Masterplan options

Three options for the mini masterplan. All three have a couple of ideas in common - retaining the Royal Mail sorting office to provide a long term source of employment and economic activity, giving the site a "reason to be." There is also the creation of a small "dock" area where the canal occupies the same level as the site. In all cases the drop-in centre occupies a central position adjoining the existing Lock Keeper's cottage.

Option A "Bookends"
Here the commercial development occupies either end of the site, bookending a long ribbon residential block. The are small service pavillions next to the "dock"



Option B "Wharf"
This design drives the dock straight across the site, dividing it into an Eastern "public" zone and a Western "Private" Zone. There are links to the adjacent retail park on Kirkstall Road via a footbridge



Option C "Lakeside"
This design builds on the dock idea, turning it into a "lakeside" with accompanying commercial and services. A snakelike block of residential developments creates a spine along the rest of the site.