Central Manchester Strategic Regeneration Framework
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Central Manchester Strategic Regeneration Framework The Central Manchester Strategic Regeneration City Centre Framework (SRF) has been developed over an intensive 12-month period through extensive research and in- depth consultation. Hulme Ardwick Gorton North Foreword By Over 3000 local residents, community groups, businesses and key partners who deliver services in the area were involved in this process. Longsight the Leader of The Framework identifies the strategic policies and physical opportunities Moss Side The Council that will be developed to shape and drive the growth of the Central Gorton Manchester SRF area over the next 10 – 15 years. South Rusholme The proximity of the area to the city centre and the location of the universities and hospitals means that there are significant opportunities for residents and for new people moving into the area. But, historically, local people have often missed out on these opportunities. Our aim is to build on the diversity of Central Manchester to create distinctive, attractive and safe neighbourhoods, where people of all economic backgrounds want to live. Our challenge is to help residents and businesses to unlock the rich economic opportunities within the area and the wider City. By integrating relevant plans and proposals, the Framework sets the context for existing and new initiatives that will combine to accelerate the delivery of much-needed physical, economic and social change in a co-ordinated way. Over the next 10 – 15 years, this SRF will ensure that current opportunities are maximised and new opportunities are fully realised. I would like to sincerely thank the people living and working in the Central Manchester area who have supported the development of the Strategic Regeneration Framework to date and whose ongoing commitment will enable us to translate our vision for Central Manchester into a reality. Cllr Richard Leese CENTRAL MANCHESTER Strategic Regeneration Framework Leader of Manchester City Council > 1 EXECUTIVE PART I – PART II – PART III – PART IV – APPENDIX SUMMARY THE CONTEXT THE VISION POLICY NEXT STEPS AND SPATIAL FRAMEWORK FRAMEWORK 5 12 28 50 170 200 15 Introduction and Context 31 Vision for Central Manchester 51 Policy Framework Introduction 172 Community Engagement 202 Glossary of Terms 18 The Challenges: 35 Key Objectives 176 Improving Service Delivery Summary Baseline Review 38 The Spatial Framework DYNAMIC ECONOMY 182 Implementation and and Strengths, Weaknesses Next Steps Opportunities and Challenges 56 Local Economy, Business and Investment 192 Performance Management OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL 70 Skills and Access to Employment 84 Education and Lifelong Learning FLOURISHING COMMUNITIES 94 Children, Young People and Families 102 Crime and Community Safety 110 Health 118 Older People 125 Culture: Arts and Leisure A RENEWED URBAN FORM 132 Community Character 141 Housing 152 District and Neighbourhood Centres 160 Transport and Connectivity CENTRAL MANCHESTER Strategic Regeneration Framework > 3 Executive Summary This document defines the The area covered by the Framework The Major Opportunities significant opportunities to The Strategic comprises the wards of Ardwick, act as regeneration catalysts needs and priorities for Central Gorton North, Gorton South, There are five main opportunities for neighbourhoods within Regeneration Hulme, Longsight, Moss Side and that will underpin the SRF, which are the area. Manchester in order to prioritise Rusholme, forming the inner ring Framework extremely important for Central investment and activity in the of suburbs to the south of the city Manchester, the city as a whole and 4. Investment in education: A (SRF) centre. Home to some of the the surrounding area. These five key step-change is required in the area, aligning them with the city’s major economic assets, opportunities are: educational and skills training and characterised by diverse offer to ensure that current and major opportunities to deliver a communities ranging from the very 1. City centre Growth: The most future workforces are equipped disadvantaged to the quite well-off, significant opportunity for the to access employment sustainable future for the area. it can be summarised as a Central Manchester area is its opportunities. Significant place with: proximity to the region’s most investment is planned in the successful and fastest growing education infrastructure The overriding purpose of the SRF is to: • A growing and ethnically diverse business and employer location, through Building Schools for range of communities, some Manchester city centre. This the Future (BSF), for example, • Provide a strong vision for Central Manchester over the next long established and others continuing economic growth at Cedar Mount, and more recently arrived the Academies programmes. 10 – 15 years and physical activity within the city centre provides major These are linked to an • A very high level of employment organisational and cultural • Set a broad spatial framework within which investment can employment opportunities for available in some of the city’s change to integrate children’s be planned and guided to make the greatest contribution to residents as well as the potential key economic assets, and in a for city fringe business growth. and educational services and social and economic objectives number of flourishing retail and the increasing influence of leisure locations 2. Southern Gateway: Major schools in children’s lives, • Reflect Manchester’s Community Strategy, identifying expansion of the University and through Extended Schools. opportunities for Central Manchester to contribute to the • High levels of worklessness, Hospital activity on the Oxford These initiatives provide wider City objectives unemployment and people on Road Corridor, combined with the major opportunities for partners incapacity benefit, affecting most potential relocation of the BBC to achieve far-reaching • Identify where improvements to public services can be communities in some way, and and other media industries to the improvements in children and delivered for the communities of Central Manchester, certain communities severely area, can both provide additional young people’s life chances, building on good practice of regeneration in Manchester employment opportunities for tackling disadvantage in and elsewhere • A complex geography of existing residents and act as the area. disadvantage, with deprivation a means of attracting new concentrated by neighbourhood, economically mobile populations 5. Changes to service delivery: rather than whole wards, to live and work in the area. Changes to the way in which requiring a detailed analysis public services are delivered 3. Housing change: A significant are already underway across • A high rate of crime and poor amount of change is envisaged in Manchester, including both health reinforcing economic the area’s housing. Key activities physical service centres and disadvantage, with higher than include the upgrading and a re-organisation of frontline average figures for all crime transfer of council stock across delivery. This can be used to types and all the major killer the area, investment in both strengthen existing centres and diseases across Central private and social stock through shape new provision, such as Manchester: Housing Market Renewal and the emerging new district the implementation of Private centre in Gorton, adding to their Landlord Licensing. These overall offer through frontline changes allied with new delivery and creating CENTRAL MANCHESTER Strategic Regeneration Framework development activity offer confidence in the area for > private sector investors. 7 The Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF) FLOURISHING COMMUNITIES The Spatial Framework Employment Accessibility: ‘THE CONNECTED CITY, CONNECTED CITIZENS’ Our vision is 8. Improving the living conditions The spatial framework aims to • Increase the accessibility of for an area in which residents are re-connected with the and environment of the realise the 15 Key Objectives jobs by creating an neighbourhoods of Central through physical change to support interconnected network of opportunities available; to live in high quality neighbourhoods and Manchester programmes of economic and social distinctive business locations enjoy the economic benefits, improved services and facilities investment, acting as a key delivery along key radial routes, tying 9. Tailoring service delivery in mechanism across each of the together city centre and offered by the area’s dynamic and growing economy. That's why Central Manchester to the themes. The physical development Airport growth with nearby specific needs of its residents strategy for Central Manchester is employment we are calling it ‘The Connected City’. Central Manchester’s based on three core principles: cosmopolitan nature, with its rich cultural and historic fabric are 10.Transforming the health fortunes • Improve transport links to of Central Manchester residents Connected Communities: sustain the area’s desirability existing strengths which we aim to build on to unlock the area’s as a business location, 11.Reducing levels of crime and • Investment in the physical generating physical access full potential as an attractive place to live, work and do business. tackling perceived safety issues infrastructure of communities, and trading links for business to enhance a feeling of security providing modern and attractive located, or looking to locate, in for residents school facilities, and well the area distributed, strong