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Area One (2)
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Look at Romsey
Town Design Statement for Romsey
Whitenap
Prepared by a team of volunteers in the area under the auspices of the
Romsey and District Society.
Settlement Pattern
The Thicket showing 2 and 3-storey houses
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Whitenap was largely developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of the area is made up of two-storey houses, mostly detached or semi-detached, with terraced houses, both two and three-storey on the Five Elms estate. |
| There are detached bungalows in Northlands Road, Elmtree Gardens and semi-detached bungalows in Birch Close. |
Bungalows in Northlands Road
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The older houses which were built individually and not as estates, have fairly regular building lines giving in each street even depths to their front gardens, although plot widths vary.
The houses are mostly laid out in rows parallel to the streets and therefore facing each other. In Five Elms estate, this parallel arrangement is less rigidly adhered to, but the terraced nature of much of the housing still provides a legible arrangement of the streets.
Botley Road has low-density housing, with two-storey houses set well back from the street. Parts of some back gardens were sold to developers enabling Pine Road and Sycamore Close to be built parallel to Botley Road. Nonetheless many of the houses on both sides of Botley Road still have substantial gardens by urban standards. Whitenap Close was similarly built in the back gardens of older houses.
Open plan front gardens in Pine Road
Fencing and hedging in Botley Road
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The rest of the estate has medium density housing, typical of suburban development of its period. All but the pre-war houses have open plan front gardens, although the open effect has been undermined in some areas by the growth of substantial hedges.
The pre-war houses have fenced or hedged front-gardens as was typical of their period.
Most houses have garages within their curtilages, although there are one or two blocks of garages between terraces. However, many of the garages are not big enough to house their owners’ vehicles and there are problems with on-street parking in places.
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Design Recommendations
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The open plan style of gardens is worth preserving |
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Development should meet parking standards |
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