SCC Design

The developers and GBC Planning Department have complete control of the external design and location of the building. SCCP only has some influence on the internal layout of the community facility, so that it can ensure that all the community requirements fit within the limited space to comply with the design brief.

April 2008		GBC Building Control Dept stop the building because of incomplete plans.
March 2008	Stoughton Community Centre Needs Assessment Report (Final)	The needs assessment report says there is a need for a new community facility in Stoughton: SCCP's Response to GBC re Needs Assessment Report
January 2008		GBC Building Control Dept stop the building because of incomplete plans.
October 2007		GBC commissions independent consultants to perform a 'needs assessment' in response to QEPRA assertions that there is no need for more community facilities.
July 2007		The developers started building ... something ... not sure what? Is it building approved in 2002?
February 2007	02/P/01632 Surgery Sketch QE Park Commercial Area	The developers tell us they no longer wish to use the plans approved in April 2006 for 'legal reasons' and wish to revert to plans for a smaller 627sqm 3-storey building approved in 2002 as part of the commercial area 02/P/01632 originally intended as a mixed use building, then a doctors surgery and now a combined offices with community facility on top! Whilst waiting, we learned that the lottery fund for community centres has closed, so now we are looking for alternative sources of funding.
April 2006		Application 05/P/02467 was approved. Waiting for the developers and council to finish negotiating the S106 .... deep sigh. GBC Officers Report . Council conditions are here. Whilst waiting, we learned we had lost our grant for PV panels because it had run out of time.
March 2006		Application 05/P/02467 has been amended as requested by GBC; now without canopies and a slightly modified internal layout. SCCP's response to 05/P/02467 (08-Jan-06)
December 2005	December 2005 Design Statement (6MB)	Application withdrawn and replaced by a new application 05/P/02467. Now with offices instead of flats, and includes an external play area (as requested by SCCP). Has flat roofs - which are not good for PV panels.
August 2005	August 2005 Changes (1MB)	Application 05/P/00192 is slightly modified, with revised roof design and entrance doors further apart. 14 parking spaces have been 'allocated'. Updated site plan. The developers eventually submitted the 'sound/noise report' that GBC Planning Dept. had asked for.
April 2005	?	Revisions have been prepared by the developers, but what is happening? GBC are waiting for a 'sound/noise report'.
January 5^th 2005	Developers Proposal (1MB) - drawings; SCC Site Plan Dec 2004 (out of date and inaccurate)	Application 05/P/00192: Combined community centre 391sqm, management office 20sqm and 6 apartments approx. 70sqm each. Now situated in place of the mixed use building in the QE Park 'town square'. SCCP Response to GBC Planning Dept. (13th Feb '05)
December 23^rd 2004		The developers submit their application for the combined community centre and 6 apartments, but GBC refuse to register it until a design statement is submitted. A revised floorplan is submitted including a 'management office' and reducing the actual community space to from 411sqm to 391sqm. Detailed applications have not been submitted for either of the play areas shown on the village green in the outline plan.
December 9^th 2004	Developers Proposal (1MB) - sketches	QEP developers gave SCCP seven days to comment on new draft plans for a combined community centre and six apartments in place of the originally planned mixed use building in the 'town square' next to Budgens food store. SCCP met with JTP architect to review possibilities for what was considered an impractical layout and sent a preliminary response to the developers and GBC, which was ignored.
November 11^th 2004		Trinity Estates, management company for QEP, carry out poll to decide the location of the community centre and bus routes.
September 6^th 2004		SCA's letter to QEP Residents
June 28^th 2004		SCCP and QEP residents meet for a Q&A session at Stoughton Youth & Community Centre. Developers put 'village green' plans on hold following objections from QE Park residents about building on green space.
June 6^th 2004		Letter from SCCP to QEP Residents
April 26^th 2004	Developer's Planning Application (2MB)	Final 'Village Green' Plans. Application 04/P/00990.
April 25^th 2004		SCCP help organise a community open afternoon at which SCCP learns: - many QEP residents are unaware of plans for a community facility in QEP. - some thought it was only 150sqm instead of 390sqm - many didn't know the developers wanted to put it on the Village Green; - some thought it was only for QEP and not the whole of Stoughton. Understandably there was a great deal of concern, and so SCCP start planning to hold a public meeting (28th June)
February 2004	390sqm design #3	Following a meeting with architects JTP* and Laing Homes using SCCP's updated design brief.
January 2004	Linden Homes 390sqm floorplans #2	After a meeting in November 2003 with DEPS* and developers at GBC* Millmead.
November 2003		SCA/SCCP is constituted.
October 2003	SCCP's floorplan ideas	An attempt by SCCP to find out if the design brief would fit into an external 390sqm footprint.
September 2003	Linden Homes 390sqm Design #1	After Linden Homes realised the May design was too big and too expensive. Also, around this time the developers discovered that because of sewers running alongside Railton Road, they could not put the Community building on the corner of the 'village green' with a link to the 'town square' and insisted it was moved to the middle of the green. Further investigation by SCCP also found that Linden Homes had built 'Phase 1' housing 14m further into the 'village green' than shown on the outline plan. This meant the developers were very constrained about where to position the building alongside the 'equipped play area' and 'all weather sports arena'. Site Plan with Drains, Oct 2003 The developers were also reviewing the proposed constitution for SCA.
May 2003	JTP floorplans	Good layout at last! But nobody realised it was 488sqm external instead of 390sqm!
April 2003	JTP floorplans Sketch	Improving on SCCP's idea to comply with the design brief.
March 2003	Developer's Newsletter No.5	Showing the site layout approved by GBC in November 2002, and an artists impression of the 'town square' including the 'food store' and 'mixed use' building.
January 2003	STAG/SCCP's floorplan ideas	Just an idea to see if the design brief could fit into the Oct/Nov footprint.
November 2002	S106 Amendment 29 Nov 02 (1MB)	GBC planning committee approve the detailed plan for the QE Park Commercial Area (02/P/01632). Including a 627sqm 'mixed use' building intended as a dedicated doctors surgery and a promise for a community building of between 370 and 390sqm (external) on the 'village green'.
October 2002	JTP Floorplans & JTP Elevations	Developers provide plans for a larger community facility and seek STAG's support for the commercial area. The building is 382sqm internal, 448sqm external - used as basis for the S106 amendment Nov'02 (S106) on the corner of the 'village green' opposite Budgens.
September 2002		QE Park commercial area plans were updated to provide a 600sqm 2 storey 'mixed use' building as a doctors surgery and restaurant. No specific location for a 150sqm community meeting hall. Where is the hall?
July 2002		Developers submit first version of detailed plans for the QE Park Commercial Area (02/P/01632). Including a promise that 150sqm of the 'mixed use' building could be for community use, and the remainder as a doctors surgery.
May 2002	Minutes & Draft occupancy plan	SCCP Committee elected by 120 attending a public meeting at Northmead School, with a mandate to establish a community facility. 150sqm is not large enough to support the needs of the community.
February 2002		QE Park residential building starts - Phases 1 & 2.
December 2001	Draft S106	Outline planning permission granted for 01/P/0881 and 01/P/0882.
August 2001		Plans revised to provide a 1,720sqm doctors surgery and no specific location for a 150sqm community meeting hall space. In the series of public meetings, the developers also said there would be a restaurant, but this disappeared from the plans shortly before they were approved.
May 2001		Outline plans submitted for "525 dwellings, employment, nursing home, community facilities, retail, health and fitness centre, open space and associated roads." (01/P/0881 and 01/P/0882). Including a 600sqm 'L' shaped 2/3 storey building as a doctors surgery and community meeting hall space.
August 1999		STAG Committee formed. See STAG home page.
January 1999	QEPB Development Brief (Draft January 1999) - Main Doc QEPB Development Brief (Draft January 1999) - Appendices	GBC issue development planning brief, and organise public consultation meetings. Talk about 1,000 houses, 700 houses....

* GBC: Guildford Borough Council; DEPS: Department of Environmental Planning Services (since 2005 called GBC Planning Dept); Developers: Laing Homes and Linden Homes consortium; JTP: John Thompson & Partners Architects for Laing Homes