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]

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CT Band

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3

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12

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2

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1

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5

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4

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5

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F

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3

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4 bed

15 units/ha

F

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3

M

4 bed

15 units/ha

F

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4

N

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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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Quarry (disused)

lE

Pa

22

32

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

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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

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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

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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

R TS

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

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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

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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

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13

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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

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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

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BRIDGENESS

C o m m u n i c a t i o n Mast Hall

T

Depot

Posts

12

ngl

C o m m u n i c a t i o n Mast

1

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AR AVENUE

(Primary

W

E l Sub Sta

63

83

213

COUR

5

31 5

THIRLE

BOM

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20

1 11

32

Hall

199

24

9

18

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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

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an

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Hopper

Station Information

17

81

93 to 87

99 97

103 101

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5 to 21

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ENC

12t

MAIN

29 to

Su b Sta

65

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Sewage Pumping

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Tank

Garage

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13

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Amadore

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37 8

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51

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to 20

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125 129 135

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113 117 121

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131 137

111 115 119

61

57 59

66 64

64 62

60 58 56

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101 107 103 105 109

63

114

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95 97 99

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86

84

74

35 to 41

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23 to 29

44

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49a

1

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27

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37

47

Richmond

G RA

49

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LB

13

GRAHAMSDYKE ROAD

School View 3

4

1

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1

12

24

22

Kinglass Park

6

41

12

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17

35

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DEM

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5

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Bents Cottage

30

5

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36

13

33

23

Key 25

32

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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



Street-making



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.