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John HarveyCity Centre Manager
ATCM & English Heritage – The Changing Face of the High Street: Heritage and Town
& City Centre Management
Princesshay Case Study
Background – Why Princesshay?
Bedford Circus (Princesshay Site) - 1939
Aerial View of Bedford Circus
Sharp’s Princesshay
“the Cathedral is too enclosed. It is hidden from the City… something should be done to extend its physical influence to make it more visible… How should this best be done? It should not be done by any spectacular opening out of wide and long vistas…”
The need for Princesshay
Out of town shopping proposals of late 80’s
City Centre’s first – 1993 onwards
Exeter’s response
Choosing the Princesshay area
Princesshay – view of Cathedral
Bedford Street – looking towards Post Office
Bedford Street – looking East
Bedford Street – looking South
Post Office Street
BDG Scheme (1998/99)
Developing a scheme for the 21st Century…
Key
Cathedral Quarter
Castle Quarter
High Street
Leisure Quarter
Office Quarter
(Southernhay)
Princesshay
Urban Design Principles…
Urban form
Mixed-use development
Active public frontages
Permeability of the city grid
Pedestrian dominated framework
Public realm
Sustainable development
Designing the scheme…
St Stephens House
Contract 6
Car Park
Ground floor plan
Second floor plan
Weather protection
Design ReviewsEnglish Heritage
“The now genuine mixed use approach to the assembling of the project emphasises a truly sustainable and regenerative quality”
Formal CABE design review“The pleasing variety of the architecture is, we believe, in tune with the relatively informal and responsive nature of the site planning”
English Heritage Urban Panel“Commends the adoption in Exeter of best practice principles for the regeneration of historic cities”
Programme
Enabling works – service diversions/Cheeke Street
Tenant relocations
Managing The Change
Scheme Delivery
Princesshay - May 2005
Post Office Street/Roman Walk
Bedford Street – Looking East
Princesshay – Looking West
Catherine Square
Almshouses
Public Art - Pavilion Building
Public Art – War Memorial
Connectivity/Way Finding
Pedestrianisation Integration/permeability Civic squares and spaces – with activity New names Economic momentum ‘Extending the day’ – connecting ‘day’, ‘evening’
and ‘night-time’ economies Dwell time City Centre living Quality design
Conclusions – Benefits Delivered
QUESTIONS
John Harvey Contacts:
e-mail – [email protected]
Mobile – 07795 438 297
Twitter – www.twitter.com/exeterccm
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