East Birmingham Prospectus for growth February 2015 Contents Foreword 3 Contact Planning and Regeneration Economy Directorate Birmingham City Council Introduction 4 Click: E-mail: [email protected] Call: Context 6 Telephone: (0121) 464 9857 Visit: Office: Our commitment 11 1 Lancaster Circus Employment and skills Birmingham B4 7DJ Improved connectivity Delivering growth Post: PO Box 28 Birmingham B1 1TU Development opportunities 18 Employment You can ask for a copy of this document in large Local Centres print, another format or another language. We aim to supply what you need within ten working days. Call (0121) 464 9857 Making it happen 38 If you have hearing difficulties please call us via Typetalk 18001 0121 464 9857 or e-mail us at the address above. Plans contained within this document are based upon Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Birmingham City Council. Licence number 100021326, 2015. contents / east birmingham prospectus for growth 2 Foreword 3 These are exciting times in Birmingham; the arrival of High Speed rail and associated growth in the City Centre and at UK Central will bring physical change and economic growth which will benefit the whole City. For East Birmingham - located between these two key drivers - we now have a unique opportunity to capitalise on this growth, and to maximise local opportunities, to ensure that local people are able to reap the benefits. In particular we must seek to support local people into sustainable jobs by giving them the skills they need to compete in the labour market. We must deliver development which will provide new jobs, improve connectivity to enable people to access jobs, and also provide the conditions for business growth. THE PROSPECTUS Through this Prospectus we identify the opportunity for more than 350,000sq.m (3.7 million sq.ft) of new employment floorspace and FORMS A STARTING 9,000 new jobs within East Birmingham, and for maximising the “ benefits of growth here and elsewhere in the City for the residents of East Birmingham. POINT FOR RENEWING The Prospectus forms a starting point for renewing our commitment “ to East Birmingham by focusing on three key areas of activity - Employment and Skills, Improved Connectivity and Delivering OUR COMMITMENT TO Growth - which we will develop in partnership with Government. EAST BIRMINGHAM Sir Albert Bore Leader, Birmingham City Council. Councillor Tahir Ali Cabinet Member for Development, Transport and the Economy Birmingham City Council. east birmingham prospectus for growth / foreword foreword / east birmingham prospectus for growth 4 Introduction 5 East Birmingham includes Erdington, Stockland Green, Nechells, Saltley, Washwood Heath, Hodge Hill and Shard End - an area with a population of more than 280,000 people. This Prospectus identifies the East Birmingham sits between other opportunities in the City, can issues which are limiting the the City Centre, where the be maximised for local people. potential for economic growth Birmingham Curzon HS2 station in East Birmingham, as well as will be the catalyst for significant Maximising the benefits of A453 highlighting the opportunities investment and growth at Eastside, the opportunities within East Wylde Green for the area. It then sets out and UK Central, which includes Birmingham, too, is important. M6 (Toll) M42 our commitment to working in the airport, NEC and Resorts In particular these include A38 partnership with Government and World development, and the HS2 opportunities for job creation. This local organisations to maximise interchange station, and which will Prospectus therefore identifies sites Chester Road To Derby/ these opportunities and improve also be a focus for growth. It is vital where new development can best Nottingham A452 the prospects for the area. that the benefits of these, and of be realised. Erdington Pype Hayes A5127 Park A4040 Our commitment will focus on To three key areas of activity: Leicester Gravelley A38 Hill The Fort • Employment and skills. M6 A47 • Improving connectivity. M6 • Delivering growth. Aston A38(M) Despite numerous interventions A47 A4040 over the past decade, East Birmingham continues to have an Duddeston Adderley Stechford employment rate that is too low, Park City Snow Hill high levels of worklessness and low Centre levels of skills whilst other parts of Lea Hall Heartlands New Street Moor Street Hospital Birmingham have demonstrated Birmingham City Football Club A4040 improvement. Addressing this Marston Five Bordesley Ways Green is one of the biggest challenges Sheldon Country Park A45 for the area, and one which is to National Small Exhibition be addressed through the newly Heath Centre UK created Employment and Skills Birmingham Central International Partnership for East Birmingham. A41 A4040 A45 A34 KEYTyseley v The Partnership will launch its Plan Birmingham in April 2015. Airport CityTo BoundaryAcocks To Stratford Green London Motorway However, measures to address To Warwick these issues, and to improve Main Road Network skills and employability, must n Rail Network NORTH be matched with available and NOT TO SCALE accessible jobs. Improvements to Possible Reintroduction KEY of Passenger Service connectivity which will allow better access to jobs, and growth which City Boundary Proposed HS2 Line will create new jobs and raise Motorway Metro Line aspirations will be important. These Main Road Network Metro Extension will be delivered in partnership with the Greater Birmingham and Rail Network Rail Stations Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership Possible Reintroduction Proposed Station (GBSLEP) and Government of Passenger Service through, for example, the Growth Plan 1 Proposed HS2 Line Deal. Birmingham Curzon concourse entrance East Birmingham context Metro Line east birmingham prospectus for growth / introduction Metro Extension introduction / east birmingham prospectus for growth Rail Stations Proposed Station 6 Context 7 East Birmingham faces particular challenges, but is also uniquely placed to benefit from the sheer range of opportunities set to come forward both within the area and more widely. The significant growth A similar pattern is reflected in by local residents. It also impacts to ensure better responsiveness Proposed local transport High Speed 2 opportunities and transport the skills levels of the area, with on the type of jobs available to of local and national providers to improvements With an Interchange station at UK projects, alongside the a higher proportion (28%) of East those in employment, hinders deliver against a shared agenda Improvements which will better Central and a new terminal station interventions emerging from the Birmingham residents possessing progression, and reinforces a which maximises and better aligns enable residents to access the jobs at Curzon Street in Birmingham Employment and Skills Partnership no qualifications than the city as reliance on benefits including in- the existing resources. and training opportunities include: City Centre, HS2 will change the for East Birmingham, will bring a whole (21%). Fewer than a third work benefits. physical and economic landscape both economic and physical of residents are qualified to NVQ • Highways improvements, of the City and wider region. improvements for the area and level 3 or above, and fewer than a The job mix in the City is forecast particularly at key junctions. Journey times from London to enable the area to maximise the fifth to Level 4 or above compared to change, with fewer low skilled Connectivity Birmingham City Centre will be • Two rapid transit routes through benefits of growth. to a Birmingham average of 40% jobs and more higher skilled jobs, reduced to just 49 minutes (38 to East Birmingham benefits from a East Birmingham. and 25% respectively. This is suggesting that lower skilled number of high quality transport the Interchange station), and rail The following section summarises reflected in the type of jobs held residents may be less able to links to the wider region including • Provision of new local rail services passenger capacity increased, the key issues and opportunities for by local people - only 27% are in find work in the future. There is good access to the motorway and stations in the Fort Parkway making the areas around the East Birmingham. the highest skilled occupations, therefore a need to up-skill both network at Juction 5 and 6 of the and Castle Vale/Castle Bromwich stations especially attractive for compared to 38% for the City, and those in employment and those M6, and Junction 6 of the M42, areas. new investment. Masterplans 17% are in elementary occupations who are unemployed. and a conventional rail line linking for Birmingham Curzon and UK Employment and skills compared to 13% for Birmingham the City Centre to UK Central and • A package of wider connectivity Central have been developed as a whole (ONS December 2014). The poor employment and onwards to London. improvements associated with to guide growth in these areas. East Birmingham unemployment employability rate in the area HS2 which will ensure that local Construction is set to begin in 2017, rates continue to lag behind the This low skills base impacts on also diverts public sector funding However, local movement including people and businesses are able with the line operational from 2026. city average, currently 9.5% as the ability of local residents to towards work related benefits and public transport is hampered by to access and reap the benefits of opposed to 6.5%. More than 20% compete in the labour market with other associated support services, high levels of congestion which the service. A wider package of connectivity of these claimants are aged 18-24, better qualified people both from puts a brake on Birmingham’s can make it difficult to travel to improvements is proposed to with over a third being out of work other parts of Birmingham and in- growth prospects and undermines work or do business both within • Improved routes for cyclists.