This is a challenging and visionary proposal for how 2000 new homes and additional employment and community facilities can be integrated into the historic city of Winchester. The presentation was given to Winchester residents on 6th August 2011 by Paul Bulkeley of Snug Projects Architects. Astonishingly the ideas received almost 100% support from the audience. The strategy not only provides much needed housing, it also improves the cities much loved setting, creating places where people want to live, work and play. Is this a new way of promoting development?

1. Winchester 2020 Vision

2. A presentation by
Paul Bulkeley
Director of architects Snug Projects Ltd
on behalf of
WINACC and The Winchester Trust

3. OUR TASK
To provide a spatial strategy and fresh
perspective on delivering the aims set out in
Plans for Places and the ‘Themes for our
Future’ from Winchester –Towards our Future
and in line with the WINACC and Winchester
Trust 10 Principles.

4. OUR AIMS
• Provide 2000 new houses.
• Provide varied employment opportunities.
• Improve the character and setting of the city.
• Reduce the cities environmental impact.
• Increases walking and cycling opportunities.

5. OUR APPROACH
• Reinforce and extend our cities strengths.
• Focus on the unloved locations and repair
what is weak.
• Build where people want to live, work and
play.
• Use underutilised industrial sites and car
parks for residential development.
• Intensify densities both within the city centre
and suburbs.

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8. STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES

9. Strengths:
Flood plain and hills brings natural landscape to the heart of the city.
Historic core.
Train services to London
New access to motorways.
Weaknesses:
Most residential neighbourhoods beyond walking distance of the city
centre.
Asymmetry to the city form.
Proximity of noisy motorway
Zoning of employment to the east as an outdated city model.

10. Balance the Asymmetry to create walkable
suburbs

13. Walking Within the Walls

17. Enhance the Gateways

18. The city benefits from historic Roman roads
characterised by a tree lined approach.
Increasingly access is from the motorway along
roads that do not reflect these qualities.
The Cathedral is only visible from these three
access roads with poor public realm.
There is an opportunity for new development to
improve the setting of the Conservation Area.

30. Focus development where it can repair and
improve the cities character, in location
people can walk to town from and close to
locations people want to enjoy. This is a win
win development strategy.

32. 3 LOCATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT

33. 1
A mixed use business hub around the train
station.
Make use of existing underdeveloped car
parks and commercial sites.
Take advantage of the topography to integrate
up to 9 storey development.
Improve the approach to the Conservation
Area.

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42. 2
The Winnal approach provides an opportunity
to repair the urban realm and street frontage,
use the topography to integrate up to 6 storey
development and create a desirable
residential neighbourhood that gives access to
the river flood plain with all the qualities of
Hyde.

47. 3
The Barend Approach - With a little musical chairs we
can create a new neighbourhood in walking distance to
many of the cities best kept secrets.
The proposal focuses development on underutilised
and poorly located industrial sites and playing fields
which can easily be more appropriately relocated.
This allows people to live in one of the nicest parts of
the city. The proposal creates an opportunity to
provide improved employment sites with direct access
from the motorway and a variety of residential
neighbourhoods, as well as a new primary school.

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58. Visionary development, based on local
knowledge, creates places to live, work and
play that are successfully integrated into the
city, delivering much needed new housing and
significant spatial benefits to the cities historic
and landscape setting.

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