Crest Nicholson has unveiled its revised plans for the £500m Woolston Riverside regeneration scheme in
Unveiling the proposals at MIPIM 2007 today, Crest Nicholson Regeneration managing director Debbie Aplin said the group had “wanted to put our own stamp on the Richard Rogers Partnership masterplan”.
The group was selected last year to develop the £350m residential element. It has reworked Lord Rogers’ masterplan scrapping plans to build the residential towers of up to 23-storeys comprising 1,500 homes on “fingers” of land jutting into the River Itchen.
Crest has also added more family housing increasing the residential element by 100 units.
A hybrid application which will include outline plans for the entire site and detailed plans for the first phase of housing will be submitted in June/July.
Dean & Dyball has been appointed to develop the commercial element – a 9.92-acre marine quarter – which will include a working quay for repair and refit of vessels, a main commercial quayside, a new pier alongside large-scale marine production facilities, offices, workshops and studios, and a Marine Trade Centre.
Construction on the 36-acre scheme, which also includes shops, a health centre, library and public square, is expected to begin in 2009.
