Planning & Development Bulletin - Apr 2022

Carter Jonas’ Planning and Development Team has been involved in four projects that have been shortlisted for a number of awards at the Planning Awards 2022, which takes place on Thursday 9 June at The Mermaid London.

Our variety of projects have been shortlisted for the following categories: ‘Design Excellence’, ‘Best Housing Scheme (fewer than 500 homes)’, ‘Best use of Arts, Culture or Sport in Placemaking’, and ‘Award for Planning’.

Design Excellence

Humanities Building, University of Oxford

The Carter Jonas South and Southwest Planning team provided planning consultancy services and achieved planning permission for a new Humanities Building in Oxford, working alongside Hopkins Architects and Gillespies. The building has been shortlisted for the ‘Design Excellence’ category in the Planning Awards.

The project will establish a new University of Oxford Humanities building that will bring together, for the first time, 7 Humanities faculties and 6 Libraries, a high-profile new Institute for Ethics in AI, the Oxford Internet Institute, several research centres and new, modern, and accessible facilities for performance and public engagement.

Carter Jonas is also proud to have provided Planning and Development consultancy services as part of the following projects alongside EcoWorld London, Lampton Development 360, St.Modwen and Broxbourne Council.

Best Housing Scheme (fewer than 500 homes)

New Road Triangle
Submitted by EcoWorld London and Lampton Development 360 

New Road Triangle is a stand-out example of how a brownfield site can be transformed in such a way that truly meets local needs. The scheme is a demonstration of how a public sector-owned organisation and a private sector developer can work together to deliver a project that will be hugely beneficial for the borough. It has won praise from the council’s Design Review Panel, not only for the high quality of the sustainability-focused design, but how the scheme will create an inclusive community for those who live there.

Best use of Arts, Culture, or Sport in Placemaking

Orchard Art Series and Engagement with artist Kerry Lemon at Kingsgrove, Wantage
Submitted by St. Modwen

Carter Jonas’ South and Southwest Planning & Development teams provide ongoing consultancy services to St Modwen Developments Limited, having achieved planning permission for a new development of 1,500 new homes, a new primary school and neighbourhood centre on land to the north east of Wantage, known as Kingsgrove.

The Orchard Art Series and Engagement project was undertaken in relation to the design development and delivery of the Kingsgrove public square and local park. Its aim was to undertake interactive community engagement to inform the design of the pieces of artwork, which are intrinsic to the evolution of Kingsgrove’s place identity.

Award for Planning

Broxbourne Local Plan 2018-2033 
Submitted by Broxbourne Council

Less than two years after adoption, the Broxbourne Local Plan is already demonstrably achieving the retrofitting of sustainability into an area of continuous commuter suburban development, by providing a clear policy framework to: convert an out-of-town retail centre into a new town centre for the borough, complete with a new civic centre and other public facilities; introduce extensive new parklands in an area deficient in public open space; provide a site for a major film studios to create a prestigious new borough gateway; and facilitate a major mixed-use regeneration scheme stretching across multiple landownerships through a masterplan-led approach.

The London Planning Team has helped to secure a resolution to grant planning consent for hybrid application (part detailed, part outline) on behalf of the Hyde Group for up to 1,212 new homes, and up to 6,863.4 sqm (GEA) of flexible employment, retail, community and leisure floorspace at Herringham Road, Charlton Riverside. 

This is the first application to gain approval from Greenwich’s Planning Board as three previous schemes have been refused. 

The site is located within the Charlton Riverside Opportunity Area and the Charlton Riverside Masterplan Area in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The site, totalling 4,21ha, has historically been used for industrial purposes and sits within the context of the adjacent safeguarded Riverside Wharf and other neighbouring industrial uses. 

The scheme will deliver a new mixed-use community underpinned by quality affordable homes (40% across the scheme) to support the needs of the local community and help meet the shortfall of homes in Greenwich and London generally. Along with this, the scheme will provide a mix of ground floor uses to continue to support employment in this area; first class public realm and significantly upgraded riverfront; and technical solutions that respond to existing site constraints ensuring that immediately adjacent safeguarded wharfs and other industrial operations can co-exist. The development will act as a catalyst for the remainder of the Charlton Riverside Masterplan Area through significant infrastructure provision through physical form including new roads and improved bus connectivity and site access as well as significant S.106 contributions. 

The application will now be referred to the GLA for the Mayor’s Stage 2 review, if this is successful, planning permission will be subsequently granted when a Section 106 legal agreement has been completed with the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

Last month Carter Jonas’ London planning team, on behalf of the Department for Education (c/o Jacobs), obtained a resolution to grant planning permission for the delivery of the first autism-specific SEN School for the Borough of Barnet. 

The proposal will bring a significantly underutilised brownfield site back into use by converting and extending the existing industrial building on Moxon Street, providing a truly specialist setting for 90 pupils. Carter Jonas provided planning advice throughout the process, including the preparation of a robust Site Selection Assessment which demonstrated that the site was the only one available and able to deliver the specialist brief. 

The development team combined autism specialist teachers with academic experts from University College London and the University of Birmingham, including autistic adults, to gain a more neuro-diverse perspective on school design. We are delighted with the outcome for this client! 

Working on behalf of Cross Keys Homes Ltd, Carter Jonas has secured Reserved Matters Approval for 70 affordable homes in the village of Stilton, Cambridgeshire. 

The scheme was endorsed by Huntingdonshire District Council’s Planning Committee following detailed discussions with the Council’s planning and urban design teams.

The scheme will deliver much-needed high quality affordable housing alongside substantial open space provision and biodiversity enhancements.

Carter Jonas provided professional planning consultancy services to Cross Keys Homes throughout the process including project management of the design team, pre-application and post-submission negotiations and discussions with the Authority and formal representation at planning committee.

Contact: 
Matt Hare
Partner
07796148843
Matt.Hare@carterjonas.co.uk 

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