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 Hello everybody.

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 Thank you for joining us today.

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 We'll just wait for a few more people to to come in before we we start properly.

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 I'm hoping everybody can see the slides OK.

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 Just type in the chat if there's any any problems or if you can't hear us.

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 Thank you.

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 Might just give it one more minute and then we'll make a start.

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 Great, I think I might make a start now, give everybody and we can just let other people in as they come.

 3:06
 But hello everybody, thank you so much for joining us today for the Broadmead Neighbourhood Design Code SPD webinar.

 3:14
 I'm Emily Peaker, I'm from the city centre regeneration team in Bristol City Council.

 3:20
 Today we'll be talking through what this SPD is about and what it aims to do and answer any questions you might have about this document to help aid the consultation process that is currently open.

 3:31
 So this draft has been developed collaboratively between Bristol City Council and Macrana Lovington as consultants and this draft document is the result of lots of engagement with different council departments, statutory bodies and key stakeholders and has undertaken many iterations over the last year.

 3:50
 This consultation process is really important to us.

 3:52
 It's vital we hear from you all to check that the SPD prioritises what's important.

 3:59
 So I'd really welcome you to fill out the consultation survey following this session.

 4:05
 The Council is committed to help transform Broadmead into a high quality, mixed youth livable urban neighbourhood, with residential being a key part of that mix.

 4:15
 So this work has been funded by Homes England to help meet their aspirations around the delivery of quality homes within the city centre.

 4:24
 And we strongly believe in embedding high quality design within this area of the city.

 4:29
 And it's a key objective set out in the development and delivery plan, the plan that sets out the overall vision for the city centre, which was endorsed in December 23.

 4:42
 I'll just run through some quick housekeeping before handing over to Kevin Logan, Director at Mccrane Lovington, to present on the design code before we start with the Q&A session.

 4:58
 So as the webinar is only an hour long, we might not be able to get to all questions today, but we'd encourage you to write any questions within the Q&A area and upvote the questions that you particularly want to hear answered.

 5:11
 And any questions we don't manage to get to today we'll respond to in writing.

 5:16
 And I know many of you are interested in the emerging citywide design guidance, but as this session is solely focused on Broadmead, we'll take any questions away related to the citywide guidance and respond to you in due course.

 5:31
 Cameras and microphones have been disabled so the session can be recorded and circulated at the end.

 5:38
 But thank you again for joining us.

 5:39
 And I'll hand over to Kevin to for the presentation.

 5:48
 Thank you, Emily.

 5:52
 I shall share my screen.

 5:59
 Hopefully you can all see that.

 6:06
 Yeah.

 6:07
 OK, great.

 6:14
 I'll turn myself on.

 6:21
 So I'm going to give a brief high level kind of summation of of the SPD.

 6:29
 As Emily says, we've been working on this well by the time we kind of get towards adoption for the better part of a year and it's been a kind of a very intense kind of iterative process with Bristol City Council and various kind of statutory stakeholders and key stakeholders and the like.

 6:46
 Important thing to say is it's, it's an SPD and it is a design code.

 6:51
 It's fundamentally to the kind of configured to deliver the aspirations and the requirements of policy DS1.

 7:00
 It's designed to engage with and can deliver the slide start moving on.

 7:11
 It's designed to kind of engage with the aspirations and the vision as set out in the development and delivery plan for Broadmeet.

 7:21
 So in terms of the overall scope, the document SPD talks back to the local plan, the emerging local plan and that Policy DS1.

 7:33
 It interfaces with and builds on the aspirations and vision, as I say, set out within the DDP.

 7:41
 In terms of the Bristol area wide design Guide that Emily's just mentioned, we are cognitive of that work and we interface with it.

 7:50
 So the work set out in this SPD is designed to be complementary and you're aware of what's forthcoming there, although it doesn't have a direct relationship at this point in time with it.

 8:00
 And then obviously we nest back to the NPPF and the National design Guide as well.

 8:10
 In terms of the the geographic scope, the SPD mirrors and covers the same area that the DDP does.

 8:19
 It kind of takes that on board and it kind of completely aligns with that.

 8:23
 So that is the general geography of what we are looking at and the areas that we are covering.

 8:31
 We have undertaken engagement and as part of this process so far we have been informally engaging and iteratively developing the plans.

 8:45
 In Spring 24.

 8:47
 We now have a full draft SPD which is out to consultation, which I trust you've all seen.

 8:51
 That's what we're seeking your kind of inputs on.

 8:54
 The intention is that we take on board kind of feedback, comments and we do updates and refinement through spring 2025.

 9:02
 And then we're targeting adoption of the SPD in line with the local plan in the the latter parts of for the summer of 2025.

 9:14
 In terms of the broad program, I'm going to talk briefly about fundamentals.

 9:23
 So the code as drafted is not, it's absolutely extensive and covers all elements.

 9:32
 The code focuses in on the fundamentals of the regeneration and the transformation of Broadmeet as the kind of the core area of the city centre.

 9:44
 We've taken the view that, you know, detailed questions such as maybe materials patternation, modulation of architecture, these types of kind of things are very important.

 9:57
 However, they can be dealt with within a pre application or an application type process.

 10:05
 The code deliberately sets out and structures around the kind of the the what we can call the fundamentals.

 10:11
 So it's about kind of getting the core elements of the urbanism right.

 10:17
 And that's ensuring that the detail will support that if we don't have the urbanism correct.

 10:23
 So in terms of building locations, types and forms of buildings, types of uses, key activity, engaging with kind of key public spaces, right, kind of St.

 10:34
 patination and structure, etcetera.

 10:38
 If we don't get these fundamentals correct, then no amount of architectural detailing, let's say will resolve the fundamental shortcomings of kind of a less than desirable urban situation, let's say.

 10:54
 So the code deliberately focuses in on those fundamental components and seeks to kind of define those and reinforce those.

 11:03
 Those fundamentals set out in the SPD are aligned and do kind of talk back to the National Model Design Code.

 11:15
 And we do in this document or this diagram here we set out how those are structured.

 11:22
 The code is fundamentally structured in four chapters and those chapters are moving through scales, so we go from the neighbourhood, through streets and spaces to buildings to the home.

 11:33
 The code talks a lot about what the nature of residential is within the city centre, because that is the additional component or the additional principal use which is being advocated as part of the kind of the future of the city centre.

 11:48
 It talks about how buildings beat the ground, etcetera, and how mixed uses will contribute to the vitality and the the vibrancy of the city centre and the ongoing nature of that.

 11:59
 But fundamentally, there's a lot of more focus given to homes as the new additional component within the city centre.

 12:08
 So what does that mean?

 12:10
 Well, going back to the DDP, the overarching premise for the SPD is this notion of designing for livability.

 12:19
 As I've just mentioned, one of the main kind of attributes of the code is about the introduction of residential.

 12:26
 But we want to look beyond just the notion of living in residential within the city centre.

 12:31
 We're very much interested in about how do we make a kind of desirable, compact, urban mixed neighbourhood that is the principal centre for the city.

 12:41
 It is the the central area.

 12:43
 It does engage with a mix of uses, but it does also have a role to play in kind of creating desirable livable neighbourhoods for new residential communities.

 12:54
 So some of the key questions that we've been exploring through the code and through how we kind of set out those fundamentals are how do we do 3 dimensional mixed-use urbanism?

 13:06
 How do buildings meet the ground?

 13:08
 How do we accommodate a mix of city centre uses at ground level whilst introducing residential as a component of that?

 13:17
 How do they spell out how do they engage with the public realm?

 13:19
 What is the nature of the the kind of the urban greening of that?

 13:23
 What is the character of it?

 13:24
 How do we work with existing buildings?

 13:27
 But also how do we kind of support the livability of emergent and new and in large communities who will live, dwell, interact, socialize and form part of the civic life of these new neighbourhoods going forward?

 13:43
 So in addition to that notion of kind of a mixed-use ground floor and a kind of commercial components, we've been exploring extensively where you know where that commercial components could be and where they should be to kind of activate and bring definition to kind of key spaces and key edges.

 14:01
 But equally there will be areas where residential will be the predominant land use.

 14:06
 So looking at how that comes to the ground, how we can create meaningful family housing as part of that mix, how we make a diversity of typologies, what's the form and nature of those looking at the livability in terms of play and social engagement, both direct and indirect, and setting up situations for that to occur.

 14:27
 Looking at the notion of kind of green and blue infrastructure and actually how we make a resilient city centre through this transition and how we kind of utilize this this growth of residential communities as a means to deliver other livable infrastructures.

 14:42
 You know, so the notion of a kind of biodiversity, urban greening, all kind of key components of this new neighbourhood.

 14:49
 The, the code talks a lot about urban green in the form of tree planting, for instance, as well as kind of reinforcing in connections to existing public spaces and particularly particularly the the park spaces or the green spaces in and around the site.

 15:08
 Then fundamentally looking at what is the nature of living within predominantly what will be predominantly apartments in a meaningful way within a city center location.

 15:20
 You know, So looking at kind of criteria around good access to daylight and sunlight, external amenity space within elevated apartment typologies, how affordable housing and different tenures can be mixed and formed part of that rich mix of a kind of a future.

 15:39
 You set up neighborhoods within the city centre.

 15:46
 All of that comes together to form an overarching set of design priorities.

 15:53
 These are what are the stepping off points for all of the kind of the subsequent coding within the within the SPD and those are about the urban vitality.

 16:07
 How do we promote the benefit of and the and the harmonizing of kind of Co location between residential and mix of uses that notion of kind of everyday life contributing to the spend and the vitality and the vibrancy of the city center is actually a really positive thing.

 16:25
 It does need kind of careful design considerations in terms of safeguarding residential immunity, but we think it's a very positive thing and the notion of residential as part of a kind of a rich mix of uses within the city center is a really meaningful thing.

 16:41
 Resilience.

 16:42
 How do we kind of equip communities and ensure communities have the resources and the infrastructure both hard and soft to enable a kind of the social interaction roles fill out new communities to flourish these locations, but also using that as a mechanism to turn a transition that's the city center and therefore Bristol into being climate resilience.

 17:07
 We do exist within a climate emergency, climate and biodiversity emergency.

 17:11
 So the city center has a very active role to play in creating new forms of lifestyles with the supporting infrastructure where we can kind of reduce our carbon.

 17:21
 We talk a lot about kind of low carbon lifestyles and that notion of kind of compact urbanism is a major kind of contributing factor to achieving that.

 17:32
 The idea that these new communities should be inclusive and they should be kind of configured around kind of safety.

 17:39
 So we want to be ensuring we're designing and promoting safe safety, inclusivity for all of Rodney's residents, visitors and the like.

 17:51
 That's both communities who are working there, but also communities who are residing there, as well as visitors and the users of the town centers.

 18:00
 That needs to be a physically inclusive environment as well as a kind of a a desirable urban environment where safety is perceived to be inherent.

 18:11
 Looking at the everyday life, making it easier for Broadmeet and local residents with different needs and lifestyles to kind of coexist.

 18:18
 We don't think it should be monolithic.

 18:19
 So the guide looks at the notion of how do we deliver a mix and types of residential accommodation and a mix and types of tenures and skills and types and forms of housing as part of that.

 18:31
 And above all, it should be kind of configured in a way that endorses healthy lifestyles and active lifestyles for social interaction, both formal and informal is kind of catered for and positively designed in and well-being is natural outcome from the kind of reconfiguration and the reworking of the city centre.

 18:59
 The guidance, sorry the code is configured around the notion of criteria, doesn't specifically dictate.

 19:10
 It's not a pattern book which specifically dictates right or wrong.

 19:14
 It sets out ways to achieve the the certain aspirations of the code and the way it's configured is based on the print, the premise of comply or justify.

 19:25
 We have endeavoured with Bristol to envisage how this could be brought forward and how this could be occur and building in degrees of flexibility.

 19:35
 But there will always be unforeseen opportunities, unforeseen sites coming forward or an unforeseen mix of uses for instance or residential typology.

 19:45
 Let's see.

 19:47
 So we're not saying that that therefore is therefore not applicable within the the city center.

 19:51
 We're saying that the owner's shifts to the applicant to justify why deviation for whatever reasons positive we would like to think is required, but fundamentally.

 20:03
 The code is set out in this notion of comply or justify and it's structured in such a way that that should we hope, become very apparent to you all, Very keen to hear if that's not the case.

 20:17
 We've obviously been staring at this for the better part of a year and we think it's fantastically crystalline, but it's always good to have others opinions.

 20:27
 So fundamentally, as I've mentioned before, the code is structured around 4 overarching chapters.

 20:35
 Those move through the scales of the neighbourhood, then looking at the streets and spaces which sit between the blocks which form the building components.

 20:48
 That very much predicated on the notion of forming good urban blocks.

 20:53
 And then as I say, we're we've got a whole chapter looking at the home.

 20:59
 So in terms of the kind of the overarching structure, each page in terms of navigation sets out which chapter relates to.

 21:07
 There's then a subheading which sets out what the kind of coding elements of this page or this section is looking to achieve and what it's addressing.

 21:18
 As we move through that, we give clear linkages back to policies so that we can you can understand how this is being used.

 21:26
 We also give references and best practices linkages where applicable.

 21:32
 Those are both elements, Crystal based documents, but kind of wider and beyond.

 21:40
 And then we also kind of highlight how this element of the code, the specific piece of code relates back to and delivers some of the overarching design priorities.

 21:54
 So as you kind of work through the code and you utilize it to develop your schemes and as a means of tracking the iteration of them.

 22:04
 And if you in terms of kind of compliance and that notion of justifying, you can can start to kind of build up a picture of how certain coded elements relate at different scales to different types and forms of building.

 22:20
 You know, so for instance, if you're doing a residential building above retail, there will be coding which kind of is applicable to how that meets the ground and how that provides definition.

 22:32
 But maybe elements of the home will be more applicable to your scheme if as opposed to somebody who may be just doing a community building, let's say, as part of a mixed-use regeneration project.

 22:48
 So I'll quickly or succinctly step through the various chapters kind of cognitive of time.

 22:57
 So I want to kind of make sure we hold over the time for questions if we have any.

 23:03
 So the first one is, is the neighbourhood chapter.

 23:08
 This sets out an overarching structure which is completely mirrored back to the DDP.

 23:16
 But what we look at is a different nature, character, form and structure of those kind of of that kind of urban structure in terms of kind of the thematic components of this chapter.

 23:28
 But it starts to kind of consider broad meets contexts.

 23:33
 That's its current context, its relationship to other areas of the city center, particularly maybe kind of Castle Park and kind of the historic parts of the city center and the conservation areas and the like.

 23:47
 But also, you know, the bare pit to the north and the kind of connectivity back through that it starts to consider and it's very much aware of the evolving character.

 23:57
 We know there's work being done and the that has been folded into the thinking and that has helped inform and part of the iterative process as we're moving through this, we start to consider the permeability in the urban grain.

 24:11
 So what's the suitable kind of scale of blocks and the and the necessary kind of permeability that needs to be kind of delivered as part of this?

 24:21
 And there is kind of coating around that.

 24:24
 There's a definite commentary around the kind of the ground floors, not necessarily in terms of their use, but in terms of their performance.

 24:30
 This code fundamentally looks at the performance criteria of how those elements need to kind of interact with the public realm to define it, reinforce it, to have a clear synergy with it.

 24:41
 It considers layering, it looks at local views.

 24:45
 One of the things we have done quite a bit of work around is the potential kind of massing off this and actually how that sits within the city center.

 24:52
 We don't specifically get into the notion of tall buildings.

 24:55
 The city is doing that through other work, but we do look at few corridors and potential views to existing assets.

 25:04
 That brings on to the notion of the setting of heritage assets, how those are kept and retained and worked back into a reconfigured evolved city center.

 25:15
 Massing and orientation are giving consider due consideration.

 25:18
 Building line and the definition of streets is kind of a major component.

 25:22
 And we do look at building heights, but we look at building heights in terms of enclosure to streets and the definition of spaces rather than the overall height of the total height of taller elements of buildings that could exist within this neighbourhood.

 25:41
 So in terms of, I'm just going to kind of show one example page from each of the chapters.

 25:47
 I'm sure you've all seen sight of the overall document and you can kind of peruse that at your leisure.

 25:54
 But this is that chapter which starts to look at the notion of that evolving character and actually how views and the definition of views and massing starts to kind of deal with the setting of existing elements or retained kind of elements with new components.

 26:16
 But also how we're going to work towards local views to connective towards kind of key buildings and spaces.

 26:25
 And what's offered here is a kind of a number of of options and it sets out a kind of a toolkit approach, which starts to look at the setting and the orientation, the mass of the buildings, the role of landscape design.

 26:40
 So there's synergy between the kind of the green and the urban greening components and tree planting and the three dimensionality of the urbanism.

 26:49
 And we kind of encourage that, you know, the applicants going forward start to explore the schemes and present them back to the city through kind of streets based kind of perspectives.

 27:01
 So looking at the this from a kind of a human skilled perspective within the streetscape as a means of how the city is coming together and how it's read and how it's kind of perceived as we go forward.

 27:20
 The next chapter is streets and spaces.

 27:24
 And this deals fundamentally with the public realm and the nature of it, but it does have a, we don't get into the detailed design of it, but we still start to explore the components of it and how it was kind of contribute back to livability, you know.

 27:41
 So in no particular order.

 27:42
 We do look at working with existing trees and green spaces and retaining those and bringing those forward where possible.

 27:51
 We do look at the notion of kind of trees and urban greening as kind of major components of the kind of the future city centre, the landscapes as a kind of a contributing factor to character.

 28:04
 And actually there is large green spaces in and around the city center directly adjoining with Council Park.

 28:11
 And actually how those can be utilized and drawn into the sites going forward and be an inherent part of the character.

 28:20
 So it's not a kind of a hard kind of functional streetscape.

 28:24
 It is a livable landscape which sits within a street network.

 28:29
 We're very much looking at a hierarchy of streets, both in terms of their use and their connectivity, but also in terms of their scale, definition and enclosure as you can see on screen, but also in terms of their connectivity and their relationship to the wider area.

 28:48
 That connected St.

 28:49
 network goes beyond the site and we start to look at how they transition in character, particularly maybe east to West, it's arguable into more historical parts of the city centre and actually how there's a synergy of kind of character transition.

 29:04
 So it's sort of a scenic kind of townscape as you move through the city centre.

 29:12
 So we're not looking for a kind of harsh jumps from new to old.

 29:15
 We're looking for an evolving character and that kind of fluidity of new and old coexisting in a kind of a complementary fashion.

 29:26
 We look a lot and we offer hoarding around servicing and deliveries.

 29:32
 We're very mindful of the fact that it's still an operational city center and there does need to be a lot of servicing.

 29:38
 So there's a lot of kind of coding and guidance offered as to how that can be done in a meaningful way to ensure that businesses can operate as they need to, but within a kind of a meaningful controlled way where the streets are respected, but fundamentally also where residential amenity outlook and are safeguarded as part of the development going forward.

 30:01
 Cycle cycling infrastructure and cycling parking is kind of covered within this as well.

 30:06
 As we kind of increasingly move towards kind of active travel, we're very mindful of the fact of the infrastructure that we need to provide to ensure that that is meaningful, integrated, but also kind of is easy of use to induce that kind of everyday and a shift where it's just cycling, it is just desirable, pleasant and it's easy rather so that shifting of mindset from vehicular to kind of cycling is kind of facilitated as part of this.

 30:40
 All of those kind of components go together to connect, create inclusive and accessible streets.

 30:45
 Obviously, there's quite some some level changes in places to be dealt with.

 30:50
 So that's been kind of given due consideration, but it's about the notion that the streets are truly public and accessible and desirable for all in and they contribute back towards being naturally surveilled.

 31:02
 And they have degrees of activation, commercial activation, secondary uses, but also residential, all bringing kind of eyes to streets and passive, direct and passive activation on overlooking an engagement with that streetscape to ensure natural surveillance.

 31:25
 And then set within all of that, there is access to play and exercise.

 31:30
 We're very interested in play for all, not just play for young people, but kind of for all generations of society.

 31:36
 And we're also very interested in the the coding does kind of cover the notion of social interaction and social, both informal and formal as part of that as well.

 31:48
 So moving on, green infrastructure page here looks at kind of trees and urban greening and it's very much looks at the notion that trees are positioned carefully to allow them to grow and allow them to thrive.

 32:06
 You know, so we're not looking at trees as token elements, we're looking at them in the longer term as part of the kind of the growing and evolving infrastructure for the neighbourhoods.

 32:15
 Consideration for the type and form and how they contribute to biodiversity and habitat is offered here.

 32:22
 The location and placement, we advocate for that to be kind of brought forward early in the design process.

 32:28
 So something to be considered earlier rather than later.

 32:33
 The notion of kind of is going on guidance around kind of tree pits and cells and then opportunities for those to be kind of interconnected and the relationship of how those could kind of work with sods and drainage systems as part of it.

 32:49
 I won't say too much more trees.

 32:53
 I'll move on.

 32:58
 Next chapter looks at buildings, and this is fundamentally buildings as holistic entities.

 33:05
 As I say, the guidance and the coming out of the DDP and the coding is very much about urban blocks, about urban blocks defining streets and spaces and urban blocks creating active frontages.

 33:18
 What the coding is really interested in is actually how those active frontages bring definition and vitality to two streets.

 33:26
 And as I say, that doesn't have to be with kind of commercial use.

 33:29
 It's either retail and or office.

 33:31
 Residential is very valid component of that as well.

 33:34
 So it's about how do we deliver active frontages?

 33:37
 How do we utilize things like entrances and ground floors from residential components as points of activity, social exchange and points of definition to the streetscape?

 33:48
 How do we deal with corners, the notion of shade and shelter?

 33:54
 We're aware of the kind of climatic conditions and actually how buildings have a role to play in improving upon those.

 34:03
 There's guidance around kind of vertical greening.

 34:06
 There is commentary around tall building design.

 34:09
 But as I say, we're not getting into where those tall buildings should be located or what tall actually means in this context.

 34:15
 We're just looking at how they need to perform in order to safeguard the livability and desirability of the public realm, the city center as a whole.

 34:26
 And then as we start to move into buildings, we start to look at lobbies and the kind of communal components of buildings for the residential elements and actually how indoor communal space could be provided.

 34:39
 What outdoor communal community space means in terms of residential buildings in addition to the public realm, but within a block.

 34:49
 And then notions around kind of livability of those around kind of storage waste and actually how things like bikes might operate within them as well.

 35:05
 In terms of the example page here, we've included the outdoor communal amenity space component.

 35:13
 And this starts to look at actually how shared communal green space could be and ideally should be delivered as part of residential developments within a mixed-use towns, sorry, mixed-use city center food and should be delivered, you know, so we start to kind of talk here about actually space within the block.

 35:36
 And I heard that could be shared space and how it opens off circulation areas and has a direct linkage to the the shared internal areas, to the shared external areas.

 35:45
 The notion that that could be planted, that there could be play, particularly for younger and the citizens as part of that, the notion that that part of that could be a kind of a living landscape which which could be about allotments and food growing.

 35:59
 The notion that people have pets and and the likes.

 36:02
 So there maybe should be deadly age places for dogs.

 36:06
 And fundamentally it should be looking at maybe lighting and the notion of where noiser air noiser elements could or should be configured and located in order to kind of safeguard residential amenity.

 36:18
 Again, you know, all too often these types of spaces could be overly lit or there could be a ball court directly adjoining residential in close proximity and maybe those should be kind of pushed further apart and or the lighting.

 36:30
 This we kind of carefully configured and screened as part of a landscaping strategy.

 36:37
 The final chapter is the home and this is very much moving inside the dwelling and this deals with the kind of the experience and the livability of the dwelling.

 36:51
 It starts to cover things such as the entry to the home and the configuration of that living.

 36:57
 Dining kitchen areas, open plan versus more cellular bathrooms.

 37:02
 WCS commentary around types and form and the notion of accessibility questions storage always kind of a challenge within the contemporary residential, but there is kind of commentary on that private amenity space, which we'll come on to talk about.

 37:21
 We think it's kind of really important in terms of livability and desirability of living within the city center, the aspects and privacy, ensuring privacy is safeguarded, but but nonetheless, we need to ensure that we have good qualities of dealing in sunlight.

 37:36
 Equally when that kind of a Venn diagram of residential design overheating needs to be kind of a carefully kind of considered.

 37:43
 So that notion of suitable levels of glazing and good orientation need to be kind of carefully thought about in terms of building configuration and locating and site within the wider area.

 38:00
 And then finally looking at adaptability and flexibility through time.

 38:05
 So the example page here looks at the private amenity space and this links back to policy requirements which are in the local plan.

 38:18
 But fundamentally it makes an ask for outdoor amenity spaces provided for all dwellings.

 38:23
 There is guidance and coding offered here in terms of the size and the relationship to the dwelling size.

 38:30
 So the amount of square meters per per person per dwelling.

 38:34
 And again, as I said, that ties back to policy and then specifics around, you know, balconies or external immunity spatial level thresholds to ensure that kind of ease of access.

 38:46
 If you are using balconies, you know, careful consideration about not kind of causing overshadowing for other units, maybe positioning residential units within the the mix of residential units carefully within the overall configuration of the building.

 39:01
 So maybe family housing on upper levels or lower levels where they can have access to larger amenity space users who setbacks under kind of garden spaces going out onto decked areas, for instance.

 39:16
 And then the notion of kind of terraces as part of that mix and then the commentary on different types and forms and approaches.

 39:28
 So I shall leave it there.

 39:30
 I am not conscious of time, so I'll hand back to Emily.

 39:38
 Thank you.

 39:38
 Thank you, Kevin.

 39:42
 So we've got a few questions that have come through.

 39:44
 I'll just start.

 39:48
 So we've got one, one question, thinking about commercial use, will the SBD encourage diverse small scale social enterprises and artisans via long term low rental leases and a flexible venue such as the current activities in the vacated M&S store in Broadmead?

 40:07
 Yeah, thank you for your question, Nigel.

 40:09
 So this is a really important piece of work and a key objective for the DDP to have more affordable spaces for community and cultural uses within the city centre.

 40:18
 And the DDP, the development and delivery plan sets out an ambition for 10% of ground floor, uses 10% of new ground floor in new development to be affordable rent.

 40:30
 So the council are currently working on a cultural space strategy for the city centre, sort of help make sure that space comes forward in a really meaningful way.

 40:39
 So it is being developed in a more specifically in a different work stream, but very much a priority for us.

 40:45
 I don't know if there's a thing you wanted to add to Kevin.

 40:49
 I think you you've covered it there, Emily.

 40:52
 I mean, we, we certainly advocate those types of uses as part of the wider mix.

 40:58
 But the, the code being supplementary, it just looks at how those could be delivered and kind of integrated as part of it.

 41:07
 But we certainly can't prescribe the quantum form or type and or the affordable levels of them within this document for the, as you say, the council is giving that due consideration within other work streams.

 41:19
 Yeah, so definitely in development and yeah, if you want to hear more about it, we can, we can give more details.

 41:24
 So another question, I'm waiting on the edge of my seat to hear about the level of car and van parking.

 41:32
 How will this be designed into the scheme?

 41:34
 You can't expect families and trades people to live here without access to a car or a van.

 41:41
 Kevin, I don't know if there's something you want to cover.

 41:45
 Certainly.

 41:46
 So we have the code does cover the notion of car parking and it does cover how that could be or should be kind of integrated and formed part of the valid mix of uses.

 42:02
 What we don't do is have comment on the the quantum that is policy cross question which is nested elsewhere within the the framework of kind of policy documents requirements.

 42:15
 Ultimately an SPD can't counter or offer additional policy that all well can't counter existing policy and it can't offer additional policy.

 42:26
 So in terms of the quantum we have to kind of revert back to the local plan for that.

 42:34
 But in terms of their it's integration, it's certainly part of the mix.

 42:38
 Ultimately we're looking at it set within blocks and integrated as part of the built for of the development.

 42:48
 Brilliant.

 42:48
 Thank you.

 42:48
 Kevin.

 42:50
 Another question, how much of this area will be demolished to provide this regeneration?

 42:55
 Have you undertaken an embedded carbon assessment?

 43:05
 Kevin yeah, the levels of intervention and the levels of redevelopment are are more covered if that's the correct term in the DDP.

 43:22
 This document doesn't get into site specific mix of uses and or starts to identify buildings which should or should not be retained or buildings are suitable for adaptive reuse and or retrofit.

 43:37
 It offers commentary around how you should work with existing buildings and integrate them into future developments, but it doesn't get into the specifics of them.

 43:47
 So as such that level of levels of intervention are dealt with within other documents within the kind of the overall kind of planning framework of documents and policies.

 44:03
 So as such, because we don't know the levels of intervention, no, we haven't done an imported carbon assessment as part of this work.

 44:14
 Thank you.

 44:17
 Have have we undertaken a viability assessment of the draft SPD to assess whether any of this is deliverable or just nice ideas?

 44:35
 I can talk to that to a degree.

 44:37
 Yep.

 44:39
 Well I'd start.

 44:41
 So the short answer is we haven't specifically done viability testing on this, but there has been part of the kind of councils wider considerations looking at the DDP and the because it's a delivery plan, it has been kind of consideration given at that level as to what planning can't be delivered and the implications thereof.

 45:03
 It the the guidance draws on existing policy frameworks and existing policies.

 45:10
 As I say, we fundamentally we talk back to kind of the local plan and that policy DSGS 1 I think is forgetting them now, you know, so we're we're not advocating for anything that's doesn't exist already in policy.

 45:27
 We're just setting out guidance as to how it can be delivered.

 45:31
 And all of these kind of elements have been kind of extensively tested with the development and delivery plan as part of an iterative process.

 45:43
 So that level of liability and deliverability sits with that plan framework.

 45:49
 Thank you.

 45:52
 Another comment, sorry, but I've not seen anything specific to Broadmead.

 45:56
 The presentation so far has just been extracts from an urban design textbook and nothing related to what opportunities exist at Broadmead to build upon what is good and change what is bad there.

 46:08
 What aspects of this code will make this area Broadmead rather than any other area of the UK or Europe?

 46:15
 Kevin, it's a big and good question.

 46:23
 It's a good question.

 46:26
 The code is designed to work in synergy in collaboration with the development and delivery plan.

 46:35
 So the specifics around uses, configuration of uses, buildings, heights, scale, urban form all sit within the development and delivery plan.

 46:50
 The code starts to bring articulation as to how those could be brought forward.

 46:57
 As I said, we don't get in.

 46:59
 The code deals with fundamentals, we can't cover everything.

 47:05
 We are cognitive as well that there's a number of actors who will be delivering this new set of neighbourhoods going forward.

 47:14
 So we there's no exacting control.

 47:16
 So it's not a design, hence why it offers a sort of set of nested codes and guidance as to things to consider and ways to kind of track those kind of key questions around more architectural scope questions through a development control process.

 47:37
 This is the code is looking at those fundamentals about uses form, building lines, configuration rather than the detailed questions of let's say architectural materiality, modulation, articulation, colour patternation, etcetera.

 47:58
 So the code deliberately as we can't determine all of that, the code deliberately focuses on kind of creating a framework where those things can be engaged with in due course within a process.

 48:14
 Thank you Kevin.

 48:15
 I've got another question on on transport about the rationale for the Union Street Wine St.

 48:24
 rapid transit route, but I won't answer that question in this session.

 48:32
 I think that's all for transport colleagues to answer.

 48:34
 So I'll take that away Gavin and come back to you with some with some answers on the transport changes, the city centre, I think that's finished in terms of questions that have been posted so far.

 48:48
 Not sure if there's any additional questions that anyone wants to ask.

 48:58
 1-3 Some observations One, the use of trees to help with wayfinding, creating microclimates and shelter is terrific.

 49:07
 2 First floors in Broadmead are very poor at the moment with blank walls, windows to store rooms for the boxes.

 49:15
 Believe there should be inclusion in the codes to require big and bold visual connections to first floors with the possibility to have greater than one Storey spaces close to the ground like Philadelphia St.

 49:26
 and Castle Parkview.

 49:30
 Is that something you can cover?

 49:31
 Kevin, that's good points, Very good point.

 49:36
 Thank you.

 49:37
 Thank you for the feedback.

 49:39
 I wouldn't disagree with that, that kind of three-dimensional visual connection back to the street.

 49:43
 So yeah, we can well sense check how that sits within the code and what we see about that and whether we can pause for that.

 49:50
 So yeah, thank you.

 49:51
 Yeah, I can see Tessa's hand up.

 49:54
 So I'll disallow your mic.

 49:55
 Tessa, if you want to ask your question.

 50:07
 Hopefully that's worked.

 50:14
 No.

 50:20
 I'll go on to the next question was with hopefully Tessa, if you can unmute your mic, so it sounds very youth orientated around cycling, will the code ensure access to elderly AG lifts and ramps and homes with wet rooms and also vehicle access for carers?

 50:38
 Kevin, yes, we were very interested in and the code covers the notion of accessibility for all.

 50:47
 So what we are really interested in is a notion of kind of lifetime neighbourhoods, this being a sort of a livable neighbourhood for whatever stages or requirements you have within your life that brought me to can be a valid place to consider living.

 51:04
 So yeah, we're looking at accessibility in the broader sense.

 51:07
 We're looking at that being fully accessible.

 51:12
 That's why there's kind of commentary of again kind of thresholds level access lifts are definitely part of that mix.

 51:18
 And we do talk about kind of car parking and access to car parking being accessible as well.

 51:25
 Thanks, Kevin.

 51:27
 I'm sorry, Tessa, I can't seem to allow your microphone.

 51:31
 So if you want to type your question in, I'm going to try and answer it if that's that's easier.

 51:40
 I can't see any more questions that have come through.

 51:49
 I will just take this opportunity to say please do fill out the survey.

 51:55
 If there's things that you think need to be more emphasized further in the SPD that aren't currently or things that are given too much emphasis or feedback is welcome.

 52:05
 So please do fill out the consultation survey and if you have any questions following this session, feel free to e-mail City Centre Regeneration at bristol.gov.uk as well and we'll endeavour to get back to you quickly.

 52:24
 That's yeah, I think that's it on the questions, Kevin.

 52:36
 So I don't think else you want to round off with Kevin.

 52:42
 No, thank you.

 52:43
 Thank you for the inputs.

 52:44
 And we'll fold this into our thinking as we move towards working with council on kind of amendments and evolving the code as we move into position where it's going into the adoption process.

 53:00
 Yep, Yep.

 53:01
 Brilliant.

 53:02
 Well, thank you so much for coming.

 53:03
 I'll just leave on the screen the e-mail address just for the last few minutes of the session so you can jot that down.

 53:10
 But yeah, thank you so much for coming and I hope you found it helpful.

 53:14
 And if you have any feedback, please do do let us know.

 53:21
 But thank you again.