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University of Wales Trinity Saint David SA1 Masterplan 2015Public Consultation

Welcome...

Objective...

UWTSD will act as a catalyst for economic growth by creating new opportunities for education, commercialisation and economic development.

Existing UWTSD building

UWTSD sites

Welsh Government retained land

Surrounding buildings

A Connected UniversityThe University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) was formed on 18 November 2010 through the merger of the University of Wales Lampeter and Trinity University College Carmarthen, under Lampeter’s Royal Charter of 1828. On the 1 August 2013, Swansea Metropolitan University became part of UWTSD.

The University’s Royal Charter is the oldest in Wales and England after the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2011 HRH the Prince of Wales became its Royal Patron.

The UWTSD Group includes Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion as part of a dual sector group structure comprising further education colleges and the university. Together we deliver clear, tangible benefits for learners, employers, industry and communities by offering a vocational approach from entry level to post-doctoral research. The Group will be further strengthened with the merger of the University of Wales into UWTSD in due course.

The University’s main campuses are situated in various locations in and around Swansea’s city centre as well as in the rural towns of Lampeter and Carmarthen in South West Wales. The Wales International Academy of Voice, under the Directorship of Dennis O’Neill with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa as its patron, is located in Cardiff and in addition the University has a campus in London.

UWTSD has a clear and exciting strategic plan that places emphasis upon applied learning, strong academic disciplines and a clear commitment to innovation, enterprise and knowledge transfer. This connected university is driving through structural and strategic change which is closely associated with industry, business and enterprise. The University has a clear national profile – delivering for Wales and celebrating its distinctiveness on a UK and international stage.

Transforming Education...Transforming LivesThe development of the SA1 Waterfront Innovation Quarter will support UWTSD’s aim of inspiring individuals and developing reflective graduates and practitioners who can make a difference in society. It will enhance the aim of the University to have an equally important role in advocating global citizenship and education for sustainable development.

The Swansea Waterfront Innovation Quarter will be situated in a vibrant, modern waterfront location with easy access to the city centre.

The intention is to establish purpose-built facilities for learning, teaching and applied research as well as social, leisure and recreation spaces. As a University focused upon sustainability, buildings will be designed and constructed to be visually pleasing and sustainable with green spaces providing plenty of opportunities to enjoy this stimulating environment in the open air. UWTSD is working with the Welsh Government and the City and County of Swansea to deliver this exciting vision.

Public ConsultationThe Masterplan for the SA1 Waterfront area, and in particular to the south and west of the Prince of Wales Dock, supports a mixed-use development comprising UWTSD, commercial offices, restaurants, small scale retail, hotel and leisure facilities, residential accommodation and sports and recreation opportunities. New areas for public access will also be delivered. It is a city focused mixed-use scheme which is designed to create a vibrant and attractive sense of place within a prime waterfront setting.

We welcome your views in helping to shape the proposals and the range of facilities to be offered based on the exhibition displayed at this consultation. See ‘Next Steps’ board for details on how you can share your views on UWTSD’s proposals.


A Brief History of Swansea...

A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time...It was Wynford Vaughan Thomas, a native of Swansea, who said that his home city had as many layers as an onion and that each could reduce one to tears. The story of Swansea has indeed been that of a city with a multiple personality. An ancient borough, a seaside resort, a market centre, a pioneer in the production of coal, copper, lead, iron, steel, pottery, tinplate and oil, a great historical ocean port and a city with multiple layers of migration over time. The Norsemen, the pirate traders of the early eleventh century were the first to realise the possibilities of the natural harbour at the mouth of the River Tawe. One of these, by the name of Sweinn or Sweyn, settled in an ‘ey’ or island of the river and Sweyn’s Ey, which was later developed into Swansea.

The first intensive settlement appears to date from the end of the eleventh century with the coming of the Normans. They saw the potential of a great strategic and commercial opportunity and soon built a castle and settled around it. In the twelfth century the burgesses were granted their first charter and over the next few centuries the region gradually settled into a long period of relative stability with Swansea acting as the trading port and market centre.

By the eighteenth century, however, Swansea suddenly emerged as a town with a future and its population rapidly expanded. Paradoxically, at the same time of industrial expansion Swansea was also popular as a watering place as invalids took the waters at St Helens. The very first commercial passenger railway in the world was built along the sea-front from Swansea and Mumbles.

Industrial development did not always bring benefits to areas east of the Tawe. One of the most polluted areas was Landore which was described in 1880 as ‘a spot rich in the renown of its metal and chemical works, but to the casual visitor, ugly with all the ugliness of grime and dust, and mud and smoke and indescribable tastes and odours.’ This region of Swansea found a new wealth and prosperity as a result of the Industrial Revolution but the price was poor health and environmental conditions.

Once Swansea served the world in copper, tin plate and coal and the world in its turn came to Swansea. Practically everything we see in our present landscape is the result of centuries of human activities, of farming, quarrying, manufacture, travelling and trade, of economic and spiritual need. The places where we live and work, go to school and worship are literally rooted in the past: they all have stories to tell, if we know how to read them. This is especially true of SA1.

Not only was Swansea an emergent industrial and seaside town; it was also the cultural and intellectual centre of Wales. It possessed a famous Royal Institution for the Arts and Sciences, a notable theatre and assembly rooms, and it published the first weekly and daily paper to appear in Wales. Before its status as a city, its citizens zoned the town for industry, residence and commerce, which is why no major industrial development in Swansea can be found west of the line of the High Street. This line of demarcation will of course be blurred with the new development at SA1.

Not only has the landscape changed over time, but so too has our perception and appreciation of it. For many centuries parts of Swansea were seen as wasteland when compared with the productive areas of Gower or the Vale of Glamorgan. However, as communication improved and opinions changed this area became attractive to painters, poets, industrialists and tourists. Similarly, the industrial landscape of Swansea was transformed again, especially by the end of the twentieth century, with the removal of waste tips and the closure of docks and heavy industry.

History is the study of change and continuity, and one of the most important documents we have to us is our present landscape: for much of our history it is the only document we have. Today’s landscape offers us windows into the past by allowing us to glimpse into how people lived and used the land through time. It is a combination of place and space - places where things happened and the spaces in between through which people moved. The almost medieval quaintness of the old city centre was destroyed by air raids in the early days of the Second World War. As a key western port Swansea suffered many grievous air raids but the disasters of the war have since resulted in architectural and economic renewal in the devastated areas of which the new planned development by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David is an important part.

When the College of Education was founded in 1872, which is now part of UWTSD, Swansea was chosen as a suitable place to educate future teachers because it is central for South Wales, easy access by railway and steamboat from North Wales and the West of England, and possessing a moral and political atmosphere in which such an institution would be likely to thrive.’ The steamboats may have gone but new road links make the sentiment as true now as it was then in establishing a new centre of learning.

The many features that make up the historic landscape at SA1, is the result of the activities of the people who used and shaped the land to serve their needs in the past; they reflect the beliefs, attitudes, traditions and values of those people.

We continually steal from the past to shape our future, sometimes to construct knowledge or the means to do so and as such help create a new history but Swansea’s eternal capacity to renew and redefine its future continues….


Key project drivers...

Driving transformational change within a city context.

The Vision: Transforming Lives

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David is committed to the development of a culture of learning that focuses on the individual learner, that remains rooted in local communities, is inclusive, and provides an environment capable of transforming lives. The University also promotes regional economic regeneration through the provision of relevant education, vocational training, and the ability to support continuing professional development.

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The Brief:

By transforming education, we transform lives. An inspiring way of delivering new opportunities for teaching and learning that reflects our commitment to the wider Swansea Bay City Region and which offers opportunities for the University and other partners to develop shared spaces for social and economic benefit.

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Core Academic space33, 000 m2

Waterfront Innovation Corridor

100, 000 m2

Complementary commercial and academic use

...And the Docks Themselves

A particular episode of Wales’ industrial history that left curiously few structures, just the heroic man-made scale of the docks, which need to be humanised, sheltered and tamed.

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UWTSD will act as a catalyst for economic growth by creating new opportunities for education, commercialisation and economic development.

Changing Swansea...

The move to the Docks...

2003 approved masterplan 2010 approved masterplan

• Swansea is an industrial capital in transition • The new economy is emerging at the heart of the old

industrial dockland• Learning, knowledge and skills lie at the heart of the

economy of a renewed city

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Key...

Park & Ride - Intention that this will move further out of the city in order to expand and the site redeveloped as housing. The move is tied to the expansion of the Liberty Stadium, but there are no current clear timescales.

Civic Centre - The Council have noted the intention in recent news articles to sell this site.

Saint David’s/ Quadrant - This will form part of the ‘City Centre retail and leisure core’ which will be a mixed use development creating a regionally dominant retail and leisure destination that can support a vibrant day and night-time economy. The Council is expected to reveal further plans for the city’s redevelopment soon.

Fabian Way Corridor - Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) is being jointly produced by City and County of Swansea (CCS) and Neath Port Talbot. This is expected to be issued for consultation later this year.

Tidal Lagoon - Decision due by June 2015. The construction phase of the Project is planned to commence in 2015 and extend to the beginning of 2019, and the first power generated to be exported in the early part of 2019.

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SA1 offers significant opportunities to create a vibrant city presence. Its location provides a connection between the Maritime Quarter, Saint Thomas and the city centre.

Present use... ViewpointsWhilst much of the wider SA1 area is accessible to the general public, there are several areas that are fenced off to prevent unauthorised access. These areas include a number of the individual plots that the university has acquired. Similarly, the whole of the Associated British Ports working area is out of bounds, which restricts the assessment of views into the UWTSD plots from the south and the southeast.

The maritime history and character of SA1 has been portrayed through a palette of renovated industrial buildings in and around Technium Square, and complemented by a series of contemporary architecture. The distinctive red brick façades of the Ice House and J-Shed developments stand in contrast to the newer university buildings at Technium 1 and 2, along with the Admiral offices. This blend of traditional dockland style materials and modern glass and concrete structures creates an interesting storyboard of the proposed image of SA1 for those entering the space.

Plots A15 and A16 are two key development sites at the main vehicular entrance to the whole SA1 regeneration area. The plots face Fabian Way along the northern edge, presenting an opportunity for promoting a strong presence to passing traffic on the main route out of the city centre towards Neath, Port Talbot and Cardiff.

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Site Analysis...

A15 & A16...

There is little development at this end of the docks. The recent development of 2 and 3 storeys townhouses stands out. However, there are other local landmarks that stand out including the bridge over Fabian Way. This provides cycling access over the busy road as well as a dedicated bus link for the Tennant park and ride facilities. The closed off link road to the left will serve to create a loop around Plot E6 as well as provide access along to Plots E7 through to Plot F.

E & F...

This area was originally used for dock-related activities and was predominantly covered with railway tracks connecting cargo between the ships and the rest of the country. As well as the railway infrastructure, a number of goods sheds were also located here (K and L sheds). The Associated British Ports buildings in the background sit on the original footprints of A and B sheds.

Peninsula...

Technium Square sits on an important node for the SA1 development. The Square itself is the only soft landscaped public space in the area and has a memorial to the lost fishermen of Swansea. The surrounding buildings along its northern edges were delivered as a first phase and were intended to provide suitable space for startup companies. UWTSD occupies and owns 2 of these (A3 and A4), while Admiral’s Swansea operations are located in Plot A8B. To the west of the Square is the distinctive chimney of the listed Ice House, with the city’s landmark Sail Bridge behind.

Technium Square..

The Dylan Thomas Centre is one of the city’s flagship facilities and is housed in an impressive Grade II* listed building. At the far end of Somerset Place, where it meets the Swansea Sail Bridge, the route passes through an area lacking in a meaningful sense of place.

Dylan Thomas Centre...

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The masterplan has taken account of site opportunities and constraints identified at the start of the process. The masterplanning team investigated a number of topics, including access and movement, character zones, drainage, surrounding uses and ecology. Presented below are a selection of analysis diagrams.

Site Analysis...

Key site analysis diagrams...

Surrounding building uses

Movement networkThe SA1 Swansea Waterfront development has already established good transport links and the current strategy recognises the need for provision of public transport, walking and cycling.

Distribution of community facilitiesThe current SA1 site is focused primarily around the public open space at Technium Square, with a number of university buildings and offices overlooking it. Outdoor café spaces and restaurants around the historic J-Shed building and the former Ice House provide social activity to the plots. There are currently very little community facilities on the south side of SA1 and the Maritime Quarter, which need to be addressed for the local residents.

Building heights In general, the building heights of SA1 reflect the waterfront nature and use for each building, so as to maximise views of the water for residential developments. Most of the buildings focused around Technium Square are lower, reflecting building use.

Extensive retail and leisure facilities are located in the city centre, with two major shopping malls, The Quadrant Shopping Centre and Parc Tawe. Both are within walking distance of SA1 across the Sail Bridge. For smaller, local retail nodes Saint Thomas has a variety of privately run businesses based on Port Tennant Road.

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Key...RetailMarine useCulturalMuseum

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University Requirements...

Development at SA1...

Core Space Tech Space Flexi Space

UWTSD development(33,000m2)

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Breakdown UWTSD Development...

Centre Teacher Ed.14,000m2

CORE ACADEMIC SPACE Student Hub & University Events SpaceLibrary & Learning Commons

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FLEXI-SPACE General Shared Learning SpaceFaculty & School HubSWW Centre of Teacher EducationLearning & Teaching Hub Support Spaces

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TECH SPACE Engineering HubArchitecture, Construction & Nat. Env HubDigital Media & Applied Computing HubHealth & Outdoor Education HubFacilities & Services

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University administrative space, Faculty, School and Departmental Hubs, shared general teaching spaces and the Digital Arts specialist hub.

Engineering and Architecture workshop and studio space with associated staff and student facilities.

The University Centre comprising the University library, Student Hub and Innovation Centre

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The Different Types of University Space...

Brief and Accommodation Schedule


University of Wales Trinity Saint David in SA1...

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High-Level Options

The Preferred Option

• A catalyst to accelerate the regeneration of SA1 • A university embedded in the economic, cultural and social life of the city• Preferred option: five interlinked, learning-centred areas

3 key considerations for the options...

Five interlinked, learning-centred areas • Dylan Thomas - the Dylan Thomas library

and exhibition in the heart of a new community

• Technium Square – innovation and professional centres as part of an established neighbourhood

• Sports Pavilion - the starting point for the regeneration of the south eastern quay of the Prince of Wales Dock

• Peninsula Quarter - the academic core of a new mixed use district

• Financial / Business District

Future Watersports Centre as part of the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon


Plan Concepts...

A simple grid pattern has been created that extends the existing pattern (red lines)

The grid creates the opportunity to form larger blocks of development around the Peninsula

These blocks can be divided up into smaller individual building plots

The grid, block and plot structures create a clearly legible arrangement of connections for pedestrians, cyclists and servicing

The University will occupy a proportion of the total development at the Peninsula (in red) with the rest being developed by commercial partners (in blue)

The layout ensures that the University develops

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In the wider context of SA1...

The Principles

• A place making approach guided by the University’s academic and social vision

• A plan responding to the engineering legacy of the docks• A simple, traditional urban grid providing structure and flexibility to

accommodate change over time• Maximise waterfront opportunities • A townscape approach of places revealed in sequence along a walk• A plan of urban blocks, up to six storeys, framing spaces to provide shelter

from the vigorous Welsh estuary climate • A special library study building at the centre of the plan- whose

architecture refers to a celebration of the earth and pre-industrial Welsh craft- a contrast to the surrounding engineering legacy

• Feature buildings, major art works at visual focal points in the plan• Ground level circulation with priority for pedestrians• Servicing from secondary spaces• Car circulation calmed with most cars parked at the perimeter of the

neighbourhood• A plan delivered in phases • A sustainable development in its approach to planning and design

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The Peninsula at SA1 is the area with the greatest degree of change from the previous SA1 masterplans. Here are the concepts.

The Peninsula Concept...

Connectivity with the surrounding neighbourhoods...

• Buildings face the streets and surrounding spaces

• Social and communal areas at ground level facing public space

• A sheltering arcade linking together the central buildings

• Clear connections between principal spaces

• University showcase for new discoveries and ‘spin-out’ businesses facing onto King’s Road

Major pedestrian connection

Proposed reopening of former canal route

Tidal lagoon vehicular access

Fabian Way corridor

Proposed pedestrian connection

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Public transport hub

Saint Thomas Library forms part of an interconnected network of learning between SA1 and Saint Thomas

Former canal is to be reopened as part of the city-wide pedestrian and cycling network

Proposed long term aspiration to open up a new pedestrian connection to Swansea Tidal Lagoon from the city centre along the River Tawe frontage

The main connection between the city centre and SA1 focusses on Wind Street and the Dylan Thomas Centre on Somerset Place

Quadrant Redevelopment scheme is to become part of Swansea’s ‘Retail and Leisure Core’, with a vibrant day and night-time economy

Should it receive planning approval (expected in June 2015), the construction phase of the Lagoon Project is set to commence in 2015, and complete by 2019


Public realm character...

Character:• Residential and commercial frontages• Neighbourhood space• Informal play and shelter• Relaxed and informal use

Character:• Destination space • Where the river meets the

sea• Waterfront view and

lookout point• Exposed to elements -

shelter and protection incorporated within the design

Character:• Social heart and core space• Flexible use - events,

festivals, temporary and seasonal installations

• Evening destination - extension of the city

• Mixing of students and the community

Character:• Circular walk of Prince of Wales

Dock• Active and connected to adjacent

uses• Leisure space - opportunity for

events arena and waterside activities

• Visually connected - views across the water to other SA1 areas

Character:• Connecting route through to the

beach and wider landscape • Industrial character and heritage• Working waterfront• Opportunity to increase

biodiversity with native and succession planting

Character:• Riverside promenade between

the bridges• Leisure and active frontage• Views across the Tawe to the

Marina• Visual and physical connection to

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Character:• Arrival, welcome and orientation point

- Gateway to the Peninsula• Strong visual and physical links to the

river, the docks, Technium Square and the University

• Community focus and play for adjacent residential use

• Pedestrian priority space with emphasis on water’s edge as visual amenity

• mixed use - retail, residential, office and university

Princes Quay EastCharacter:

• Gateway to north from proposed pedestrian bridge

• Community focus and play for adjacent residential use

• possible use as university showcase space for arts and engineering

• includes play facilities• mixed use - retail, residential, office

and university

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• Calm and reflective - green space as repose in the city

• Mixed use - university, residential and commercial

• Active frontage will keep the space lively at busy times of the day

• Informal gathering and relaxation • Pedestrian priority and limited access

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Townscape...

A plan revealed through a sequence of spaces framed by buildings, views between spaces, and attention to detail at focal points in the plan

1 Arrival from Trafalgar Bridge

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5 Active frontages add vibrancy to the streetscape

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Character and Materials vision...

Public Realm Inspirations

Materials

Architectural Language

• Simple architecture based on the tradition of workshops and industry

• Brick the predominant material • Architectural and environmental

innovation discovered through reimagining tradition and craft

• Revealing the story of industrial work that used to take place here

• A central building whose architecture makes reference to pre-industrial craft in Wales

A place of knowledge, leisure and learning that is open for all to pass through and enjoy

• A welcoming place of connected streets and squares

• A place with distinct focal points and views• Human scale built and natural

environments • Carefully modernized industrial heritage• Vibrant human activity• An individual and quirky character


Movement...

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Connections Across the City

Long-term aspiration to open a pedestrian connection to the Tidal Lagoon.

The SA1 Swansea Waterfront development has already established good transport links. The masterplan strategy recognises the importance of new and improved public transport, walking and cycling routes. Promoting sustainable transport choices has been a key consideration during the masterplanning process.

Sustainable Development

Environment


Ecology and Bio-diversityA large proportion of the existing SA1 Swansea Waterfront site has been redeveloped and the identified plots for the University campus have been cleared to ground level comprising predominantly of areas of hardcore. The SA1 development is on a brownfield, former port site that had limited ecological value and the development would look to provide ecological enhancement through the Landscaping scheme. Appropriate mitigation measures should be taken within the construction phase management plan and within the development infrastructure to ensure that local environment is not adversely affected.

Flooding and DrainageNatural Resources Wales requirements for development of the land parcels at SA1 require a minimum floor level of 6.58m AOD which is equivalent to the 1:200 year storm event and the proposed buildings would be set at or above this level. The lowest level of Kings Road is also above the minimum flood level. Surface water flows from the site would be discharged without affecting the existing ground or introducing any downstream flooding with suitable SuDS (Sustainable Drainage System) methods employed for good water quality. The existing drainage infrastructure at SA1 has sufficient capacity to accommodate the new development and would be utilised for new piped connections for waste water.

Ecology Strategy and Green InfrastructureA large proportion of the existing SA1 Swansea Waterfront site has been redeveloped and the identified plots for the University masterplan have been cleared to ground level comprising predominantly of areas of hardcore. The SA1 development is on a brownfield, former port site that had limited ecological value and the development would look to provide ecological enhancement through the Landscaping scheme. Appropriate mitigation measures should be taken within the construction phase management plan and within the development infrastructure to ensure that local environment is not adversely affected.Infrastructure and Utilities

The existing infrastructure at SA1 site including the southern section of Kings Road leading to the Peninsula area provides for fully serviced development plots with connections to adoptable highways. The primary road links contain foul sewers and spurs for plot surface water drainage with other utilities contained within the footways and other on-site infrastructure improvements are planned to accommodate the new scheme.

Combined Heat & Power / Energy StrategyThe co-location of fairly high density mixed-use development presents significant opportunities for utilising renewable and low carbon technologies, including energy supply systems. Initial analysis suggests the use of a site-wide energy distribution system delivering heat, cooling and power to the various buildings from an energy centre. Combined heat and power (CHP)/Tri-generation is being considered as a demonstration tool integral to the educational buildings allowing very visible engagement with the community, upskilling students and staff and creating a centre of excellence in the region. CHP systems could also offer some resilience and stability against the volatile energy supplier markets used with smart metering.

Infrastructure and utilitiesSA1 has a network of underground utilities services able to deliver the required power, gas, water and telecoms required to effectively service the development. The viability of the CHP system connecting into the wider City wide district heating system is being investigated along with power links to the Tidal Lagoon. The principle of ‘Smart Cities’ will be promoted – this is effectively an urban area that understands how energy is being used at any moment in time. For example dishwashers could automatically turn on when there is excess electricity in the network.

Sustainable BuildingsThe overall scheme will aim to achieve a net zero carbon impact within 25 years of operation, repaying its ‘Carbon Mortgage’ created by the embodied emissions of the construction process. The buildings will be designed for ‘nearly zero carbon’ in line with the EU Energy Performance for Buildings Directive adopting a ‘fabric first’ approach to design where the emphasis is placed upon good construction detailing and practices delivering high levels of airtightness and low risk of thermal bridging along with low-energy use within the buildings. It is intended to adopt intuitive systems internally and photovoltaic array on each building to offset the electricity usage within the buildings and designed to remove direct sunshine and reduce the need for artificial cooling of buildings. This direction of the proposals will assist Welsh Government and the City and County of Swansea in achieving their aims for helping the reduction of climate change through low carbon sustainable developments.

Sustainability and Environment...

The masterplan must deliver against the highest standards of environmental best practice, with an integrated strategy for energy use, climatic response, ecology and biodiversity, and transport and access.

Public consultation The University will consider the comments which are received during the public consultation period. These will inform the nature of the final submission to the Council. The exhibition will be touring the University’s campuses over the next couple of weeks.

Planning submissionThe planning submission will include the results of these investigations in the form of a Supplemental (Addendum) Environmental Statement. A Planning Design and Access Statement will also be submitted which will summarise the key masterplan principles as well as the justification for the development.

DeterminationThe City and County of Swansea will seek to determine the planning application within 16weeks (around 4 months) of submission. Ongoing discussions with the Council will be undertaken during this period.


The masterplan will enable a flexible and phased delivery of projects to meet university aspirations, culminating in a new city quarter which supports commercial, residential and leisure opportunities catalysed by a consolidated university presence in the city.

Next Steps...

Masterplan timescale... Potential phasing...The University is working towards a planning submission once the technical assessments are completed. This is expected during April / May 2015.

Following the completion of the technical assessments and any revisions that might be required following public consultation, the revised masterplan proposals will be submitted for approval to the City and County of Swansea, as the Local Planning Authority.

The Planning ProcessThe masterplan will seek to replace part of the previously approved plan for the area, granted in 2010. This will be presented as a variation of the 2010 permission. The planning submission will be seeking to amend an outline planning permission – that is a permission which established the principle of development, but not the detailed designs of buildings and spaces. Detailed designs for individual buildings will be prepared once the principle of the revised masterplan is accepted by the Council. There will be opportunities to review and comment upon all future detailed submissions before development commences.

Public consultationFebruary 2015

Technical assessmentsFeb-Apr 2015

Planning submissionApril/May 2015

DeterminationTBC

DeliveryTBC

Phase 1

Phase 2

Technical assessmentsThe masterplan concepts have been developed in the context of a series of existing site and area surveys undertaken in the Autumn of 2014. Further technical assessments are required to be completed to inform the planning submission. These surveys have been requested by the City and County of Swansea and include, amongst others, transportation, drainage study, ecology and landscape assessments.

DeliveryIf found acceptable by the Council, a new planning decision notice will be issued for the SA1 development, referring to the masterplan changes. Development will only be allowed to proceed once detailed designs have been prepared, submitted and determined by the Council. The University is hopeful of a successful planning outcome and will wish to progress with detailed deigns for the first buildings and spaces toward the end of 2015. It is hoped that the University can begin to move its operations to existing buildings in SA1 in 2016 and start to occupy new buildings during 2017.

Please complete the on-line survey which can be found at: www.uwtsd.ac.uk

The survey can be downloaded and completed by hand. Please send your completed forms to:

Public Consultation University of Wales Trinity Saint David Unit 9, Technium 2, Kings Road, Swansea, SA1 8PH

The University will be working with development, commercial and residential partners to phase the development over a number of years.

Your views are important and welcomed.

www.uwtsd.ac.uk

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