Bo’ness Academy Road
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CASE STUDY 3_C
Bo’ness Academy Road [Wimpey Homes and Persimmon Homes]
Reasons for selection
Statistics
Low/medium density mid-market and executive housing with street layout based upon cul-de-sac format.
There are 64 houses in the 4.23ha study area, all detached, at an average density of 15 units/ha gross. N
House types [see key Rooms plan]
Gross Density
CT Band
Detached
13
A
4 bed
15 units/ha
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6
B
4 bed
15 units/ha
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3
C
4 bed
15 units/ha
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12
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4 bed
15 units/ha
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2
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4 bed
15 units/ha
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1
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4 bed
15 units/ha
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5
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4
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5
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4
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4 bed
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3
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4 bed
15 units/ha
F
Detached
3
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4 bed
15 units/ha
F
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4
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4 bed
15 units/ha
F
Introduction Housing, mostly by Wimpey Homes, to a masterplan established in conjunction with Falkirk Council. The housing uses standard house types, some re-elevated in contextual material. Density is consistent throughout as are 4 bed house size, detached format and cul-de-sacs layout. The Housebuilders here used in-house architectural services.
Study Area The study area covers the housing largely procured by Wimpey Homes with a small section to the south, at Grahamsdyke Place, by Persimmon Homes. The housing includes frontages to the adjoining historic streets Grahamsdyke Road and Gauze Road, with the majority of the housing within a new residential area set behind these frontages. [See Site Plan]
Location The development is an infill site within the built-up area of Bo’ness, adjoining the eastern approach to Bo’ness, alongside the new Bo’ness academy. Local schools and retail are within 5 minutes walking distance. The elevated area is separated from the town centre and harbour of Bo’ness by steep historic streets. The land focuses on a short east-west valley just south of the historic line of Antonine wall. [See Site Location Plan]
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15 units/ha
The housing was completed between 2001 and 2003.
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INFORMATION
Date
12_02_13
Title
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11 28
47 59
COURT
28
18 20 16
6
10
26
34
72
49
43
Playground
PLACE
BORROWSTOUN
11
16
36
5
L Twr
Old Manse Wood
atS b u S
26
26
29
54
DRUMACRE
L Twr
(um)
35
45
47
27
20
1
7
10
13
3
26
49
PARK
9
64
Cemetery
Invercauld
ACRE VIEW
49
33
1
54
G r a v e Yard
Path
Longacre 51
2
46
Church (in ruins)
CUFFABOUTS
16
Mast (Telecommunication)
1
LB
30
VIE
2
14
90
48
50
61
TCB
12
42
E
LS
2
19
43
T
80
63
41
31
ar
D Fn
61
57
55
68
Playing Fields L Twr
61
59
30
34
E
Carriden Parish Church
54 56
21
El Su b Sta
50
1
W AC
58 60
62
56
MUIRE
kc
GLAD
31
16
64
58
39
13
BIRKHI
26
40
Gle 44
62
17
LL WA
49
33
75
37
33
7
8
The Spires
31
68
4
1
9
18
14
41
WAY
58
T h e Academy
27
2
52
Ladywell View
9
5
Dovecot
OP
Wks
Car Pk
LS
El
Kinglass Centre
1
2
KIRK PLACE
Shaft
1
tekramrepyH
LS
Estate
5
35
HADRIAN
21
91
85
48
36
48
T
46
E l Sub Sta
35
17
10
2
8
15
CEN
35
22 10
36
44
CRES
retlehS
Sewage Works
Carriden Industrial Works
T h e Grange School House
6
31
38
th
38
80
81 83
77 79
DOUGLAS DRIVE
Sta
stsoP
1
E l Sub Sta
Factory
Alexander Cottage
A 904
26 27
38 40
9
MING
61
37
E
4
El Sub Sta
Sh elter
1
kca
29
1
33
Path
15
42
98
49
25
ESS
GRAHAMSDYKE PLACE
Playing Field
75
13
LB
3
5
1
00
CARRIDEN 13
2
CENT
stsoP
Tank
4
12
FORESHORE WAY
ESS
54
10
9
DOUGLAS TERRACE
17 19
1
El Sub Sta
Issues
23
23
1
Playing Fields
8
1
15
23
12
22
CRAWFIELD AVENUE
FBs
4
1
36d
NEWTOWN
78
2
20
1
20
32
36
54
E l Sub Sta
G r a n g e House (Nursing Home)
15 11
52 to
64
44
66
42
32
28
14
5
ROAD
50
64
2
BIRKHILL STREET
80
ROAD
25
50
(um)
16
EMY
48
10
9
25
PLACE
23
OCHILVIEW
16
2
th
19
ACAD 44
8
11 7
2
12
DOUGLAS ROAD
11
109
Pa
14
OCHILVIEW
21
67 57
45
33
31 30
24 25
stsoP
knaT
6
Path
41
1
88
2
99
66
22
10
21
119
95
36a
15 16
25
10
35
DOUGLAS PLACE
13
19
FORTHVIEW CRESCENT
85
36b
7
7
2
26
32
75
56
11
COWDENHILL ROAD
5
11
45
19
21 23
1
16
64
OCHILVIEW TERRACE
1
127
155
1
2
15
8
Lynwood East
2
78
1 3
14
1
33 32
K CRES
aP
EHT
Cemetery
34
TERRA
32
23
58
2
11
10
48
68
43 41
31
2
14
21
20
1
Linhurst
2
E l Sub Sta
1
50
40 38
26
29
24
42
WAY
SETON
CE
30
6
11
NS ROAD
32
35
30
65
34
EJ
stsoP
Parks
Pavilion
12
71
48 5
28
24
90
49
FORTHVIEW CRESCENT
El Sub Sta
Tigh-na-saor
S
67
34
21
25
24
DRUMPARK
PO
k
66
BO'MAI
104 92
HANEY'S
23
65
LB
Posts
114
JAMIESON AVENUE
13
1
44
Bowling Green
ES
BF
ht
LEW
saG voG
esuoheraW
skraP
Yard
17
75
95
30
Sport/Leisure
61
TCB
Playground
49 51
28 26
aP
Sh elter
39
14
OWN
44
GRAHAM CRESCENT
Path
69 71
NEWT 16 14
4 2
aces
Parks Boat
32
25
9
25 27
1 3
12 10
12
223
1
13
KINNEIL DRIVE 56
Carndene House
20 1
CONSTABLE COURT
L Twr
L Twr
Community Centre
25
26
ROAD
15 16
EET
10
6 8
Lynwood West
7
MAIDENPARK
PLACE
Terr
25
35
23
LOAN
24
51
17
Comrie Terrace
1
14
235
Woodlands
St Serfs
193 195
49 47
PARK
West
189 191
33 31
1
MAIDEN
TCB
8
PAR
aces
Newtown Park (Football Ground)
179
Cloverban
8
1
8
Football Ground
L Twr
177
185 181
Cloverbank
G a s Govn
(PH) 187 183
197
203
ROAD
Lilybank Cottage
Terr
OWES
73
A 993
211 209
213
DEAN
Club 69
71
RYKN
171
169 to 163
161
72
QUAR
65
The Learig
Sta
65
13
THE
79
2
CE E lSub
174
176
188
200
L Twr
e r u s i e L / t r o pS
Tank
Kinningars Park
22
6
LAN
33
6
LOTHIAN CRES
14
7 8
5 6
4
LB
aces
aces
25
212
STR
62
2
52 50
63 61
21
PLA
170 13
Terr
ht
aP
81
14
IGAL
35
EMY
38
NEWTOWN STREET
BAKER
59 57
to
VE
30 32
EN
6
GE
Sub
22 24
MS
MS
ht
12
CRA
40
ACAD
22
RGE
33 35
50
13
URN
1
DRI
Terr
School
HAM
GRAN 18
78
18
Kinneil Primary School
119
E
S t Mary's R C Primary School
13
146 148
173
147
38
27
ENU
Pa
1
31
ROAD
57
29
60
ILL
GILB
5
11 1 to
LB
st
40 41
AV
School
Holmlea
Inver Cottage
TLEH
8
PO 1
2
Cottages
Newtown
52
E
CAS
DEAN
52a
DRIV
Su b Sta
131
21 23
32
47 49
SS
2 4
LD
El 151
10 9
4
12
32
TCB
106 108
110 112
37 36
FOUNTAINPAR rcre
ff
Sta
5
IG
1
LS
5
Tank
22 24
6
GLA
23 21
GEO
NFIE
37
38
39 38
Rive
lecli
4
Slipway
S RO
AD
29 31
18
Map
LAN
31 29
STREET
DALE
55
DEA
38
15
12 11
b House
22
NE
52
15
13
7
Bowling Greens
Clu
STO
32 30
36
14
1
CLYDES
1
ES
ONE LAN
Holytree
22
9 10
36
27
26
21 20
17
20 18
23 22
16 14
19
N
LOA
6 8
4
R C Church 26 25
EN
Cottage
44
17
19
12
62
30 32
Fairybank Cott
S t Mary's
TERR
LD
IDG
64
INGST
22 20
51 21
23
25
27
29
Sta
105
49
28
18
RT
10
THE
NFIE
36 35
145
AD
30
GRA
49
25
ACE
DEA
BR 66
62
Ground
4
FS
KIN
15
ROAD
109
111
43 45 47
43
N COU
24
S ROAD
CASTLELOAN ING
18
15 13
LYO
27 26
ANGU
LIV
ND RICHMO E TERRAC
2
39
7 5 11 9
30
29 28
23
107
92
94
96
98
Hospital
3 4
20
RO
E
28
AVENUE
N
53
8
3 1
34
Sta
Sub
El Sub Sta
2
1 2
6
H
RT AVENU
ANDS
37
19
DEA
22
5
INGST 60
Grange School
KE
Tank
IDG
1 3
PHILP
2
st 61a
SDY
58
54 56
22
18
El
31
7
AT
8
D STEWA
MARCHL
20
47
EBL
4
77
51
A 706
14
6
97
100
33
12
TCB
NG
25
DUGAL
21 23
21
CRESCENT
50
5 37
25
1
15
ER
10
17
CADZOW
48
7
ace
han Strac Court
Terr
E l Sub Sta
Terrace
Playground
11
18
9 11
rag
44a
d
85
PHILP
48
GRAHAMSDYKE ROAD
2
30
46
CE
lan
Sta E l Sub
73 71
PLA
26
Kils
Court
Kilsand
25
29
35
42
LANE
LANE
LANE
nyc
10 45
37
TSR
G
stsoP
S a w Mills
BR
36 34
E l Sub
E
Richmond
Tank
146 144
53
Kinglass Park 2a
1
79
A 993
41
46
3
1
LI
LB
134 132
38 40
25b
School View
O
EB
128
9
12
39
37
Allot Gdns
D
42
32 30
Romwall
Po
Bents Cottage
PC
7
Tower
65
47
90 11
33 35
22 26
20
Caer-Edin
6
Strachan
24
41
37
68
Mogachy
7
51
5
126 124
84
Bridgeness
ROA
ONE
14
AVEN
LB
13
1
1a
51
17
16
12
ANDS
DARIAN
3
CADZOW
Fer
1
27
1
55
DEANFIELD PLACE
17
YKE
49a
18
E l Sub
92
88
86
74 72
77 79
75
67
61 65 63
40
AMSD
Riverview Terrace
106 104
64
54
49 51
24
Woodhome
25a
U
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Sport/Leisure
Shingle
TCB
118 116
89 91
47
13 15
Fjaerland
25
31
67
52
Posts
3
E
JAMES
32
ROAD
50
46
Industrial Estate
114 112
56
erg
15
AVENU
KELTY
Hospital 53 51
an
9
MARCHL
GROV
42 40a
13
1
2
tlelo
11
16
LREE
2
Cas
72
40
90
84
50
7
BO'NESS
UE
GRAH Falkenb 8
E
Elm Park
AVEN
7
38
Playground
21 20 18
34
23
Craigview
Waldon House
2
2a
1
WATT
35
DEAN
32 30
38
Football
UE
42
Garage
ound
Bowling Green
S t Andrew's
993
A
Rosemount
Health Centre
28 26
FS
Kinloch Ard
38a 36
9
Cemetery
7
20 22 24
FS
50
12
Governor
Surgery
37 35
1
Playgr
48
K
28
33 31
CRE
18 16a
44
48
7
LD
1
TERRACE
32
TCB
Gas
Douglas Park 32
TERRACE
101
29
AMU
NFIE
1
Bog
EAD
26
2
LL
NT
SCE
DEA
25
Victoria Park GRANGE
22
T h e Neuk
2
Hotel
Community Centre
Hall
PW
Brae
12
20
40
5
1
9
EHI
99
2
The
23
BRAEH
2
5 7
st
STL
103
105
107
1 3
4
L BRAE
14
1
Hall
FS
RICHMOND
1 3
Po
CA 92
96
10
16 14a 12a
12
13
1 to
Parish Church
CRESCENT
2
6
D Fn
5 3
9
10
STREET
DUNDAS
16
6
91
60
62
52
13a
1
S t Catherine's Episcopal Church
8
4
Sta
8
15
DS TERRACE MARCHLAN
1
63 61
16 18
E l Sub 20
6
Hillpark
6
9
2
ROAD
FIELD
83 81
LB
DEANFIELD 93 97 95
4
T h e Knowe
13b
19a
4
11
15
19
DEAN
TCB
60 62
68 70
72 74
58
50
E l Sub Sta
2
18
32 34
Playing Fields
Villa Doran
2
SCHOO
5
RT COU
ck
ELAM TERRACE
24
54
14
24 22
1
CE
ELE STE W THE MAT
N PLA
Tra
Ellangowan
1
3
5
5a
1
9
11
Day
7 9
48
Hall 5 4 3
19
17
Centre
ROA
to 46
36 to 22
to 20
5
Glen Stuart
11
9
Dream Thorpe
33a
14
3
h
Victoria Mills
119 108
Sh elter
LB
15b
15a
CADZOW
38
LB
ANS
VICTORIA PLACE 8
6
Posts
50
13a
13
8
77
65 53
47
Sh elter
CE
E l Sub Sta
A 904
Sh elter
80
Posts PH
Posts
PLA
Stark's 59
Th e Coach House 38a
Post 5 7
1 3
Tidings Hill
5
2
7
1
53 55 57
43
Pat
CENT
8
6
2
BANK
3
ROA
41 47
36
32
15
D
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39 45
37
30
22
2
8
4
D
NEI
35
40
22
JEFFREY
33
31
BRAEHEAD
28
26
8
KIN
27 29
21
35 45
42
Tank
19
14
12
19
RCH
v C
Silos
Care
El
CRES
DOWER
113
78
GRANGEP
Silo
135
86
68
4 PM
N
S u b Sta
55
9 to 15
1 to 7
Tra Hopper Silo 129
74
EAD
18
20
CHU
41 51 33 43
25 to 31
17 to 23
Links Braes
62
41 to
29 to 39
117
109
UE
60
Posts
FS
18a
24
29
O l d Kirk
48
to
Glebe Park
PANBRAE ROAD
31
33 35 43
Playground
105
STEWART AVEN 38
117
8
21 1
16
WB
O L D ST MARY'S LANE
16
19
97
32 to 36
E l Sub Sta 12
6
STANE
12
E
91
30
Museum
5
MAN O' WAR WAY
10
BRA
89
14
1
139
BRAEH
27
17 to 23
THIRLESTANE
8
87
28
l
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13
El
15
12
1 83
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3
Sub Sta
25 1
Banchory
26
17
19
PW
ROAD
BOG
63 61
Travelling Conveyor
T i m b e r Yard
7
16
16
Craigmailen U F Church
Pan Braes
Sta
THE
69
Care NUO
eraC
Retail
Post
Thirlestane Place
E l Sub Sta
2
Bandstand
ar
Mem
B a c k Hill
207
GRANGEPANS
LINKS
Forth Cottage
Church
14
T o w n Hall
e
BRIDGENESS
C o m m u n i c a t i o n Mast Hall
T
Depot
Posts
12
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C o m m u n i c a t i o n Mast
1
E l Sub
AR AVENUE
(Primary
W
E l Sub Sta
63
83
213
COUR
5
31 5
THIRLE
BOM
ESS
20
1 11
32
Hall
199
24
9
18
E
19
AVO 59
LINKS
7
30
34
79 81
25
57
61
5
49 42
38
AVENUE
HALL
187 185
WB
E l Sub Sta 44
75 77
3
79
CORBIE
12
3
2-4
Arnot Hill
67
El Sub Sta
14
Shi Ramp
Sawmill
(seasonal)
New Grange Foundry
85
84
Sta
Centre
001
S
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Business
an
Shingle
Hopper
Station Information
17
81
93 to 87
99 97
103 101
El Sub
5 to 21
STRE
ET
Court
ENC
12t
MAIN
29 to
Su b Sta
65
Me
Tank
Sewage Pumping
T ou r is t
19
65to 87
mp
Upper Forth Boat Club Football Pitch
Tank
Garage
1 3 5
77to
Ra
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Tank
13
82
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VID
A 706 10
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62
12
Graveyard
Cr
FB 60 58
3
8-10
70 68
Th e Old Chapel House
Amadore
Casa
37 8
17
51
75
1
2
Bo'ness Station
4
PH
72 to 80
PRO
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to 20
Garage
46 48
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El
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2
Spr 2
Kinneil Nature Reserve
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E l Sub Sta
125 129 135
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6
4
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Wat 4
Path
113 117 121
36
211
M
Shingle
Trav C
131 137
111 115 119
61
57 59
66 64
64 62
60 58 56
52 50
PH
Salmo
High 3
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101 107 103 105 109
63
114
Pa
3
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95 97 99
126
SOUTH STREET
AV
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Shingle
Pat
STRE ET 20
10-12
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33
31
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Ro
S t e p p i n g Stones
85 to
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86
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1
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86
84
74
35 to 41
Shin
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1
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23 to 29
44
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Car Park
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67
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13
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57
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HOUSING VALUE STUDY_CATEGORY A A3_C _ACADEMY ROAD, BO'NESS
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* all Scale/ Format 1:1250@A3 Date 15_01_13 confirmation of allocated parking locations. N
Academy Road
Sequential series of views per street
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72 Craigallan Park Gateway
Grahamsdyke Road
Gauze Road
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Craigallan Park Mid
Craigallan Park West
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Craigallan Park East
Description of Built Form Characteristics General This is a complex site that knits into a number of adjoining streets. It has key frontages to Grahamsdyke Road and to Gauze Road, both by Wimpey Homes, where coursed rubble masonry has been used as a cladding material as a response to adjoining historic architecture and street boundary walling. Otherwise a very broad mix involving 13 of the two developer’s standard house types are used for interior streets, with materials largely brick and tile and some use of white render. Density is relatively uniform throughout, including between the 2 developers. In terms of interior space, and fairly consistently throughout the products of both developers, living room and/or dining rooms tend to overlook front gardens whilst family rooms and kitchens overlook the rear. The internal street patterns on the site link to the pre-existing Road lines. Craigallan Park by Wimpey Homes is an infill series of cul-de-sacs by Wimpey Homes in the natural valley between Grahamsdyke Road and the pre-existing Academy Road. Academy Road is re-used but split into two cul-de-sacs, accessed from east and west ends respectively. A branch off eastern Academy Road leads to Grahamsdyke Place, a southern cul-de-sac built out by Persimmon Homes with a south-facing edge to the playing field of the new Bo’ness Academy. A central pedestrian knuckle joins the various parts of the site including east to west Academy Road and the north-south sloping parkland that links Craigallan Park to Grahamsdyke Place.
sac a ‘roads standard’ layout predominates. This includes a separate vehicle carriageway and double footpaths. Then for the separate cul-de-sacs to east and west a ‘shared surface’ approach is adopted, characterized by carriageway narrowing, by footways giving way to a grass verges and by a shared vehicle/pedestrian carriageway. The cul-de-sacs finish in hammer-head turning areas, some with visitor parking. Two-storey detached houses are laid out with a planned variety of house types in a relatively informal composition throughout the three cul-de-sacs. Some frontages are aligned with one another, whilst back gardens that are exposed to the public realm are enclosed by garden walls, providing a degree of enclosure to the street in some locations. The houses do not have front garden walls or enclosure except at the Grahamsdyke gateway. Parking and private accesses are set back from the street front at 12m+ from carriageway centre. Parkland edges are handled in an unusual way at the west and centre of the area. Here house frontages are specially positioned to face away from the street and towards the park, set behind a front garden with strong landscape boundary screening. Parkland link A steeply sloping parkland link joins Craigallan Park with Academy Road. This is sloping grass, with a tarmac path and steel handrail, defined by boundary tree and robust hedge planting on both sides.
The description below begins with the main road frontages, then moves from the main north facing road frontage to Grahamsdyke Road, ending at the south-facing frontage to Bo’ness Academy playing fields. It describes key features of the townscape and layout.
West Academy Road The west end of Academy Road and the head of the parkland link is handled similarly to the layout of the interior of Craigallan Park. The road each side of the break in Academy Road finishes in a turning head, linked by a footpath. As for the handling of parkland edges the adjoining front gardens are separated from the footpath by a high hedge.
Gauze Road/Grahamsdyke Road frontages and entrances Houses with frontage access onto Gauze Road and Grahamsdyke Road respect adjoining building lines. Frontages are consequently set back from the pavement edge, with garden boundaries defined by low masonry walls, gateposts, railings and incorporating front curtilage parking. An archeological site and wayleave appear as a hollow of grassed land between Gauze Road and Academy Road. Part of the frontage to Gauze Road is therefore deeply set back beyond this open ground, with a hedged boundary.
Grahamsdyke Place This looping cul-de-sac turns off east Academy Road into a one-sided street facing south towards the new Bo’ness Academy. A similar road transition to shared surface cul-de-sac is then used as for Craigallan Park. The housing forms an edge condition to the area as a whole, evident in a defined materials palette of white rendered walls, slated roofs and masonry detail. The housing has the character of a series of large detached villas laid out in informal alignments.
A road entrance gateway to Craigallan Park is formed with hedges, tree planting and by the masonry walls of adjoining gardens and garages.
Front gardens are consistently large with frontages at 12m+ from carriageway centre as for Craigallan park.
Craigallan Park Craigallan Park is the series of residential streets forming the interior of the block south of Grahamsdyke Road, from which it is entered. The road layout within this interior block takes two forms. For the gateway and first cul-de75
Urban Analysis-A Sense of Place The housing demonstrates the way in which major house-builders standard products can be adapted to address local context and streetscape. This operates at a series of scales which are used in analysing all five sites: •
Townscape
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Street-making
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Private thresholds
Townscape On these two sites the developers have considered the edge houses are the transition between existing townscape and new and are re-elevated with an indigenous treatment – creating a locality. Frontage lines are adopted at the historic streets, permissible within plot constraints and where additional detail can be added in response to the context such as masonry boundary walls and railings. Behind these adapted houses a more regular use of standard products is arranged within the flexibility allowed by the cul-de-sac format adopted. However, a number of factors contribute towards an overall feeling of lack of legibility. The approaches into the site, from the main road, has buildings set back and a vehicle dominated carriageway – not particularly welcoming. The common plot format, consistent density and the even distribution of house types throughout the area also creates a repetitive character with few distinguishing features to guide you around. The hierarchy of Craigallan Park is subtly confusing with the inner cul-de-sac streets having stronger forms and frontage definition than the less enclosed and more disjointed ‘roads standard’ streets leading to them (these might have been designed to better link in massing terms with the neighbouring historic streets). The transition from cul-de-sac to main road is therefore less legible with an impression of being dominated by road infrastructure instead of a legible transition and a pleasant route into Bo’ness. Street-making The permeability for walking and cycling is limited by the closed cul-de-sac form, preventing direct through routes that might otherwise have been desirable to link to surrounding streets, such as at either end of Craigallan Park. This has the effect of making walking routes more circuitous, compounded by the slightly unwelcoming nature of the parkland and footpath links with their privacy barriers of planting. Also because the majority of Craigallan Park has separate carriageway and footways the predominant impression is a conventional road layout, marginalising the shared carriageways. The road design incorporates offset carriageway alignments and shared surfaces however this approach does not extend to strategies for influencing driver behaviour such as reduced forward visibility or narrower spaces between adjoining buildings. The delineation of the “road” even in shared surfaces is contradictory to the idea of blurring edges and thus contributed little to traffic calming. Further at 20m+ between buildings there is no particular sense of enclosure established by the buildings.
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Private thresholds The transitions between private and public space for the majority of houses is successful with front gardens well-tended and defensible whilst in most case remaining open to the wider neighbourhood, giving a sense, particularly at the end of cul-de-sacs, of an attractive and safe outdoor environment. Through having living rooms directly overlooking at street level most houses also engage positively with the street. The parkland edge and footpath edging plots, with their borders of trees and high hedges, feel less comfortable as an attempt at placemaking. Where the cul-de-sac form has open front gardens to the streets these edge houses have a high privacy barrier separating them from the public realm, preventing overlooking that would have made the park feel a safer place and creating a sense of exaggerated privacy. The handling of the planting at parks forms a barrier between houses and park. This is at once protective and securing for the private space of the house whilst creating a slightly hostile atmosphere for the un-overlooked parkland, exaggerating privacy at the expense of the public realm.