RegenWM Best Practice Role of Masterplanning

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RegenWM Best PracticeRole of Masterplanning

• Kevin Murray
• Kevin Murray Associates

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Purpose of session

• Introduce masterplan concepts types
• Explore content and processes
• Identify good practice
• Work through an exampleYou will not become
  instant masterplanners!

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Masterplanning

• Three basic aspects
• Spatial masterplanning SPACE
• Master programming TIME/PHASING
• Institutional co-ordination STAKEHOLDERS

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Key WHAT WHY questions

• Why prepare a master plan?
• Purpose, status objectives?
• Type(s) of master plan ?
• What is controlled how?
• What character mix of uses?

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Why prepare a master plan?

• Vision to guide future change
• Reconcile physical, economic social issues
• A blueprint for development
• A spatial diagram - or PR marketing illustration
• Tool for mediation - community public agencies
• Creating and distributing value
• Focus on delivering place/neighbourhood outcomes
• Community business engagement

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Masterplan - thinking outputs

• Main role(s) ?
• Uses activities ?
• Economy ?
• Social community ?
• Involvement participation ?
• Physical appearance, design ?
• Illustrating fixes, variables, layers?
• Sustainability ?

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Different master plan concepts

• Spatial strategy
• Development framework
• Master plan

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Spatial Strategy

• Most broad brush
• Sets out principal moves intent
• Mainly two-dimensional
• Diagrammatic
• Limited controls fixes
• Comparatively low cost

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Examples
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Development Framework

• Sets out main site specific fixes
• Identifies parcels phasing
• Key infrastructure
• Uses and open space
• Illustrative 3-dimensions not fixes
• Detailed design downstream
• Mid cost

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Frameworks
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Master Plan

• More prescriptive
• Specifies relationships
• Clear vision of future
• Higher cost

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Examples
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Development Design Briefs

• Very site specific
• Streets, building lines form
• Volume, floorspace uses
• Parking
• Linked to value deal structure
• Closer to construction stage
• Follows other stages

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Design briefs
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What to control?

• The underlying grid
• Block size connectivity
• Sense of frontage
• Rhythm of plots
• Figure ground
• Hard/soft ratio

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Scale factors

• Height
• Bulk
• Street section

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Parking

• On or off street
• Standards
• Front or rear
• Courtyards?

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Visual textural

• Building materials
• Roof materials
• Boundary materials
• Colours
• Fenestration

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What density why?

• Urban scale townscape
• Land values viability
• Facilities thresholds access
• Transport capacity
• Local context culture

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What kind(s) of residential ?

• Flats, apartments studios
• Terraces, detached semis
• Permanent occupancy
• Temporary or transitory
• Future balance - owned rented
• How many homes people?

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Different residential
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Urban code architectural code
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Is it a real community?

• School nursery
• Community halls, Library
• Shops
• Leisure play space

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Key HOW WHO questions

• Who is client?
• What skills disciplines?
• What baseline material?
• What budget and appointment?
• What assessment criteria?
• When to engage key players?
• Is method credible deliverable?

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Who is the client?

• The local authority
• The community existing occupants
• The community future occupants
• Other public agencies eg health, police
• The business/economic sector
• Developers, housebuilders, RSLs
• Investors or occupiers?

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Masterplan - disciplines skills

• Planning
• Urban design
• Transport
• Property or housing market
• Landscape
• Geotechnical
• Costing development procurement
• Community consultation

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Baseline material?

• Demographics
• Crime safety
• Environment
• Housing stats
• Parking transport
• Heritage
• Schools health
• Employment training
• Community views?

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Procurement

• Have you got budget in place? (50-500K)
• Open or restricted tender?
• OJEU? 1 or 2 stage?
• References?
• Approach? First thoughts
• Do you want to work with team?

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Engaging stakeholders

• Listening stage Early - before plan
• Testing/buy in Midway - options
• Endorsement End - preferred plan
• Advocacy/promotion Post - plan

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Engagement
Research issues
Listening
Develop strategy test options
Testing
Agree refine preferred plan
Endorsement
Present plan
Promotion
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Delivery

• What has to be done?
• Is there design quality control?
• Who is committed to doing it?
• Has it been costed?
• Is the money in place?
• Does it comply with the Local Plan?
• What phasing?
• Any risks?

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Institutional geography
SEG
GHA
Regeneration Vehicle Consultees advisers
GCC
NGHA
Board
Communities Scotland
Councillor/ MSP
Exec Core (partner secondees)
Community
Project Director
Consultants
Business
Gorbals Init
Developers
Health, Education, etc
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Test - Is plan credible deliverable?

• Place Townscape character technical
  feasibility
• Economic Funding, value uplift public goods
• People Owners, occupiers, other stakeholders

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Masterplan exercise

• Location A
• Need to regenerate run-down former industrial
  area between two small settlements new types of
  investment development mix needed(150
  hectares) to overcome dereliction
• Location B
• City centre mixed use improvements . Focused
  around former church opportunity site, lots of
  conservation streetscape potential

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Workshop tasks 1-6

• List 3 purposes of the masterplan
• What type/level of plan do you want?
• What specialisms do you need?
• What baseline issues info needed?
• Procurement open or long/shortlist?
• Three questions would you ask consultants to aid
  selection?

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Feedback
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