Jas Bhalla Works - Thriving Centres In New Towns - Flipbook - Page 9
Identifying common issues
Leaving it too late
House builders often
postpone developing centres
until later phases, awaiting
sufficient resident population
to support non-residential
uses.
However, delaying such
uses forces residents to
seek external amenities,
establishing habits and
patterns of movement that
become ingrained and hard
to break.
Starting in two
different places
More often than not, the
location of the initial phases
of large sites is dictated by
access and negotiations on
land deals, which means
sites are built out from their
perimeter, far from the future
town or local centre. This
approach undermines the
ability to evolve a centre
alongside the phasing of
housing.
Delayed or fragmented
phasing of the centre
