2. OPUN Workshop
1. Introduce Lincoln Townscape Assessment (LTA)
2. Implementation in Lincoln
3. Case study workshop (20-30 mins)
3. Lincoln Townscape Assessment
Aims:
• Characterisation project recoding the inherited character of the
entire city
• Identify how the past influences the present
• Take holistic approach incorporating principles of urbanism,
archaeology and ecology
Outcomes
• Evidence-led approach to considering future change in Lincoln
• Place-based understanding and awareness of local distinctiveness
• Physical structure for ‘intangible’ elements of character
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5. Character Areas
• Historical Development
– Legibility
– Tangible
• Ground survey
– Built environment
– Experiential
– Natural and semi-natural
– Urban form
6. Character Areas
• Mapped information for each area
• Urban Form
– Block Structure
– Set backs
– Frontages
– Open Spaces
– Circulation
• Tells us about how an area is
working an how it is experienced
7. Character Area Statements
• Statement:
– Overview
– Historical development
– Urban Form
– Views
– Condition and Use
– Ecological Characteristics
– Bullet Points
• Impartial – free from value
judgements
8. www.heritageconnectlincoln.com
• Bespoke mobile and
desktop web design
• 3G + smart phones
• GPS – location aware
Information accessed through
each place:
– Statement
– Heritage/ecological info
– Maps
– Photos
– Feedback
– Consultations
10. Design and Development
Developers
• Design principles
• D&A statement
• Heritage studies
DM Officers
• Pre-application, evaluation,
negotiation and appeal stages
• Conservation Area Appraisals
• Masterplans
• Development briefs, LDOs
• NOT CONSERVATION-LED!
11. Workshop
1. Review proposal and consider its contribution
• Key LTA characteristics
• Urban mapping
• Photos and images of site and surrounds
• Principles within the Design and Access statement
2. Identify any alternative design principles
3. Reasoning
4. Present findings
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13. Key LTA characteristics:
• West Parade dominant
street/backbone
• Gable ends for civic and
ecclesiastical buildings
• Strong building lines
• Repetitive pattern of form,
scale and decoration
• Corner buildings respect
position
• Active frontages
14. Contribution and Design Principles
Contribution: Principles:
• Secondary emphasis on West • Orientate to West Parade
Parade
• Pattern and style of fenestration
• Low activity at street-level
• Doesn’t reflect corner position • Corner feature/treatment
• Plain with limited decoration • Emphasise repeated form of
properties using decorative
• Residential/ecclesiastical form elements
• Scale, height, building line • Reduce prominence of gables,
and use in smaller scale
• Contemporary design (D&A)
• Modern interpretation of
existing characteristics
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17. Key outcomes of using LTA
• Shared evidence-base for the negotiation of change
• Robust evidence-led place-shaping approach to local
distinctiveness
• Clarity, rigour and speed in decision-making
• Maximise the benefit Lincoln gets from its inherited character
and sense of place
• Greater ability to monitor and improve how places are
developed
