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- Growth Area Funding: round 1
Growth Area Funding: round 1
Examples of projects funded through Round 1 of the Growth Area Fund.
Peterborough
South Bank
This is a large area of derelict and underused land between the River Nene and the football ground. The City Council, English Partnerships and other partners have been working on the area for some time but access, ownership and finance are difficult. We have allocated £4.4m for key land acquisitions to help bring the site forward for development, to include over 600 housing units, major office development and substantial riverside recreation and cultural facilities.
The Station Quarter
The station itself is a small uninspiring building dating from the 1980s. Its surrounds on both sides of the railway are in serious need of regeneration making a very poor gateway to the City. The area could provide considerable opportunities for growth but land ownership and access is complex. We have allocated £2.4m to provide traffic modelling and access works to a major mixed use development including retail and commercial development as well as 765 houses, of which at least 30 per cent is expected to be affordable.
Cambridge
Cambridge Northern Fringe
A new mixed-use community of 900 homes with a school, shops and employment facilities is planned at the western end of the Northern Fringe at Arbury Camp. This area will also include a new station and interchange at Chesterton on the Cambridge to Kings Lynn main line which will link with the proposed Guided Busway. Communities and Local Government has allocated £7m to accelerate housing delivery on site.
Wicken Fen Reserve
In the long term, the Wicken Fen vision is to provide a green corridor from the centre of Cambridge to the existing Wicken Fen Reserve to increase and improve rare and valuable fenland habitat; and to provide better access for local people. Communities and Local Government has allocated £800,000 for land acquisition.
Coton Countryside Reserve
This will create a much needed greenspace to the West of Cambridge including enhancements to the existing Coton path linking Cambridge to the Reserve. The Reserve will be created on land already owned by The Cambridge Preservation Society and it will maintain the land as a working farm while enhancing provision for wildlife, public access and recreation. Communities and Local Government has allocated £720k for access improvements and habitat creation works.
Stevenage
Ridgemond Park
A training facility has been relocated to new modern facilities off-site, unlocking this former school site for development to provide one hundred homes of which thirty-five will be affordable.
Harlow
Harlow Gateway
This £10m scheme comprises the relocation of sports and leisure facilities, unlocking a town centre site for residential development of an estimated 530 dwellings, including 30 per cent affordable. This new development will enhance pedestrian and cycle routes from the station to the town centre. A further 60 dwellings will be provided on the swimming pool site and new enhanced community, leisure and sports facilities will be provided on suitable sites around the town.
London
Tottenham Hale
A collection of large brownfield sites in the south-east corner of the London Borough of Haringey. It is made up primarily of mixed use industrial estates (waste and storage), which are either no longer needed or are predicted to fall out of use in the very near future. Tottenham Hale station, around which the sites for development are located, forms an interchange between the Victoria line and the Liverpool Street to Stansted / Cambridge line. Growth Areas Funds have contributed to the masterplanning of the area together with public realm improvements at this busy transport interchange.
Dalston
Regeneration and housing growth is centred around the East London line extension, due to open by 2010, with the ultimate aim of creating an orbital rail route via the North London Line and the West London link to Clapham Junction. The London Plan identifies Dalston as a major centre. Growth Areas Funds have been provided to design an area action plan for Dalston, to transform an underused car park into a high quality public open space for existing and new residents and to provide infrastructure improvements to support the development of the East London Line station.
Walthamstow
Walthamstow town centre is designated a 'major centre' in the London Plan: "an important shopping and service centre with a borough-wide catchment area, attractive for retail due to mix of comparison and convenience shopping". It is well served by public transport: the Liverpool Street to Chingford and North London overground and the Victoria underground lines all serve the town centre and the recently redeveloped bus station is the third busiest in London.
There are no individual large sites, but a number of smaller sites which offer an opportunity to intensify development in the town centre with high-density housing and increased retail and community space. Growth Area Funds have contributed to public realm improvements to the market square and central station to support the projected growth in town centre population.
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