Pre-Consultation for Dalston Masterplan
The Council is currently developing a draft masterplan for Dalston town centre.
What is a masterplan and why are we doing one?
A masterplan is a tool to manage development pressure or to help regeneration. The Council has identified Dalston Town Centre as an area of regeneration, and it is considered that there is a wide range of opportunities to improve the town centre. It will identify opportunities through:
- improving the environment;
- identifying sites that would benefit from development; and showing what type of new buildings could be built;
- retaining and enhancing buildings that have heritage value;
- creating a better and safer pedestrian environment, creating and/or enhancing open space and linking those open spaces together; and
- identifying priorities, projects and measures that are required to help deliver and support regeneration of the area.
Overall, it will provide a design rationale that will plan for the town centre as a whole, rather than in a piecemeal manner.
Consultation and Programme
Community consultation is a key element of developing an effective Masterplan. An initial community drop-in session for the draft masterplan took place at Dalston in Kingsland Shopping Centre on 10 April 2008, where members of the public were invited to express their views on what they liked about the town centres, how the environment could be improved and what changes they would like to see?
The information boards that were displayed on the day and a document of the responses received are available on this webpage. Please click on the appropriate links. The informal consultation ended on 30 May 2008."
You will have a further chance to comment on a draft masterplan when the Council undertakes the formal consultation stage scheduled for late summer/autumn 2008 which will present for consultation a range of ideas as to how the Town Centre could be improved.
The masterplan is scheduled for adoption as a supplementary planning document (SPD) at the end of 2008.
Documents available for download:
Page updated: 2 Jun 2008
Dalston Display Boards