Strategy presentation design statement april 2014 grainne mc loughlin
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The document discusses creating a Town Design Statement for Greystones to protect and enhance its unique character. A Town Design Statement would examine Greystones' history, architecture, public spaces, landmarks, and natural environment. It would create a shared vision and design principles through community involvement. The output would be an agreed Design Statement and action plan to guide Greystones' sustainable future development in line with existing planning policies.
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- 2. What can be achieved.. •Active involvement •Play a pivotal role in sustainable matters •Develop collaborate partnerships •Important role in the future character of Greystones
- 3. What is a Town Design Statement? A community-led Design Statement is a mechanism for protecting, celebrating and enhancing our towns distinctiveness and will contribute significantly to the delivery of sustainable development. A community-led DS examines and describes the time- depth and the unique character and distinctiveness of the town - A Community-led DS collectively creates a sense of place and proposes agreed design principles and specific and phased actions to ensure the future collective enhancement, effective planning and management, and promotion of the town for the benefit of the community and visitors alike.
- 4. 1. TownScape, historic streetscape and character areas: architectural types, styles and forms – age range of buildings – height, scale and density of buildings – architectural conservation areas 2. Street furniture, retail design, street planning and layout including lighting, accessibility (for all) etc 3. Key approaches to the town: arrival and departure experiences – views and vistas in and out of the town – historic landscapes – urban and rural. 4. Landmarks: key buildings/structures – hierarchy of public spaces, parks & protected structures. Relationship and links between buildings and spaces – laneways and slips, distinctive features and local materials/textures – gateposts, walls, kerbing, railings, lamps. 5. Green Infrastructure and natural heritage: existing and potential areas – including Special Protection Areas and Special Areas of Conservation and including the coastline, rivers and streams. CORE HERITAGE AND DESIGN ELEMENTS TO LOOK AT
- 5. A perfect example of what we can change
- 6. Proposed outputs • A shared Vision • Agreed Design • An Agreed Design Statement Action Plan
- 7. Support initiatives such as Village Design Statements and Public Realm Plans that offer the opportunity for greater community involvement in identifying, appreciating and conserving the distinctive character of local areas. Promote the dissemination of information and guidance in this area Wicklow County Council – Action 2.10 in the Wicklow Heritage Plan 2009-2014 PLANNING POLICY ALREADY IN PLACE
- 9. We have to ascertain the character of Greystones – We are starting on that road but cannot do it alone
- 10. We have to ascertain the character of Greystones – We are starting on that road but cannot do it alone
Editor's Notes
- Over the past year or so, one of the key discussions that came about was questions around our sense of our place. What makes our place unique both in history and identity. We have realised that this sense of place, created by Greystones own unique culture and heritage links directly to our communities sense of identity and this can ultimately enhance peoples sense of being and belonging and quality of life. This concept was orginally stemmed from the Heritage Councils Village Design Statement toolkit and we propose using the information and guidance provided in their toolkit on relevant structures, outputs and potential outcomes that will enable and empower our community in Greystones to become involved in shaping our environment. Through my work with Pride of Place, the LivCom awards and Co-operation Ireland, I have been fortunate to have met many communities across Ireland who have developed their own design statements and through learning from them, we too can produce a design statement for Greystones.
- A Design Statement for Greystones would provide innovative and creative examples of how our local communities could: Become actively involved and engaged in shaping our environment and landscapes. Play a pivotal role in heritage, environmental planning and sustainable development matters in Greystones Establish and develop useful collaborative partnerships and networks with Wicklow County Council and the new Municipal structures and statutory bodies Play an important role in the enhancement and promotion of the overall character and distinctiveness of Greystones
- A community-led Design Statement is a mechanism for protecting, celebrating and enhancing our towns distinctiveness and will contribute significantly to the delivery of sustainable development. A community-led DS examines and describes the time-depth and the unique character and distinctiveness of the town - A Community-led DS collectively creates a sense of place and proposes agreed design principles and specific and phased actions to ensure the future collective enhancement, effective planning and management, and promotion of the town for the benefit of the community and visitors alike
- 1.TownScape, historic streetscape and character areas: architectural types, styles and forms – age range of buildings – height, scale and density of buildings – architectural conservation areas2.Street furniture, retail design, street planning and layout including lighting, accessibility (for all) 3. Key approaches to the town: arrival and departure experiences – views and vistas in and out of the town – historic landscapes – urban and rural.4. Landmarks: key buildings/structures – hierarchy of public spaces, parks, protected structures Relationship and links between buildings and spaces – laneways and slips, distinctive features and local materials/textures – gateposts, walls, kerbing, railings, lamps.5. Green Infrastructure and natural heritage: existing and potential areas – including Special Protection Areas and Special Areas of Conservation including coastlines, rivers and streams.
- Our design statement would ensure that overhead cables go underground New paving would be cognizant that paving design does not look like a pedestrian crossing Expensive seating is not made up of materials such as those used for the sculpture in Eyre Square. The sculpture in Eyre square is of a Galway Hooker (that’s’ a wooden boat,) & the sails are red, hence the material is supposed to go rusty as in red sails – and definitely should not be used for public seating
- A community-led Design Statement document or report is made up of three key sections: (i) A SharedVision setting out our community’s overall and collective vision (environmental, cultural and socio-economic) for Greystones for the next 15-20 years – this is effectively the community’s Constitution. (ii) Agreed Design Principles that relate specifically to the Towb. These will be used by the local community, the local authority and other stakeholders to guide in-fill or new development, within or on the edges of the town, in order to ensure that the existing character and distinctiveness identified through the DS process is conserved, celebrated and enhanced. (iii) An Agreed DSAction Plan setting out specific and phased projects that should be delivered by us in local community and our partners to ensure the effective planning, management and enhancement of these unique features, which ultimately will create Greystones overall sense ofplace.
- These statements do not work without clear policy – we in Wicklow have the policy in place, it is up to us to bring it alive here in Greystones
- Knowledge of the wider policy context enables all the project partners to be aware of how and where the Design statement fits into the overall policy system, particularly planning policy (Diagram 1 below), and will ensure that the our design links in to existing and proposed environmental, social, economic and cultural programmes.