Strategic Housing Development
The development consists of 275 no. apartments accommodated in 4no. buildings (Blocks A – D) ranging in height from 5 to 12 storeys (including setback levels). 219 no. of the apartments are 2 bedroom and 56 no. are 1 bedroom. All apartment blocks are provided with bicycle and bin stores at ground floor level. Block A is 8 storeys in height and will comprise 59 no. apartments, with 2 no. retail/café/restaurant units (c. 292 sqm Gross Floor Area [GFA]) at ground floor level. Block B is 8 storeys and will comprise 63 no. apartments. Block C comprises two elements that are 8 and 12 storeys respectively and will comprise 98 no. apartments, with a residential management and amenity area (c.
355 sqm GFA) at ground floor level. Block D is 5 storeys and will comprise 55 no. apartments, with Childcare Facility (c. 300 sqm GFA) and associated outdoor play area at ground floor level. All apartments are provided with balconies or outdoor private amenity
areas.
94 no. car parking spaces in total are provided to cater for residential, childcare, commercial, visitor/drop-off and GoCar/Car Sharing (2 no. spaces). This includes 84 no. car parking spaces at surface level and 10 no. spaces at third floor level within the multi-
storey car park serving Scotch Hall shopping centre. 301 no. bicycle parking spaces are provided in total to serve the development, consisting of 90 no. spaces at surface level and 211 no. spaces in dedicated secure facilities in the apartment blocks.
Primary vehicular and pedestrian access is provided from the existing access road serving the Scotch Hall shopping centre to the west of the site. New public pedestrian and bicycle access is provided from the existing waterfront promenade and from Marsh Road. Marsh Road will also be used for occasional vehicular access to existing warehouse units adjacent to the southern site boundary.
All ancillary site development and landscape works, including: boundary treatments, demolition of existing structures on site, provision of cycleway along waterfront, upgrades to pedestrian access along Poorhouse Lane, site infrastructure, utilities, services and plant. Public open space of c. 1,998 sqm is provided, including a new public square and waterfront promenade. External communal amenity space of c. 2,154 sqm is provided at surface level and in the form of external roof terraces on Blocks C and D. The development consists of the carrying out of works on a site containing 2 no. Protected Structures: a Limestone Marker (RPS DB-366) and an Arched Road Bridge (RPS DB- 367). The site layout is designed to facilitate, subject to future planning permissions, the possibility of future vehicular and pedestrian connections to a neighbouring site to the east.
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