Policy information sourced from Twickenham Area Action Plan
Principles 4: Principles for Environmental Improvements
- Conserve and enhance historic buildings and their settings, and open spaces in line with adopted Policy;
- Protect and enhance the River Thames and River Crane corridors and reconnect them with wider links up and down stream;
- Enhance the open spaces of the Crane Corridor and manage them for environmental benefit as well as community use, including the creation of more natural riverbanks where feasible;
- Ensure that all new developments, environmental and transport improvements are designed to be sustainable;
- Ensure that new development positively enhances the town centre, and provide design briefs or guidance for key sites;
- Ensure that all new development, transport proposals and environmental improvements enhance accessibility for disabled people;
- Ensure that new transport proposals positively enhance the street scene (see above);
- Upgrade the existing public open spaces and Civic Spaces and create new Civic Space within the town and improve links between these and to key parts of the centre and to take the opportunity to provide green infrastructure and soft landscaping throughout the town where possible;
| Type of space | Upgrade existing | Create new |
|---|---|---|
| Public Open Space | Garfield Road, York House Gardens, Champions Wharf, green space on Twickenham Riverside (upstream of Water Lane) and Holly Road Garden of Rest | Riverside walk/cycle way and park by River Crane within Sorting Office site and beside station, open soft areas at Twickenham Riverside (former pool site) |
| Civic Space | Station Forecourt, York House Car Park | Station plaza, open area outside Sorting Office redevelopment, Former Road outside York House, King Street/Water Lane Junction, open hard areas at Twickenham Embankment) |
- Encourage the improvement of shop fronts in line with the Shop Front SPD and encourage owners to keep their upper floors and private forecourts in good repair;
- All unnecessary/redundant street furniture to be removed, reduced, relocated or replaced (including guard railing, signage, cycle racks, planters, telephone boxes and information/ advertising signs) and provide new, well designed street furniture, coordinated signage for all modes, improved surfacing, lighting and soft landscaping where needed. The Borough’s Street Design Guide (2006) will be used for guidance.
For more information please see the Action Plan