1. Cupar North Sustainable Cupar
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2. Sustainable Cupar FAB (Fruit and Blossom) Transport Energy Book club
We are a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) with 74 members and 10 trustees. We have the following sub-groups:
FAB (Fruit and Blossom)
Transport
Energy
Book club
Cupar North
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3. Cupar North
A large area has been allocated for development in the Local Development Plan (LDP):
1,400 houses
Industrial park
Primary school
Amenity space
Relief road
Strategic Development Area (SDA)
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4. Master Plan Road network Path network Public transport
Before work starts a master plan must be produced showing how people, work, and the environment are integrated in a sustainable way:
Road network
Path network
Public transport
Access for recycling, emergency services, etc.
Zones (housing, industrial, schooling, recreation)
Produced by development consortium (not Fife Council)
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5. Possible negative impacts
Potential pressure on existing infrastructure and services including:
Education
Roads
Public transport
Drainage, sewerage and flood protection
Hospital and sheltered housing
Possible loss of business due to relief road
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6. Possible positive impacts
Potential benefits:
Less through traffic when relief road completed
More customers for existing businesses
Job creation in new retail outlets and school
Carbon efficiency via integrated and retrofitted heat network
Reduction in per capita carbon footprint
Exemplar of sustainable living
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7. Sustainable Cupar proposal
A sustainable development (a statutory requirement), based on 'Village homes' and others. Key points:
Double sided housing
Greenways
Housing orientation
Narrow streets, shared space, filtered permeability
Natural drainage
Edible landscaping
Amenity space
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8. Sustainable transport
A comprehensive and safe path network to encourage community spirit:
Discourage car use by providing indirect route into town
Minimal shared surface for vehicles
Shared front garden space for safe path network
Shared amenity space and safe play areas
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9. Green arterial path
A continuous, safe path around the existing town must be built before any other development.
For traversing Cupar North
For access into town centre
Red dotted line is arterial path
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10. Relief road and existing infrastructure
Relief road must be used for all new development access. Must have safe links into the town.
Radial roads terminated:
at the arterial path (greenway)
near the centre of town
Existing streets:
one way
shared space
wider pavements/cycle paths
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11. House layout Houses have access from the front and the back:
Houses front on to path network (Greenway)
Private gardens and off street car parking at the rear
Mixed tenure (affordable/social/private housing intermixed)
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12. Estate layout
Filtered permeability for pedestrians, cyclists and mobility scooters:
Separate path network
Shared space cul-de-sacs.
Greenways Interlaced with Cul-de-sacs (GIC)
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13. GIC example sustainablecupar.org.uk
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14. Super Efficient Buildings
Passive House as standard (heating demand 15kWh/m2/a)
South orientation default for solar access
On district heat network
Appropriate shading to prevent overheating
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15. Darnstadt Passive house
Craigrothie Passive House
Blebocraigs
BRE Demonstrator
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16. 150 passive house development Herefordshire By Archihaus
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17. Cupar Heat Network Cupar’s own Heating + Cooling Network
Anaerobic Digestion plant
Solar powered heat pump on sewer (integrated solar PV on roofs)
Inter-seasonal heat store (sugar beet silo or underground)
Biomas (Elmwood), fossil fuel (Bell Baxter for peak loads)
Synergy Environ – Feasibility Study
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18. Anaerobic Digester Economic Benefit: cheap low carbon heat and cool
organic matter disposal (Food waste regulations tightening, distillers/ brewers/ any business with organic waste)
prolonged growing season
chilling facility
job creation
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19. Green spaces, drainage SUDS and Flood protection:
Narrow streets – minimise non permeable surface area
Greenways – open planted swales, edible landscape
Rain water harvesting
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20. Public transport
It is vital that everyone has easy access to public transport:
Path network to access buses
Regular bus service to town centre, railway station and industrial park
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21. Sustainable economics
Cupar North will take many years to complete:
Phasing of development
Funding of infrastructure (arterial path and relief road)
Environmental management
Attracting new business
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22. Engagement with developers
Cupar must have its say:
Development consortium will draw up master plan
Community need to engage with the developers
Important that we present a united front
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23. Q & A
Website: sustainablecupar.org.uk Facebook: Sustainable Cupar
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