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Southampton's skyline - 2024 style
10:00am Saturday 4th August 2012 in News
By Matt Smith, Politics and business reporter
A computer generated image of how Centenary Quay could look by 2024
DRAMATIC new images have been released to show how the £500m Centenary Quay development could look when completed over the next 12 years.
Computer wizardry has been used to show how Woolston ’s riverside will be transformed into a vibrant new part of the city.
Rising from the derelict 31-acre site of the former Vosper Thornycroft (VT) shipbuilding yard the £500m development will become home to as many as 3,000 residents.
Stepping down from a civic square, surrounded by new shops, bars and restaurants, the waterfront will be opened up to the public with a water taxi shuttling back and forth across River Itchen to the city centre.
Three apartment towers, up to 25 storeys high with penthouses costing up to £1m each, will dominate the riverside and create a new skyline for the east of the city.
More than 1,600 homes, mostly flats, are planned in total. A quarter will be for rent or shared ownership through housing associations.
Work has just started on the second phase of the Centenary Quay development, which will add 163 homes as well as a new library and 80-place nursery at the entrance from Victoria Road.
The homes are already being sold “off-plan” starting from £132,500 for a one-bedroom apartment, from £157,500 for a two-bedroom apartment and from £235,000 for a three-bedroom house.
Councillors last month gave the green light for a further 329 flats, the public square and a 60,000 square foot supermarket bringing 225 jobs. It is thought Morrisons is being lined up for the store.
It is expected this third phase of homes, which will start to be marketed next year, will take around four years to sell.
Developer Crest Nicholson will then bring forward plans for a block of 110 flats and the landmark waterfront towers as the next two phases of the development.
Planning permission for the towers will not be sought for at least five years.
Residents have generally welcomed the regeneration of the area although many remain concerned about the number of homes being built and impact of the extra traffic.
The Hampshire Chamber of Commerce says it will breathe new life into the existing Woolston district centre.
The city council and the Government regeneration agency that owns part of the adjacent site are also in talks with interested parties to revive a planned marine manufacturing quarter with deep water berths, set to create up to 700 jobs.
Plans for US superyacht builder Palmer Johnson to move onto the site collapsed two years ago in the downturn.
Comments(28)
SO50 Saint
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10:59am Sat 4 Aug 12
hulla baloo
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11:00am Sat 4 Aug 12
SO50 Saint wrote:Bring back floaters.
The Woolston Ferry is returning :)
Maine Lobster
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11:14am Sat 4 Aug 12
chunky_lover wrote:And where exactly do those hundreds of families live when that happens?
now all they need to do is knock down those awful tower blocks on weston shore.
clare farmer
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12:08pm Sat 4 Aug 12
saucernerp
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12:08pm Sat 4 Aug 12
chunky_lover
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12:10pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Maine Lobster wrote:Wherever they fancy!
chunky_lover wrote:And where exactly do those hundreds of families live when that happens?
now all they need to do is knock down those awful tower blocks on weston shore.
acid drop
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12:51pm Sat 4 Aug 12
saucernerp wrote:why would anyone want to live in woolston ???????
Why would anyone want to pay a million pounds for a penthouse in the middle of the council estate that they have just created
OSPREYSAINT
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1:23pm Sat 4 Aug 12
acid drop wrote:Where do you live?
saucernerp wrote:why would anyone want to live in woolston ???????
Why would anyone want to pay a million pounds for a penthouse in the middle of the council estate that they have just created
insane saint
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1:37pm Sat 4 Aug 12
hulla baloo wrote:http://www.youtube.c
SO50 Saint wrote:Bring back floaters.
The Woolston Ferry is returning :)
om/watch?v=ul2DYr1iD
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the woolston ferry song
David Icke
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1:55pm Sat 4 Aug 12
joenice1
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1:57pm Sat 4 Aug 12
acid drop wrote:Woolston is really nice thank you!! The high street shops can improve but I moved here 5 years ago and really like it.
saucernerp wrote:why would anyone want to live in woolston ???????
Why would anyone want to pay a million pounds for a penthouse in the middle of the council estate that they have just created
saucernerp
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3:19pm Sat 4 Aug 12
But what they have done at the end of my street is create yet another social housing development.
Fatty x Ford Worker
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3:45pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Fatty x Ford Worker
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3:56pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Ginger_cyclist
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4:01pm Sat 4 Aug 12
David Icke wrote:Tell me about it, I live in Thornhill and sometimes the stench wafts all the way up if the wind is in the right direction, makes you gag.
Does anyone know if anything is being done to combat the overwhelming smell that drifts by from the nearby sewage plant? My mate brought one of these places last year and when we dropped him off the other day the stench was atrocious.
acid drop
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6:28pm Sat 4 Aug 12
OSPREYSAINT wrote:upper shirley but i lived in woolston years ago
acid drop wrote:Where do you live?
saucernerp wrote:why would anyone want to live in woolston ???????
Why would anyone want to pay a million pounds for a penthouse in the middle of the council estate that they have just created
Condor Man
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7:00pm Sat 4 Aug 12
clare farmer wrote:ever thought of standing for council? you talk a lot more sense than a lot of them at the moment. At present the Itchen is only properly accessible at Riverside Park. It would be good for locals to have decent access to it.
I'd love to see a complete shake up in the planning department. In addition to getting rid of all the fogey brained thinkers (long overdue in my view) I'd like my city to be more inclusive rather than exclusive... that waterfront was crying out for a public promenade stretching right down to Weston shore, providing a pedestrian and cycle link while allowing everybody to enjoy those fabulous views not just the lucky few in the tower blocks. What a boon to tourism in the area it would have been too... opportunity missed by the yawnmongers in our current planning department... next time, why not include local people in a meaningful way(not just lip service) from concept through to completion instead of relying on architects in their ivory(or glass) towers who have no real human interest in our city?
Also, who's likely to move in the area? without a school like Thornden you'd never get an influx of professional people as you would in Chandler's Ford. The council's inability to properly develop suburbs over the past 60 years has resulted in Southampton getting poorer over time.
georgetheseventh
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9:18pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Sir Ad E Noid
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11:19pm Sat 4 Aug 12
chunky_lover wrote:Bring on the thicko, yes you.
now all they need to do is knock down those awful tower blocks on weston shore.
Mowyjoe
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4:24am Sun 5 Aug 12
OSPREYSAINT
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8:09am Sun 5 Aug 12
acid drop wrote:Don't know that area, what is it like, any student or immigrant problems?
OSPREYSAINT wrote:upper shirley but i lived in woolston years ago
acid drop wrote:Where do you live?
saucernerp wrote:why would anyone want to live in woolston ???????
Why would anyone want to pay a million pounds for a penthouse in the middle of the council estate that they have just created
chunky_lover
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11:13am Sun 5 Aug 12
fairdinkum
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12:59pm Sun 5 Aug 12
acid drop wrote:Upper Shirley? Land of the living dead. At least Woolston has some kind of spirit to build on.
OSPREYSAINT wrote:upper shirley but i lived in woolston years ago
acid drop wrote:Where do you live?
saucernerp wrote:why would anyone want to live in woolston ???????
Why would anyone want to pay a million pounds for a penthouse in the middle of the council estate that they have just created
George4th
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8:09pm Sun 5 Aug 12
Condor Man wrote:"The council's inability to properly develop suburbs over the past 60 years has resulted in Southampton getting poorer over time"
clare farmer wrote:ever thought of standing for council? you talk a lot more sense than a lot of them at the moment. At present the Itchen is only properly accessible at Riverside Park. It would be good for locals to have decent access to it.
I'd love to see a complete shake up in the planning department. In addition to getting rid of all the fogey brained thinkers (long overdue in my view) I'd like my city to be more inclusive rather than exclusive... that waterfront was crying out for a public promenade stretching right down to Weston shore, providing a pedestrian and cycle link while allowing everybody to enjoy those fabulous views not just the lucky few in the tower blocks. What a boon to tourism in the area it would have been too... opportunity missed by the yawnmongers in our current planning department... next time, why not include local people in a meaningful way(not just lip service) from concept through to completion instead of relying on architects in their ivory(or glass) towers who have no real human interest in our city?
Also, who's likely to move in the area? without a school like Thornden you'd never get an influx of professional people as you would in Chandler's Ford. The council's inability to properly develop suburbs over the past 60 years has resulted in Southampton getting poorer over time.
A combination of Southampton's reputation for striking in the 70's and 80's together with poor Labour Council's killed off any serious business investment in Southampton. Southampton's existence is totally dependent on the NHS and the Universities.
Fatty x Ford Worker
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10:48pm Sun 5 Aug 12
HerbertC
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1:18pm Mon 6 Aug 12
It was the same with the artist's impression of the new hotel at Ocean Village. That had a fancy cruise liner in the background, pretty much where Harbour Lights Cinema and the Oceanography Centre is - at least half a mile from a cruise ship dock. And finally, the new Sea Museum had a sketch of people walking on attractive parkland opposite the new museum - exactly where the BBC building is!
Does no-one involved in these developments query this rubbish? At least make some effort to make it look how it will actually appear, not changing everything else into some fictional world just to make it look better.
picklepie0709
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12:17am Tue 7 Aug 12
chunky_lover says...
10:49am Sat 4 Aug 12