Trend Setting 400 Home Riverside Scheme, North Kent

IT-008 St Mary's Island Project (PDF 688.83 KB)

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SEEDA and Countryside Properties sponsored the competition for the 6.8ha riverside scheme comprising over 400 homes on St Mary’s Island, North Kent.

Countryside’s development around the one surviving shipping dock, “the Basin” comprises homes as diverse as 1-bed studio loft apartments to 5- bedroom houses. Along with private balconies and verandas, terraces and gardens the site accommodates a wide range of shared spaces.
 

With a dedicated bus route to the site, and carefully designed access arrangements, the emphasis is on pleasant and safe roads and minimum pollution.

Mayer Brown’s Role:
Mayer Brown is very pleased to be part of the Buschow Henley award winning team proposing the best innovative trend setting housing scheme in South East England.
 

Mayer Brown’s input was mainly concerned with the design for transport and public realm, one of the key issues along with responsiveness to the design brief, items highlighted at the award ceremony.

The overall masterplan complies with the Kent Design Guide principles and has the following unique strengths:
 

• A layered approach to access for all modes of transport.
• Separation of routes for pedestrians and cyclists from motor vehicles.
• Priority access for pedestrians and cyclists to schools, the marina, shops and leisure complex.
• These priority accesses through the central area make cycling a genuinely more attractive mode of transport throughout the development.
• Motorists are guided through a slow speed route which provides enjoyable view of the development.
• The road width ensures that the two-way capacity does not exceed the needs of the area.
• Raised junction are used which encourage safe road crossing for pedestrians as well as encouraging vehicle speeds of no more that 20mph.
• The speed tables and capacity restraints make the maid distributor road unattractive to non-local drivers.
• Junctions have been designed that are pedestrian and cyclist friendly.
   

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