Aerial view of Woolston site cleared for development
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Aerial view of Woolston site cleared for development
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Aerial view of Woolston site cleared for development
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Woolston Riverside - artist's impression
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Woolston Riverside - artist's impression
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The facts
Client: Crest Nicholson
Regeneration
Location: Woolston, Southampton
Services: Engineering, Transport and
Environment
Sector: Regeneration – Mixed
Use
Project Value: £360m
Start/Completion: 2005 – 2018
The project
On the eastern bank of the River Ichen, in the Woolston
suburb of Southampton, work has begun on one of Southern England’s
most ambitious regeneration projects.
The £500m Woolston Riverside mixed-use development will play a
central role in revitalising the area, creating over 1000 jobs for
local people and bringing homes, community facilities and
commercial outlets.
When completed in 2018 the 31 acre site will include:
- 1,653 new homes
- A new ten acre marine quarter that will create 228,500 sq ft of
major boat production space, offices and yards
- 12,970 sq ft of small shops
- 16,610 sq ft restaurants & cafes
- 46,500 sq ft supermarket
- A new supermarket
- A new library
- A new PCT (Primary Care Trust) facility
- A children's play area
The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) first
identified the site as a key strategic location and a South
Hampshire priority in the Regional Economic Strategy. Since buying
the site in 2003, SEEDA has submitted a hybrid planning application
which Southampton City Council’s Planning Committee have endorsed
with a resolution to grant permission.
Capita Symonds are a core member of the project developer Crest
Nicholson’s design team, having advised the company during the
developer competition phase on a significant range of issues
associated with engineering, transport and the environment.
Our multidisciplinary team also worked through a major revision
of the masterplan to achieve a more balanced and mixed community,
particularly to include family houses with gardens alongside a mix
of sizes of apartments. The inclusion of a foodstore within the
development has also been achieved with a view to keeping shopping
trips down and thereby creating a more sustainable development.
We have since prepared a number of supporting documents to the
revised outline planning application including the Transport and
Flood Risk Assessments together with authoring chapters of the
Environmental Statement on air quality, odour, transport, noise and
vibration, ground conditions, the water environment, and
waste.