World War One Fact SheetTitanic Quarter

International Industrial Maritime Heritage Destination In Summary (April 2017)

TITANIC QUARTER

Cover photo by RW Photography

The PlanTitanic Foundation is producing a Destination Plan in order to stimulate discussion and debate about the future development of Titanic Quarter as an industrial maritime destination. The preparation of this plan has provided all of us who are involved in and committed to the future of this area with an opportunity to reflect on the type of place we want it to be, test out our thinking on how it could be and put our best ideas forward for action. As someone who has been involved in the discussion, we are sharing the work to date.

The publication of the plan is part of a process of stakeholder discussion which will, we hope, result in a significant contribution to the new Local Development Plan for the City which is currently open for public comment and input by the 20th April, and we would encourage you to review and refer to this report if submitting a response to Belfast City Council.

The Destination Plan will set out a menu of possibilities and options for the short, medium and longer term development of the destination and recommends a series of interventions which in combination will help to position Belfast’s waterfront as a truly international and iconic experience for local people and for visitors.

It has been developed in an integrated way within the context and spirit of the original masterplan for Titanic Quarter, which remains the framework for development. This work has taken the opportunity to sense check existing proposals, in light of achievements and challenges to date.The plan is based on three core themes, each supported by a range of innovative yet achieveable aims. The next steps are to finalise the Destination Plan by the end of June.We would invite you to contact us to arrange a discussion on where you believe you can support and add value to the delivery of the core themes and aims.Please contact:siobhan.mclaughlin@titanicfoundation.org, 028 90730490, to arrange.

Three Core Themes

A strong narrative proudly related, a new story still in the making Finding ways to make the most of the heritage assets, attributes & associations through raising awareness of what is here, ensuring that they are looked after so that they are not at risk, using them to tell the story of the place, and re-using them to provide opportunities for enterprising development, enjoyable learning and intriguing spectacle.

A Place Where Heritage Counts ...

Collective Ambition

GLOBAL RECOGNITION Speaks to the brand of Titanic, its continuing & compelling appeal, its particular association with this part of Belfast and the importance of safeguarding and using to best effect the area’s industrial maritime heritage assets, attributes & associations

REGIONAL VITALITY Speaks to the importance of the maritime city region and this area’s role in powering the visitor economy, demonstrating an enduring spirit of innovation and enterprise and delivering prosperity. Whilst ensuring that it delivers for a range of audiences - visitors from abroad, closer to home and nearby - it must also work for those who live here, learn here and do business here

LOCALLY EMBRACED Speaks to the importance of restoring the area’s place within the heart of the city by focusing on the transformative power of the waterfront - from riverside to dockside to harbour mouth – to reconnect, reposition and renew its relationship with the city – making it easy to get to and easy to get around

“Titanic Quarter - Belfast’s globally recognised, regionally vital and locally embraced historic waterfront”

For entertainment, learning, enterprise & innovation Knowing who our audiences are now and in the future, we want to deliver on the experiences they will enjoy - the products, services, facilities & programming – thereby facilitating and supporting the growth and development of the visitor economy of the city and the region.

A Vital Place for Visitors ...

Which reaches out, draws people in and provides enticements to exploreImproving connections and permeability now with faster, lighter, cheaper solutions – rooted in sense of place, making use of visitor orientation, exploring meanwhile activities and better connecting what’s already here. Positioning TQ as a significant extension of the city centre.

A Connected Place …

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Fourteen Supporting AimsA Connected Place

Providing enticements to explore and easy, obvious and pleasurable ways to get around the continuous and complex iconic waterfront of the river city 1. A continuous greenway linking the rivers of Belfast

A family friendly cycling and walking route to and through TQ, building on the Lagan and Connswater developments, through emerging and animated cityscape, linking iconic visitor attractions in an industrial maritime landscape. Animation and interim design improvements along greenway routes – projects that make the route feel continuous, welcoming and registering as important to the city pedestrian and cycle network – places that make you feel like you’re on the right track…

2. Knowing where to go & what’s on Paying attention to the key visitor arrival and decision points – physically and digitally

3. Making it easy & pleasurable to get around Utilising key views to orientate visitors, co-ordinating and connecting the different ways to get around: water, bus, cycle, tram, Segway, train, coach, car, foot..

4. Encouraging people to linger, wander and explore Pause points or clearings where visitors can access the industrial maritime heritage and stories of that particular location, paying attention to shelter, lighting, seating and public realm

5. Providing opportunities for communities Employment and apprenticeship opportunities, improved communication platforms and building on success of events and tours

A Vital Place for VisitorsKnowing who our audiences are now and in the future, we want to deliver on the experiences they will enjoy - the products, services, facilities & programming – thereby facilitating and supporting the growth and development of the visitor economy of the city and the region 6. New visitor attractions and experiences

A new digital strategy, including augmented reality, TQ as a place for new business and a place to showcase innovation, animating the water, elevated viewing points

7. Innovative visitor accommodation Roll out of planned accommodation, review gaps and identify opportunities for TQ including use of industrial maritime structures e.g. moored floating accommodation, repurposed heritage or port related structures

8. Public spaces maximised for outdoor events and programming Vital venues – gearing up for events and markets, outdoor spaces that could be temporarily sheltered, position slipways as key event space for Belfast, develop TQ as an outdoor marketplace

9. Innovative use of spaces Space for recreation, play and playfulness – a gap filling programme of recreation and innovative play opportunities echoing maritime and industrial heritage along with seating and shelter, longer term play areas reflecting maritime and heritage themes, use of empty units as “third spaces”, develop night time economy, carry out safety study

10. Bringing the “inside out” Destination wide public display of “what’s going on inside”, celebrate views of port activities, showcasing Belfast Met, Catalyst, Harland & Wolff and Bombardier, “storefront” businesses, active frontages at key destination gateways

11. Delivering a Titanic Quarter Brand Develop brand guidelines, a Brand Charter, align with other relevant existing and emerging Belfast city branding, continued implementation of the TQ communication and engagement plan, continue world class standards set by Titanic Belfast as “World’s leading Tourist attraction”

A Place Where Heritage CountsA strong narrative proudly related, a new story still in the making. Finding ways to make the most of the heritage assets, attributes & associations through raising awareness of what is here, ensuring that they are looked after so that they are not at risk, using them to tell the story of the place, and re-using them to provide opportunities for enterprising development, enjoyable learning and intriguing spectacle 12. Promoting TQ as a portal into the industrial maritime past

A Conservation Management Plan for the industrial maritime heritage assets – the “key portals”, an exhibitions programme and “museum without walls” approach to display of heritage assets (those in situ and others brought from elsewhere), public art opportunities linking to heritage themes, restoration projects, an oral history of the shipyard, heritage conferences

13. Connecting past, present and future of Titanic Quarter Map out parts of TQ masterplan on the ground to enable real world imagining of “what’s to come”, a “past, present and future room” where visitors can explore possible futures for the whole site, use of construction hoarding to interpret and display industrial maritime heritage

14. Enabling the easy exploration of TQ as an outdoor museum Incorporate artefacts into public realm strategy underway, incorporate heritage into place naming, grow Maritime festival, develop DIY heritage training programme for stakeholders and “front of house”

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Grain silo

Grain silo

Grain silo

Ferry

Ferry

Saw mill

Saw mill

Ship building works

Twin slipways of the Titanic and Olympic ships

Travelling cranes and building docks. ‘Samson’ and ‘Goliath’

Hamilton Graving Dock

Thompson Graving Dock

Thompson Pumphouse

Alexandra Graving Dock

Twin Slipways

Hamilton Graving dock

Goliath crane and dock

Ship building yard

Engineering works

Oil depot

Felt works

Engineering works

Clarendon Basin Graving Docks

Engineering worksCopper works

Copper

Salt worksOil & Corn Mills

Brass Foundry Engineering Works (Harland & Wolff)

Victoria cotton and linen weaving factory

Felt works

Glass works

Belfast Ropeworks

McMaster Street

Queens Quay Station site

Rope walkRope walk

Brick fieldIce Factory

Sirocco works chimneySirocco works chimney

Ferry/Ferry office

Custom House

Union foundry (iron)

Ulster Iron works

Electric light station

Abercorn Engineering Works (Harland & Wolff)

Abercorn Basin, Slipways & Hamilton Graving Dock (Harland & Wolff)

Victoria Wharf

Shipbuilding Works (Harland & Wolff)

Administration and Drawing office block (Harland and Wolff)

Graving Dock - Belfast Dry

Dock

Workman Clark Ltd. shipbuilding yard

Belfast Harbour Office Corporation

West Twin electricity generating station

East Twin Power Station

Shipyard – Harland and Wolff north yard

Musgrave shipyard – H&W east yard

Harland and Wolff administrative block

Electricity Generating Station (Harland & Wolff)

- Sites and monuments- Historic buildings- Industrial heritage- Scheduled areas- And the people who worked here….

The Industrial Maritime Heritage StoryContext

Sailortown

Eastside

City Centre

Titanic Quarter - City Centre Plus

Queen’s Quay

City Quays

East Bank

Cathedral Quarter

2. A Vital Place for Visitors ...

Odyssey & W5Citi Group

PRONI

T13

Belfast Met

SS NomadicPotential pedestrian bridge

Bombardier

Harland and Wolff

Titanic Belfast

Drawing Offices

Catalyst Inc.

HMS Caroline

Pumphouse & Thompson Dock

A new attraction based on Titanic Studios output – NI Screen Game of Thrones experience possibly in T13/Titanic Studios/Odyssey Pavilion.

Port viewing point - live industrial maritime spectacle

Port viewing point - live industrial maritime spectacle

Redesign public realm for better connectivity and orientation

A new visitor information centre in the former Hamilton Dock Pumphouse

Park locations in TQ masterplan- opportunities for public use and establishment of shelterbelt planting

1. A Connected Place …

Victoria Park

A continuous Greenway linking the rivers of Belfast – a family-friendly cycling and walking route to and through TQ, through emerging and animated cityscape, linking iconic visitor attractions in an industrial maritime landscape

Existing on - road cycle links

Key arrival points

Key current views of Titanic Belfast

Water ferry stop

Rapid Transit bus stop

New Belfast Bike station

Pause points or clearings where visitors can access the stories of that particular location

Window on Wildlife

To Cathedral Quarter & City Centre

To Eastside Visitor Centre

Inside / out - A destination wide public display of “what’s going on inside” – communicative windows, super graphics on buildings, things on display outside

Vital venues – gearing up for events and markets, outdoor spaces that could be sheltered by temporary awnings,

Space for play and playfulness - a gap-filling programme of innovative play opportunities echoing maritime and industrial heritage along with seating and shelter

Existing / proposed accommodation projects

Use of industrial maritime structures for accommodation – e.g. moored floating accommodation, repurposed heritage or port related structures

Catalyst

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slip

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Olym

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slip

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Thompson Dock

Clarendon Dock

Belfast Harbour Office

Alexandra Dock

Schooner “Result”

Window on Wildlife

Steam Cranes

Samson and Goliath

Titanic Belfast

Past, Present & Future Room

Riverfront

H&W Gates

SS Nomadic

Drawing Offices

Caisson Gate

PRONI

Hamilton Dock

Sydenham Road Sydenham RoundaboutH&W Gates

Mew optic

HMS Caroline

Pumphouse

Belfast Buoys

SS Arena

W5

Meanwhile Use Opportunities

Portals into the Industrial Maritime past

Museum without walls - existing heritage artefacts in situ and potential locations for exhibition of TFL, NMNI artefacts

Meanwhile uses at future park locations, “Living Lab” programme and pilot initiatives using spaces and streets under transition

Significant restoration projects

Map out parts of TQ masterplan on ground - building lines, future streets etc

Story-telling/interpretive art opportunities - along greenway, at pause points or clearings where visitors can access the industrial maritime significance of that particular location

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