Cupar North

Sustainable Cupar

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Sustainable CuparWe 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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Cupar NorthA 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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Master PlanBefore 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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Possible negative impactsPotential 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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Possible positive impactsPotential 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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Sustainable Cupar proposalA 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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Sustainable transportA 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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Green arterial pathA continuous, safe path around the existing town must be built before any other development.

• For traversing Cupar North

• For access into town centre

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Red dotted line is arterial path

Relief road and existing infrastructureRelief 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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House layoutHouses 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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Estate layoutFiltered 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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GIC example

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http://www.greenwayneighborhoods.net

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• http://vimeo.com/74294955

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Darnstadt Passive house

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Craigrothie Passive House

Blebocraigs BRE Demonstrator

150 passive house development HerefordshireBy Archihaus

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• 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

Cupar Heat Network

Anaerobic Digester

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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

Green spaces, drainageSUDS and Flood protection:• Narrow streets – minimise non permeable surface area

• Greenways – open planted swales, edible landscape

• Rain water harvesting

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Public transportIt 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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Sustainable economicsCupar 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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Engagement with developersCupar 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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Q & A

Website: sustainablecupar.org.ukFacebook: Sustainable CuparTwitter: @Sustain_Cupar

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