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Central Lancashire City Region Sub-Regional Strategy First Detailed Proposals Prepared for: The North West Regional Assembly This document has been prepared by the Joint Authorities of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Blackpool Borough Council and Lancashire County Council. © The Joint Advisory Committee for Strategic Planning Lancashire County Council, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Blackpool Borough Council ISBN 1 8999 07 912 Copies of this document are available from: Adrian Smith, Lancashire County Council, Environment Directorate, PO Box 9, Guild House, Cross Street. PRESTON. PR1 8RD [email protected] Tel: 01772-534160 Fax: 01772-533898 www.lancashire2016.com March 2005 Text is available in large format on request Central Lancashire City Region: Sub-Regional Strategy (First Detailed Proposals) Contents Page List of Tables iii List of Figures iii 1. Introduction 5 2. The Central Lancashire City Region: Key Facts 7 3. Issues up to 2021 15 4. Vision and Objectives 21 5. Developing the Preferred Strategy 23 6. Developing the City Region Concept in Lancashire 35 7. Proposals Submitted to the North West Regional Assembly 43 A: A Strategy for Sustainable Economic Growth 43 B: Connectivity and Accessibility 45 C: Polycentric Growth 46 D: Planning Principles for Accommodating and Cascading Growth 51 E: Interventions: Removing Barriers to Growth 58 F: 'Saved Policies' from the Joint Lancashire Structure Plan 2001-2016 65 8. Conclusions 67 Appendices A The Brief 69 B Consultation 74 C Lancashire Districts' Outlook 76 D Technical Data 92 E Criteria for identifying business sites 94 The Ordnance Survey mapping included within this document is provided by Lancashire Councty Council under licence from the Ordnance Survey in order to fulfil its public function to make available Council held public domain information. 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The OS web-site can be found at www.ordsvy.gov.uk. i Central Lancashire City Region: Sub-Regional Strategy (First Detailed Proposals) List of Tables Page 2.1 Land Use within the City Region 7 2.2 GVA for Districts within the City Region 8 2.3 Average House Prices in the City Region 9 2.4 House Types in the City Region 9 2.5 Development Potential in the City Region 10 5.1 Option 1: Key Projections and Assumptions 2004-2021 23 5.2 Option 1: Pattern of Business and Industrial Land Provision, 2004-2021 24 5.3 Option 2: Key Projections and Assumptions 2004-2021 27 5.4 Option 2: Pattern of Business and Industrial Land Provision, 2004-2021 28 5.5 Differences between Options 1 and 2 29 5.6 Option 3: Key Projections and Assumptions 2004-2021 31 5.7 Option 3: Pattern of Business and Industrial Land Provision, 2004-2021 32 6.1 Ranking of the North West's Cities and Towns 36 7.1 Preferred Strategy: Key Projections and Assumptions 2004-2021 44 7.2 Preferred Strategy: Pattern of Business and Industrial Land Provision, 2004- 44 2021 7.3 Deprivation in Growth Centres 56 7.4 Proposed Transport Schemes 60 List of Figures 2.1 Context Map 11 2.2 Location of ethnic minority communities 12 2.3 Location of areas of deprivation 13 5.1 Option 1: Development Framework 25 5.2 Option 1: Development Framework 26 6.1 Travel to Work Areas 38 6.2 Spheres of Influence in the North West 39 6.3 Retail Catchment Areas 41 7.1 Potential Congestion on Motorway and Trunk Road Network, 2020 47 7.2 Proposed Rail Network Improvements 48 7.3 Growth Centres and Zones of Influence 52 iii Central Lancashire City Region: Sub-Regional Strategy (First Detailed Proposals) 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Planning and Compulsory Purchase undertaken by the three Authorities into Act 2004 enables the North West travel to work patterns suggests that the Regional Assembly (NWRA) to prepare northern part of West Lancashire District, sub?regional strategies as part of the around Tarleton and Hesketh Bank, Regional Spatial Strategy. In such cases should be included in the Central detailed proposals must first be made by Lancashire, rather than Liverpool, City an authority defined in Section 4(4) of Region. the Act. In Lancashire these Authorities are Blackburn with Darwen BC, 1.4 The Three Authorities have worked Blackpool BC and Lancashire County together on the brief given by the NWRA Council. In this submission these are and, where appropriate, have jointly referred to as The Three Authorities. developed and share ownership of the proposals. However there is no statutory 1.2 The NWRA requested that The Three requirement to jointly agree the Authorities prepare detailed proposals for proposals. Each authority is responsible the Central Lancashire City Region. The only for development of policy for its own request was made on 14 December administrative area. Lancashire County 2004 and was accompanied by a brief. Council's remit does not extend to the This is reproduced at Appendix A. The unitary areas and vice versa. Some Three Authorities were required to proposals may not be relevant to all complete the first detailed proposals three Authorities, e.g. particular road within 12 weeks by 8 March 2005. proposals. 1.3 The NWRA requested The Three 1.5 The Three Authorities consulted widely, Authorities to develop the first detailed but not with the general public, during proposals for the area 'broadly defined' January 2005 before developing the as the 12 local authority areas of proposals. The ways in which Blackpool, Wyre, Fylde, Preston, South consultation was undertaken and the Ribble, Chorley, Blackburn with Darwen, organisations consulted are set out in Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Burnley, Appendix B. This included three Rossendale and Pendle. This coincides workshops with groups of District Council with the Central Lancashire City Region officers. Each District Council was in 'Northern Way'. The sub-region does invited to prepare a two?page statement not include Lancaster City and West of its aspirations for the future of its area Lancashire Districts. However they are for inclusion in an appendix to this referred to where appropriate in this Report. These are included in Appendix Report and officers of the two Authorities C. have taken part in the consultation process outlined below. Analysis 5 Central Lancashire City Region: Sub-Regional Strategy (First Detailed Proposals) 2. THE CENTRAL LANCASHIRE CITY REGION: KEY FACTS 2.1 Central Lancashire adjoins three other profile, as do the City Region's sizeable City Regions: Leeds, Manchester and ethnic minority groups. Ethnic minorities Liverpool (Figure 2.1). Its population, at are particularly concentrated in the larger over 900,000, exceeds that of urban areas of Preston, Blackburn and Manchester and Liverpool City Councils Burnley and in the smaller communities combined. The City Region contains: in East Lancashire (Figure 2.2). The UK's biggest tourist destination, 2.3 Yet the City Region is not an urban Blackpool. agglomeration. Urban development makes up little more than 10% of the The UK's 5th largest university, area. The Forest of Bowland Area of Central Lancashire, with Lancaster Outstanding Natural Beauty covers University just to the north. almost twice as much land (Table 2.1). 1 in 5 of all GB jobs in the aerospace The network of towns means that most industry. 4% of jobs in the City people live close to green belts or other Region are in the aerospace industry. areas of countryside. Burnley town 2.2 Population is diverse. The coastal centre is just over 5km from the Forest of resorts traditionally attract retired people. Bowland. The former New Town areas of Preston, Leyland and Chorley have a younger Table 2.1: LAND USE WITHIN THE CITY REGION Land Use Hectares % of Total Urban development 26,000 12 AONB (Forest of Bowland) 48,000 22 Green Belt 43,000 20 Other rural areas 99,000 46 City Region total 215,000 100 Source: Lancashire County Council based on Office of National Statistics, Ordnance Survey and District Local Plan data. 7 Central Lancashire City Region: Sub-Regional Strategy (First Detailed Proposals) 2.4 The City Region straddles the M6. M6 around Preston between Within the City Region the M55/M65 Junctions 30 and 31 in both provides a west-east spine running from directions is close to capacity; near Blackpool Airport to the Pennines. Parts of the A Road network also The M61 and M66 link the City Region to suffer peak hour congestion, Manchester. The rail network follows a particularly A585 between M55 and similar pattern. Congestion is low Fleetwood. compared with adjacent City Regions, but is increasing. Air Quality Some peak hour congestion on the Management Areas have been declared rail network, e.g. Blackburn- around the centres of Preston and Manchester. Blackburn. Congestion occurs at the 2.5 Despite significant employment in following locations on the strategic advanced manufacturing and the networks: professional services sectors, GVA is Peak-time queuing at motorway below the national average in most junctions: M55 (Junction 1); M65 Districts (Table 2.2). Average gross (Junctions 6 and 10); weekly earnings are 9% below the UK level. House prices are below UK Links to Junction 1 of M66 averages (Table 2.3). The City Region southbound are operating in excess lacks properties at the upper end of the of capacity with significant congestion housing market. There is a current bias along the remainder of the M66 towards semi-detached and terraced southbound; properties (Table 2.4). M65 between Junctions 4 and 5 eastbound