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New pedestrian connection to Catholic Church
Flexible commercial ground floor use with apartments above
New play area and community focus
Two-storey town houses fronting to improved route
New three storey apartments
Flexible commercial spacewith apartments above
Extended retail units with new apartments above
Widened street with stepped design feature Improved Hollies Gardens for
town events and outdoor eating and drinking
Enhanced public realm to create larger public space for Midsomer Norton Fair and other town events
New retail uses addressing the core High Street area with offices above
Two storey town houses fronting to improved route
Improved route through from the High Street, with new development establishing a positive frontage to the school
New extension for the primary school
School playing fields
Children’s centre
Play parkMidsomer Norton Primary School Methodist
Church
Council Offices
HIGH STREET
Rear service area
HEAVY TRAFFIC ROUTE
HEAVY TRAFFIC ROUTE
CAR PARK
CAR PARK
METHODIST
CHURCH
MALLARDS
PUBLIC
HOUSE
TITHE
BARN
ALMS
HOUSES
EXISTIN
G
SCHOOL
THE
HOLLIE
S
TOW
N
HALL
ST JOHN
THE BAPTIS
T
CHURCH
The Hollies area provides an important mix of uses for the town centre including shops, jobs, community facilities, housing, public parking and green spaces. It is however dominated by the scale and bulk of the Sainsbury’s foodstore. The foodstore and car park generates significant traffic on to the High Street and is a barrier to pedestrian linkages between the High Street and historic buildings. Redevelopment of this area can deliver significant regeneration benefits for Midsomer Norton.
Midsomer NortonThe Hollies
The priority is to create an enhanced retail frontage to the High Street. Redevelopment can create a series of more appropriately sized units that address the High Street.
Short stay shopper car parking is retained, but long stay reduced enabling the vehicular exit onto the High Street to be removed to deliver public realm enhancements in front of the Town Hall and Island.
Improved pedestrian routes help integrate the core High Street with the Island and destinations such as the Catholic Church (Tithe Barn). The new Hollies garden space will remove the unusable areas and provide an attractive green area with ‘spill out’ space for cafes and restaurants.
Site analysis Development principles
Poor quality gateway
Pedestrian connectionPoor quality buildingPositive building
Lively frontageActive frontageSides / backs
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Important space
Public realm improvement
Prominent corner
The illustrative masterplan below demonstrates one way of developing the potential of the Hollies area. It will deliver a mixed-use scheme of a scale and character appropriate to the town centre.
Illustrative masterplan
New or refurbished buildings
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