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Trent Basin future phases Public Consultation
Nottingham City's vision for its waterside regeneration area has informed these proposals for the remaining phases of Trent Basin. Building on the success of the first phases these designs set out to capture the opportunity to deliver a 21st century living environment that relates to Nottingham's unique riverside character. All the homes have been designed to employ the very best in new construction technologies and to provide low carbon energy efficient dwellings.

Explore Our Vision
The Waterside Supplementary Planning Document or SPD that was adopted last year provides the strategic urban design principles that new development within the waterside regeneration zone needs to respond to.

These include the creation of a new residential waterside neighbourhood, a new primary school to provide vital social infrastructure, and the establishment of a new public realm with legible streets and spaces, as well as a new Riverside path and associated green infrastructure.

Heart of the Waterside
New development needs also to facilitate good connections for both pedestrians and cyclists to the city centre and the surrounding neighbourhoods. Most importantly, the SPD calls for the establishment of more people friendly spaces.

There is no doubt that Trent Basin is a pivotal site within the wider waterside regeneration area. While it is located towards the eastern end of the SPD subject zone, it is the only site with a significant historic wharf that sits perpendicular to the river and provides a water focus at the heart of the new development area.

A Connected Basin Park
In this section of the presentation we talk about the creation of a 21st Century neighbourhood. The masterplan is designed to support a hierarchy of public and private realm space. This begins with the three site wide movement corridors; the principal movement corridors that are referred to in the SPD.

We've got the new East West vehicle connection across the site, which is called Kilpin Way, a section of the new Riverfront path including a new pedestrian bridge across the head of the Basin (and access for pedestrian around all sides of the Basin), as well as a new pedestrian connection through a new pocket park to Daleside Road.

People Friendly Space
The extensive people friendly public realm that stitches the development together is made possible by the introduction of a 'car barn'. Most of the required parking (although not all) is located within the barn and this frees up space for people and landscape rather than cars. This is not a new idea and was used at the Greenwich Millennium Village 20 years ago where the streets and spaces have become the focus of community life. It was also pioneered at Vauban in Freiberg Germany which is one of Europe's most sustainable developments.

The barn also allows us to future proof car parking requirements without affecting the public realm and provide opportunities for things like car clubs and for efficient electric car and bike charging. This approach means that in the future if car ownership diminishes and more people are prepared to use car clubs or car rental, then the public realm is not sacrificed for cars. It also allows us to design homes that are more sustainable and move us closer to a zero-carbon future. Many more developments throughout the UK are adopting the advantages of this approach.

Courtyard Living
In this next stage of the presentation, we look in a little more detail at one part of the masterplan. Illustrated opposite is one of the courtyard clusters of dwellings that make up courtyard 2. These drawings and accompanying notes in both plan and isometric show the design principles applied and make clear how the public and private realm structures work at a smaller scale.

Waterside Living
It is important to note that the landscape treatments also act in tandem with the organisation of the built form. New landscape and public realm treatments are used to augment the Riverfront path and to provide a public space at the southern end of the basin. A pontoon is proposed within the basin with graduated steps that allow people easy access to the water. The new pocket park at the northern end of the basin is designed as a neighbourhood wide amenity space.

The landscape treatments in the principle public realm contrasts with that proposed within the sheltered housing courtyards. Here shared surfaces, benches, rain gardens and specimen tress create places for immediate neighbours to sit, talk and for children to play.

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