Location:
Hull, UK
Status:
Pre-planning
Scale:
c250 dwellings
Constraints:
Tidal and surface water flooding
Hull Resilient Community
LIVING WITH WATER
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90% of Hull sits under High Tide level and is the second most vulnerable city in the United Kingdom after London for flooding.
Embracing this vulnerability as an opportunity “LivingWithWater.co.uk” - a partnership comprising of the Environment Agency, Hull City Council, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Yorkshire Water are investing in Hull and East Riding to reduce flood risk.
In 2019, the RIBA published a report* outlining what the government needs to do to help create homes and communities that are resilient to flood damage. The report, “The value of flood-resilient architectural design”, stresses that the UK can no longer base its approach to managing flood risk on simply keeping the water out.
Embracing these recommendations Living with Water advertised an international competition to rejuvenate Hull waterfront and Newcastle-based practice Harper Perry Architects were selected as the winner. Baca will support Harper Perry Architects to deliver this wonderful scheme.
Successful waterfronts provide more than just landmark buildings. They create neighbourhoods with the right scale and proportion of public space. These neighbourhoods have a successful mix of uses and work with water to locate the most vulnerable of uses in the lowest flood risk areas.
Hull’s “Water Line” creates a vibrant urban development that is not cut off either visually and physically from the waterfront by a defensive sea wall. Flood protection measures also contribute environmental and social benefits within the scheme and enhance the wider waterfront offer. At the heart of the proposals is an ambition to preserve the continuity of daily life, even during extreme flood events.
The Water Line is a landscape driven proposal that provides a layered approach of flood mitigation that “makes space for water”, creating a generous urban realm, and providing parking and amenity onto which either low density or high-density development can be accommodated, depending on the sites’ specific needs as each one comes forward for development. Specifically it will enhance the Environment Agency’s Hull Frontage Flood Defence Improvements - a £42 million tidal flood defence scheme along the Humber within the City of Hull.
The concept is to create a floodproof development of homes that works with water rather than defending against it. The proposals provide high quality flood resilient family homes within communal gardens and an attractive landscape.
*RIBA POLICY NOTE: “The value of flood-resilient architectural design”, Baca Director, Richard Coutts and RIBA Fellow contributed to this report and many of the practices recommendations were included in the institutions white paper to Government.
To enable the UK to better harness these benefits, the RIBA has 5 recommendations for Government:
1. Central and Local Government should work with built environment experts to improve infrastructure investment decision-making processes
2. The DCLG should work with built environment experts, the Environment Agency and Defra to create “Licences for Innovation”
3. The DCLG should introduce Building Regulations for flood resilience linked to Flood Zone Designations
4. Flood-prone cities with housing shortages should explore designating ‘Bluebelt’ land for flood-resilient development
5. Central and Local Government should ensure flood-resilient design is more proactively taken up by home and building owners exposed to flood risk
90% of Hull sits under High Tide level and is the second most vulnerable city in the United Kingdom after London for flooding.
Embracing this vulnerability as an opportunity “LivingWithWater.co.uk” - a partnership comprising of the Environment Agency, Hull City Council, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Yorkshire Water are investing in Hull and East Riding to reduce flood risk.
In 2019, the RIBA published a report* outlining what the government needs to do to help create homes and communities that are resilient to flood damage. The report, “The value of flood-resilient architectural design”, stresses that the UK can no longer base its approach to managing flood risk on simply keeping the water out.
90% of Hull sits under High Tide level and is the second most vulnerable city in the United Kingdom after London for flooding.
Embracing this vulnerability as an opportunity “LivingWithWater.co.uk” - a partnership comprising of the Environment Agency, Hull City Council, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Yorkshire Water are investing in Hull and East Riding to reduce flood risk.
In 2019, the RIBA published a report* outlining what the government needs to do to help create homes and communities that are resilient to flood damage. The report, “The value of flood-resilient architectural design”, stresses that the UK can no longer base its approach to managing flood risk on simply keeping the water out.
Embracing these recommendations Living with Water advertised an international competition to rejuvenate Hull waterfront and Newcastle-based practice Harper Perry Architects were selected as the winner. Baca will support Harper Perry Architects to deliver this wonderful scheme.
Successful waterfronts provide more than just landmark buildings. They create neighbourhoods with the right scale and proportion of public space. These neighbourhoods have a successful mix of uses and work with water to locate the most vulnerable of uses in the lowest flood risk areas.
Hull’s “Water Line” creates a vibrant urban development that is not cut off either visually and physically from the waterfront by a defensive sea wall. Flood protection measures also contribute environmental and social benefits within the scheme and enhance the wider waterfront offer. At the heart of the proposals is an ambition to preserve the continuity of daily life, even during extreme flood events.
The Water Line is a landscape driven proposal that provides a layered approach of flood mitigation that “makes space for water”, creating a generous urban realm, and providing parking and amenity onto which either low density or high-density development can be accommodated, depending on the sites’ specific needs as each one comes forward for development. Specifically it will enhance the Environment Agency’s Hull Frontage Flood Defence Improvements - a £42 million tidal flood defence scheme along the Humber within the City of Hull.
The concept is to create a floodproof development of homes that works with water rather than defending against it. The proposals provide high quality flood resilient family homes within communal gardens and an attractive landscape.
*RIBA POLICY NOTE: “The value of flood-resilient architectural design”, Baca Director, Richard Coutts and RIBA Fellow contributed to this report and many of the practices recommendations were included in the institutions white paper to Government.
To enable the UK to better harness these benefits, the RIBA has 5 recommendations for Government:
1. Central and Local Government should work with built environment experts to improve infrastructure investment decision-making processes
2. The DCLG should work with built environment experts, the Environment Agency and Defra to create ‘Licences for Innovations’
3. The DCLG should introduce Building Regulations for flood resilience linked to Flood Zone Designations
4. Flood-prone cities with housing shortages should explore designating ‘Bluebelt’ land for flood resilient development
5. Central and Local Government should ensure flood-resilient design is more proactively taken up by home and building owners exposed to flood risk
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