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Newton Aycliffe Regeneration Masterplan July 2013 Draft 3, Version 10 (Stakeholder Consultation) DRAFT Newton Aycliffe Regeneration Masterplan July 2013 Draft 3, Version 10 (Stakeholder Consultation) Newton Aycliffe Masterplan – Draft Contents Page 1.0. Introduction ....................................................................................................3 2.0. Profile of Newton Aycliffe ...........................................................................4 3.0. Strategic Context ........................................................................................15 4.0. Key Issues and Challenges......................................................................19 5.0. Delivery Approach ......................................................................................22 6.0. Project Delivery ...........................................................................................27 7.0. DELIVERY PLAN..........................................................................................32 APPENDICES............................................................................................................36 APPENDIX 1 – SWOT ANALYSIS........................................................................36 APPENDIX TWO – STRATEGIC CONTEXT.......................................................37 Draft 3, Vs 10 Page 2 of 38 Newton Aycliffe Masterplan – Draft 1.0. Introduction 1.1. Purpose This masterplan provides a summary of the detailed programme of regeneration and investment activity that is taking place or is planned in Newton Aycliffe. It identifies the strategic context which underlies delivery and key principles to co-ordinate and focus investment in the town for employment, retail, leisure and housing. As it concentrates on major projects, the focus is on the strategic issues and future change. Reference is made where possible to context and includes the nearby settlements. This includes the Great Aycliffe Town Council and Great Aycliffe and Middridge Area Action Partnership areas. Through the emerging County Durham Plan and its actions the council will: Support Aycliffe Business Park and the Hitachi development as a major employment opportunities Work with the private sector to deliver successful and sustainable housing expansion; Work with partners to deliver the Aycliffe Shopping Centre Masterplan Newton Aycliffe is a major regional employment centre and these actions will support its current businesses and encourage new expansion. Housing continues to expand to create an attractive town to live and work in with good links to other employment centres. New housing should build upon the new town qualities of open space and layout. The town centre needs to adapt to fulfil its role as the local service centre for the existing and growing population. Draft 3, Vs 10 Page 3 of 38 Newton Aycliffe Masterplan – Draft 2.0. Profile of Newton Aycliffe 2.1. Summary Newton Aycliffe has established itself as the county’s major employment centre and an attractive place to live close to work and with commuting opportunities. The location of Hitachi in the town and opportunities to feed into both Nissan’s supply chain and Teesside offshore industries underpin an already strong and regionally significant employment base. Housing has grown from its initial new town roots to offer a greater range of private housing retaining and building on the strengths of a planned open space layout. 2.2. Location Situated to the south of the county with excellent transport links, Newton Aycliffe stretches from Woodham to Junction 59 of the A1 (M) offering links to Yorkshire and the South. The A167 runs the length of the town providing easy access to the large centres of Darlington, Durham and Newcastle. It offers sustainable transport through rail access and the east coast mainline is accessible at Darlington Station, 8 miles away. Two halts at Newton Aycliffe and Heighington serve the town and industrial estate. Newton Aycliffe Railway Station 2.3. History 1,2 Historic settlements, some dating form the Norman period, have remained as the conservation villages and now fringe the new town, adding to the range of housing available. Heighington Aycliffe Village Aycliffe Village grew in the 18th and 19th centuries due to is location on the Great North Road and is now adjacent to Newton Aycliffe but retains its 1 Great Aycliffe Town Council Website, History of Aycliffe, http://www.great-aycliffe.gov.uk/info/about- aycliffe/history-of-aycliffe.html 2 Durham County Council - Keys to the Past www.keystothepast.info – various historic asset and general references and DCC historic OS mapping Draft 3, Vs 10 Page 4 of 38 Newton Aycliffe Masterplan – Draft separate identity. Middridge remains a distinctive conservation village on the road from N. Aycliffe to Shildon. The historic villages and smaller industrial settlements now form part of Newton Aycliffe’s service catchment. 2.4. How Newton Aycliffe Grew 3 During the Second World War the Government considered Aycliffe, its rail connection and cheap available farmland an ideal location for the Royal Ordnance Factory. This factory employed up to 17,000 men and women in the making of bombs and munitions. There is now a Town Council memorial commemorating the valuable service carried out by those now known as the Aycliffe Angels. Post war need to stimulate the economy and improve housing was a fundamental issue. In 1941 the government ordered a review of how Britain should be rebuilt which resulted in the William Beveridge Report (1942). This in turn led to the New Town Act and the authorising of 11 new towns. Newton Aycliffe was one of these, being founded in 1947. As the need changed for armaments production after the war, the now redundant ordnance factory and open areas surrounding it formed an ideal location with good transport access to form the new town. Photograph Link 4 Photograph Link 5 The town provided both housing and employment through the industrial estate formed on the remaining part of the former Ordnance factory. Subsequently the town and industrial estate steadily grew up to the1980’s, since when both have been changing as opportunities have developed. The town population is circa 25,000 with capacity to expand; its 1966 population target being 45,000. Service infrastructure has evolved as the 3 Great Aycliffe Town Council Website – The Newton Aycliffe Story, http://www.great- aycliffe.gov.uk/info/about-aycliffe/the-newton-aycliffe-story.html 4 Part of "MINISTRY OF WORKS OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) View across one of the newly constructed residential neighborhoods of Newton Aycliffe new town http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=t+59595&submit=&items_per_page=10 5 Part of "MINISTRY OF WORKS OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) The cutting of the sod ceremony on 28 June 1948 to mark the start of construction work on the new town of Newton Aycliffe http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=t+9665&submit=&items_per_page=10 Draft 3, Vs 10 Page 5 of 38 Newton Aycliffe Masterplan – Draft town has stabilised. The centre is supported by the leisure centre also forming a council service hub and major attraction. Since the 1980s there has been substantial private housing development has taken place and is concentrated to the north at Woodham and Cobblers Hall. The new town has evolved to become a mature and well positioned commuter town with substantial local accessible employment opportunities. The recent agreement of Hitachi to locate on the industrial estate will provide substantial new opportunities for the town in addition to existing major businesses. 2.5. Newton Aycliffe Business Park The Business Park covers a substantial area to the south of the town. It has four areas - Heighington Lane Business Park where Lidl have a main distribution centre, Aycliffe Industrial Estate, Aycliffe Industrial Park (nearest to the town) and now also Amazon Park (site for Hitachi). St Cuthberts Way Aycliffe Business Park is an employment location of regional significance and the largest in County Durham. Its status is based upon: Over 50 years association with manufacturing and engineering A site area of 270 hectares (ha) A critical mass of over 250 businesses Major employers such as Tallent Automotive; Husqvarna, Ebac, Permoid, Lucite, Lidl and Stiller, 3M (UK) Plc and now Hitachi. Providing 8000 jobs The undeveloped site availability on the Park allocated for employment use identified in Count Durham Plan Preferred Options is 45ha. The business park lies on the southern periphery of the ‘just in time’ zone for supply to Nissan in Sunderland. It is also well placed for specialist suppliers supporting off-shore industries in Teesside. Hitachi Rail Europe’s location for its UK train manufacturing facility on Amazon Park has served to further underline its importance as a major employment area with real opportunities for growth. The former Fujitsu factory houses RF Micro Devices RFMD and following their proposed relocation, the site now offers scope for another high tech project. Hitachi is part of the Agility Trains consortium which has just been awarded a £4.5BN contract to construct, maintain and service the next generation of Draft 3, Vs 10 Page 6 of 38 Newton Aycliffe Masterplan – Draft approximately 600 intercity carriages to improve the UK’s mainline rail services. Construction of the factory will start in 2013 and the facility will be operational from 2015. 730 jobs will be created along with a further 200 construction jobs. There is substantial potential to accommodate new businesses on the business park, to support Hitachi’s supply chain and
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