The masterplan for Chesterfield Waterside offers a variety of experiences and character areas and encourages exploration, whilst maintaining neighbourhood coherence.
Our design principles include:
• Working with some of the best urban designers and architects in the UK to create excellent spaces and new buildings
• Creation of a mixed use heart and a key public space - a natural meeting place
• Improving access to Chesterfield Canal and the River Rother
• Creation of a navigable canal link
• Working with existing site features particularly water courses, water storage capacity and flood risk conditions
• Improving and managing flood risk conditions in the area through innovative design
• Integration of a series of squares, streets and open spaces that are safe, visually interesting, easy to maintain, pleasant to use and are appropriate to the scale of surrounding development.
• Provision of a street network that encourages exploration and gives priority to pedestrian movement and cycling, whilst accommodating the needs of motor vehicles.
• Integration of renewable energy and other sustainable technologies
Some examples of important aspects of the masterplan are…..
Approach to movement: A series of people friendly streets will be established on ‘home zone’ principles – therefore giving pedestrians priority over vehicles. There will be a 3 tier hierarchy of streets: A boulevard street, waterfront promenade and home zone / shared surface.
The Boulevard: Brimington Road will serve as one of the key approach corridors announcing Chesterfield town centre. Our approach is to humanise the street through the use of high quality public realm, appropriate scale of development and traffic calming methods.
Waterfront Promenade: The Promenade Street will provide local circulation and access to the interior of the site and individual blocks. The street provides a human scale environment, with vehicle speeds restricted to 20mph.
Pedestrian Friendly Streets (Home Zones): A shared surface approach where all modes of movement are safe will encourage other forms of activity, such as children’s play, to flourish. Speeds are envisaged to be restricted to 20 mph but designed for 10mph.
