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Picton Waterfront Redevelopment
| LOCATION: | Picton |
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| CLIENT: | Marlborough District Council |
| CONTACT: | Michael Hawes (landscape design), Marc Baily (urban planning) |
| OUR ROLE: | Urban planning and design, community consultation, master planning, resource consent evidence, landscape design, supervision of site works. |
Picton’s waterfront is being redeveloped. Boffa Miskell has assisted with its planning, urban and landscape design since 2004.
We helped the Marlborough District Council to investigate various redevelopment opportunities, decide on urban design principles for the town centre and waterfront, and conduct extensive community consultation. We reviewed and refined the waterfront master plan with Warren and Mahoney Architects in 2008 and, in 2009, were appointed to provide landscape design services for the redevelopment.
Picton is the hub of the Marlborough Sounds and the waterfront is its focal area. Thousands of inter-island ferry passengers pass through every year, right next to the tourist operations, boating and fishing activities that make Picton a destination and port in its own right.
The redevelopment is focused on better integrating these activities and reinforcing the waterfront as a gathering place - a place of social interactions. The design builds on the concept of the site being a meeting place; a place of coming ashore and of looking out to the Sounds; a place where people, landscape and activities - past and present - come together.
Key features of the redevelopment include :
- improved connections between the town centre, marina and foreshore;
- a series of inter-related public spaces, suitable for both peak and off-season levels of activity;
- improved public access to the water’s edge;
- revitalised activities of the working wharfs, the local community, visitors and tourism operators with complementary opportunities for extended use;
- close conceptual and functional integration of built form public space design, framing views to the Sounds; and
- a revitalised townscape character developed from strong past and present site connections.
As lead designers, Boffa Miskell managed a fast-track programme, delivering consent and tender documents within a condensed period, staged to enable early progress of marine works in preparation for the main construction.
Resource consent for the redevelopment was granted in July 2009 and construction is expected to be completed early in 2010.
Others we worked with closely: Warren & Mahoney, Alan Reay Consultants Limited, Abel Properties Limited, HEB Construction