Stirling reimagines its forgotten riverfront
October 14 2024
Stirling Council has approved a finalised Forthside masterplan governing the city's forgotten riverfront.
The sprawling site is earmarked for commercial and residential interests, including film studios, a cinema and 300 new homes linked by improved roads and active travel routes.
Stirling Council leader Margaret Brisley, said: “We are ambitious for this area to become a thriving and sustainable part of the city, incorporating new businesses and commercial partners, as well as housing.
“It will also allow greater access to the River Forth for leisure, with high-quality public spaces and enhanced travel routes, including active travel. We want it to become a vibrant community in its own right.
“We are determined to deliver good design which reflects the ambitions of Stirling Council, our residents, businesses and investors.”
The project team includes Stallan-Brand Architects, Oobe landscape architects and Woolgar Hunter engineers.
300 homes are included in the masterplan area
Forthside is designed to complement the city centre
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6 Comments
The article does not seem to know where the Forth is.
The space between frontages in the 'Avenues' section is vast - it reminds me Elder and Canon's canyon at Sighthill (the New Prairie Planning in GLasgow?) but at 2 and 3 storeys.If it is to be implemented at that scale it will have very little spatial enclosure and, one suspects, will become a windswept corridor. The distance between the blocks is similarly huge, separated by the delightful inclusion of serried ranks of parking courts unrelieved by landscaping or inventive geometry . How lovely. Similarly there appears to be little or nothing in the way of modulating the space that you arrive in after traversing the Forthside Footbridge - again vast and unweildy.
Am I missing something here - the Masterplan & Design guide is a slender 40 pages - with maps at best hovering around 1:2500 ? I must be missing some kind of supplementary document with codes,or plot passports or, at the very least some drawings at 1:1000. Without this how can any kind of quality be embedded ?
The design guide presented to the Council on the 04 October seems to be much more extensive. I agree, though, there are some very odd design decisions across the board - including scale, density, transport, etc.
https://minutes.stirling.gov.uk/media/hbnj245l/stirling-council-10-october-2024.pdf
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