PLY18 - Plymouth History Centre and land at Tavistock Place / Chapel Street
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Land at North Hill and Tavistock Place is allocated for a History Centre, together with a higher education and/or business-led mixed use development on Tavistock Place / Chapel Street with enabling student housing development in cluster flat format. The History Centre will be a major new visitor attraction and unique historic archive and learning space for the city which will support the regeneration of the North Hill / Tavistock Plan cultural quarter. It will bring together the existing City Museum collections with new exhibition space, including the conversion of the former St Luke’s Church, together with a landmark modern archive space for the City’s historic archives. Tavistock Place will be closed to through traffic to form a public piazza, with new pedestrian and cycling links through to North Hill and Chapel Street.
Development should provide for the following:
- The conversion of the listed museum and library buildings and former St Luke’s Church to provide high quality exhibition spaces.
- Demolition of the rear of the library and construction of a new extension to provide a café, exhibition space, learning space and landmark ‘archive box’.
- Construction of a storage and delivery store adjacent to St Luke’s Church.
- Soft landscaping to include new street trees and green wall together with shrub planting.
- Creation of new pedestrian and cycling links to improve the permeability of the area for pedestrians and cyclists between Chapel Street and North Hill.
- High quality street frontages and active ground floor uses.
- A development which respects the site's heritage assets and context, as informed by a heritage character assessment to be undertaken for the proposal.
