Issue - meetings

The attached presentation will be given to the Panel at the meeting.

The Cabinet Member for Sustainable Development, Councillor Ben Stevens introduced this item to the Panel. He spoke of how the Masterplan was to act as a document that integrates a vast majority of the Council’s current strategies to tackle aspects such as homes, employment and wildlife.

The Regeneration Team Manager then gave a presentation to the Panel, a copy of which can be found on the Panel’s Minute Book, a summary is set out below.

The Opportunity

•  “Bringing Bath’s Riverside to Life”

•  98 hectares of land, c36 hectares of developable brownfield land

•  Potential for 9000 new jobs and 3400 new homes, to deliver Core Strategy targets

•  Concentrating on key growth sectors: creative industries, professional financial and business services, information technology and software development

•  Key  sites together can increase GVA, average incomes and levels of employment in the Bath economy by around 12%

Achievements to date

•  Delivering Quality Outputs:

•  Bath Riverside

•  300 new Homes (150 Affordable Homes) since 2011

•  +£2m New Homes Bonus

•  +£1m S106 monies

•  Bath Quays Waterside

•  Strong Partnership with Environment Agency formed

•  Connecting Bath to its Waterside – good public support

•  Protecting existing properties at risk + enabling development

•  Innovation Quay and EDF Business Case

•  LEP Programme Entry

What is the Masterplan enabling

•  Positive Engagement with partners & beyond:

•  LEP, HCA, EA

•  Landowners

•  Developers

•  Property Agents and Occupiers

•  Realising funding e.g. DECC (HNDU)

•  Sustainable Energy – ‘renewable’ sources. E.g. River Avon & hot springs

•  Co-ordinated Strategy & robust Policy Base:

•  Core Strategy and Placemaking Plan

•  Economic Strategy

•  Transport Strategy – ‘Getting Around Bath’

•  Green Infrastructure Strategy and Community Plan

•  River Strategy

•  Leisure Strategy

Relationship to Planning Policy

•  Provide an exciting and enduring vision

•  Guide redevelopment of Council owned land

•  Clear direction of travel for funders, partners, developers and investors

•  Is not a statutory planning document

•  Forms part of the evidence base for the Placemaking Plan

•  Placemaking Plan will undergo public consultation, ensuring robust, evidence based policy framework for Development Management decisions.

Core Values

•  Quality – of life, of place, of developers, of occupiers

•  Enterprise – fostering knowledge, inventiveness and creativity

•  Design – inspirational public realm, connectivity of streets, spaces and bridges, integration of form and streetscape, respect for the character of “Bathness”

•  Heritage – architectural, urban design and landscape excellence in a World Heritage setting

•  Green – green building, green infrastructure, walking and cycling, biodiversity and ecology

•  Water – at the heart of Bath’s identity, River Avon, spa water, Kennet and Avon Canal

•  Health and Wellbeing – promoting leisure, the outdoors, socialising and promenading

•  The Big Idea: Rediscovering and reconnecting the River, to bring Bath Riverside to Life!

Next Steps

•  Cabinet 12 November 2014

•  Co-ordinated Strategy:

•  Economic Strategy – key driver

•  Core Strategy and Placemaking Plan

•  Transport Strategy

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