Wakefield City Centre Masterplan Project Information Responsible Officers James Stephenson Michelle Rushworth Sarah Howsen Senior Development Development City and Town Centre Manager Manager Regeneration Officer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 2 Masterplanning Urban Design Guidance & Placemaking The Team Public Open Space Strategy Contract Management SWOT, & Property Market Analysis; Viability, Phasing, Funding & Delivery Visitor & Cultural Placemaking Strategy Mobility & Connectivity Framework Healthy Streets Green Infrastructure Cost Consultancy Community & Stakeholder Engagement Public Consultation 3 Project Overview AIMS + OBJECTIVES • Help address issues of decline in the retail • Enhance the historic character and sense of and business sectors within the city centre. local distinctiveness to enhance Wakefield’s appeal • Create a positive reputation for the city as a desirable place to live, work and play, ensuring • Recognise the role of the cultural and the long term benefits and positive creative sectors in stimulating economic experience for visitors to the city centre, growth and support these assets ensuring accessibility for all. • Recognise the role of the different • Stimulate regeneration of the city centre communities of the city centre to ensure through vibrant mixed use development future development is consistent with their proposal. current and future needs. • Create better coherence and physical connectivity across the city centre, with key developments and the retail core. 4 Project Overview | CONTEXT + SUMMARY Build on your prior work Summary • Central Wakefield Area Action Plan, Wakefield • Bring together the various piecemeal Metropolitan District Local Development developments / regeneration areas Framework - Adopted 17 June 2009 • Marketing - Investors / Developers will be • Wakefield City Centre, URBAN DESIGN signposted to the Masterplan FRAMEWORK, Supplementary Planning Document, Adopted 4 October 2017 • Material Consideration - Masterplan is not intended to be adopted • Wakefield Local Plan 2036 Consultation (in May 2020) • Funding Bids – Masterplan will help support funding bids (e.g. Towns Fund) 5 City Centre Boundaries Areas of study 6 Were are we now with the project ? - Early stages of the project - Enabler workshops and public consultation - Preparing baseline report 7 How Wakefield is Changing Planned Development 8 FHSF Projects 9 Land Uses Plan 10 Westgate Station Active Frontages Kirkgate Station 11 Westgate Station Green Open Space Provision Urban Grain and Buffers Public Open Space Kirkgate Station Semi-Public/ Private Space 12 1 2 14 3 13 5 4 8 6 15 7 9 Key Buildings 16 1 Wakefield Bus Station 2 WX3 - former Market Hall 3 Trinity Walk Shopping Centre 12 4 Town Hall 5 County Hall 6 Wakefield Westgate Train Station 7 Theatre Royal and Centre for Creativity 10 8 Wakefield Cathedral 9 The Ridings Shopping Centre 10 Wakefield Kirkgate 11 The Hepworth Wakefield 12 West Yorkshire History Centre 13 Wakefield Museum and Library 14 Crown Court 15 Art House 11 16 Unity Hall 13 Walking Distances 14 Street Typologies 15 16 Public Transport Network 17 Parking Provision Car Parking Analysis 18 19 Staying Connected Emails with queries Lead Consultant Commercial 1-2-1’s To be send to Alun Hayes Katerina Karaga Ben Aspinall UK-Networks Farrells AspinallVerdi [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.uk-networks.com www.farrells.com www.aspinallverdi.co.uk 20 .