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Darlaston Strategic Regeneration Framework: Baseline Report August 2009 August 2009 DARLASTON STRATEGIC REGENERATION FRAMEWORK: BASELINE REPORT August 2009 August 2009 For all matters regarding this project please contact Helen Flage by calling: 0161 200 5500 or e-mailing: [email protected] or posting: URBED, 10 Little Lever Street, Manchester, M1 1HR CONTENTS Introduction 4 Strategic Context 6 Historical Development 16 Land Use & Community Facilities 20 Urban Form & Townscape 30 Heritage Assets & Value 44 Greenspace 48 Consultation 56 Area Analysis 58 Next Steps 66 Appendix 1 - Walkabout Report Appendix 2 - Roundtable Report Appendix 3 - Public Consultation 1 Report SQW Report - Socio Economic Analysis DTZ Report - Property Market Analysis JMP Report - Transport Analysis INTRODUCTION This report comprises spatial and design analysis for the Darlaston Strategic Regeneration Framework. The report considers: ■ Strategic & Planning Context Darlaston is considered a strategically positioned district ■ Historical Development centre within the borough of Walsall with key links to the ■ Land Use & Community Facilities Black Country Route and the M6 motorway. The area forms ■ Urban Form & Townscape a gateway link with Sandwell and the wider Black Country ■ Heritage Value region. Darlaston is located within regeneration corridor 6 ■ Greenspace of the Black Country Joint Core Strategy, the vision for this ■ Consultation corridor is to play a part in attracting high quality industry ■ Area Analysis to the Black Country. Good quality residential and green spaces will add to the historic character and heritage of It is accompanied by a further 3 reports from the consultancy central Darlaston and the vitality of its centre. team as follows: A separate, important regeneration initiative that interfaces ■ DTZ Commerical and Property Market Analysis with the Darlaston SRF is the Darlaston Strategic ■ SQW Economic Analysis Development Areas (DSDA) which is largely classified as a ■ JMP Transportation Analysis core employment area, within the Walsall UDP. Realising the potential of the SDA is one of the shared aspirations of the An executive summary is also provided which summarizes Council and Walsall Regeneration Company (WRC) the key issues and opportunities. The purpose of the baseline report is to provide an evidence base on which to build a PROJECT PLAN. robust regeneration strategy for Darlaston. The work programme sets out 4 stages to the project as set URBED, DTZ, SQW, JMP and Landscape Projects were out in the table below: appointed by Walsall Council and Walsall Housing Group in May 2009 to prepare a Strategic Regeneration Framework for Baseline Analysis May – July 09 Areas Walkabouts Baseline Analysis and Issues Darlaston. Stakeholder Meetings Roundtable The 10-15 year vision will outline how Darlaston should Workshop change to create a more sustainable place to live and work. Public Consultation on Issues Key focus areas are: Baseline Report/ Thinkpiece ■ The revitalisation of the town centre Attracting high quality industry Option August – October 09 Developing Options ■ Stakeholder Option Development ■ Investment in community uses workshop ■ Provision of new housing Public Consultation on Options ■ Improving green spaces Options Report ■ Improving the environment and design ■ Enhancing the historic character and heritage value Draft SRF October – Draft SRF November 09 Public Consultation ■ Improving access and connections on Draft SRF ■ Improving education, training and skills development Final SRF November – January Issue Final Draft 10 Report The Darlaston Regeneration Area is one of the ten areas Comment and identified in the Walsall Strategic Regeneration Framework. Review Period Final Report It forms part of the second tranche of the ten priorities approved by the Cabinet in October 2006. 4 Legend Darlaston Strategic Regeneration Area Darlaston Strategic Development Area District Centre Main Roads Main Routes through Study Area Walsall Canal Railway 5 STRATEGIC CONTEXT The aims of the West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy for the Black Country are to reverse out migration, raise income levels, create an inclusive and cohesive society and transform its environment. Darlaston is located within the Birmingham city region Transformational projects that WRC is leading on include: and the Black Country Regeneration Area. Specifically it is located in the employment land investment corridor and the ■ Walsall Gigaport - Potentially the most significant of Black Country growth corridor. These are both a focus for the strategic transformational projects within the WRC regeneration activity. The exact boundary of the employment portfolio, Walsall Gigaport could over time create land investment corridor will be defined through the Black up to 3,200 jobs, while retaining and attracting new Country Joint Core Strategy. commercial enterprises to the town. The granting in October 2008 of outline planning consent for Walsall This important document will identify land suitable for Gigaport is a genuine milestone. It paves the way for the employment purposes to meet the portfolio requirements, as introduction of a ‘next generation’ technology platform well as land that can be transferred to housing to meet the that will act as a magnet for attracting new and emerging areas requirement. industries focusing on a select number of key sectors that are best suited to exploit the advantages offered by WALSALL REGENERATION COMPANY fibre optics. ■ Walsall First - Building work on the £65 million new Walsall Regeneration Company (WRC) was established Walsall College is on target to be completed in Spring in March 2004 to help deliver regeneration activity and next year and this educational ‘centre of excellence,’ is economically reposition Walsall and contribute to the wider due to open for learning in September 2009. regeneration of the Black Country and its role in the city ■ Birchills - WRC’s drive to create a thriving ‘office corridor’ region. - Walsall Gigaport - together with a ‘next generation’ fibre optic network presents a significant opportunity to The designated area of WRC includes the town centre and spread the benefits throughout the WRC area. neighbouring areas, canalside communities to the north and ■ Darlaston Strategic Development Area - A major strategic Darlaston Strategic Development Area, straddling the M6, to location of more than 54 developable acres, Darlaston the south west. SDA represents one of the West Midlands’ prime regeneration opportunities. Falling both sides of the M6 Advantage West Midlands, English Partnerships and Walsall at the very heart of the national motorway network, and Council, are the founding partners of WRC and are working with easy access to Birmingham International Airport, successfully with the private sector, other public sector Darlaston SDA presents a compelling case for national organisations and community stakeholders to deliver a co- and international companies looking to establish a high ordinated programme of transformational regeneration. WRC profile presence. With substantial investment required is focused on attracting a total of more than £750 million to remediate the land, WRC’s strategy is built around a of private and public sector investment within a decade, clear focus on delivering solutions. Establishing a close creating more than 5,500 jobs, over 1,500 new homes and working relationship with the Environment Agency, the reclaiming in excess of 70 hectares of land. approach is recognised as an innovative model of best practice. This has encouraged regional development agency Advantage West Midlands to acquire a key site within the SDA to kick-start development. Pilot remediation is planned to commence in early 2009 with full engineering works to follow. WRC is seeking to create a high quality environment, emphasising the area’s 6 The Black Country Context Walsall Context 7 heritage and canal, forming an early feature of the Black The Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF) identifies Country Urban Park. Links to Walsall Gigaport by fibre several projects for Brownhills: optic cable will give businesses locating here broadband at speeds of a gigabyte a second, 120 times faster ■ food and retail than normal, in both directions. Truly a fifth ‘Industrial ■ traffic improvements Revolution’ on sites that once housed the ‘engine room’ ■ public transport and pedestrian access of the first. With connectivity at the speed of light the platform is there for inspirational transformation, leading A housing Masterplan has identified three canal side the way for the Black Country and West Midlands. mixed tenure schemes that would provide over 200 new Darlaston SDA has the potential to create between 2,500 properties with a mixture of three-storey apartments, one and 4,500 jobs with 21st century skills and two bedroom flats and four bedroom detached homes. ■ Walsall Regeneration Company, together with its The local Project Reference Group in partnership with the partners, is also investigating innovative approaches to council and our key partners Walsall Housing Group (WHG) 21st century public realm, seeing economic drivers as commissioned LDA Design consultants to develop an being the lynchpin to its success and sustainability. Environmental Strategy for the area that ‘builds upon’ the work of the housing Masterplan and the recent improvements WALSALL STRATEGIC REGENERATION FRAMEWORK in the area. The Strategic Regeneration Framework approved by the Council in March 2006 is a 10-15 year view of development in Walsall’s district centres. These are shown on the plan opposite.
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