2025 Salford: a Modern Global City
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Salford 2025 A modern global city Salford 2025 A modern global city Contents Page Chapter 1: Salford 2025 A modern global city 3 One city – one ambition 3 Delivering success 5 Growing Salford - a city punching above its weight 7 Salford’s ambition 9 Growing the City Region 11 Chapter 2: Salford’s Regeneration Framework 15 A place-shaping role for the city 15 Chapter 3: Transforming places 19 1. MediaCityUK and Salford Quays 20 2. Key corridors 22 3. Revitalising town centres 27 4. Sustainable neighbourhoods 29 5. A quality sport and recreation offer 38 Chapter 4: Stimulating and sustaining growth 43 1. Delivery of major schemes 44 2. Supporting business growth 47 3. Stimulating and supporting cultural and heritage growth 52 4. Towards an Ecocity 54 Salford 2025 Chapter 5: Connecting people and opportunity 59 A modern global city 1. Investing in education 59 2. Raising employment – skills and work 65 3. Investing in health 68 Chapter 6: Delivering strategic connectivity 73 1. A physically connected city 73 2. Digital connectivity 80 Chapter 7: Building blocks to delivery 85 Salford 2025 A modern global city 1 Chapter 1 Transforming the skyline of the city through Salford 2025 A modern global city outstanding One City - One Ambition and iconic new infrastructure For the last ten years Salford has progressed a transformational regeneration agenda founded on area based programmes that has initiated and delivered nationally significant projects such as Port Salford, MediaCityUK and Greengate. Salford’s track record, strategic positioning, vision and ambition have enabled the city to play a major role in the growth of Greater Manchester and the Ian Stewart, wider North West region. Salford City Mayor But times are changing. There will be Salford 2025 A modern global city sets limited public sector investment available out that ambitious vision – founded on a to initiate and support innovative schemes commitment to complete the work already such as these. Greater collaboration started on Salford’s transformational regionally and nationally is now increasingly agenda, creating decent jobs, outstanding vital across the public and private sectors. environments where our communities can The diversification of Salford’s economic grow, and sustained economic growth. base across the city will become more Critical will be the ability to inspire, critical to enable residents within our upskill and connect Salford’s growing increasingly diverse communities to benefit (and increasingly diverse) population from decent jobs with a Living Wage, to the new opportunities created. economic growth and greater prosperity. This prospectus brings together the A new and refreshed approach is now scale and scope of projects across the required. One that builds on and brings city that have inspired investment and together the Central Salford Vision and collaboration – but remain incomplete Regeneration Framework and the Salford without continued commitment over the West Strategic Regeneration Framework and next decade. Projects include Port Salford, Action Plan to provide a clear and ambitious MediaCityUK, Salford Central and Greengate new city-wide vision and commitment to where combined they bring a potential for delivery for Salford over the next 12 years. 36,000 new jobs over the next 15 years. Importantly, this prospectus demonstrates a growing ambition to develop a shared Regional Centre with Manchester, with shared priorities that will enable the employment potential across the city to be realised. New bridge connection at Spinningfields (Irwell River Park) 2 Salford 2025 A modern global city 3 Delivering this vision can only be achieved Local communities must – and will – play Delivering success in partnership, building on Salford’s their part in this journey. A global city is one collaborative culture. We have shared our that is comfortable with it’s diversity and Salford is changing – dramatically and The £650 million MediaCityUK development vision with partners, including the elected supports local long-term communities to positively. In the past five years, the city has at Salford Quays; unlocking over £138 million youth MP for Salford. Moving forward, new be part of its economic success, as well maximised its location, assets and capacity at Barton Strategic Site through Port Salford; strategic relationships embracing a shared as recognising the positive and dynamic to deliver tangible benefits for the growing the new £20 million Salford City Stadium; commitment to deliver jobs and growth are contribution that can be made from population of both Salford and the North the revitalisation of key corridors in Eccles being established through the City Plan welcoming new residents to Salford. West region. Embracing the vast potential and Chapel Street and riverside corridors (which sets out the City Mayor’s wider vision of both the public and private sectors, of the Bridgewater Canal and River Irwell for Salford over the period 2013-2016) and billions of pounds have been invested in - all signify this regeneration impact and they will drive this regeneration agenda new infrastructure and public realm, new commitment. forward. homes, education and health facilities, new businesses and shops - from major Visitor numbers to the city have grown every developments to city parks, revitalised year for the past seven years with 6.9 million This balanced, one city one ambition approach to regeneration across four inter- waterways and green spaces. visitors generating almost half a billion connected strategic themes will enable Salford to play a continued central role in spend¹. Together with an expanded transport developing the global distinctiveness and world ranking of the Manchester City Region The ability to work innovatively with infrastructure, business investment and as a place to live and thrive. development partners to secure substantial online services enabling thousands more external investment - against a backdrop of residents to be connected to opportunities, competing priorities - has enabled Salford Salford has demonstrated a unique ability to to establish a national reputation and deliver jobs, growth and success. enviable track record for delivering major regeneration projects connected to the places and Estimated capital people that surround them. regeneration spend over the last five years • £425 million public sector • £1.3 billion private sector New bridge connection at MediaCityUK (Irwell River Park) 1. Scarborough Tourism Economic Activity Monitor Report (2011) 4 Salford 2025 A modern global city 5 Thoughtful and targeted investment has Regional investment has enabled the local Growing Salford – a city Model and Office for National Statistics, played a key role. Working with national delivery of significant job and wealth creation punching above its weight population growth in Salford is expected and international agencies and Greater schemes such as MediaCityUK, Port Salford to be higher than the Greater Manchester, Manchester partners, Salford City Council (£15 million Regional Growth Fund) and the Salford’s population declined significantly North West and national averages up to has secured significant funding and Soapworks (£6 million Evergreen funding). It from around the 1930s until 2001, but 2025². The number of households in Salford investment for the city from a range of has also supported housing led regeneration concerted efforts to create the right has grown by 10% in the last ten years, sources including the Greater Manchester in Ordsall, Lower and Higher Broughton, environment for sustainable growth has and the diversity of Salford’s population Regional Growth Fund and Evergreen, Weaste and Seedley and Langworthy. halted and reversed this trend. Salford’s is changing rapidly, with over double the the Growing Places and Housing Market success thus far has been underpinned by proportion of Salford’s current population Renewal funds and the European Regional The delivery of quality homes, health, the ability to maximise its location, assets being born outside of the UK than in 2001³. Development Fund. Such funding has been educational, leisure, recreational and and capacity to deliver tangible benefits for There are similarly strong forecasts for used to develop partnerships which have commercial facilities will continue to the growing population of both Salford and economic growth – with the number of levered significant private sector investment contributed significantly to Salford’s the wider City Region. Salford has delivered forecast jobs and contribution to Gross into Salford. regeneration agenda – focused on delivery an outstanding contribution to the City Value Added (GVA) both outstripping the and real impact. Region’s growth over the last forecasts for Greater Manchester, decade, and the economic the North West and the UK4. benefits of an ambitious Growth agenda Over the last 20 years, programme of regeneration • Significant population increase Salford Quays has had a are tangible and clear. As a result, more people than ever before are choosing Salford as a • Number of jobs increasing by significant impact on the place to live, work, invest and visit. double the national average economy - providing a fifth Testimony to becoming a • Salford provides jobs of Salford’s total economic modern global city - Salford that support the Greater contribution totalling £1 is set to grow significantly. Manchester conurbation • GVA to double by 2025 billion. According to both the Greater Manchester Forecasting Gross Value Added (GVA) 1992- 2025 10.0 8.0 6.0 4.0 Salford 2.0 GM NW 0.0 UK - 2.0 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 % GVA change per year % GVA change - 4.0 Participants at a ‘Colour of Salford’ event -5.0 Year 2. ONS 2010 based population projections (March 2012) and Oxford Economics Greater Manchester Forecasting Model (December 2012) 3. 2011 Census, Office for National Statistics 6 4. Greater Manchester Forecasting Model (2012) Salford 2025 A modern global city 7 Salford’s ambition Population change 1992- 2025 This prospectus provides a renewed, structured approach to regeneration.