CENEX Final Report
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Lowering your emissions through innovation in transport and energy infrastructure PROJECT FINALCT PROJECT REPORT CT Midlands Regional Transport Hubs Midlands Energy Hub <<Project Title>> <<Project Title>> 27th November 2020 <<Project Title>> <<Date>> <<Date>> Midlands Regional Transport Hubs Prepared for: Terms and Conditions Cenex has exercised all reasonable skill and Michael Gallagher care in the performance of our services and Regional Energy Projects Manager we shall be liable only to the extent we are in Nottingham City Council breach of such obligation. While the information is provided in good faith, the ideas [email protected] presented in the report must be subject to 07864 969755 further investigation, and take into account other factors not presented here, before being Prepared by: taken forward. Cenex shall not in any circumstances be liable in contract, or otherwise for (a) any loss of investment, loss of contract, loss of production, loss of profits, loss of time or loss of use; and/or (b) any consequential or indirect loss sustained by the client or any third parties. Roisin Hickey Document Revisions Assistant Technical Specialist No. Details Date Initial draft for 1 28-Oct-20 Approved by: internal review Edits following 2 3-Nov-20 internal review First draft for client 3 5-Nov-20 feedback Final edits with client 4 24-Nov-20 feedback Version for client 5 27-Nov-20 issue Chris Rimmer Infrastructure Strategy lead Company Details Cenex Holywell Building Holywell Park Ashby Road Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 3UZ Registered in England No. 5371158 Tel: 01509 642 500 Email: [email protected] Website: www.cenex.co.uk Project Code (715.34/001) Page 2 of 47 Midlands Regional Transport Hubs Contents Figures .............................................................................................. 4 Tables ............................................................................................... 5 Executive Summary .......................................................................... 6 1 Introduction .................................................................................. 8 1.1 Introduction to Cenex ......................................................................................................... 8 1.2 Context .............................................................................................................................. 9 1.3 Introduction to the Project .................................................................................................. 9 1.4 Purpose of this report ....................................................................................................... 10 1.5 Overall approach .............................................................................................................. 10 1.6 Navigation ........................................................................................................................ 10 2 Methodology ............................................................................... 12 2.1 Criteria ............................................................................................................................. 12 2.2 Longlisting ........................................................................................................................ 13 2.3 Weighting and Shortlisting ................................................................................................ 13 3 Results ....................................................................................... 15 3.1 Longlist ............................................................................................................................ 15 3.2 Shortlist ............................................................................................................................ 16 4 Conclusion ................................................................................. 34 4.1 LEP shortlists ................................................................................................................... 34 4.2 Comparing a LEP-by-LEP view with a regional perspective ............................................. 34 4.3 Next steps ........................................................................................................................ 38 5 Abbreviations ............................................................................. 39 6 Appendix A: All longlisted sites with commentary ...................... 40 7 Appendix B: Feedback on shortlist by LEP ................................ 45 8 Appendix C: List of stakeholders ................................................ 46 Project Code (715.34/001) Page 3 of 47 Midlands Regional Transport Hubs Figures Figure 1: Overview of the four phases of the project ..................................................................... 10 Figure 2: Criteria for transport hub site selection ........................................................................... 12 Figure 3: Map showing all longlisted sites across the Midlands ..................................................... 15 Figure 4: Longlisted and Shortlisted Hub Sites in Greater Lincolnshire ......................................... 16 Figure 5: Longlisted and Shortlisted Sites in Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire ................................. 18 Figure 6: Longlisted and Shortlisted sites in Leicester and Leicestershire ..................................... 20 Figure 7: Longlisted and shortlisted sites in Coventry and Warwickshire ....................................... 22 Figure 8: Longlisted and shortlisted sites in Greater Birmingham and Solihull ............................... 24 Figure 9: Longlisted and shortlisted sites in the Black Country ...................................................... 26 Figure 10: Longlisted and shortlisted sites in Worcestershire ........................................................ 28 Figure 11: Longlisted and shortlisted sites in Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire ............................. 30 Figure 12: Longlisted and shortlisted sites for The Marches .......................................................... 32 Figure 13: 50 miles isochrone of shortlisted sites .......................................................................... 34 Figure 14: Top-27 shortlisted sites from Regional Perspective ...................................................... 35 Figure 15: Venn diagram comparing the LEP-by-LEP view with the Regional Perspective ........... 36 Figure 16: Network of top ranked sites from both LEP-by-LEP view and Regional Perspective .... 37 Figure 17: Driving isochrones from the top-11 shortlisted sites. .................................................... 38 Project Code (715.34/001) Page 4 of 47 Midlands Regional Transport Hubs Tables Table 1: Criteria categories with the initial proposed weighting ..................................................... 13 Table 2: All sites identified in Greater Lincolnshire with commentary ............................................ 17 Table 3: All sites identified in D2N2 with commentary ................................................................... 19 Table 4: All sites identified in Leicester and Leicestershire with commentary ................................ 21 Table 5: All sites identified in Coventry and Warwickshire with commentary ................................. 23 Table 6: All sites identified in Greater Birmingham and Solihull with commentary ......................... 25 Table 7: All sites identified in the Black Country ............................................................................ 27 Table 8: All identified sites in Worcestershire with commentary .................................................... 29 Table 9: All identified sites in Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire with commentary ......................... 31 Table 10: All sites identified in The Marches with commentary...................................................... 33 Table 11: List of highest ranked sites in each LEP ........................................................................ 35 Table 12: List of top 9 ranked sites in the Midlands ....................................................................... 36 Project Code (715.34/001) Page 5 of 47 Midlands Regional Transport Hubs Executive Summary Cenex was commissioned by Coventry City Council to create a high-level concept and outline strategic case for a combined transport and energy hub. Following this focused piece of work, the Midlands Energy Hub (MEH) requested that a further Midlands-wide search be completed to identify and rank potential sites for similar hubs. A four-stage process was completed with input and feedback at each step from the client team and their stakeholders: 1. Agree Shortlisting 3. Shortlist & 4. Refine and Criteria & 2. Build Site Longlist Feedback Report Stakeholders A set of 5 required and 5 ideal criteria were agreed and applied to a suite of open-access datasets and stakeholder input to create a longlist of 50 potential sites across the region. Each site was evaluated in detail against weighted combinations of the agreed criteria to produce a shortlist of the top-three ranked sites by LEP. These are presented in Section 3.2 (page 16) and have been circulated for feedback and approval with the MEH team. A further round of analysis took a regional perspective to mitigate the risk that a LEP-by-LEP view may not distribute sites as evenly as a holistic analysis. This found that only three of the 27 top- three sites by