Southend-on-Sea

Southend-on-Sea

VU.CITY Southend-on-Sea is an accurate 3D digital model that is revolutionising the planning process.

It is an immersive virtual environment in which to test new ideas, with rich functionality and data, and lead to a clear understanding of what’s proposed for better decision-making and positive outcomes.

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Southend-on-Sea is a traditional Victorian seaside resort that has undergone many transformations over the years. The Better Queensway scheme central to Southend-on-Sea’s future masterplan, and it is also set to become one of the UK’s first ‘Gigabit Cities’ outside of London.

Southend-on-Sea is undergoing extensive, government-backed regeneration to key civic areas, with a £2.5m programme for the town centre, including plans to remodel its public and green spaces. 

The long-awaited demolition of Southend’s Queensway Estate will make way for a £500m housing regeneration scheme. The Better Queensway scheme will transform this area of central Southend into a vibrant new community with high quality housing and is hailed as one of Southend’s biggest ever developments.

Users of VU.CITY Southend-on-Sea are using the model’s many benefits, from being able to understand and assess a site’s opportunities and challenges, testing refined designs in context, enhancing pre-app conversations and planning submissions, to improving how everyone involved collaborates.

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VU.CITY Southend-on-Sea: Highlights

Create, edit and assess massing

Easily test massing to understand design feasibility.

Assess multiple initial massing options at an early stage and GEA potential quickly with VU.CITY Southend-on-Sea.
Test Massing

Assess multiple initial massing options at an early stage and GEA potential quickly.

VU.CITY Consented Schemes Timeline. View all major consented schemes across Southend-on-Sea.
Consented Schemes Timeline

Realise a site’s potential by viewing and assessing recently consented developments across Southend-on-Sea.

Easily import your designs from external 3D software (such as Revit, Rhino, SketchUp & 3ds Max) into the Southend-on-Sea model and test how they will work in situ.
Import Designs

Easily import your designs from external 3D software (such as Revit, Rhino, SketchUp & 3ds Max) into the Southend-on-Sea model and test how they will work in situ.

Quickly view and assess the initial impact of light from your proposed developments in VU.CITY’s model of Southend-on-Sea.
Sunlight Analysis

Quickly view and assess the initial impact of light from your proposed developments.

Conduct high-level townscape and visual impact assessments with an accurate 3D model of Southend-on-Sea.
Camera Studies and Presenter Tool

Conduct high-level townscape and visual impact assessments. Agree on key views to analyse further. Select key views and confidentially present your proposals to take stakeholder on the journey of design.

Use an accurate 3D model of Southend-on-Sea to assess where your scheme can be seen from with Zone of Theoretical Visibility.
Zone of Theoretical Visibility

Save time by eliminating unnecessary views for analysis. Understand where your scheme can be seen from and which views are critical to assess.

Work more collaboratively on designs with VU.CITY's 3D model of Southend-on-Sea
Annotate with Tags

Mark up comments and actions and easily collaborate on a site or scheme with project team members.

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Scope, Design & Collaborate

VU.CITY's project collaboration space, the Hub, allows you to seamlessly communicate with stakeholders, to make better design & planning decisions, faster.

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Consented Schemes Timeline

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Land Registry Query

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Listed Buildings

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Trees

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Energy Performance Certificates

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Annual Average Household Income 2021

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Deprivation Index 2021

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Population Density 2021

Southend-on-Sea Coverage

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VU.CITY is constantly expanding in coverage.

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Create smart cities the smart way

VU.CITY helps organise, visualise, and analyse city data in the clearest and most accessible way to make better decisions.

VU.CITY covers the whole of London and 25 major UK and international cities.

Quickly identify and appraise sites.  VU.CITY's visualization, design functionality and planning data, allow you to optimise your designs.

Transform design and planning

Now everyone involved can have a clear, universal understanding of what’s proposed and why, in a single, secure place. VU.CITY makes decision-making democratic and fair.

Build trust and collaboration

Remove barriers and minimise risks early. Have confidence in your designs and plans. Increase buy-in for project success.

Improve
outcomes
Test out ideas in situ, from one building to a masterplan. Create your vision and submissions with confidence.
Collate site information in one place
Communicate complex spatial arrangements
Make documentation stand up and stand out
Speed up planning conversations
Strengthen relationships
Create winning submissions
Discover where there is potential for change, and help everyone easily understand what’s involved and why.
Collate site information in one place
Communicate complex spatial arrangements
Speed up the planning process
Speed up planning conversations
Strengthen relationships
Create winning submissions
Reduce guesswork and unwanted costs – make the right decisions for the right outcomes, faster.
Appraise site capacity and viability, faster
Save time and costs through collaboration
Reduce planning uncertainties; increase buy-in
Speed up the planning process with better informed decisions
Sell or lease earlier to realise profits sooner
Understand designs and plans with ease, and make decisions with clarity to benefit your city and your communities.
Make the best possible decisions, quicker
Collate site, scheme and planning information in one place
Standardise decision-making
Have informed and transparent conversations
Improve how you consult on policies and plans
Understand the cumulative effects of planning changes

In your words

“We’re bringing in architects and our clients and different consultants in one room and we’re viewing the drawing, the architecture and the massing through VU.CITY.”
Charlotte Orrell
Senior Planner at Iceni Projects
"The digitisation of planning as outlined in the Whitepaper presents an exciting step in speeding up the planning process and improving engagement with communities. We are already working with VU.CITY and some of our local authority partners to be a leader in digital consultation in line with the ambitions outlined in the new government Whitepaper."
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David Bloy
Planning Director - British Land
"VU.CITY gives us the full visual story in a matter of seconds."
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Paul Finch
Editor - Architects Journal

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