Central Strategic Regeneration Framework City Centre South The Council the Leaderof Foreword By Leader ofManchesterCity Council Cllr RichardLeese enable ustotranslateourvisionforCentralManchester intoareality. Regeneration Frameworktodateandwhoseongoing commitmentwill Manchester area whohavesupportedthedevelopmentofStrategic I wouldliketosincerely thankthepeoplelivingandworkinginCentral are maximisedandnewopportunitiesare fullyrealised. Over thenext10–15years,thisSRFwillensure thatcurrent opportunities much-needed physical,economicandsocialchangeinaco-ordinated way. for existingandnewinitiativesthatwillcombinetoacceleratethedeliveryof By integratingrelevant plansandproposals, theFrameworksetscontext economic opportunitieswithinthearea and the widerCity. Our challengeistohelpresidents andbusinesses tounlocktherich neighbourhoods, where peopleofalleconomic backgrounds wanttolive. of CentralManchestertocreate distinctive,attractiveandsafe missed outontheseopportunities.Ouraimistobuildthediversity for newpeoplemovingintothearea. But,historically, localpeoplehaveoften and hospitalsmeansthatthere are significantopportunitiesforresidents and The proximity ofthearea tothecitycentre andthelocationofuniversities Manchester SRFarea overthenext10–15 years. that willbedevelopedtoshapeanddrivethegrowth oftheCentral The Frameworkidentifiesthestrategicpoliciesandphysicalopportunities partners whodeliverservicesinthearea were involvedinthisprocess. Over 3000localresidents, communitygroups, businessesandkey depth consultation. extensive research andin- 12-month periodthrough developed overanintensive Framework (SRF)hasbeen Strategic Regeneration The CentralManchester

1 > CENTRAL MANCHESTER Strategic Regeneration Framework SUMMARY EXECUTIVE 5 18 15 THE CONTEXT PART I– Opportunities andChallenges and Strengths, Weaknesses Summary BaselineReview The Challenges: Introduction andContext 12 38 35 31 FRAMEWORK AND SPATIAL THE VISION PART II– The SpatialFramework Key Objectives forCentralManchester Vision 28 51 160 152 141 132 125 118 110 102 94 84 70 56 FRAMEWORK POLICY PART III– Policy FrameworkIntroduction Transport andConnectivity Centres District andNeighbourhood Housing Community Character Culture: ArtsandLeisure Older People Health Crime andCommunitySafety and Families Children, Young People Learning Education andLifelong Employment Skills andAccessto Business andInvestment Local Economy, A RENEWEDURBANFORM FLOURISHING COMMUNITIES OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL DYNAMIC ECONOMY 0170 50 192 182 176 172 NEXT STEPS PART IV– Performance Management Next Steps Implementation and Improving ServiceDelivery Community Engagement 202 APPENDIX Glossary ofTerms 200

3 > CENTRAL MANCHESTER Strategic Regeneration Framework 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, , 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 . 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

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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 and attractive A RENEWED URBAN centres • Improve road and rail links ENVIRONMENT across they city to connect business locations with The SRF sets out 15 Key Objectives DYNAMIC ECONOMY • Increase interconnectivity The Vision for 12.Generating sustainable housing employment centres outside of for the Framework which will lead to: between communities, through Central Manchester markets within Central the area and residential areas 1. Strengthening the relationship improved transport and Manchester within Central Manchester • A dynamic economy that between Central Manchester, the pedestrian links, to allow equal Central Manchester has a diverse supports the long term prosperity city centre and other key access to the area’s wider population and areas with distinctive 13.Revitalising local centres to act The layering of these core of the many communities employment centres service provision identities. It is well located, close as focal points for the physical strategies provides the to the thriving city centre and neighbourhoods of Central overarching spatial framework and • Opportunities for all, with people 2. Making Central Manchester an Improved Residential Environment: major centres of education and Manchester a set of complementary principles with the skills and qualifications attractive place for employer employment such as the universities for the development of the area. to access employment investment • Provide housing quality and and hospitals, Sports City and 14.Reviving and improving the choice to encourage residents These will guide further change Central Park. However, many people area’s natural and built assets and investment for the future of • Flourishing communities, safe 3. Encouraging growth of existing to choose to stay in the area are still missing out on prosperity Central Manchester. Along with and well managed, with key and new local businesses in the whilst also making it a genuinely and live in neighbourhoods which 15.Enhancing the accessibility of the Local Plans which emerge agencies working together to area as well as ensuring the local desirable and convenient are not as safe or attractive as Central Manchester and making from the SRF, the Framework ensure high quality service economy provides services and residential area to others they want them to be. it easier for residents to move can inform the emerging Local delivery amenities to residents within the area • Deliver some of the most Development Framework (LDF) for Manchester. • A renewed urban environment 4. Changing the image of Central attractive residential with new and improved housing Manchester environments in the city and and other buildings, which drive improvements in together make Central OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL adjacent areas Manchester a place people choose to live and work 5. Improving education and • Improve the environmental attainment levels throughout quality, by investing in the public The objectives listed below will, when the area realm, to increase the desirability taken together, address the and liveability of neighbourhoods economic, social and physical 6. Transforming employment strands that will contribute towards opportunities for local residents the delivery of the long term vision. 7. Celebrating diversity and promoting the cohesion of the Central Manchester population CENTRAL MANCHESTER Strategic Regeneration Framework > 9 The Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF)

The Policy Framework The major policy areas are grouped employment or taking up learning Ward co-ordination will be essential Implementation and In addition to Local Plans, together under themes which relate across Central Manchester. The core in improving service delivery across Next Steps Ward Plans will deliver social The Framework consists of a series back directly to the Key Objectives partners for the effective delivery of Central Manchester in terms of interventions at the local level. of the document: services are sustaining collaboration between Ward Co-ordination Groups will of policy sections (see diagram There are two clear components (MCC), Police agencies and the community. play a significant role in monitoring below) which detail the strategy for of the implementation of the Central (GMP), Manchester Enterprises, District delivery has a major role to performance against the ward achieving the 15 Key Objectives. Improving Service Delivery Manchester SRF. These are the City College, Job Centre Plus, play particularly in relation to plans. The SRF advocates a holistic development of Ward Plans and Connexions, Central Primary Care Children’s Services. Multi-agency approach to regeneration and hence Effective service delivery underpins Local Plans (LPs). The LPs will Trust (PCT), Central Hospital Trust teams will allow service delivery to A robust 3 year Delivery Plan is policy areas overlap significantly and both the spatial and the policy tackle issues at a local level and and Manchester College of Arts and work more effectively in being developed by partners should be seen as a series of frameworks. The SRF sets out, as a are designed to; deliver planned Technology (MANCAT). A range of collaboration both with each other that will set out the key actions, interrelated and complementary key priority, the need to continually growth, stimulate regeneration, others will make important and with children, families and interventions, milestones, roles, policies to realise the Vision for improve and adjust service delivery protect sensitive areas, resolve contributions including the parents. Effective service delivery responsibilities, timescales and Central Manchester. to meet the needs of young conflicting objectives and focus the Universities, Registered Social across Central Manchester should funding requirements. The plan will people, children, families and older delivery of area based initiatives such Landlords (RSL’s) and the Learning be client and outcome driven, also include a marketing and people, parents, and those seeking as district centres. The following LP’s and Skills Council (LSC). culturally and ethnically sensitive and communication strategy to ensure are proposed in the framework: should be monitored and reviewed that all stakeholders have a shared regularly. understanding and ownership of • Moss Side and Rusholme the SRF. Mechanisms and policies • Ardwick/Brunswick and The ongoing commitment of people to oversee delivery Upper Brook Street who live, work and deliver services in the area will be required at The framework sets out a number of • Victoria Park and the every level to enable us to translate structures and polices to guide the surrounding area future work of stakeholders. In our vision for Central Manchester into reality. common with other areas of the City • Longsight and Dickenson Road with SRF’s, there is potential to explore the establishment of an The Neighbourhood Planning of the executive group of stakeholders to Gorton area will be taken forward manage the SRF and to oversee its by NEM. Current proposals include implementation. The SRF will be a LP for: lead by the South Manchester Regeneration Team and the New • the West Gorton and East Manchester (NEM) team. In this Monastery area context, NEM will deliver the framework in the areas of Gorton • Gore Brook which now fall within its boundary. The South Manchester team will • Cedar Mount be responsible for delivery in the remaining area. CENTRAL MANCHESTER Strategic Regeneration Framework > 11