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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 Worcestershire plans the following plans are currently under development: • Wyre Forest District Adopted Core Strategy ( 2006-26) ; adopted 2010 but new local plan review commenced • Bromsgrove District Local Plan ; currently under Examination in Public; adoption expected 2015 • Redditch Local Plan : currently under Examination in Public; adoption expected 2015 • South Worcestershire Development Plan (covering Malvern Hills, Worcester City and Wychavon 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) Bromsgrove District: 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 • • Copcut , Droitwich – 750 dwellings Shrub Hill (Worcester) Opportunity Zone – 600 dwellings • Former British Sugar Site, • Station Road, Pershore – 700 dwellings Kidderminster – 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 Body

Current Proposals Body

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, Bewdley, 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