Approved! Hangzhou will add the city’s first comprehensive transportation hub industrial heritage historical and cultural block.
These days, the Hangzhou West Railway Station, which ushered in the "Spring Festival travel rush Passenger Flow Test" for the first time in its career, made people feel the new atmosphere of "life restart"; Another "West Station" on the south bank of Qianjiang River-Hangzhou Xiaoshan West Railway Station Section will also further "butterfly change" in 2023:
A few days ago, the reporter learned from the Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources that the Protection Plan for Historical and Cultural Blocks in the West Section of Hangzhou Xiaoshan Railway Station of the Grand Canal (hereinafter referred to as the Plan) has been approved by the municipal government. According to the Plan, as the only existing railway remains gathering area with the largest scale and the most complete features along the Grand Canal, Hangzhou Xiaoshan West Railway Station of the Grand Canal will rely on the unique location of the "three roads" intersection area of waterway, railway and land to build the city’s first comprehensive transportation hub industrial heritage historical and cultural block with the railway TOD complex as the core in the future.
At this point, the construction of Hangzhou Grand Canal National Cultural Park will create a bright spot of industrial heritage historical and cultural blocks; Hangzhou will also add a "new species" to the existing 42 residential historical and cultural blocks-the first comprehensive transportation hub industrial heritage gathering block in Hangzhou.
Hangzhou historical and cultural blocks welcome "new species"
Create the first comprehensive transportation hub industrial heritage historical and cultural block in the city.
For the "new Hangzhou people", Xiaoshan West Railway Station may be a little strange. However, in the memory of many "old Hangzhou", Xiaoshan West Railway Station, which was built in 1931, was accompanied by Xixing Canal for more than a thousand years and Xiaoshao Highway for nearly a hundred years. Waterway, railway and land met here and once became the most important transportation hub on the south bank of Qiantang River.
In 1992, the new Xiaoshan Railway Station (now Hangzhou South Railway Station) was completed, and the old Xiaoshan Railway Station stopped its passenger service and became a freight station, renamed Xiaoshan West Railway Station.
Entering the new century, with the acceleration of urbanization, Xiaoshan West Railway Station, which is gradually declining, has become a warehouse for stacking old things and garbage. Against the background of the surrounding high-rise buildings, it has become increasingly dilapidated and faced the "dilemma" of being completely demolished.
"Such a large-scale red brick old warehouse complex, such a modern platform, and close to the Grand Canal, should not be completely demolished." Aware of the historical and cultural value of Xiaoshan West Railway Station, with the appeal and concern of the surrounding citizens and relevant departments, on October 21, 2020, the Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government officially listed the Grand Canal Hangzhou Xiaoshan West Railway Station as a historical and cultural block in Hangzhou.
The reporter learned that before this, the protection of historical and cultural blocks in Hangzhou has been at the forefront of the country, with 41 historical and cultural blocks at national, provincial and municipal levels, such as Zhongshan Middle Road, Qinghefang and Xiaohezhi Street. After the establishment of the historical and cultural block of the Grand Canal in Hangzhou Xiaoshan West Railway Station in 2020, Hangzhou added the historical and cultural block of Hangzhou Daxin Village on Xixi Road in 2021. So far, the total number of historical and cultural blocks in the city has reached 43.
"Except Xiaoshan West Railway Station, the other 42 historical and cultural blocks were formerly residential areas in a certain historical period in Hangzhou, and most of them reflected the unique block style before the founding of New China." The relevant person in charge of the Landscape Department of the Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau told the reporter that the historical and cultural block of the West Xiaoshan Railway Station section of the Grand Canal approved by the municipal party committee and municipal government witnessed the development and prosperity of the suburban cities of Hangzhou due to canals, land and railways in the early days of the founding of New China. It is the first industrial heritage cultural block in the city, which not only enriches the types of historical and cultural blocks in Hangzhou, but also extends the time and space scale of historical and cultural blocks protection in Hangzhou with the times, and is of great significance to showing the diverse cultures of Hangzhou and enriching the coast of the Grand Canal.
It is planned to add 2 slow-moving railway tunnels and build 13 slow-moving river-crossing passages.
The block will be accessible by subway in the future.
According to the Plan, the protection scope of the block is from the northeast to the Grand Canal buffer zone, the south and southeast of Xiaohang Renjia plot, the northeast of Xiaohang Road, the south to Xiaoshao Road, the southwest to the Grand Canal buffer zone, the south and southwest of residential quarters of Zhejiang Building Materials General Factory, the south of the first row of buildings along Xiaoxi Road, the south and west of Chengxi Vegetable Market plot, Xiaoxi Road, Mengshan Road in the west and Shanyin Road in the north, with a total land area of 72.
Among them, the core protection scope is the traditional architectural exterior wall and seven wharf sideline on the south side of Xiaohang Road in the northeast, which is adjacent to Xiaoshao Road in the southeast, the Grand Canal heritage area in the southwest and Shanyin Road in the north, with a total land area of 179,700 square meters. The scope of the construction control zone is the area within the planned protection scope except the core protection scope, with a total land area of 548,500 square meters.
Looking around, the block has not only the largest industrial storage complex in the city, but also the latest archaeological sites of Dongyue Temple and Xiaoshan, and at the same time connects the old town of Xiaoshan and Xianghu Lake.
"Comparatively speaking, the scope of the historical and cultural protection block of Xiaoshan West Station is only a little smaller than Beishan Street, and it is the second largest historical and cultural block in the city." Guo Dajun, the head of the planning team and the planner of the Municipal Planning, Design and Research Institute, told the reporter that it is precisely because of this that it is necessary to scientifically analyze and define the protection scope, value connotation, management and control methods and utilization orientation of the block through planning, so as to guide the block to be better protected and rationally utilized.
According to the Plan, the buildings in the core area of the block will be optimized in five categories: protection, repair, improvement, preservation and renovation. The building height of the block needs to be controlled to a certain extent, with emphasis on protecting the background contours of important mountains in this block, such as Jinji Mountain and Mengshan Mountain. It is forbidden to carry out any construction activities that undermine spatial continuity and change spatial scale in key streets and lanes.
In the process of repairing and improving the buildings in the block, it is necessary to protect the main frame structure, main facade and characteristic components of the building and strengthen the features of the block.
"For example, for 31 buildings in the block, such as the provincial agricultural materials warehouse and the cotton and linen warehouse complex, it is necessary to restore the red brick wall and retain the characteristic construction components and historical traces such as lightning rods, telephone poles, slogan walls and factory brand names." Guo Dajun introduced.
At the same time, the Planning focuses on optimizing the roads in the block: under the premise of protecting the world cultural heritage of the Grand Canal, in addition to retaining the existing slow-moving railway tunnels, two new slow-moving railway tunnels are added in the new planning to serve the communication between the north and south sides of the railway; We will build 13 river-crossing slow-moving passages for non-motor vehicles and pedestrians to serve the residents and tourists on the north and south sides of the railway for slow communication.
Considering the organic integration of block protection and people’s livelihood, the "Planning" also plans three social public parking lots in combination with green space to alleviate the parking difficulties of residents in and around the West Station block; Combined with the renovation of the internal park in the West Railway Station block, the park will be guided to upgrade the internal roads and dredge the sewage and wastewater wells.
In addition, according to the approved subway phase IV plan, a subway station of Metro Line 15 will be set up in the block. In the near future, the block will be accessible by subway on the basis of gathering the industrial remains of waterway, railway and land.
From the rent of 2 million yuan to the running water of 100 million yuan, the core nodes have achieved "inefficient revitalization"
Create a charm demonstration site for organic renewal of Hangzhou city
After more than two years’ protection, the historical and cultural block in the West Station of Xiaoshan Railway in Hangzhou, the Grand Canal, has been transformed from a messy area facing "abandonment" by the city into a "nirvana rebirth".
Just recently, the newly-built Zhejiang Nongdongchao Art Park in the core block of the block was boarded on Hunan Satellite TV as a variety show location; In the past year, the music festival, sunset market and various art exhibitions held in the neighborhood attracted tens of thousands of people to "punch in".
"Green mountains and green hills" were also exchanged for "Jinshan Yinshan". Before it was handed over to a third-party enterprise to build Dongchao Art Park in 2021, the annual rental income of 37 red brick warehouse buildings belonging to Zhejiang Nong was only over 2 million yuan; In the whole year of 2022, 56 merchants in the park were recruited through revitalization, and under the continuous influence of the epidemic, they still set a business flow of more than 100 million yuan.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, the introduction of urban vitality and humanistic charm value brought by the protection of the whole block to Xiaoshan’s urban development is a considerable "big account" income.
The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources said that with the approval of the Plan, the value "scale" and "orientation" of the scientific protection and utilization of the historical and cultural blocks of Xiaoshan West Station have been made clear. The next step will be to prepare a specific protection implementation plan by the Xiaoshan District Government, and put the relevant requirements of the plan into specific urban renewal activities, so as to further build the Xiaoshan West Railway Station area into an open block with beautiful environment, dynamic characteristics and public favorite, and to create a demonstration site for Hangzhou’s urban organic renewal charm.
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