Key benefits of the masterplan
IMPROVING LIVING CONDITIONS AND HOUSING CHOICE
- Better quality, modern homes for existing residents more suited to their needs to help improve quality of life
- Creating a mixed and balanced community
- Uplifting the number of homes to help meet the borough’s housing needs
- Optimising density of brownfield land
- Adding affordable homes whilst rehousing council tenants on equivalent terms
- Greater variety of tenures, including meeting needs of those with disabilities
BETTER COMMUNITY AND COMMERCIAL FACILITIES
- Consolidated state-of-the-art community facilities that deliver services directly to the local community
- Enhancements to health and wellbeing through improved healthcare provision, well designed spaces to relax and socialise and areas for play and activity to promote fitness
- Creating a vibrant, varied and enlivened local shopping experience through flexible use retail floorspace
- Flexible office floorspace
INVESTING IN THE LOCAL ECONOMY, JOBS AND TRAINING
- Construction and permanent jobs
- Gross Value Added (construction and operational phases)
- Apprenticeships and training opportunities
- Household spending, Council Tax, New Homes Bonus
PLACEMAKING
- Connecting communities - bringing Roehampton together through a central Village Square
- Distinct character areas that respond to the varied built environment
- Long term programme and meanwhile uses that celebrate the cultural heritage and distinctiveness of Alton
- Approach built on several years’ engagement with residents to listen to their needs and preferences
HIGH QUALITY BUILDINGS
- Carefully targeted interventions that replace less successful elements of the London County Council masterplan
- Exciting, varied and innovative architectural design
- Active frontages and utilising Secured by Design principles
IMPROVING CONNECTIONS
- Improved north/south pedestrian routes
- Decluttering streets
- Enhancements to public transport & promotion of cycling with safer routes and secure cycle parking
- Dedicated wheelchair parking
ATTRACTIVE PUBLIC REALM
- Safer, greener streets
- Concealing parking
- Responding and addressing complex level changes
- New tree planting
ENHANCED OPEN SPACES
- More varied forms of open space i.e. private, communal and public that provide people with a range of places to spend time and enjoy
- Enhancing and improving access to Downshire Field
- Improving the amount, diversity and accessibility of play spaces
- Securing ecological enhancements
REVEALING HERITAGE
- Sensitively blending contemporary architecture to complement historic buildings
- Better revealing historic buildings, such as Downshire House, Mount Clare and St Joseph’s Church