Residential Development Sites Group Agenda

• Welcome and introductions • Background and context • housing growth – planning for growth • Infrastructure to support housing growth • Over to you – your interests Who are we?

Jack Hegarty Ruth Bamford Rebecca Mayman

Background and context

Planning for growth

Planning for Growth – development plans

In plans the following plans are currently under development:

• District Adopted Core Strategy ( 2006-26); adopted 2010 but new local plan review commenced

• District Local Plan; currently under Examination in Public; adoption expected 2015

• Local Plan: currently under Examination in Public; adoption expected 2015

• South Worcestershire Development Plan (covering Malvern Hills, Worcester City and Councils); currently under Examination in Public; adoption expected 2015 Planning for Growth – development plans

Jointly these plans set the following development targets for development in Worcestershire until 2031:

Housing numbers: total 45580 (Worcestershire needs)

Wyre Forest District: 4000 (up to 2026) : 6980 Redditch Borough: 6300 South Worcestershire: 28300 Planning for Growth – delivery

Substantive uplift in housing completions across the county including:

Wychavon – best since onset of downturn with completions rising from average of 250 pa to 860 last year

Wyre Forest – 430 net completions in 14/15 – average of 304 pa over last 4 years Planning for Growth – housing sites

Examples of major sites across the county A number of major sites, including mixed use with extensions planned, e.g.

• Worcester South – 2,600 dwellings • Whitfield Road, Bromsgrove – 490 • Worcester West – 2,150 dwellings dwellings • Malvern North East – 800 dwellings • Abbey Road, Evesham – 200 dwellings • Malvern Technology Centre – 300 • Yew Tree Hill, Droitwich Spa – 800 dwellings dwellings & 200 unit care facility • Shrub Hill (Worcester) Opportunity • Copcut , Droitwich – 750 dwellings Zone – 600 dwellings • Former British Sugar Site, • Station Road, Pershore – 700 dwellings – 320 dwellings • Brockhill, Redditch – 1,625 dwellings • Churchfields area, Kidderminster –340 • Foxlydiate, Redditch – 2,800 dwellings dwellings • Webheath, Redditch – 400 dwellings • Severn Road Area, Stourport – 160 • Perryfields Road, Bromsgrove – 1,300 dwellings dwellings

Malvern Hills Redditch Worcester City Wyre Forest Wychavon Bromsgrove Strategic Infrastructure to support growth Worcestershire Parkway

Phasing of Packages

• Package 1 - All First Great Western Hereford/Worcester – London services to call from station opening in 2017

• Package 2 - All Cross-Country Nottingham-Cardiff services to call from station opening in 2017

• Package 3 - All Cross-Country Bristol-Manchester services to call from 2019

• Business Case is based on Packages 1 and 2 only Proposed Scheme Title

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Current Proposals

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Southern Link

Southern Link Road (A4440) Phase 3

• £12m investment from LEP • New dual carriageway • Connecting West Worcester and Malvern – speed up journey time

Hoobrook Link

Key messages of Our PLACE funded projects ...

Hoobrook Link Road • £3.6m LEP investment (plus £2.5m from GBSLEP) • Supports the delivery of the Kidderminster Enterprise Park

Kidderminster and Bromsgrove railway stations Kidderminster Railway Improvements

• £4.3m scheme (£2.5m WLEP £1.8m GBSLEP) scheme being developed • Improve bus/rail/pedestrian interchange facilities improving access to rail services from Kidderminster, , Stourport on Severn and the wider Wyre Forest area.

Bromsgrove railway station Cathedral Square Worcester

Broadband

Superfast Broadband £2.39m WLEP investment to increase coverage to 95% of residential and business premises

Over to you – group discussion on residential growth