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DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR TOWN CENTRE

BASED ON VICARAGE STREET SITE DEVELOPMENT 30 mins Boulevard treatment St Nicolas Church Justice Centre to Vicarage Street

Birmingham 30 mins Possible hotel sites

Housing overlooking 7 the park 60 mins 7 15 mins 3

t e e r t S h c ur 1 Ch Realigned Wheat Street 6 with street trees running 3 down to the riverfront Gardens NUNEATON 5 2 1 4 6 The town centre opportunity Church Street and Bond Gate you have been waiting for reinforced as a new North/ 6 South spine between church 6 and railway station 2 4 OUR PARTNERSHIP 5 OFFER 6 5 What we will do to What we’re looking for 2 transform Nuneaton: in potential partners: • Work proactively with • Your ideas on generating Reconfigured offices as partners to develop our value in the town centre apartments overlooking town centre assets 5 river and park • Creative approaches to • Use our land to leverage in land use mix, delivery, further investment finance and management • Work to ensure emerging policy supports delivery

River Anker waterfront opened up Bridge physically and New residential units over Boardwalk squares with • Retain a long term interest to form a new mixed use, leisure visually opened up to the town centre shopping cafes, restaurants and to sustain the value in the and residential offer riverfront wine bars site

• Manage development directly where appropriate

VICARAGE STREET 4. Creating new, and reinforcing existing, pedestrian 1. Introducing a new high quality mixed use and cycle-friendly routes through the town centre development in the heart of the town centre OPPORTUNITY 5. Opening up as a focus for leisure, 2. Opening up new and existing open spaces to food and drink and residential uses This opportunity covers the area between Bridge create a more attractive and safe environment, Street, the River Anker, St Nicolas Parish Church and and added market value 6. Designing high quality streets and public realm Estates and Town Centres Infrastructure & Regeneration the Warwickshire Justice Centre building. with extensive tree planting 024 7637 6249 01926 418621 3. Developing mixed uses along Bridge Street to landandproperty@ [email protected] The design principles for this quarter are applicable reinforce its retail and commercial offer 7. Introducing boulevards around the with nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk to many other areas of the town centre: shared surface crossings to integrate the town centre with its hinterland JOIN US IN OPPORTUNITY SITES IN NUNEATON TOWN CENTRE

TRANSFORMING Vicarage Street Site HA Abbey Street Site HA Opportunity Sites Area in Council Ownership 1.6 Area in Council Ownership 1.41 Potential Land Assembly NUNEATON Potential Land Assembly 1.1 Potential Land Assembly 0.91 Commercial & Leisure Total Site Area 2.7 Total Site Area 2.32 (Cinema) The Councils are working together to transform Nuneaton town centre; Potential character: Residential-led Potential character: Leisure led Offices & Public Sector mixed use development and public mixed use development • Creating opportunities by releasing publicly sector hub Retail, Food & Drink Key uses: Leisure (Cinema), Retail, owned land for development Key uses: Office, Public sector hub, Restaurants, Apartments Residential with Retail/ Hotel, Apartments, Education facility • Investment in infrastructure and the Leisure ground floor environment Hotel

• Supporting a broader mix of uses through 4 Residential planning policy 5 New & Replacement • Inward investment and local incentive Parking schemes to support new jobs and business growth A 444 7 A 444 Improved Connections 6 2 3 New Station Square Why don’t you join us in this transformation? C t hu Exciting development opportunities exist e r e c r h Queens Road within the town centre for investors, t S S t r e Place e et developers and operators. e Mark

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R 9. i v e r TOWN CENTRE? A nk er 1. We’re all working Railway Gateway HA Bus Station Site HA together to achieve Area in Council Ownership 0.18 Area in Council Ownership 1.65 change – from Area in 0.15 Potential Land Assembly 0.0 representatives in DCLG Ownership central government to UKTI, Cabe Potential Land Assembly 1.28 Total Site Area 1.65 borough council level Coventry&Warwickshire LEP Mixed use a joined up approach Warwickshire County Council Total Site Area 1.61 Potential character: 9 development has been adopted Combined Authority Potential character: Gateway square, making it easier to Bus station Nuneaton & Borough Council Transport interchange, Parking Potential anchor uses: engage and invest. reconfiguration, Retail, Leisure, Food & Drink, Apartments Key uses: Transport hub, Parking, 2. The councils are major landowners; up to Parking, Gateway Square a quarter of the town centre is in public ownership and there are several other opportunities in and around the centre. AT THE HEART OF GROWTH LOCAL DEMAND Strong and Growing • It is just 60 minutes to London • Some 10,000 new high quality • The town is closely linked to by train and 45 mins drive from homes will be built in the HORIBA MIRA Technology Leisure Community & Culture 3. Nuneaton is accessible and has a Catchment: three major cities and their Borough over the next 15 years Park, Europe’s most exciting catchment of 3 million people within 20 • Nuneaton has a primary international airports; and automotive R&D campus. A national cinema operator is The council is keen to rationalise actively considering esblishing a and co-locate selected public catchment population of • It is within the • There is a 15% business ‘birth miles of the town; all potential employees, “golden services and amenities in a new around 170,000 Strong and Growing Local presence in Nuneaton town centre visitors and residents. logistics triangle” (M1/M6/ rate’ in Nuneaton – higher than public sector hub in the town • Over 3 million people live Economy: M42) the Warwickshire average Office & Education centre within 20 miles of the town • Nuneaton’s GVA was £1,905 • Some 52 hectares of 4. Planned investment in infrastructure – we’re A Great Place to Live: million in 2015. employment land is being There is ongoing demand from Residential developed which will make a modern specification office space investing in the town; improvements to Highly Accessible: • With an average house price • GVA growth was double the roads and rail network, public realm the national growth during significant contribution to the in the range of 5,000-10,000sqft A variety of tenure and type can • The centre is highly accessible of £135,000 Nuneaton is highly local economy. annually, and interest in third-level complement and enhance the core schemes, and upgrading and developing affordable compared with 2009-14 and exceeded the by road, rail, air and other Warwickshire average education facility with the potential town centre uses, improve security public sector assets modes Warwickshire and national for a startup/innovation hub. and build the evening economy averages