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.
As you would have seen in the Design Codes document and Master Plan there is what you may consider a strange road layout arrangement at Bardills Roundabout. This was a very early idea that took into consideration the advent of HS2 as part of the bigger picture, the fact we were looking to link a North-South route away from Toton Lane and through into Chetwynd Barracks and the possibility that George Spencer Academy moving from its current site.
This of course has now changed, as well as the fact Nottinghamshire CC had drawn up plans to build another North-South spur off the A52, the plans of which are also in doubt due to the fact the Government has for the time being rejected the funding bid presented to facilitate its construction.
However, out of interest we charged KEFA with looking into this junction as part of a Feasibility Study. They used Transport Planning Associates (TPA) as the consultants who set to and looked at the options presented. The overall conclusion as you will see, was that much more work was needed to understand all of the traffic implications, particularly given the NCC proposal and changes with the IRP report. This work will require more funding, something that that we do not have have, but we are pleased that at least we have started to ball rolling for others to take this important work further at a more appropriate time, when more decision is made on the future of the sites.
As ever please feel free to comment on this study on the attached link. We will endeavor to respond in due course where all will be able to peruse the comments made.
As previously reported, we are now happy to release our own Design Codes for you to read and comment upon. These come on the back of the EMDevCo Design Codes consultation, which will now be open until the 30th April.
As mentioned previously, the EmDevCo Design Codes are very high level, and ours are very much more detailed showing our ideas and visions. We hope you will comment upon them to help us ensure we have captured our neighbourhood’s thoughts from our previous consultations.
It is important to note that the Design Codes were completed before the outcomes of the IRP and Neighbourhood Plan examination, so for instance the Bardills roundabout and potential locations for new School and Sports centre will be different to that shown in this document, but we feel this does not detract at all from the work done.
The Design Codes & Feedback forms are available by clicking on the image below together with a live document and we will endeavour to respond to comments and questions where we can. We shall over the the course of the next few weeks be providing the support documents also for you to comment upon, so watch this space for more updates.
