Berwick AAP Issues and Options Response Form
Your response and feedback to the Issues and Options Consultation Document are valued.
Please complete and return this response form by 12 noon 25th June 2010.
To assist the completion of this response form we advise that you have access to the full
Berwick Eastern Arc Area Action Plan Issues and Options Consultation Document.
The Initial Sustainability Appraisal is also available for comment.
If you wish to, please attach additional comments to this response form.
Please return completed response forms to either Berwick Library,
the County Council’s Wallace Green Office,
or by post to Gordon Halliday, Head of Planning Strategy, Northumberland County
Council, County Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 2EF.
Berwick AAP Issues and Options Response Form
Question 1a
Do you understand the rationale (reason for) the proposed AAP area?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Question 1b
If not what would be a suitable AAP area and why?
Question 2a
Are these the key spatial, challenges and drivers that the AAP should be
tackling?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Question 2b
Are there any other issues that need to be considered?
Question 3a
Do you think that this is the most appropriate vision for the Berwick
Eastern Arc AAP?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Question 3b
If not, what should the vision be?
Question 4a
Do the Eastern Arc AAP core objectives address the key issues?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Question 4b
Are there any other objectives that need to be set out?
Question 4c
Which of the objectives do you believe should be priorities?
Question 5a
Which of the initial spatial options presented do you support?
Option 1- Business as Usual
Option 2 - Berwick Focussed
Option 3 - Whole area regeneration strategy
Question 5b
Are there any other reasonable spatial options that should be explored, or
sites which should be included?
Question 5c
Are there any elements of an option which you might not fully support, but
that you think could be incorporated into a preferred option?
Question 5d
Which of the following uses would you most like to see within the areas of
Berwick, Spittal, Tweedmouth? (Please tick up to four uses for each area)
Housing
Retail
Office /
Businesses /
Employment
Restaurant
/ Cafes /
Bars
Public
Open
Space
Leisure
&
Culture
Visitor
Accommodation
Berwick
Town Centre
Spittal
Tweedmouth
Question 6a
Are both the Town centre designation and the Primary Shopping
designation (shown in Map 9) appropriate?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Question 6a
If not what suggestions would you make?
Question 6b
Should the change of use of retail units to non retail uses be permitted on
ground floors? (non retail uses include restaurants, cafe, pubs and
anything that would contribute to the vitality of the town centre)
Yes everywhere
Yes, but outside the primary shopping area
No
Question 6c
Should the use or reuse of vacant or underused first floor space be
promoted for retail, housing, leisure, office, eating and drinking?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Car
Parking
Question 6d
Which of the following drivers are most appropriate to enhance the town
centre?
(Please select up to three of the options)
Improve the quality of the comparison and convenience offer within the
primary centre and broaden the retail offer, including specialist and niche
retailing within the town centre.
Enhance Berwick as an attractive destination with further development of the
Tourism offer (including the provision of hotels and accommodation) and the
promotion of its cultural and heritage offer.
Provide further opportunities for a variety of smaller business and office
space
Seek to attract investment in order to locate education and training facilities
within the town centre
Promote improvements to the existing leisure facilities and in addition seek
to attract further high quality leisure, including improvements to the evening
economy
Question 6e
Do you agree with the Berwick Infirmary site being brought forward as a
mixed use development site incorporating Retail, Leisure and Housing?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Question 7a
In order to improve and broaden the heritage and tourism offer, which of
the following options do you think would be most successful and
appropriate to achieve this?
(please tick up to three of the options)
Attract funding and investment to improve the quality of the heritage assets
Market assets better and provide further information on lesser known assets
and areas such as Tweedmouth and Spittal
Improve the offer as a tourist destination of key heritage assets such as the
Barracks
Increase the provision and quality of accommodation
Increase the leisure, arts and cultural offer attracting events year round
Invest in the expansion and improvement of a wider night time economy
Question 7b
Proposed Quarters
A primary and niche retail quarter (Marygate, Bridge Street)
An Education and Skills quarter (Walkergate)
A Leisure and evening economy quarter (Golden Square and Hide Hill)
A Cultural Heritage quarter (Maltings and Barracks)
Would you like to see the development of distinct characterised quarters
within the old town as set out below (and shown on Map 10)?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Question 7b
Yes but with different quarters? If so then please describe in this box or
show on additional sheets to be attached
Question 7c
In order to improve and enhance the heritage offer would you like to see a
flagship or landmark development on the Quayside incorporating the
highest quality design and mixed used development?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Question 8a
Which of the following transport interventions/ recommendations from the
Buchannan report do you think best support the wider regeneration
strategy as well as delivering meaningful improvement?
(Please tick up to four of the options)
Work with English Heritage to prepare a strategy for the use of the car park
to support the long term use of the overflow (all sections) of the Castlegate
car park
Improve/ replace direction signage to the town and car park signing
particularly for visitors to encourage the use of the Castlegate car park
Review the car parking provision and allocation of long and short stay within
the whole town
Implement Traffic signals to reduce congestion and improve flow at
Marygate/Castlegate/Golden Square and Castlegate/ Walkergate
Improve facilities and Information at bus stops and taxi ranks
Improve Pedestrian signage
Undertake a public realm strategy to guide improvements to the streets and
public spaces
Question 8b
The Castlegate car park currently has a temporary permission for usage.
The County Council is undertaking a study to identify a suitable alternative
site or an alternative solution. Do you consider Castlegate to be the best
location for a long stay car park?
(please tick one answer)
Yes ......................................................... No ..........................................................
Question 8b
If not please could you suggest alternative sites or solutions
Question 8c
Are there any other transport issues which you consider require
addressing?
Question 9a
Which of the following types of residential accommodation is needed the
most within Berwick? (Please select one option)
High quality offer
Middle quality offer
Affordable housing*
*describes the types of affordable tenure and does not represent low quality housing
Question 9a
Which of the following types of residential accommodation is needed the
most within Berwick? (Please select one option)
1-2 bed
3 bed
4+ bed
Question 9b
The majority of future housing within the AAP is likely to be located on
priority sites within one of the three communities. Please choose one of the
following communities that this development should take place in.
(Please select one option)
Berwick
Spittal
Tweedmouth
Question 9c
Should the design of the housing be? (Please select one option)
Similar to the existing heritage and character designs
More contemporary but still of a high quality build and design
Question 9d
There is a current planning application for housing (yet to be determined)
on part of the Spittal Point site. Should all of this broader site be developed
for: (Please select one option)
Housing only
Housing and employment provision as part of a mixed use scheme
Question 9e
Are there any additional community facilities (or improvements to existing
facilities) required in the Tweedmouth and Spittal areas?
Note:
If you require further space for your response, please attach using
additional sheets.