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Priors Hall Park, Corby

Zone 1 of major urban extension to the east of Corby. Zone 1 is the most urban of three zones, which are set in a former ironstone works, associated with the steel works. Masterplan by David Lock Associates and outline consent for 5100 homes in 2007. Zone 1 is covered by an adopted Design Code, and David Lock Associates have a retained...

Ladywell Park, Wellingborough

Phase 1 of a larger scheme, close to Wellingborough railway station and the town centre. The outline for the larger scheme is for 350 homes and open space.

Horton Kirby Paper Mill, DARTFORD

The redundant Horton Kirby Paper Mill was imaginatively redeveloped as mixed use community. Some of the industrial buildings were retained, including the iconic chimney, while new blocks were added. A new section of river was opened up through the site. Parking squares are the main form of provision, with the number of spaces having...

Barnes Way & Wallis Court, Herne Bay

While a lot of effort went into the initial design of a variety of parking solutions at Barnes Way, some of the initiative was lost as a result of a planning desire to include some rear court parking. Furthermore, even though there is plenty of parking for all residents, a minority have taken to parking in awkward locations. These failings...

Oaks Hamlet, West Malling

Oaks Hamlet won design awards, and it is easy to see why. Unfortunately, the tight, intimate approach to street design, and the provision of some parking in rear courts, led to awkward on street parking. This was a cause of dissatisfaction among many residents at the time of Kent County Council's survey. However, attractiveness was very highly...

Dadson Court, Ashford

Ashford Borough Council has been particularly successful in attracting high quality local needs housing schemes in its rural settlements. Dadson Court is one such scheme. It is simple, yet contextually appropriate. Most of the homes have driveway parking, which is both generous and neatly paved. Unfortunately, a 2012 survey suggested that...

Ruskins View, Herne Bay

Named after John Ruskin's appreciation of nearby St. Martin's Church, Ruskins View is a private gated development on an old service station site. Controlled entry was agreed because there is a primary school opposite, and parking problems would have otherwise been inevitable. Initially, parking took place in the square, as well as in the...

Elliot Court, Herne Bay

Elliot Court is a private gated development, built in the mid 1990s on surplus care home land at the end of a recently constructed cul-de-sac. All but one of the dwellings are in the main block, with car barns and open parking close to the entrance gates. A walled area for visitor parking is immediately adjacent to the gates. This approach...

Cherry Orchard Mews, Canterbury

Built in the 1990s adjacent to agricultural and industrial premises, Cherry Orchard Mews consists of a terrace of 8 homes alongside 5 much larger detached dwellings. The terrace is the subject of this case study. The layout provides a high quality, communal space in front of the dwellings, with parking and turning space adjoining. Residents...

Thames Way, Gravesend

Built in one of Gravesend's disused quarries, the Thames Way development was unlikely to win any design awards, but its diversity of housing types and generous open space have achieved good levels of satisfaction among the residents who responded to Kent County Council's surveys. Parking is particularly appreciated. This site is one of...

Green Lane, Paddock Wood

When it comes to home owners, curtilage parking is probably the most popular solution. Furthermore, few residents are worried about having more parking space than they normally need. Green Lane, a very well landscaped late 1990s development, accommodates generous on plot parking areas behind mature frontage hedges. In the main, these are big...

Bentleys Meadow, Sevenoaks

A substantial part of a former council housing site was redeveloped, with one part using a conventional street layout and the other a Home Zone. The latter attracted mixed responses from those who responded to surveys in 2007 and 2010. Views on parking, for example, were polarised, rather than neutral. Despite residents' uncertainty about...

St. Paul's Court, Sittingbourne

St. Paul's Court is an attractive, contextually appropriate development on the edge of the village. The more substantial properties have generous, but carefully designed parking areas, while a small parking court serves the more modest properties closer to the access junction. The street is particularly interesting because of its inclusion...

West Station Goods Yard, Canterbury

The West Station Goods Yard scheme emerged from a detailed development brief that set great store by the historic setting of the site. Conservation Area constraints and opportunities, along with a well-developed parking strategy, encouraged reduced levels of parking provision. Canterbury West Station adjoins the site, and the city centre is...

Miller Close, Wingham

Miller Close was built for The English Rural Housing Association on the edge of the Kent village of Wingham. The high quality environment has resulted in high levels of satisfaction among the occupiers. Parking spaces have been provided as on plot driveways and on street bays. Most residents seem pleased with this approach. The layout...

Holters Mill, Canterbury

Holters Mill is an 'end of street' mill buildings conversion, with some new build, that is accessed by way of a controlled entry vehicular gate. Pedestrian access is not controlled. The parking provision is simple, and is not allocated. However, the site is very close to Canterbury West Station, and is within easy reach of the city centre. A...

Palladian Circus, Greenhithe

Designed around the 'Tudor Mound' feature, at the heart of the 'sustainable communities' Ingress Park development, Palladian Circus is an impressive piece of urban design. The mound offered an opportunity to provide on street parking in an attractive form. The introduction of parking controls in Ingress Park has improved satisfaction ratings...

Avante, Coxheath, Maidstone

Avante was awarded the Building for Life Gold standard. High quality street materials and landscaping compliment contemporary architecture and a variety of parking solutions. On-street parking is arranged to make good use of the public realm, and reduce opportunities for awkward and obstructive parking. Unfortunately, about half of the residents...

St. Bartholomew's Hospital (The Old Laundry), Swanley

Making full use of an attractive, landscaped setting, this development of houses and apartments sets parking primarily in off-street bays and courtyards. Additional street landscaping is maturing to soften the appearance of the parking areas. Around 40% of residents who responded to a post-occupation survey rated parking as 'good' or 'very...

Wincheap Farm (Birch Road & Scott Avenue), Canterbury

On the western edge of Canterbury, bounded by the A2 trunk road, this phase of the Wincheap Farm development was the product of an imaginative and creative partnership between Ward Home's designer and Canterbury City Council's planners and engineers. The aim was to create an interesting layout of homes, streets and spaces, with parking as...

Iroko Housing Cooperative

The premium on city-centre parking led this housing co-operative to build an underground car park and use income as cross-subsidy for higher scheme development standards. What little parking that is provided for residents invents a variation of on-street. Coin Street on London's South Bank is a benchmark for community-led affordable housing....

Greenwich Millennium Village

A high-density development where initial perimeter blocks put most parking in either a landscaped underground or a podium car park. Comparisons between the two models point to how enveloping parking decks on all sides with real streets enhances any design. GMV on the Greenwich Peninsula is a sustainable community of up to 2950 planned homes,...

Brewery Square

Pedestrian-only streets and lanes are threaded through a new mixed-use urban quarter. Close to the City financial district, parking is less than 50% and contained in a single underground car park with separate vehicular and pedestrian access, both finely detailed. The scheme is built on the site of a brewery, with a group of four buildings...

Sutherland Avenue

A classic 19th century boulevard in West London wide enough for car parking parallel to both pavement and a central reservation which divides the two carriageways into one-way traffic either side. Spaces are controlled but unallocated, maximising parking efficiency for residents. Maida Vale dates from the early days of English canal mania;...

Little Shilling

The team behind the design of highways and housing at Poundbury tested some more of their treatments on a more commonplace site in suburban Shaftesbury where the budget stretched only to defining roads by the colour of the blacktop and unconsolidated gravel. The relative flatness of the Little Shilling site makes for a different spatial...

Butts Green

Traffic noise from the adjacent M62 demanded deep rear courts as sound attenuation. But the rest of the scheme proposed more original treatments, including several varieties of accommodation over garaging and some excellent public spaces with on street parking. Butts Green is an impressively detailed scheme of 149 homes developed in partnership...

Cala Domus

One of the early parcels of up to 3000 homes being built on a 50 hectare farm abutting the M11, Domus manages rather than banishes the car. Houses get two spaces and flats one, and there are fresh treatments of garaging, as well as exemplary finishes for shared surfaces. The scheme is arranged as a series of wide boulevards and gently curved...

Bryanston Hills, Blandford Forum

A scheme where carriageways are wide enough to accommodate some on street parking to supplement good provision on plot. Building lines are generally close up to the wide roads to maintain enclosure, and there are a variety on plot treatments. The strategy to create an intimate community of varied streets, skylines, and associated landscapes...

The Dairy, Henlow

A range of national house plans that interlock to give better urban design is exploited to create a housing square. The local highways insistence on visibility splays undermines other treatments within the development, which are otherwise highly practical. This scheme of 61 two-storey dwellings is finished in either brick, render, or black...

Chapel, Southampton

On-street parking supplements a semi-basement-level underground, the plinth exploited to give townhouses improved privacy and on-street surveillance. How to control unallocated spaces on street is a consideration for these blocks built close by a football stadium. The site is close to St Mary's Stadium, home of Southampton FC. There are...

Queen Elizabeth Square, Gorbals, Glasgow

High-quality public realm, new housing and commercial premises are reinventing Glasgow's historical sink estates as home to a range of incomes. Security issues are addressed with all parking on street, including in wide boulevards, with extensive surveillance over bays. Queen Elizabeth Square, an area of up to 550 homes, is the second half...

Allcourt Meadow, Lechlade, Gloucestershire

Championed by the Home Office for being safe and lauded for its landscaping, this scheme has finely detailed rear courts and a frontage onto meadow. However, with no "street", it is housing turned back to front and would be less successful if applied on a larger scale. Allcourt Meadow is a development of 20 dwellings for residents over...

The Fox, Bury-St-Edmunds

Pubs sharing street parking with nearby homes are common in historic development. Here a well detailed example has unallocated spaces in a communal area which is controlled for the benefit of residents outside the pub's peak business hours. The parking scheme adjoins a terrace of small cottages set back from the road, and immediately adjoining...

Poundbury

The best known suburban housing development in Britain triumphs for its housing squares and on street parking. But the rear courts which first proposed taking the car off the street are less successful and raise issues about active frontages. The relentless informality of Poundbury’s first phase is in fact very successful, capitalising...

Dockwray Square, North Shields

Minutes from Meadowell, an estate synonymous in the 1990s with car crime, Dockwray Square had to offer safe parking. One treatment supplements on plot parking with on street in a housing square to echo the area's Georgian landmark Northumberland Square. Dockwray Square stands on cliff tops overlooking the Tyne. The scheme was developed...

Bennet's Courtyard, Collier's Wood

Set within the wider Abbey Mills development, Bennet's Courtyard represents the first buildings in a high density mixed-use quarter designed on a busy trunk road wrap a pair apartment blocks and a villa block round a podium car park. On one side, ground floor apartments look onto the River Wandle, on the other shops face established pubs and...

Caterham Village, Caterham, Surrey

A mixed-use redevelopment of Caterham Barracks relies on unallocated parking alongside commercial elements to manage demand for parking. The scheme illustrates techniques for putting the car on street in an easy to park arrangement which supports the streetscape. This former brownfield site contains 348 dwellings, 27% of which are affordable...

Trinity Village, Bromley

This development of the Blue Circle sports pitches south of Bromley will provide 800 homes between three developers, Ward, Asprey and Affinity Sutton. The scheme uses a strongly orthogonal layout with square and straight streets and mews and creates character through different street types and areas, such as Regent Square and Belgravia Square....