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4.5 Projects & Priorities Region Projects Strategic Highway Projects

There are other projects that are of City Region The de-trunking of the A650 from the Highways Agency 1.0 Priority Projects importance and are imperative for cross boundary to Council is an opportunity to take control of We have identifi ed a wide range of projects that can initiatives. These projects should be co-ordinated with the main spine road for the Bradford District in Airedale. Positioning Airedale Positioning contribute to delivering the Airedale Corridors and the Regional Spatial Strategy and City Region initiatives. The priority projects for Bradford Council and the the Bradford 2020 Vision. Some of these projects are The Priority Projects in and around Airedale for Bradford Highways Agency are: already underway and private investment or funding Council and the City Region are: has been committed. Within this broad range of • Dualling of Hard Ings; projects there are some that are greater catalysts than • Capacity improvements at Bradford • Roundabout Improvements; International Airport; others. Our assessment of the projects has identifi ed • Steeton and Cycleway; • Leeds Bradford International Airport Rail Link; fi ve priority projects that MUST be delivered to stimulate • Dualling of Road. the regeneration of Airedale. The priority projects for the • Enhancing the Saltaire World Heritage Site. Airedale Partnership and Bradford Council are: In addition, the following major highways projects 2.0 • Railway Station; should be considered in the context of the regional transport priorities linked to the economic growth of

• North Street Hotel, Keighley; Airedale Vision For Airedale and the regeneration of the wider Bradford • Technology Business Park; District: • Advanced Digital Institute; • Shipley/Saltaire bypass tunnel; • Shipley Eastern Link Road & Shipley Interchange. • M65/M606 highway links. These are the primary catalysts for Airedale. There are many other important projects that should follow on from these projects and they must not be neglected but planned and delivered in parallel. 3.0 Places For Change Places For 4.0 Making Change Happen 87 Huddersfi eld Railway Station Huddersfi eld Railway Station is a good example of where simple but high-quality public realm has transformed the area and the approaches to the station. The stone fl ags and cast iron street furniture create character and a sense of place that is easy to maintain. The restoration of Keighley Railway Station should be more than the station buildings. The public realm should extend up Cavendish Street, East Parade and through to Dalton Lane so that the railway station has the appearance of being closer to the town and its users.

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Keighley Railway Station

Project 1.0 This project is about revitalising Keighley Railway Station and connecting the early regeneration projects Airedale Positioning proposed for the town with high-quality public realm. The project comprises: • Construction of a new station ticket hall concourses and entrances; • Refurbishment of the station buildings and platforms; • Bus and rail interchange at Dalton Lane; • Integration of Keighley & Railway with the mainline; 2.0 • High-quality public realm connecting the station to pedestrian routes along Cavendish Street, East Parade Airedale Vision For and through the new Keighley College to Dalton Mills; • Formation of a community railway station body.

Partnerships Keighley Railway Station: Heritage Restoration & Public Realm Improvement This project is complex and requires careful co- ordination to maximise the benefi ts to all parties. If Benefi ts Next Steps completed successfully it will be a great example This project can enhance a key asset of the town, A feasibility study should be undertaken to examine partnering to deliver the masterplan. As a priority project providing better access to education and employment all the technical options of station refurbishment to it will need funding to prime initial activity and draw in 3.0 opportunities. It will also join together the key determine the costs and how to maximise the benefi ts other funding from the West Yorkshire Local Transport development areas at Dalton Lane, Cavendish to Keighley. The feasibility study should include

Plan. The refurbishment of the Grade II listed station Change Places For Street and East Parade with pedestrian walkways. A buildings and replacement of the canopies may qualify discussions with all the key partners in the operation refurbished railway station will encourage commuters for some assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The of the railway station and surrounding land owners. to settle in Keighley and initiate the redevelopment public realm between the sites and key developments The study should develop some outline proposals and of redundant or underused buildings for mixed use could be funded between Bradford Council and from address how the station can be operated to generate developments, providing residential accommodation S106 agreements with private developers. The reuse of local revenue to support a community railway station. and business space. Redevelopment will raise land the existing station buildings for retail and restaurants and property values in the town centre and allow could create a revenue stream that might assist with the regeneration of heritage buildings for retail and improved maintenance and security around the station residential use. Footfall should increase throughout the area. Together with Metro and the Northern Rail town from greater local use, raising retail revenues. The

Franchise Operators a Community Station could be 4.0 station as a gateway to the town can become an iconic formed, where local people have an infl uence over the feature that draws visitors and raises the status and maintenance and operation of the station. confi dence of the town. Making Change Happen 89 Malmaison Hotel, Leeds Malmaison Hotel in Leeds is situated in a successfully refurbished building that was formerly a bus depot and offi ces. This luxury hotel is an example of the style and quality that Keighley should aspire to for its town centre site on the corner of North Street and Cavendish Street. Hotel groups are often risk averse and for a quality operator to be attracted there may need to be a variety of complimentary uses such as residential, specialist retail or restaurant outlets, conference and leisure facilities.

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North Street Hotel, Keighley

This project is about providing an hotel facility at the 1.0 centre of Keighley that will change the perception of the town. The scale and location of the site is such that it Airedale Positioning would be a major new project for the town but retain the connections with its past. The project will comprise the following: • Refurbishment of the former Mechanics Institute buildings for conference and leisure facilities; • Refurbishment or reconstruction of the modern college buildings to create hotel accommodation; • Creation of hotel entrance with specialist retail and 2.0 restaurant facilities fronting onto Cavendish Street.

Partnerships Airedale Vision For The site should be purchased from Keighley College by Yorkshire Forward to retain ownership of this important site and allow Keighley College to progress with their move to Dalton Lane. Having secured the site it will be important to develop a strong relationship with a developer and operator of a mixed use hotel and leisure complex. A design development competition could be Keighley College: A Future Landmark Hotel Development run to attract some original thoughts on the site use Benefi ts Next Steps and operation. The creation of a restaurant facility will The image of the town would dramatically change if A feasibility study should be undertaken to determine 3.0 be one objective but it will also be important to identify the development reaches its full potential. Conference the mix and make up of the development. The study a leading restaurateur to put Keighley’s new facility on facilities would support business use of the hotel and should include a survey of the existing buildings to Change Places For the regional map. A partnership with one of the leading attract new investors to the area. The elegant halls of determine their potential for refurbishment. There culinary schools might be appropriate to develop links the former Mechanics Institute would provide a central should be a detailed market analysis of the hotel and and talent in future years. venue for dinners and weddings in the town. New health restaurant capacity of the area. Opportunities for the spa and leisure facilities could be available for town development of connections to culinary colleges and centre users. Speciality retail outlets onto Cavendish restaurateurs should be explored. Street would set the standard for new retailing and raise the levels of footfall. A new restaurant would set high standards and begin to develop a cluster of dining

facilities that support arts and leisure around the town 4.0 centre. The hotel will be a provider of jobs and potential training facility for the growing leisure and tourism sector. Making Change Happen 91 © Arup Associates / SPLC Stockley Park, Middlesex Airedale, orforinward investorsfrom abroad. Airedale. Theaccommodationcouldprovide for, relocating existingfi rms within to containaccommodationofaqualitythatattractshighvalue businessto attracts highervaluebusiness.BingleyTechnology BusinessParkshouldaspire in landscapedgrounds. Thequalityofaccommodation andsurroundings Stockley ParkisoneoftheUK’s mostprestigious offi ce businessparksset Stockley ParkMiddlesex Airedale Corridors A Masterplan & Strategy for Airedale

Bingley Technology Business Park

Project 1.0 This project is about raising the standard and provision of high-quality offi ce space at the centre of Airedale Airedale Positioning on the former Auction Market and Coolgardie Farm at Bingley. There is a need to raise the aspiration for prestigious offi ces to undertake science, design and technology that supports advanced manufacturing and the digital sector. The technology business park will draw on the existing experience of the surrounding fi rms in manufacturing, digital and fi nance sectors. This project comprises:

• The creation of a technology business park; 2.0 • Location of the Digital Industries Collaborators in Vision For Airedale Vision For Commerce; • Development of business incubator and business support facilities; • Development of business to education connections with Bingley Grammar School. Partnerships Bingley Auction Market: Future Bingley Technology Business Park The current owner of the site will be a key partner in the development of the site. The owner also operates the Benefi ts Next Steps Castlefi elds Industrial Estate and a joint partnership will The benefi ts of this project will be to provide space The next steps should be to start discussions with 3.0 allow the complementary development of both sites. for employment alongside the high-quality transport the land owner and prospective developers who will A developer partnership will be required to prepare infrastructure of Crossfl atts railway station, Bingley be able to take the site forward. In the short term the Change Places For and build out the site. The market for offi ce premises Relief Road and the A650 quality bus corridor, making Digital Industries CIC is likely to have a temporary base is generally stronger in Bingley than the other towns it accessible to all the settlements in Airedale. The elsewhere in Airedale but discussions should take place and the project will be predominantly a private sector development of the site will provide a northern anchor about future intentions and how they could fi t into a initiative, although there may be a need for some gap for the town centre supporting regeneration of retail new development. It will be important to have links with funding to deal with infrastructure costs and raising outlets along Main Street. It will also prevent the site Bradford and Leeds Universities to support the long term the quality of the development. Revenue support in from becoming a foodstore that would undermine the growth and development of the technology business the form of placing the Digital Industries Collaborators redevelopment of Myrtle Walk and the town centre park to meet the future innovation requirements. in Commerce and a business incubator in the site will retailing. The creation of links between schools, Enterprise is important and the start up and nurturing provide early letting and an attractor for new business universities and business through the Digital Industries of new business will be a component at a business 4.0 to the development. Collaborators in Commerce will help prepare a incubator on the site. It will be important to establish a workforce for the future economy. register of new or emerging fi rms looking for premises. Making Change Happen 93 The Round Foundry, Leeds The Round Foundry in Leeds is an example of a creative knowledge exchange centre where like-minded fi rms can take business space. The business space is actively managed to encourage exchange of ideas and information between fi rms co-located within the building. The Advanced Digital Institute should be situated in similar actively managed space so that the full benefi ts of a research, development and knowledge centre are realised. Round Foundry, Leeds Airedale Corridors A Masterplan & Strategy for Airedale

Advanced Digital Institute, Shipley

Project 1.0 This project is about creating a world-class commercial research and design facility to support the advanced Airedale Positioning manufacturing and digital sector. It will focus on providing a business design and development service for small and medium enterprises and outsourced product development for public limited companies. The project will comprise: • Short term technology development and research for small, medium and larger fi rms;

• Development of non-core ideas which would otherwise 2.0 fail to come to market, generated by larger companies;

• A deal-making exchange to ensure that the ideas Airedale Vision For developed into products do not fail to make it to market due to lack of fi nance or suitable commercial partners.

Partnerships The vital partnerships will be with local fi rms within Airedale who will benefi t from and support the Knowledge Exchange in a Creative Environment Advanced Digital Institute. Key local fi rms are found in Benefi ts Next Steps a cluster that defi nes why the Advanced Digital Institute Having a commercial research and development facility The funding for the initial phase of the Advanced Digital should be sited in Shipley. The fi rst few years will be

in Airedale will create growth in the digital and advanced Institute has already been secured. The appointment 3.0 crucial to develop the confi dence of local fi rms with the manufacturing sectors it supports. It will be a place of a Chief Executive to develop and deliver a business organisation. As the Advanced Digital Institute develops

where new ideas are generated and developed to create plan will be the next step. Accommodation will have Change Places For it will become a regional and national resource where new products and services. The commercial rigour to be found in the Shipley area to enable a small team wider industry can gain from its experience. Other applied will ensure that the organisation is a success in to carry out the research and development work. The partners will be local and national universities. It would delivering its goals. It will be the driver of job creation and primary aim is for the creation of a service and so be appropriate to situate the Advance Digital Institute be an attractor of business to the area. It will perform a property and its location should not dominate its early offi ces at a central point in Dockfi eld Road such that it role in the training of staff in research and development decisions. As the organisation grows there should be stimulates development throughout the area. Shipley is and be an attractor of high-calibre graduates to the area. a development of a more permanent home, ideally at well connected regionally through the rail network and As an attractor of business it will also be a driver for the Junction Mill at the Leeds & Canal basin or in the future it could be on the railway line to the Airport, value of land and premises, and encourage developers other nearby mill refurbishment developments where which will be important for international business. to build serviced offi ce accommodation and industrial there is existing capacity in underused or derelict

units to undertake production. Crucially the Advanced 4.0 buildings. Digital Institute will add value to the businesses throughout Airedale and the region. Making Change Happen 95 © Arup / www.paulwhite.co.uk A650 Bingley ReliefRoad Airedale corridor. only bepromoted aspartofaregional transportstrategyjustifi ed byeconomicgrowth inthe to connecttheLinkRoadandCanalA650at NabWood. Suchaschemecan beyond. TheLinkRoaddesignshouldalsomakeprovision forafuture Shipleybypasstunnel follow deliveryoftheLinkRoadtoimprove road linkstoBradford andthemotorwaynetwork and reconnect thetowncentre tosurrounding areas. TheduallingofCanalRoadshould improve accesstoexistingsites,create opportunitiestoenhancepublictransportfacilities of manyShipley’s current failings.TheLinkRoadwillrelease newemploymentland, to theA650BingleyReliefRoadbyaddressing thehighwayseverancethatisroot cause The proposed LinkRoadprovides ShipleyEastern amajor regeneration opportunitysimilar Link Road Shipley Eastern Airedale Corridors A Masterplan & Strategy for Airedale

Shipley Eastern Link Road & Shipley Interchange

Project 1.0 This project is about unlocking employment land and reducing through traffi c in Shipley. Currently the land Airedale Positioning around Dockfi eld Road and Shipley East is unable to be developed to its full potential due to the weight of through traffi c. This project comprises: • A link road from Otley Road at across the , Leeds & Liverpool Canal and Airedale Railway Line through to the Leeds Road and on to Canal Road;

• The development of Shipley bus/rail transport 2.0 interchange on the Otley Road.

Partnerships Airedale Vision For The most important partnerships will be within Bradford Council between the highways, planning and regeneration teams. Early on there will need to be a discussion with the Local Transport Plan team for West Yorkshire to identify the link road as a strategic project. At the same time discussions on the wider development of Shipley Interchange must begin with Carnegie Library: An Opportunity for Regeneration of Windhill Metro. The last round of Objective 2 funding is critical for assembling employment land and providing critical Benefi ts Next Steps 3.0 infrastructure that will improve the quality and value of The clearest benefi t of the link road will be to unlock The next steps will be to prepare a feasibility study the sites. areas of employment land. It will provide access that into the road that identifi es appropriate alignment and Change Places For will signifi cantly raise the value of the land and property examines the costs and benefi ts of the scheme in order above thresholds so that it can be developed for to prepare a funding submission for the Local Transport mixed use and commercial premises. The reduction Plan. The study should include traffi c and environmental of through traffi c in Shipley will allow the development impact assessments and a preliminary engineering of a new Shipley Interchange. The link road design design. The fi nal round of Objective 2 Funding should will avoid the centre of Windhill which like Shipley has be used to assemble land packages in the Dockfi eld also been compromised by traffi c around the Carnegie Road area to create employment land and access to Library and allow it to become the centre of this sites either side of the link road. community again. The reconfi guration of the roads will 4.0 allow substantial areas of housing renewal to take place making the most of the new waterside. Making Change Happen 97 Bingley Five-Rise Locks, Leeds & Liverpool Canal The Five-Rise Locks are a symbol of the ambition of Airedale past. The Leeds & Liverpool Canal connected the towns of Airedale to the Northern Region and created an economy. Airedale now needs to connect into the Northern Way and play a signifi cant role in the new Northern Region. Airedale Corridors A Masterplan & Strategy for Airedale

4.6 Closing Statement The priority projects are essential primary catalysts but The outcome of this masterplan predicts the creation need to be supplemented with other projects, which of 10,000 spaces for jobs. About 5,000 spaces are This masterplan is a strategy for growth and change in 1.0 give the masterplan depth and quality. The amount of needed for the relocation of business, safeguarding line with regional thinking. regeneration development anticipated will create high jobs. Around 1,000 jobs would have been created Delivery of the masterplan has started with early workloads for planning and management, and delivery without intervention and the masterplan seeks to add Airedale Positioning projects in the creative, connected and lifestyle must not be compromised through a lack of resources. 4,000 additional jobs. 5,000 new jobs equates to corridors. The completion of the A650 Bingley Relief As the pace of change gathers there will be signifi cant approximately 10% growth of the workforce in Airedale. Road, the planned Keighley College move, broadband demands placed upon construction, restoration Safeguarded jobs will be in more effi cient premises and connection of Airedale and the redevelopment of and project management resources within Airedale. should raise the productivity of Airedale. It is likely that Victoria Mills have initiated regeneration. During Developments must be phased and delivered so as to in the short term there will be an equivalent amount the research for the masterplan we have spoken to fi t with the requirements of the property market. of temporary jobs created in construction and new many people and seen how developer interest has supporting services. Funding has been secured for the Advanced Digital grown in Airedale. In the next few years over £200m Institute, Keighley College, Digital Industries CIC and Currently, unemployment is approximately 5% of the of investment in private residential development is 2.0 the regeneration of the Keighley Carnegie Library. workforce and equates to 2,500 people. We would committed to Airedale. More than £150m of additional Momentum is growing but it must be maintained by expect the majority of these people to take up jobs investment is planned for new and refurbished Airedale Vision For acting early on the priority projects. The fi ve priority in the new economy. Allowing for people travelling educational and healthcare facilities. We would expect projects will need around £50m of public sector funding into Airedale to work we would expect an increase of these rates of investment to continue as the economy over the next fi ve years. The sources for funding will 2,000 households to be delivered in the town centres of Airedale grows. be a combination of Objective 2 funds, Bradford of Airedale to meet the anticipated growth. A further We are confi dent that the masterplan will work because Council, Yorkshire Forward, English Partnerships, 2,000 households are likely to be delivered in the town it is practical and builds on the strengths already there. Local Transport Plan and other funding bodies. This centres to meet the needs of those commuting out of Airedale has demonstrated its capacity to change investment will stimulate signifi cantly more private Airedale. and adapt through history and is already beginning sector investment across Airedale. The fi ne details of The future of Airedale will be critically dependent on to change from a grant dependent area to a thriving our recommendations can, and will, be challenged but attracting investment. This can be achieved through economy. It will take signifi cant resources to tip the the underlying principles must be preserved. 3.0 the delivery of the creative, connected and lifestyle balance from one to the other but it is vital for Bradford Other projects beyond the fi ve priority projects will need corridors, that are the Airedale Corridors. District that Airedale receives the public investment Change Places For around a further £50m of public sector funding. These it deserves, because it holds the District together, are realistic sums when drawn from a wide variety and has a key role in the aspirations for the regional of sources and spread over the time-frame of the economy. masterplan. 4.0 Making Change Happen 99 Creative

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Acknowledgements Arup would like to thank all the individuals who took part in the preparation of the masterplan or took part in the consultation process. Particular thanks go to the Airedale Partnership, Bradford Council and Yorkshire Forward for their help and guidance. We would also like to thank the Steering Group for their advice through the development of the masterplan.

Arup (Project Management, Engineering & Graphic Design)

Consultants Latham Architects: Urban Design (Masterplanning and Urban Design) Civic Regeneration (Education and Skills and Training) Colliers CRE (Land and Property) Charles Monck Associates (Economics) Stephen Feber (Tourism and Leisure) Bradford University (Stakeholder Participation) Consortia of Ethnic Minority Organisations (Steering Group Member)

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