Sustainable place
Polnoon has been designed as a sustainable place to live. This is because sustainable considerations run through the whole masterplan. They range from the large scale issues relating to the layout right down to the detail of lightbulbs. The method, however, has been to take a very natural approach towards 'designing-in' sustainability rather than relying on 'add on' technologies. The result is simply to create a quality place to live.
Sustainable characteristics of Polnoon
Over 40 key sustainable features have been built into the masterplan, sorted via movement, buildings, open space and infrastructure.
Movement | Buildings | Open space | Infrastructure |
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- Surrounding the site
- Main entrance close to public transport
- Well connected into the surrounding area
- Traffic calming
- New pedestrian pathway
- Within the site
- Access for all
- Hierarchy of streets
- Central square acting as a neighbourhood 'hub'
- Simple palette of materials
Technical requirements - Adoption
- Vehicle tracking
- Inter-visibility of junctions
- Reduction of street clutter
- Parking policy
| Layout - Appropriate density
- Affordable homes
- Range of house types and sizes
- Relationship of topography and mix of heights
- Continuity of the street
- Primary marker locations
- Secondary marker locations
- Central square pend landmark
Houses - Redesigned portfolio of standard houses types
- Corner houses
Detail Bringing the street and buildings together - Garden walls
- Scale of buildings and use of road surfaces in their relationship to the street hierarchy
Built-in energy efficiency | Surrounding the site - Spatial connection to the surrounding landscape
- Enhanced boundary treatments
Within the site - Central landscape feature i.e. amenity open space
- Gardens i.e. private space
- Play space i.e. active open space
Planting detail - New planting, i.e. trees integrated throughout
- Retained planting, i.e. acknowledgement of historical tree line and mixed hedge row
Management and maintenance - Built-in from the start
- Soil management
- Long term care
| Ground levels Water - Surface water
- Sustainable urban drainage systems
- Soakaways
- Attenuation
- Control mechanisms
Flood risk Waste Utilities Construction management - Considerate Construction Award
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