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Leeds City Region HS2 Growth Strategy: Foreword and Executive FOREWORD Our city region is growing and HS2 is vital to support the next step in transforming our economy. HS2 is much more than just a transport project. It will act as a catalyst for regeneration and growth around our main transport hubs, it will improve connectivity to our towns and cities across the Leeds City Region and the North, it will improve the skills and job opportunities for our workforce, it will create opportunities for our businesses and supply chains, and enhance the image and profile of our city region. HS2 is part of our wider ambitions for inclusive growth across the Leeds City Region. This growth is essential in order to raise living standards and tackle deprivation, boost innovation, exports and create new jobs. HS2 helps achieve our goals by strengthening business links, by opening up new markets and access to talent and by connecting people to jobs. Councillor Judith Blake CBE, Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe, As a major piece of national infrastructure HS2 will result in faster journey times, improved national North - Leader, Leeds City Council Leader, Bradford Metropolitan South connectivity and much needed increased capacity on our rail network. Passengers will soon be able to District Council & Chair, West Yorkshire Combined Authority travel across the UK at speeds of up to 250mph in new high speed trains and HS2 will offer a solution to the chronic overcrowding of the existing rail stock running along the East Coast Mainline. It will also help link the Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine, rebalancing the rest of the UK with the South East and unlocking the full potential of the Leeds City Region. The transformation and regeneration around our station hubs at Leeds, Bradford, York, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax and Harrogate will change the fabric of our cities and towns. For Leeds this will mean the redevelopment of the busiest railway station in the North, fuelling our wider ambitions for regeneration of the South Bank, creating new jobs and homes, and delivering a reimagined waterfront and city park right in the heart of Leeds. HS2 is also essential to improve wider connectivity and transform the North. This includes Northern Powerhouse Rail that will connect Liverpool, Newcastle and Hull, and crucially will mean people can get from Leeds to Manchester (via Bradford) in 30 minutes, uniting the main drivers of the Northern Powerhouse. Councillor Keith Wakefield OBE, Roger Marsh OBE, Chair, Chair, West Yorkshire Combined Leeds City Region Enterprise Authority Transport Committee Partnership LEEDS CITY REGION HS2 GROWTH STRATEGY | DRAFT FOR ENGAGEMENT 05 06 LEEDS CITY REGION HS2 GROWTH STRATEGY | DRAFT FOR ENGAGEMENT 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY LEEDS CITY REGION HS2 GROWTH STRATEGY | DRAFT FOR ENGAGEMENT 07 N L O EE IMP RT DS AC HE C TS RN ITY O R F PO E OU W GI R E ON H RH S O 2 U G S IMPROVE CONNECTIVITY ON OUR PRIORITY CORRIDORS R E OW UNLOCK DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE REGION AT TH GROWTH HUBS IN BRADFORD, HALIFAX, HARROGATE, S HUDDERSFIELD, SELBY, SKIPTON, WAKEFIELD AND YORK T R A T E G Y AT LEAST LEEDS HARROGATE SKIPTON YORK 20% OF THE WORKFORCE ON PORT OF LIVERPOOL 40,000 HS2 WILL BE FROM THE ADDITIONAL JOBS CREATED CITY REGION ACROSS THE CITY REGION BRADFORD LEEDS SELBY 5% OF THESE WORKERS 50% WILL BE PREVIOUSLY HALIFAX OF THESE JOBS WILL BE UNEMPLOYED LOCATED OUTSIDE LEEDS IN WAKEFIELD THE WIDER CITY REGION HUDDERSFIELD c£54 c£3.8 ££££ BILLION BILLION IMPACTS OF OUR HS2 GROWTH £65 STRATEGY WILL DOUBLE THE SIZE BILLION AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF LEEDS CITY ECONOMIC OUTPUT CENTRE, CREATE AN ADDITIONAL ADDED TO THE EXTRA TO THE C.12,000 HOMES AND NEARLY DOUBLE REGIONAL REGION EVERY JOURNEY TIMES THE NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL OFFICE ECONOMY BY YEAR FROM COMPLETIONS PER ANNUM BY 2050 2050 2050 CURRENT HS2 YORK LONDON LONDON 121,000 CENTRAL £ BUSINESSES 175 MILES 175 MILES £££ TRAIN: 2HR 1HR 21MINS £290 +11.4% 1 HR BY AIR BY TRAIN INCREASE ON 2014 1 HR BY AIR BILLION COMPARES WITH GROSS VALUE ADDED 7,000 BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM +8% ADDITIONAL JOBS INCREASE FOR THE UK 93 MILES 93 MILES AS A WHOLE £ECONOMIC 1HR 50MINS TRAIN:49MINS UPLIFT OF BY TRAIN 2HR 15MINS 2HR 15MINS BY ROAD £1.6 100,000 BY ROAD 1,500 SQM OF COMMERCIAL BILLION NEW HOMES OFFICE DEVELOPMENT 14.5m CURRENT NORTHERN POPULATION POWERHOUSE RAIL EDUCAIONAL AND MEDICAL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL SOUTH BANK VICTORIA GATE 64 MILES A PACKAGE OF PHASE 2/ QUARRY HILL 64 MILES POPULATION OF CIVIC 1HR 50MINS TRAIN:50MINS BY TRAIN 1HR 30MINS 3 MILLION £200 1HR 30MINS MILLION OFFICE RETIAL AND LEISURE BY ROAD 7m OF PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE BY ROAD EMPLOYMENT INVESTMENTS IS PROPOSED CULTURAL (23% OF UK) MANCHESTER MANCHESTER – GREW BY 100,000 OVER LAST YEAR 1.2 MILLION 43 MILES 43 MILES FTE WORKFORCE 8,000 SOUTH BANK 50 MINS 30 MINS 10,000 HOMES DELIVERED BY 2028 - WE WE WILL£ DELIVER £25 OF HS2 STUDENTS ACCESS WILL TRIPLE THE AMOUNT OF PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT BY TRAIN BY TRAIN THE NEW EDUCATIONAL UNITS DELIVERED PER ANNUM FOR EVERY £1 OF PUBLIC AND ROAD FACILITIES IN SOUTH BANK IN LEEDS CITY CENTRE SECTOR INVESTMENT IM PA CT PRINCIPLES OF OUR HS2 GROWTH STRATEGY 1 S O F 2 OU R HS 3 2 GR O A STEP CHANGE IN W CONNECTIVITY FOR THE A STEP CHANGE IN CONNECTIVITY A NEW WORLD CLASS GATEWAY AT A CATALYST FOR TH CITY REGION S FOR THE CITY REGION LEEDS STATION REGENERATION T R A MAGNET A NEW A T FOR INVESTMENT WORLD CLASS • Bring people and businesses closer together, • A distinctive gateway into Leeds and the wider • Support regeneration, development and E AND CULTURAL GATEWAY AT G Y DESTINATION LEEDS STATION connecting people to jobs, driving innovation, city region. housing growth in our urban centres, by TRANSFORMING productivity and growth in our main urban • A new integrated station linking HS2 into the accelerating the delivery of major schemes THE CITY REGION centres. heart of Leeds. around our main transport hubs. ECONOMY • Increase capacity on the regional network • A destination station being an attractive place • Double the size and economic contribution of through improvements to priority corridors. to visit Leeds with improved public spaces and Leeds city centre through the South Bank and DEVELOPING OUR A CATALYST FOR Innovation District projects. BUSINESSES AND REGENERATION • Make travel easier by enabling shorter journey supporting regeneration. SUPPLY CHAIN • Unlock development across the region at times, more trains, more seats and seamless • A connected place where national, regional, and local transport services meet and are hubs in Bradford, York, Huddersfield, Halifax, INSPIRING OUR links to other modes of transport. PEOPLE integrated together. Harrogate, Selby, Skipton and Wakefield. • Develop and promote new technology to improve passenger services. 6 5 4 TRANSFORMING THE INSPIRING OUR DEVELOPING OUR BUSINESSES A MAGNET FOR INVESTMENT CITY REGION ECONOMY PEOPLE AND SUPPLY CHAIN AND A CULTURAL DESTINATION • Position HS2 as part of a coherent strategy • Create the opportunity for everyone to improve • Position the city region as the UK centre for • Increase levels of inward investment through for the rail network as a whole – transforming their skills, access better opportunities, and high speed rail engineering. promoting the opportunities HS2 will bring links between the Leeds City Region and the progress within the labour market. • Build on the capabilities of the University of globally. rest of the UK. • Position the city region as a centre of excellence Leeds Institute for High Speed Rail and • Promote the cultural assets of the region to • Bring new markets within reach of businesses, for skills development in rail including System Integration by creating a technology encourage visitors and workers. and new opportunities within reach of people, strengthening links with the National High park to locate transport technology spinouts • Support the emerging Leeds Cultural Strategy. enabling them to progress and become Speed Rail College in Doncaster. and inward investors, linking with the more productive, in a more integrated labour • Inspire the next generation of engineers, University of Huddersfield’s Institute of market. technicians and infrastructure specialists in our Railway Research. • Increase productivity and growth by widening schools. • Increase awareness of the opportunities HS2 will bring. business reach to innovation, talent and export • Deliver a significant increase of women and markets. BME representation in HS2 construction and the • Support our innovators and entrepreneurs wider rail and transport sectors. to develop new and exciting products in rail engineering. • Develop the cluster of railway engineering expertise in York. LEEDS CITY REGION HS2 GROWTH STRATEGY | DRAFT FOR ENGAGEMENT 9 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION inter-urban links across the north (Northern Powerhouse range of jobs. There will be more capacity on the rail This strategy sets out how Leeds City Region will work Rail), particularly a new fast east-west link between York, and public transport network, faster and more frequent with Government, business, schools, colleges and Leeds, Bradford and Manchester, and also between Leeds services, improved interchanges, better ticketing and universities to maximise the benefits of HS2. The HS2 and Sheffield. Our strategy includes upgrades to existing travel information, and widespread use of new technology Growth Taskforce recommended in 2014 that HS2 could rail lines, to secure improvements before HS2 is built, and to improve transport. transform city region economies, but only if concerted to spread the benefits of HS2 and utilise the capacity it CREATING A WORLD CLASS GATEWAY AT LEEDS action is taken to get our people, businesses, cities and releases. STATION local transport networks ready to make the most of the We estimate that the interventions set out in this HS2 opportunity. It reflects the priorities in the Government’s We will transform Leeds Station, already the busiest Growth Strategy will result in the creation of around Industrial Strategy.
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