Bournemouth and Poole City Region - City Deal Expression of Interest 2013 Section A Summary information A1. Proposal title. Commissioners (PHC – manages the Bournemouth and Poole City Region Port of Poole) and Manchester (BPCR) – Removing the barriers to Airports Group (MAG - owners of deliver economic growth. Bournemouth Airport). A2. Key partners involved in the A3. Local point of contact. proposal. • Bournemouth Borough Council Borough of Poole, Bournemouth Bill Cotton Borough Council, Christchurch [email protected] Borough Council, Dorset County 01202 458702. Section B Council, East Dorset District Council, • Borough of Poole Bournemouth University (BU), Arts Adrian Trevett Problem definition University Bournemouth (AUB), [email protected] Dorset LEP (DLEP), Bournemouth & 01202 633032. Poole College (BPC), Poole Harbour sectors such as Creative Industries (£349m B1. What is the single GVA) and Advanced Engineering (£202m GVA). • The BPCR Local Authorities have ambitious economic challenge or regeneration plans which include some of the opportunity that you want to largest schemes in the South West. • Bournemouth University and the Arts address through a City Deal? University of Bournemouth have international Why has this been chosen as reputations in the Creative Industries (specifically art, design and media production) the focus of your proposal? with plans for expansion in the BPCR. • Bournemouth and Poole College is well attuned to the local labour market with innovative initiatives such as Marine Technology, Digital Design and STEM centres. Bournemouth and Poole City Region (BPCR) • Highly regarded LEP wide governance is high performing: relationship between local authorities, private, voluntary and education sectors, • Our unemployment levels are below the cemented through the DLEP Board. national average (JSA claimant rate 2.5% • A number of existing companies wish to compared to 3.8% for GB). expand and consolidate, but we are unable to • We have a resilient economy with Financial offer appropriate sites. Services (£1,157m GVA) and Tourism • We have latent demand and high growth (£1,036m GVA) delivering the highest GVA potential. Accelerated investment in contributions. We also have strengths and infrastructure will help the urban area work opportunities for growth in a number of harder, more efficiently and deliver new jobs. 2 3 Maps of the local area 6 Cllr John Beesley, Leader, Bournemouth Borough Council 3 N L 3 L L A A H S U A R A 3 5 3 L West Howe 0 D L 3 In the Bournemouth and Poole City Region, we are ready to punch R I M L A H H 8 E L R A Broadstone E s W Lytchett V 8 P A 4 O R 3 Heath Wood G O A W E H L Beacon Hill A Northern above our weight and build on the extensive partnership working already E Y L N U L A I S N R D A T O Business Parks D W W L I C N “ K T R S E D R S D Canford Heath M R A Waterloo O undertaken. The City Deal will help us unlock the potential of key H D Wallisdown C Creekmoor H Nuffield D E T R B R A D E Industrial Estate R R R A T M D 3 A W 5 5 V I 3 0 O N E E 9 O Lytchett A A304 G N employment land to support critical business sectors, creating more W D R W Upton G Minster N R O I P W E A R Parley Bournemouth Oakdale R L B D E Y O L L L Parley Cross A E D A A N E N S Y D A R F S W O D Junction Chapel Gate Airport E D jobs and retaining skills, delivering economic growth and R R S E U D A V A Y O R Stanley Green X N C A W D A S B I H L E Y R Junction M D W D S B B 3 R O 0 7 3 E P R Upper Parkstone O Hurn L O N LE A O R West Parley E D Y H R A3 prosperity for the region. D 5 Roundabout Longfleet C I L L A V E P E N N H Bournemouth H R Parkstone I R D D Operational Airport T O N E S Hamworthy R K S R PA T Twin Sails S Northbourne C Dolphin F Branksome H F I U Bridge L Lower Shopping Centre R C Park C D Hamworthy D A H R R 3 Poole O 0 R T 6 F 0 D U N Lilliput P A ” I C L Hamworthy L I Canford L T H Park Cliffs R Blackwater E O C N 7 A O A 4 S P T L R Junction 3 L D A E Y L H A A U N W Area Code: E ARrea Code: encourage a transition to a more balanced D Castlepoint Holdenhurst N The Challenge W A POOLE HARBOUR 8 R E O S Shopping Centre 3 D Bournemouth T R Village Bournemouth Ensbury B 3 economy, boosting Advanced Manufacturing A Poole Park Poole D R E R O Moordown Christchurch H (particularly Marine and Aerospace focussed at our S Christchurch BPCR whilst high achieving is not reaching its full Cooper Dean H potential to deliver economic growth and new jobs. Port and Airport) as well as Digital and Creative This map is not to scale Sandbanks Roundabout This map is not to scale We have a distinct lack of employment sites in the Industries building on the international reputation of Ameysford BPCR and our existing sites are heavily our two Universities. F 1 A3 oversubscribed (circa 95% occupancy). We are Ferndown Canford Bottom constrained by the coast to the south and to the BPCR Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Junction A A 3 3 5 currently employs 14,200 people within BPCR and 0 3 north, east and west we are constrained by flood 8 31 includes prestigious brands such as Sunseeker, A plains and various international and national nature A31 Merley Honeywell, Cobham and LUSH. A recent Bournemouth conservation designations (see Appendix 1). Airport development highlights the issues and latent West Parley Northbourne We have two key strategic sites that are capable of demand; a local advanced engineering company A 3 has recently become a Tier 1 supplier to Airbus and 5 delivering significant economic growth and jobs; 0 Broadstone 9 8 4 4 3 3 n Waterloo A Londo namely, Bournemouth Airport and the Port of Poole. Boeing with a projected increase in turnover of over A Canford Moordown 9 Heath 4 Wallisdown However there are a number of issues preventing 70%. To facilitate this growth they need to expand 0 Creekmoor 3 A Winton 8 Queens 3 A3 3 this from happening and the biggest challenge but their current premises are not large enough and 50 5 Somerford Upton Park A Boscombe A3 A facing the unlocking of these sites is significantly they have nowhere suitable to go locally. Existing 35 Oakdale East Christchurch 5 Upper Parkstone A3 improving their access to make them viable. This business parks at Bournemouth Airport are A3 Southbourne A 5 3 Boscombe 50 th deal would provide accessibility to over 85 hectares operating at 98% occupancy. Development of the ou Hamworthy m Branksome Park ey Bournemouth of new employment land, vital in an area where speculative Bournemouth Airport Cirrus Court W Poole Lilliput office, warehouse and industrial space is currently Incubator scheme (450,000 sq ft) during 2008/9 Canford Cliffs 95% occupied. This equates to a 15% increase in became fully let within a year of completion. POOLE HARBOUR employment floor space in the BPCR. Currently, Expressions of interest for this site amounted to Sandbanks 670,000 sq ft, further demonstrating the latent improving access to the sites would require support Area Code: from the Department of Transport (to give us greater demand for this type of development. Bournemouth certainty and flexibility in the use of funding – over Poole Christchurch the next 10 years), Natural England and the The BPCR Creative Industries currently employs This map is not to scale Environment Agency (to be more positive towards 6,500 people and includes key employers such as access improvement proposals). Bright Blue Day (3rd best integrated agency in the UK), Redweb (most innovative agency in the UK The constraints of our geography and internationally 2011) and Thinking Juice (best creative and most Cllr Elaine Atkinson, Leader, Borough of Poole effective agency 2011). This is a vibrant sector important natural environment, along-side decades City Deal presents a fantastic opportunity to unlock the potential of the of under-investment in key infrastructure means the within BPCR currently constrained by a lack of conurbation is not performing as well as a region of suitable BPCR premises. By providing out of town “ Bournemouth and Poole City Region. The chance to develop the infrastructure our size (population in excess of 375,000) and with premises for Advanced Engineering and we have to help the area really thrive for the benefit of all businesses and our assets should. Manufacturing we would enable the creative sector residents across the City Region is really exciting. Borough of Poole is to flourish within Bournemouth and Poole town Our economic sectors such as Financial Services centres. This change would be assisted by the wholeheartedly behind this initiative and looks forward to working with and Tourism are not growing and we need to Universities and their expansion plans. our partners and playing an active role in its delivery.