VSM - New Covent Garden Market exhibition boards

7/27/2019 VSM - New Covent Garden Market exhibition boards

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Everyone living in and around Nine Elms knows that the area is being

transormed. Central to that regeneration is the New Covent Garden

Market site.

Welcome

In 2012, Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA)

secured outline planning permission to build a new

combined ower and ruit & vegetable market and to

und that process by procuring a private development

partner to develop the 20 acres o surplus land inreturn or building the new market.

CGMA subsequently appointed VINCI St. Modwen

(VSM) to deliver the entire scheme. This exhibition is

about the progress achieved by VSM since contracts

were signed with CGMA in January 2013.

We would like to hear your views on the changes that

are now being proposed or both the surplus land

and the latest plans or the new market. These two

elements will orm the basis o a planning application

to be made at the end o the year.

VSM is an established joint venture between

St. Modwen, the UKs leading regeneration

specialist and VINCI PLC. It was set up initially to

deliver development or the Ministry o Deence.

In 2012, VSM was appointed by CGMA as its

development partner on the New Covent Garden

Market scheme. A development agreement was

signed in January 2013.


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The site

APEX SITE

THESSALY RD SITE

ENTRANCE SITE

NORTHERN SITE

MARKET SITE

VSM emerging masterplan

Bisected by the railway and home to the nations largest wholesale

ower and ruit & vegetable markets, the New Covent Garden Market

site is the largest development in Nine Elms.

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Central to Nine Elms

APEX SITE

MARKET SITE

THESSALY RD SITE

ENTRANCE SITE

NORTHERN SITE

Home to over 200

businesses andemploying 2,500

people, this is

one o the largest

employment sites

in Wandsworth and

is central to the

wider regeneration

o the area.

CGMA consented

masterplan


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The extension o the

Northern Line rom

Kennington, with two new

stations at Wandsworth

Road and at Batterseaopening in 2019, will

transorm Nine Elms.

Connections

The vast majority o people living and

working on the New Covent Garden

Market site will be within fve minutes o a

tube station and will be able to link easily

into local rail and bus services.

VSMs scheme is set to to improve

pedestrian links across the site towardsthe river and under the railway lines that

run into Vauxhall. The linear park that

ormed a central part o CGMAs permitted

scheme will be retained and enhanced,

orming a highly attractive, accessible and

sae place to walk and cycle.

You will be able to take the ten minute

walk down the new Food Avenue running

rom Vauxhall to the new Garden

Heart area where the Market will meet the

public. This will be a ood centre hub, acentral London destination based

on healthy living and an excellent standard

o resh produce. It will showcase the best

quality produce and mix specialist ood

shops and restaurants with delicatessens,

grocers and public markets.

The proposed access points onto the

road network ollow those set by CGMA.

Vehicles will be deterred rom crossing the linear park. The

car will be subservient and extensive pedestrian areas

will be created. Care will be taken to preclude rat-running

through the sites while access into the residential areas has

been ormalised.

APEXSITE

NORTHERN SITE

The Garden Heart

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alk

VauxhallStation

Pimlico

VauxhallPark

Proposed WandsworthRoad Station

IberianCultural Area

Riverw

alk

St. GeorgesSquare

Proposed BatterseaStation

Conservation AreaLansdowne Road

LambethCollege

BatterseaPower Station

US Embassy

APEX SITE

MARKET SITE

THESSALY RD SITE

ENTRANCE SITE

NORTHERN SITE

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alk

10min

walk

Active rontages

Linear Park


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VSM and CGMA have been working up detailed plans or the market in

close conjunction with the traders.

Development o market proposals

As a result, several important amendments are

being made to the permitted 2012 scheme to

improve operational efciency, trafc movement

and health and saety:

The ruit & vegetable market is being located

urther towards the west o the site releasing land

next to the new Nine Elms tube station which is

better suited or residential development.

The market will now occupy three wider buildings,

not the our originally proposed.

The buyers walk and wholesalers will be in

the centre o these three units, anked by two

buildings or caterers and distributors.

Reecting the CGMA consented scheme, the

redesigned units are the same distance rom the

rear o the houses on Crimsworth Road.

The market entrance has been moved into the

site.

Within the operational area o the new market,

vehicle manoeuvring, parking and loading areas

have been increased allowing produce to be

transerred aster and more saely.

The ower market will occupy the building to

the east sitting immediately adjacent to the

Garden Heart, which orms the core o the new

market scheme.

The Garden Heart which ronts a new plaza to

showcase the best o what New Covent Garden

Market sells, has now been reconfgured. It is

the same size as beore but is now closer to the

ower market, allowing acilities and parking to

be shared more eectively.

CGMA consented scheme VSM emerging masterplan

The next board shows these changes in more detail.


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The New Market

DistribuonTraders

DistribuonTraders

Forkli Route

Vehicle wash

Fo rk li Ro ute

FlowerMarket

GardenHeart

Market Entrance

WholesaleTraders

cafe

Car Park

Waste

Compound

The Market Masterplan

Fruit & vegetable wholesalers in one central block

Larger hardstandings, more loading and unloading area, improved workplace transport

Covered loading area next to wholesalers

Relocated and improved entrance

Integrated Flower Market and Garden Heart

Reduction rom our to three traders blocks but same lettable area


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People living along Thessaly Road are only shielded rom the noise and

early morning disturbance o the market by an unsightly wall.

The Thessaly Road Site

The permitted CGMA scheme was designed to

reduce this disturbance and complete the street

by building ats on the market side o the road that

would rise between six and eight storeys in height.

The principles o completing the street and

providing a barrier to shield existing residents rom

noise and disturbance have been carried over into

the VSM proposals. The new market buildings are

no nearer to existing residents than now and we

have reduced signifcantly the scale o the new

homes on Thessaly Road that were proposed by

CGMA. We now propose a more traditional terrace

o two and three storey amily homes with gardens.

Thessaly Road Existing


Thessaly Road Proposed

GroundLevel

Level1

Level2

Living/Dining Room

Kitchen

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Bathroom

Bathroom

Bedroom 3

Bedroom 4

Brown Roof /

Not Accessible

Garden

Plans


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The triangular site to the north o the market isnow larger than CGMA envisaged as the market

has been moved to the west.

The Apex Site

VSM envisages a succession o pedestrianised public spaces and

squares anked by new buildings. The most important o these will be

the large open space ronting onto the Garden Heart building to be used

or a public market.

The area has been redesigned to provide important new links towards

the river rom the residential areas immediately to the south and east

and rom the new Nine Elms tube station.

Since CGMAs initial scheme was permitted, Wandsworth Council

has also granted planning permission or a scheme put orward by

Sainsburys, immediately to the north east o the Apex site, which

includes a 37 storey tower. VSM has responded to this. We now

propose a tall building closest to the Sainsburys tower with heights

alling away towards the Garden Heart.

The ground oors here will be mostly given over to shops, cas and

restaurants, creating a lively and exciting quarter or London. The rest

o the development will be residential-led with some social housing.

A sequence of courts and squares that are linked together.

A variety of urban plazas and quiet communal gardens.


Public places and squares

Design concept

CGMA consented scheme


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In response to what has been happening on surrounding developments

the Northern site has been redesigned signifcantly.

The Northern Site

Sainsburys will now be rebuilding its Nine Elms ood

store and there are two new consented stores in the

vicinity. Thereore, VSM is no longer proposing the

supermarket which gained planning consent as part othe CGMA scheme.

The recent planning permission or the 200m One Nine Elms

building (also known as Market Towers), immediately to the

north east, and the Councils desire to see a cluster o tall

buildings in this area has led VSM to reconsider the height

o buildings here. Our scheme now responds by proposing

three taller buildings marking the eastern entrance to the

linear park the tallest o which will be lower than both One

Nine Elms and St Georges Tower.

These changes mean that buildings on the site can nowoccupy a smaller ootprint than originally proposed by

CGMA. This allows VSM to introduce more green and

open, communal, space around the linear park, including a

childrens play area.

This area continues to be a predominantly residential quarter

with shops, ofces and a GPs surgery at ground oor level.

VSM has submitted a separate application or an access

onto Wandsworth Road which will serve the Northern

and Apex sites and provide a secondary access to the

US Embassy.


VSM emerging masterplan Design concept


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The Entrance site too has seen signifcant

amendments to the CGMA scheme.

The Entrance Site

In the permitted scheme the main vehicular access gates or market

users were located here. These have now been relocated into the

market itsel, allowing us to reduce the scale o the road and to

enhance the linear park or pedestrians and cyclists.

The entrance to the linear park rom Nine Elms Lane has been

strengthened urther by moving a residential building to the mostnorthern point o the site. The architects have also redesigned the

residential blocks on the site to minimise the number that ront onto

the entrance road.

This area will continue to be predominantly residential. Shops and

caes will ront the ground oors on the parts o the site looking over

Nine Elms Lane and the linear park.


Design concept



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The heights o the buildings proposed across the site continue to

reect guidance in local and GLA planning policy. Most o them are in

the low-rise to mid-rise category.

Building Heights

Some higher buildings are proposed on the Northern

and Apex sites, respecting the guidance o the planning

authority and the GLA.

On the Northern site we will build lower than the high

point set by the permitted Market Towers building

and St Georges Tower. Building heights will all awayacross this site towards Ballymores Embassy Gardens

development.

The same principle has been adopted on the Apex

site where the highest building will be lower than that

permitted on the adjacent Sainsburys site and all away

towards the Garden Heart.

Great care has been taken to ensure that we respect

the guidance on the long range protected views across

London and, in particular, that we do not compromise

the protected views o the Palace o Westminster.

Vauxhall Cross

One Nine Elms

The Tower, One St. George Wharf

Vauxhall Square

Vauxhall Sky Gardens

Sainsburys Redevelopment

View Hungerord Foot Bridge (LVMF 17.A2) - Proposed VSM scheme shadedblue

Building heights diagram


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Thank you

Thank you or attending our exhibition today. We hope you agree with

us that the revised scheme will contribute to the transormation o the

Nine Elms area that is already underway.

Please leave your eedback orm in the ballot

box at the exhibition or return it to the reepost

address on the orm. This will be considered as

the proposals develop. We will be consulting

again on the emerging proposals in the autumn.

Should you require urther inormation or have

any questions then please contact the Freephone

Community line on 0800 0192054 or email us at

[email protected]. You can also visit our

website at www.vsm-ncgm.co.uk.

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