The Concept
Public Transport And Other Links
. A Green Travel Plan will help guide and encourage residents to use bus services, cycle routes and footpath links
. A bus/emergency vehicle link is proposed to connect the site with Welton Rise and Harrow Lane so that bus services can be routed through the Holmhurst site
. The existing public footpaths will be made into attractive routes which will link parts of the site and the surrounding area
. New footpath links are proposed to create a pedestrian route to the Ridge at the east of the Ridge
. Guidance in the 'Manual for Streets' (2007) will be used to design shared surfaces, parking courtyards, Home Zones and traffic calming measures within the development
View Movement StrategyThe site is allocated for housing and open space uses in
the adopted Hastings Local Plan 2004.
It is intended to come forward for development in the
period 2006-2011 subject to progress on regeneration
projects elsewhere in the town.
The key considerations for development are highlighted
in the Council’s draft Planning and Development Brief,
the identified constraints and opportunities, and other
policy guidance:
- Provision for family housing with gardens
- Affordable homes
- Relationship with surrounding development
- Protection of trees and safeguarding ecology
- Improved management of the SNCI
- Setting of existing listed building
- Future of the Grade II* listed statue of Queen Anne
- Open space on site and in the immediate vicinity
- Landscape character
- Views into and out of the site
The Context
Holmhurst St Mary is well placed to
benefit from sustainable transport
initatives. The site is within walking
distance of many local facilities and
is served by a number of local bus
services.
