What we’re doing

New commissions

Wirral Waters : :

The vision for Wirral Waters is for a major high rise mixed-use development within the East Float area of Birkenhead Docks. It also includes a major high quality development at the former Bidston Dock to create a new retail and leisure destination for the Wirral area. The docks will also continue to function, with some consolidation of the dock system taking place so that it can operate efficiently.  We are part of the design team working to develop a city structure for the East Float area of Wirral Waters. This area will become a spectacular and unique place for all to work, live and socialise. The area will be divided into a number of quarters, designed by different architects, and containing individually designed tall buildings, with some in excess of fifty storeys. Our role involves the provision of civil, infrastructure, structural, transport and public realm engineering input.

 

London Sustainable Industries Park, Dagenham : :

The London Sustainable Industries Park is part of the Thames Gateway regeneration at Dagenham Dock in East London. The vision is to create an international exemplar environmental technologies park which will assist the Thames Gateway goal of becoming the UK’s first Eco Region.  We have been appointed to contribute public realm, infrastructure, transport and movement engineering services for the park’s strategic development plan. We are also contributing the above services to enable outline planning applications to be made for the first phase of the site.

 

Clitheroe Town Centre Masterplan : :

The Clitheroe Town Centre Masterplan sets out a future development strategy for the wider town, together with development principles for the Market Square.  Our role as public realm engineer was to develop a movement and public realm strategy to feed into the masterplan with a view to redressing the balance between vehicular movement and pedestrian activity, particularly in the historic core.  We have developed a strategy designed to reduce the number of unnecessary movements across the town centre through reverting one way streets to two way, encouraging rational movement and improving legibility and signage.

 

Project News

Maidstone High Street : :

In collaboration with Letts Wheeler Architects, MSA won an international competition to redesign Maidstone’s historic High Street.  The project aims to civilise the street, reclaiming large areas of highway to make the street more pedestrian friendly and create attractive places in which people want to sit and relax.  Traditional traffic signals and engineering are replaced with informal, raised crossing points which give priority to pedestrian movements on logical desire lines.   A rationalised bus network is introduced to the High Street to reduce congestion in the busiest areas and distribute people more evenly across the street.  The project will also re-establish the town’s link with the River Medway, currently only accessible via a subway at the bottom of the High Street, with a large at-grade crossing over the town’s gyratory. 

 

Tolworth Broadway : :

MSA won an international competition with Studio Egret West to improve the public realm on Tolworth Broadway in Kingston-upon-Thames.  The existing High Street is heavily dominated by vehicle movements and suffers from poor pedestrian permeability.  Our concept begins with taking down the barriers on the carriageway’s central reservation and creates a green pedestrian and cycle way along the centre of the 4-lane Tolworth Broadway.  The project aims to encourage crossings over the road on natural desire lines and to link large residential areas in the borough to green spaces and parks to the south, by reducing severance caused by the A3 and roundabout.  The ground-breaking concept of central promenading provision where pedestrians and cyclists have equal priority is a first for the UK.

 

Stratford Town Centre : :

We are members of the design team appointed to design and deliver a number of Public Realm interventions to regenerate Stratford Town Centre.  The regenerative measures are key to ensuring that the town centre capitalises on the 2012 Olympics and also offers a complementary product to the new Westfield Stratford City shopping centre currently under construction. The public realm areas will be designed to strengthen existing links into the town centre and will provide high quality public realm, ensuring its long-term viability and success whilst improving the image of Stratford as a place to live and to visit.

 

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Publications

The Reluctant Engineer : :
A collaboration between Martin Stockley, photographer Len Grant and graphic designer Alan Ward, The Reluctant Engineer and other Manchester stories tells of Stockley’s considerable contribution to his adopted city since his arrival in 1993 and offers an alternative view of the city’s rebirth. The book was published in March 2006 and is available directly from Martin Stockley Associates. (click image to enlarge)

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Last updated 1 February 2010