Greenwich Maritime Masterplan

Greenwich Maritime Masterplan

A strategic and detailed masterplan for buildings and landscape of the newly designated World Heritage Site; Maritime Greenwich

Client

National Maritime Museum & Old Royal Naval College

Location

Greenwich, London, UK

Size

16 ha

Value

c.£8m

Dates

2003

Strategic and detailed masterplan

This strategic and detailed masterplan was developed with a number of client bodies for both the National Maritime Museum, including the Queen's House, and the Old Royal Naval College either side of Romney Road within the newly designated World Heritage Site, Maritime Greenwich. As well as the Masterplan and landscape strategies for the site, RMA’s work also includes the £19m Neptune Court at the National Maritime Museum and the £22m Greenwich Primary Orientation Visitor Centre.

The aim of the strategy is to ensure the unique character of the site is further enhanced by the design coordination of routes, landscaping and buildings. The development plan will provide a consolidated approach with regard to the restoration and management of the landscape, unifying its key elements and clarifying the relationship of landscape and building in an appropriate manner based on historical analysis. This entails creating a landscape management framework, including a tree management plan and parking and vehicular access strategies, to enhance the visitor experience and improve links, both physical and visual, reuniting the site with the Royal Park, the River Thames and its urban settings.

The key moves in the landscape masterplan visually link the National Maritime Museum to the River Thames and bring the buildings and the trees into a more appropriately controlled relationship. A secondary vista is opened up connecting the National Maritime Museum to the water and trees in close proximity to buildings at the Old Royal Naval College are removed and replaced by trees which respond to these buildings across the road at the National Maritime Museum.

“… Inclusion on the list was agreed by the World heritage Committee of UNESCO in December 1997. Maritime Greenwich is now ranked among the most famous and prestigious heritage sites in the world: Stonehenge and Hadrian’s Wall in Britain; the palace of Versailles and the Acropolis in Europe; the Pyramids in Africa; the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China in Asia; Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia; and the Grand Canyon in America.”

English Heritage World Heritage Site Management Plan October 1999

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