04_structuring the place reinforcing the neighbourhood This section builds upon the Council’s Commonhall Street Development Brief and the residents’ workshops held beforehand and afterwards. This is a process of structuring the place to make sense of and pull together this neighbourhood. It seeks also to tackle the detailed issues identified in this report’s analysis. It’s about reinforcing the ‘place’. (Note – all these diagrams include the proposed new development at the corner of Commonhall Street and Pierpoint Court)
reinforcing urban form and space The analysis of the urban form of the area illustrates: • The strong and understandable built form along White Friars and Cuppin Street. • The open space at the ‘heart’ of the neighbourhood at Commonhall Street. • The dense network of lanes and alley links radiating from this ‘heart’ – the hub of the neighbourhood’s connectivity. • The clear weakening of this urban form towards the west – replaced by the gardens and walls of White Friars. • The lost city spaces: » At the junction of Bridge Street / Grosvenor Street / Pepper Street – at an important gateway to the core of the city » At the junction of Cuppin Street / Grosvenor Street. • The ‘hidden’ square at the eastern end of Back Weaver Street.
Figure 01: figure ground diagrambuilt form & spaces including lost spaces
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