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