Masterplanning & Urban Design
Our approach to creating Sustainable Communities
About the Carter Jonas
Masterplanning and Urban Design service
We are a team of qualified urban designers working on projects throughout the UK
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We provide design services from feasibility stage through to outline application stage for rural and urban sites. This includes RIBA Stages 0, 1 and 2
We produce concept masterplans, detailed masterplans, 2D and 3D visuals of new developments, presentation material and planning documentation
Our residential projects range from 1 – 500 homes
Our strategic projects range from 500 - 15,000 homes, with associated uses
We work with public sector clients to create frameworks for town centres and other urban sites
We produce masterplans for retail and commercial sites including Class A and Class B uses
We have expertise in the design of retirement living and care related developments
Our clients are both public and private sector, including councils, land promoters, developers, landowners and investors
Our National Masterplanning Team is an integral part of the Carter Jonas Planning & Development offering.
Our unique approach
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Carter Jonas offers a fully integrated planning, masterplanning and development service
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We have access to market knowledge through our in-house commercial, education and residential teams
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We specialise in strategic land projects, residential developments and urban mixed-use regeneration
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We secure a smooth planning and consultation process
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Our masterplans are always market-led, commercially viable and deliverable
Our ethos
The art of place making is fundamental to our design approach
We have high quality, experienced designers
We pride ourselves on forward thinking design through the research we undertake
We ensure there is always a senior team member leading your project
We take an environmentally, economically and socially responsible design approach
Planning
Masterplanning
Development
Our work at a glance
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Five major town centre master plans in the past three years
27 different local authorities we have experience working with
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Land for over 22,700 new homes masterplanned
22,700
Our specialisms
Seven masterplans for strategic mixed use developments in the past two years
Strategic land
Urban regeneration
Residential projects
Our projects over the last 12 months
Mixed use / new settlements
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Commercial & campus projects
Our masterplanning process
Our unified way of working means that we can give our clients a comprehensive national service that produces beautiful places which are not only viable, sustainable and deliverable, but are also locally appropriate.
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Feasibility
Concept design & pre-application
Consultation & engagement
Planning applications
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Consultation & Engagement
Stage 1
Site context & baseline mapping Townscape studies, including urban character & morphology Technical analysis of baseline data & reports Opportunities, constraints plans & tables Planning policy reviews & brief definition
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Commercial market testing of briefs Masterplan strategies & supporting statements Masterplan options testing Stage one reporting - Feasibility studies - Capacity studies
Stage 2
Site visions & statements Research & ideas exploration studies Concept design drivers Concept masterplans & options Design rationale diagrams & statements Technical co-ordination with consultancy teams Masterplan frameworks 3-dimensional massing studies Illustrative masterplans Development phasing plans Illustrations Stage two reporting - Pre-application documents - Development prospectuses - Vision documents - Concept design reports
Stage 3
Formal consultation meetings & presentations Community workshops, surveys & presentations Public exhibitions & presentations
Stage 4
Design freeze documentation Detailed proving layouts Information for inclusion within EIA Parameter plans Stage four reporting - Design and access statements - Design guidelines documents - Development brief documents Expert witness services, section 106 & CIL outputs
testimonials
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Marco Nardini Managing Director Shaptor Capital
“Shaptor Capital have been advised by Carter Jonas for the last 3 years to progress our garden village project Winterbourne Fields in Swale. We have collaborated extensively throughout the design development process, including engagement with the community, statekholders, Swale Borough Council and the Design Southeast panel. The result is a Masterplan which embodies sustainable design and placemaking principles at its very heart and of which we are immensely proud.”
“The masterplanning team at Carter Jonas are responsive to client requirements and are strategic in their vision for sites, ensuring connectivity to existing urban areas and delivery of schemes. The planning promotion document that they have just prepared for us is well presented with the masterplanning options clearly thought through in light of the site’s context.”
Our clients
Five major town centre master plans in the past two years
17 different local authorities we have experience working with
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Land for over 25,000 new homes masterplanned
25,000
URBAN REGENERATION
RESIDENTIAL-LED DEVELOPMENT
Case studies
Winterbourne Fields, Dunkirk, Kent
Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk
Land at Earls Colne, Essex
Manchester Northern Gateway
Nuneaton Town Centre Regeneration
Sir John Moore Barracks, Hampshire
Great Yarmouth Town Centre Regeneration
Carter Jonas masterplanning, planning and development teamshave acted on behalf of promoter and developer Shaptor Capitalover a three-year period to progress proposals for a new gardenvillage scale development close to Canterbury and Faversham inthe Swale Borough of Kent. The 2,000+ home settlement willsit adjacent to two existing villages, Boughton-Under-Bleanand Dunkirk.
Project Winterbourne Fields, Kent Client Shaptor Capital
Residential developments
Our team was commissioned to investigate the capacity of part of the site for residential redevelopment, should the Constabulary be relocated elsewhere. The secure site falls into 3 parts: the main orthogonal campus in the east; a central recreational open space area; and an area of woodland and scrub in the west.
Project Martlesham Heath, Suffolk Client Suffolk Police
Residential Developments
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The proposal involves a modest number of homesset within a generous landscape around the developmentincluding a planted buffer towards the northern end of the sitenear the River Colne & Riverside Business Park. We were askedto create a landscape-led plan for new homes to and at the sametime respect the setting of Earls Colne Conservation Area andlocal heritage assets.
Project Land at Earls Colne, Essex Client Heyhill Land Limited
We were appointed to prepare a masterplan which marries the aspirations of the local authorities with the regeneration ambitions of the land owners. The masterplan includes a 300 hectare employment area creating 50,000 jobs and a new garden town community of over 10,000 people, with a 200 hectare public park connecting the two.
Project Manchester Northern Gateway Client Wilton Estate
Strategic
We were appointed to prepare an Initial Development Prospectus and subsequently to prepare more detailed development briefs. Our plans opened up the River Anker waterfront, created a major new rail gateway, integrated rail and bus interchange facilities, improved the tourism and leisure offering and widened the retail offering to embrace town centre living.
Project Nuneaton Town Centre Regeneration Client Wilton Estate
Regeneration
We were appointed on two residential schemes of up to 224 dwellings. Our plans were developed based on four key design elements; a central square over the undevelopable wastewater reservoir and adjacent services, a retained seafront walkway/cycleway enclosed by potential artists’ colony and display space, informal timber townhouses in the west, and a more formal residential development in the east.
Project West Marina, East Sussex Client Borough Council
We were appointed to undertake a comprehensive 4-year regeneration plan for the whole town centre from the River Yare in the west to the seafront in the east, and from the station and Minster in the north to the St. George’s Cultural Quarter in the south. The study produced an integrated physical and economic renewal plan with a series of projects.
Project Great Yarmouth Town Centre Regeneration Client Borough Council
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Our team
Johnny Clayton Head of Masterplanning 020 7518 3226 / 07557 428136 johnny.clayton@carterjonas.co.uk
Glen Richardson Associate Partner 01223 326804 / 07789 942509 glen.richardson@carterjonas.co.uk
Olivia Taylor Urban Designer 07341 042350 olivia.taylor@carterjonas.co.uk
Sophia Hjelte Team Secretary 07765 745106 sophia.hjelte@carterjonas.co.uk
Bethan Lewis Senior Urban Designer 07393 269431 bethan.lewis@carterjonas.co.uk
Mark Hanna Associate Urban Designer 07884 476122 mark.hanna@carterjonas.co.uk
Louise Burnett Senior Graphic Designer / Illustrator 0797 1520035 louise.burnett@carterjonas.co.uk
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