The Design Guide
Prepared by the design team and submitted with the Masterplan. Its primary aim is to ensure that all aspects of the development are designed in a way that is sympathetic to the character of traditional South Cambridgeshire villages.
Randall Thorp were responsible for all landscape sections of the design guide including:
- Village Greens
- Greenways
- Footpaths, cycleways, bridleways & tracks
- Highway verge landscapes
- Site boundaries
- Integration of the development into the landscape
- Enclosure types
- Allotments
- Amenity & Sport land
- School Grounds
Development Briefing Plans
Prior to any land parcel being developed, a detailed briefing plan is prepared by Randall Thorp with input from a range of other consultants and specialists from both the Developers and Local Planning Authority.
These plans cover a range of issues, including:
- Relationship of the development to the highway
- Relationship of the development to adjacent sites
- Density
- Building set back from road
- Location of views, feature and focal buildings
- Height of development
- Character of units; cottage, farmstead, town house, villa, grand house, manor house
- Type of units; terraced, detached
- Grouping of units
- Boundary types; hedges, picket fences, railings, walls etc
- Pedestrian and vehicular linkages
- Play areas
- Planting & soft landscape
- Hard landscape materials
Settlement Centre Design Guidance
To ensure a sense of place and maturity was evident from the outset avenues of semi-mature London Plane and Horbeam were planted along the centre roads prior to any development taking place
Randall Thorp have also prepared a specific materials palette and standard details layout for the public realm areas of the settlement centre. In addition a range of ‘Cambourne’ street furniture has been designed to help achieve unity throughout the development and foster the sense of place.
