Morley Road Affordable Homes, Staple Hill Public Consultation Wednesday 23 rd March 2016

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1 Welcome to this exhibition showing the emerging ideas for the redevelopment of the former Kerr House site, Morley Road, Staple Hill. Knightstone intend to redevelop this site as a development of 23 affordable homes, with a mixture of houses and apartments. South Gloucestershire Council decided that the Kerr House Residential Home was surplus to their requirements and not fit for purpose, and demolished it under their Better Support for Older People programme. The proposed scheme is being designed to continue the strong street frontage along Morley Road and to widen the existing pavement. Boundary hedging along the south and west of the site will be retained, as will some of the more important trees, and new structured landscaping will be developed across the site. Each home has been designed to meet high environmental and design standards.

2 We re a leading housing association in Somerset and the West of England, committed to building vibrant, stable and safe communities where people can make their homes. We provide services to over 23,000 people in 11,000 homes, and build around 300 homes a year. We provide: - Homes for people to rent - Homes for shared ownership and to buy, and help with buying homes - A housing management service - Support services - Property development - Property maintenance Home is at the very heart of what we do. Put simply we house people, people make homes. Where we work We work across nine local authority areas in Somerset and the West of England: What we do and who we do it for We use our expertise and resources to create better futures for our residents and other customer. We aim to be a great landlord and invest for the long term in existing and new homes, as well as in people and communities. Through our work, we aim to create strong communities where people feel safe, secure and want to stay. Our core customers are people who cannot access housing in the private market because of their individual circumstances. Around 10% of our customers are homeowners who have bought a part-share in one of our properties or who own their property outright on a leasehold or freehold basis but continue to receive services from us, typically building maintenance and upkeep of communal areas. We have a small number of customers who rent on an intermediate or full market rate. We also provide housing related support services through contracts with local authorities, to clients who are not our residents. Shared ownership with us This is where you buy a share in a brand new, refurbished or resale home, so you part buy and part rent your home. You ll usually pay a mortgage on the part you own and a reduced rent on the rest. You can usually increase the share you own (called staircasing) until you own all of your home and nolonger pay us any rent. Can I get shared ownership? Yes, if you don t earn enough to buy a home on the open market. We ll consider you for a home to suit your needs. For example, a single person or a couple without children will normally be able to get a two bedroom home, and a family of three or more will generally be able to apply for a larger home. How do I apply? You ll need to get an application pack from us and have a financial assessment carried out by one of the advisers in the pack. Contact us! You ll also need to register with the Help to Buy Agent for the area you wish to live in. Help to buy South West (previously known as South West Homes) cover the Somerset area (West Somerset, South Somerset, Taunton Deane and Sedgemoor). You can call them on or visit their website: Renting with us We let homes on affordable or social rents to single people, couples and families who may not be able to afford to buy or rent in the private sector. These homes are for people who have a housing need and who are not usually looking to rent on a short term or temporary basis. Affordable rents are set at 80% of the open market rent and inclusive of the cost of any services, for example cleaning and maintenance of common areas. Most of our newer homes will have this sort of rent. Social rents are worked out in according to a formula set by the Government. If there are any services with the home, we add on a charge to the rent. These rents (including the service charge) will normally be lower than affordable rents. For more information please visit Contact us Weston Gateway Business Park Weston-super-Mare Somerset BS24 7JP T: E: talktous@knightstone.co.uk For sales enquiries please sales@knightstone.co.uk

3 We are architects, interior designers, landscape architects, town planners, urban designers, project managers, building surveyors, environmental consultants and graphic designers. We are and employee-owned practice of over 300 people. We have over 60 years experience and operate from nine offices across the UK and UAE. With such a wide-range of creative people and resources, our people can readily collaborate, share expertise and create purpose built, sustainable places with character. We are based in Bristol and despite our reach, see ourselves as a local company. Our architecture is not about pre-determined style or fashion: we strive to generate design that simply feels right. We focus on the needs of individuals and use design to improve their emotional wellbeing and surroundings; a simple philosophy that informs all our work. Our responsibility is to interpret the aspirations of those who inhabit the places we design in a way that responds directly to need. Each project is unique and our approach is always to seek bespoke solutions. We consider time spent developing a real understanding of requirements at the initial stages of a project as invaluable. It forms the basis for creating clear, simple and appropriate design solutions. We value the feedback of the existing residents who know the sites we work with, and bring their advice into our work where we can. We design buildings which sit comfortably in their surroundings, but can also inspire and excite. We endeavour to find solutions that are no more complicated than they need to be, but achieve an elegance derived from thorough analysis and good ideas. We constantly seek new ways of meeting needs. We explore innovative construction techniques to improve build quality and performance but carefully manage our clients risk. We design pragmatically to optimise sustainability. We design buildings and spaces that are: Directly reflective of client and user needs Responsive to context Optimal responses to the opportunities of brief and budget Pragmatically sustainable Capable of performing reliably and flexibly throughout their design life Comfortable, inclusive, healthy and safe places to use We are committed to sustainability and responding to environmental issues across all aspects of our work. This means seeking ways to limit any potentially negative environmental impact that we may have in terms of carbon emissions, pollution, resources, waste or ecology. At the same time, we actively exploring opportunities to have a positive impact; through re-use, regeneration, using sustainable forms of energy and promoting community, wellbeing, sustainable travel, biodiversity, beauty and delight. ` Locking Parklands, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset Chelmsley Lane, Solihull, West Midlands Watery Lane, Marsworth, Buckinghamshire

4 The site is bounded by Morley Road to the north and Gloucester Road to the east. A public footpath runs along the western boundary, fronting onto the allotments. The site is entered from Morley Road, under a mature cypress, and has established beech hedges along much of its boundary. The area is mostly of a suburban residential character, with small industrial units, a number of parks, and retail units close by on Soundwell Lane. Much of the housing is made up of post war semi-detached and terraced dwellings. Aerial Photograph, looking south Site Location Plan

5 Simple palette of materials Elevations along Morley Road are varied in character, unified by a simple palette of materials within each block. The wider area features a mixture of house types from modern, post-war, and earlier periods, each with a distinctive character and materiality. coursed rough-dressed stone red brick, stretcher bond terracotta roof tile render / pebble-dash Identity Separate identities are defined between units in the older terraces, establishing a sense of place and ownership within the block. More modern houses are delineated with rainwater goods and materiality coloured doors distinguish between properties front gardens establish personalised space coloured render / paint breaks down walls Elevation modelling Otherwise long, unbroken elevations are animated and broken down through simple building modelling Morley Road, terrace typical of traditional local historic character 1-11 Cogan Road, a variant on the typical local terrace full / half height bay windows storey mouldings framing to openings textured materials large windows recessed porches / projecting canopies 1-2 Morley Place, modern terrace, off street condition Morley Road, modern terrace, street front condition Mulberry Grove, detached house, off street condition Strong street presence Terraces maintain a strong urban street presence, in close proximity to the pavement. continuous, unbroken facade strong, defined street edge from low wall defensible space between house and street Gloucester Road, post-war terrace Stanley Park Road, post-war semi-detached house Morley Road, terrace of traditional local character

6 We propose to develop the site with 23 homes, extending the strong street frontage from Morley Road along the front of the site. The scheme is made up of 4 groups of 2 storey houses, mixing terraced and semi-detached houses with apartments. A mixture of 2 and 3 bed houses, and 1 and 2 bed apartments are intended to provide accommodation for different groups of residents. The properties will be a mixture of affordable rental and sharedownership. Following the pattern of the houses opposite, the scheme proposes a new terrace along Morley Road, with front and rear gardens giving each house defensible space and private amenity space. The terrace of 2 bed houses is bookended by 1 bed apartments to the west, and 3 bed houses to the east. We are proposing a 2 storey cluster of apartments on the Gloucester Road corner, each with a private entrance from street level. The existing site access has been retained, creating a road to access a second row of houses. Parking has been set out along this road to meet the levels requested by South Gloucestershire Council and avoid increasing parking along Morley Road and surrounding streets. The access road is designed as a shared surface, broken up with areas of planting. Sections of hedging are proposed to the rear gardens of the front terrace, to break up the rear garden wall and soften its appearance. We propose cladding the houses and apartments in a mixture of brickwork and render, in keeping with the local post-war housing stock. Specific details, like the low brick garden wall with hedge behind it seen along Morley Road, are used in this scheme to help tie it into the appearance of the local area. We are retaining some of the more important hedges and trees. Where low quality trees have to be removed, we propose planting new trees across the site to improve biodiversity and provide a visual buffer to the surrounding properties. Much of the hedge on Morley road is being replaced with new beech hedge, while the rest of the neglected boundary hedges will be weeded and trimmed into shape.

7 Ground Floor Plan First Floor Plan 4 Person, 2 Bed House 72m² (775ft²) 5 Person, 3 Bed House 82m² (883ft²) 4 Person, 2 Bed House 80m² (861ft²) 2 Person, 1 Bed Apartment Ground Floor - 47m² (506ft²) First Floor - 55m² (592ft²) 3 Person, 2 Bed Apartment Ground Floor - 64m² (689ft²) First Floor - 72m² (775ft²) Units 2-10, 17-19, Units Units Units 1+2, Units 13+14

8 01 - Teracotta Double Roman Roof Tile Indicative View 1 - looking east along Morley Road 02 - Grey-brown brick stretcher bond Indicative View 2 - looking west along Morley Road 03 - Flemish bond shadow detail panel between ground floor windows

9 Indicative View 3 - High level view west along Morley Road Indicative View 4 - High level view north-west Indicative View 5 - Low level view into site Indicative View 6 - Low level view of units 17-19

10 SCALE Morley Road Affordable Homes, Staple Hill 48 48a 53 1a 48b 61 2 MORLEY ROAD 69 Paper birch Beech hedging 71 Plots 1+2 1B2P Plot 3 Plot Winter-flowering cherry Block paved transition to shared space Plot 5 Plot 6 Plot 7 Plot 8 Plot 9 Plot 10 Plot 11 3B5P Plot Plot 22 Plot 21 Plot 12 3B5P Plots m SCALE Concrete block paving Shrub planting within the development uses species which are robust and suitable for a housing development landscape but also include a number of suitable varieties which will provide a distinctive relaxed feel to the planting with movement to the foliage in the wind. New beech hedging will tie into the existing planting and a mix of proven herbaceous species will add seasonal interest m Kerr House Plot Plot Plots Materials & External Work. This scheme uses a simple palette of paving materials in a variety of colours to reinforce a pedestrian priority environment. Traffic is slowed by limited use of raised kerbs, the change in surface finishes along with the strategically placed boulders and seating. The limited use of kerb edges and tabled junctions into the site will challenge the drivers speed in line with established shared surface and home zone principles Integration of cars within the public realm means that during working hours, high quality space is available for resident s whilst enabling the parking of vehicles close to homes for improved access and safety. Opportunities for incidental meeting and social interaction within the central landscaped environment is a fundamental aim of the design giving residents the comfort and safety they require. Note has been taken not to interrupt highway visibility spays and low ground cover planting is used where required. 6 El Sub Sta Plot 19 Plot GLOUCESTER ROAD 133 GLADS 118