as we need to identify what sort of community assets we would like to see, the number, and where we thought they would be best situated. So once more we sat down with the team from KEFA, our consultants, and came up with the following study.
It’s pretty much self explanatory, as it goes through the different assets one by one, including schools, medical centre, etc.. You would have seen some of these incorporated into the Design Codes document and on our Master Plan document, as you appreciate by now how these documents are all interlinked together.
The Heritage Assets have their own Study that will be shared very soon as part of this ongoing series.
Please comment on the attached link with your thoughts and ideas. We will try to respond where we can so all can see the responses and points raised.
To make your comments and look at the other reports go to the Design Codes & Masterplans Page
Our volunteers are working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen here.
This was one of the CTTCNF’s most subjective studies, as everyone has their own opinion of what constitutes a “nice” house or home. We’ve spent considerable time on this subject and my guess is that some of you will like some of the designs and others will not be so keen.
The Housing Types study & community consultation revealed getting new housing as a big issue locally. There are four key priorities highlighted by the community for the housing types to address:
1. The community would like to see appropriate housing sizes and types to diversify the housing stock of the area. This is to provide for young people and downsizers which will free up under-occupied large homes for families.
2. The community wants to maximise protected green space in their area. This means housing typologies of higher density than the norm for the area should be considered to reduce land coverage.
3. CTTCNF are keen that all development including new housing stock be designed & built to industry leading sustainability standards.
4. Linked to priority 3 CTTCNF wants to minimise site build time by utilising Modern Methods of Construction & off site modular/panellised systems.
The main considerations were to ensure the homes will be of “21st Century” design and cutting edge, not still using outdated construction methods. We would like to see truly affordable homes, using Modern Methods of Construction such as Modular builds. The homes will be built to the highest standards, with all the modern fitments, solar, air/ground source heating etc. as standard.
To ensure all members of our community are catered for a mix of homes is needed which we have included into this study and in our Design Codes document and our Masterplan.
Really don’t want to see developments of more tiny expensive boxy houses?
We need the local community to support us so please do comment on the attached link. This is our chance to make the difference and to let future developers know exactly what we would like to see built in our area.
Click here to see the Design Codes, Masterplan and other peoples’ comments
Following on in our series of support documents to our Design Codes we are please to share the Housing Numbers Study Document. As you will be aware Broxtowe Borough Council has set housing targets in its Local Plan (4,500 homes on Chetwynd Barracks and Strategic Land for Growth (SLG)), that we have been closely working with both within our Neighbourhood Plan and our subsequent Master Plan. In order to facilitate these numbers we needed to understand the best place to locate the housing and what type of housing to consider. One of our main considerations was the fact we wanted to ensure we maximised the green space within our area and realised that to do this we had to consider “built up” areas and apartment living to succeed in our aim. Another was the changing profile of the population with more smaller households. By using this study, it helped inform our Master Plan and Design Design Codes. (One area of complexity is that the Neighbourhood Area excludes part of the SLG. Broxtowe have never identified how many homes are proposed for the two parts of the SLG)
You will see that the Study includes the “Character Areas” and as such mirrors all of the work we have done up to this point. It is also important to reiterate that these are our suggestions and visions, nothing here is set in stone, as we do not have detailed survey’s of the area, particularly Chetwynd Barracks, as surveying is still going on by the DIO (Defence Infrastructure Organisation). This was an exercise to see if we could balance the tricky task of ensuring the housing was massed in the best way possible.
As ever, please feel to comment on the attached link and we will ensure we try to respond accordingly in due course.
Some of the Steering Group are hoping to meet with EMDevCo and/or their consultants during the week starting 10th April 2023 for an initial meeting to discuss “Design Codes”. If you have any comments on the Neighbourhood Forum Design Codes, read them on the Design Codes page and fill in the comments form or email us at assist.cttcnf@gmail.com.
Similarly if you have any comments on the EMDevCo High Level Design Codes, let them know.
On Monday this week we received a further Procedural Letter from the Examiner setting out information in relation to the next steps for the Independent Examination of the Neighbourhood Plan. She has suggested that there should be a “proportionate opportunity for those who responded at the earlier Regulation 16 consultation stage (and all those who took part in the hearing session in November 2022) to submit any relevant comments” on the proposed modifications made to the Plan.
Unfortunately because of the Local Elections in May, and purdah now in force, this will be delayed until later in May. The Examiner will provide instructions to ourselves and Broxtowe Borough Council once the elections are over as to how this additional consultation should operate. We will of course update the Plan page and inform everyone once these instructions have been received.
Local Heritage List
It was noted during the Independent Examination hearing of the Neighbourhood Plan that Broxtowe didn’t have a list of local heritage assets. We have of course included our own list for the Area within the Plan, some of which are included in the Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record (see Chetwynd HER Report and Chetwynd Site HER Map). However, Broxtowe have now started to produce a borough wide list, which will give greater protection to heritage assets that are listed locally.
The Beeston and District Civic Society are working with Broxtowe to include heritage assets within the wider Beeston area and across Broxtowe, see here. If you have suggestions for any heritage assets within the borough that you think should be on the list, then please do so via this BDCS page, or email LHL.beestoncivicsociety@gmail.com
The Forum has already provided the list given in the Plan (currently within appendix II, but will move to within the relevant policy in the modified Plan), plus supporting documents detailing those assets and their historical/heritage value.
As always please do feel free to ask any questions you may have on this or anything else via the Contact Us page, and we’ll do our best to answer them via the Questions and Answers page.
As Promised, we wanted to send out the support documents that helped us inform the Design Codes revealed on March 26th 2023. So here is our Interactive Master Plan and the same Masterplan with the background words to help you digest the Master Plan itself.
The Master Plan idea was one of the first ideas we worked upon with KEFA, our planning consultants. The idea being to show a quick reference to all of the ideas on one plan, so in fact, bringing it to life. This is the latest iteration, although it carries the same caveat as the Design Codes, in that it preceded the results of the IRP and Neighbourhood Plan examination, but we are happy to release this piece of work to allow you to see some of the possibilities and suggestions we have put forward for the development of the Toton and Chetwynd area.
The Interactive Master Plan should work by simply “clicking on” the respective areas within the plan area that will reveal the text explaining what you are looking at. This in turn should also now relate to the previous Design Codes document previously sent.
As ever please feel free to make comment to the attached link and let us know your thoughts and we will respond accordingly in due course. Please note, as with the Design Codes, we are seeking further funding to update and extend the Masterplan.
Please watch this space for further updates.
