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Residential Development Sites Group

Agenda

• Welcome and introductions
• Background and context
• housing growth – planning for growth
• Infrastructure to support housing growth
• Over to you – your interests

Jack Hegarty Ruth Bamford Rebecca Mayman

Who are we?

Background and context

Planning for growth

In Worcestershire plans the following plans are currently under development:

• Wyre Forest District Adopted Core Strategy ( 2006-26); adopted 2010 but

new local plan review commenced

• Bromsgrove District Local Plan; currently under Examination in Public;

adoption expected 2015

• Redditch Local Plan: currently under Examination in Public; adoption

expected 2015

• South Worcestershire Development Plan (covering Malvern Hills,

Worcester City and Wychavon Councils); currently under Examination in Public; adoption expected 2015

Planning for Growth – development plans

Jointly these plans set the following development targets for development in Worcestershire until 2031: Housing numbers: total 45580 (Worcestershire needs) Wyre Forest District: 4000 (up to 2026) Bromsgrove District: 6980 Redditch Borough: 6300 South Worcestershire: 28300

Planning for Growth – development plans

Substantive uplift in housing completions across the county including:

Wychavon – best since onset of downturn with completions rising from average of 250 pa to 860 last year Wyre Forest – 430 net completions in 14/15 – average of 304 pa over last 4 years

Planning for Growth – delivery

Planning for Growth – housing sites

Examples of major sites across the county

• Worcester South – 2,600 dwellings
• Worcester West – 2,150 dwellings
• Malvern North East – 800 dwellings
• Malvern Technology Centre – 300

dwellings

• Shrub Hill (Worcester) Opportunity

Zone – 600 dwellings

• Station Road, Pershore – 700 dwellings
• Brockhill, Redditch – 1,625 dwellings
• Foxlydiate, Redditch – 2,800 dwellings
• Webheath, Redditch – 400 dwellings
• Perryfields Road, Bromsgrove – 1,300

dwellings

• Whitfield Road, Bromsgrove – 490

dwellings

• Abbey Road, Evesham – 200 dwellings
• Yew Tree Hill, Droitwich Spa – 800

dwellings & 200 unit care facility

• Copcut , Droitwich – 750 dwellings
• Former British Sugar Site,

Kidderminster – 320 dwellings

• Churchfields area, Kidderminster –340

dwellings

• Severn Road Area, Stourport – 160

dwellings

A number of major sites, including mixed use with extensions planned, e.g.

Malvern Hills

Redditch

Worcester City

Wyre Forest

Wychavon

Bromsgrove

Strategic Infrastructure to support growth

Worcestershire Parkway

Phasing of Packages

• Package 1 - All First Great Western Hereford/Worcester – London services to

call from station opening in 2017

• Package 2 - All Cross-Country Nottingham-Cardiff services to call from station
• pening in 2017
• Package 3 - All Cross-Country Bristol-Manchester services to call from 2019
• Business Case is based on Packages 1 and 2 only

Proposed Scheme

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Current Proposals

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Southern Link

• £12m investment from LEP
• New dual carriageway
• Connecting West Worcester and Malvern –

speed up journey time

Southern Link Road (A4440) Phase 3

Hoobrook Link

Hoobrook Link Road

• £3.6m LEP investment (plus £2.5m from GBSLEP)
• Supports the delivery of the Kidderminster Enterprise Park

Key messages of Our PLACE funded projects ...

Kidderminster and Bromsgrove railway stations

• £4.3m scheme (£2.5m WLEP £1.8m GBSLEP) scheme being

developed

• Improve bus/rail/pedestrian interchange facilities improving

access to rail services from Kidderminster, Bewdley, Stourport

• n Severn and the wider Wyre Forest area.

Kidderminster Railway Improvements

Bromsgrove railway station

Cathedral Square Worcester

Broadband

Superfast Broadband £2.39m WLEP investment to increase coverage to 95% of residential and business premises

Over to you – group discussion on residential growth