Curzon District December 2011
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3 Introduction
4 The opportunity
6 A sequence of places
10 New Street to HS2: “One station”
HS2 station and Station Square
Curzon Promenade
Curzon Square
Eastside City Park
Ashted Pound Walk
Eastside Locks
Developent principles
26 Uses and activities
Connectivity
Delivery
30 Contents
Acknowledgement This masterplan has been produced jointly with Glenn Howell’s Architects who have provided the foundation, and the majority of the illustrative material for the urban design vision and concepts to take the regeneration of Eastside to a higher level. Their work has provided the catalyst for more detailed discussion and ideas, bringing the unparalleled opportunities of the area together.
foreword / eastside masterplan 3 Birmingham is a successful, vibrant, growing city. A city of great enterprise, business and opportunity. It is also a city of impressive culture, sport and diversity. These factors help to make Birmingham a great place in which to live, learn, work or visit. Our Big City Plan plan identifies five Areas of Transformation which will extend and connect the City Core beyond its existing boundaries. Eastside as one of these areas presents Birmingham with a number of prospects and initiatives to diversify activity, support economic growth and take forward our vision of the Big City Plan. Over the course of the next 20 years, the regeneration of Eastside will deliver on our ambitions, support sustainable growth, create new employment and training opportunities, deliver improved public spaces, and enhance the cultural life at the heart of our great city. Eastside City Park, for example, will provide a world class space for local people, workers and visitors, providing connections to key locations in the city centre. It will also act as a catalyst for the development of high quality buildings and spaces around its perimeter and across the quarter. The city council also welcomes the proposals to develop a new network of high speed rail lines, and fully supports the principles of High Speed Two (HS2). This masterplan demonstrates how the new HS2 terminus station could be built in Eastside. Adjacent to the proposed HS2 rail station, Curzon Square has the potential to be a cultural oasis. Its venues could become a cultural village, building a critical mass of artistic and creative activities forming a major international visitor attraction Eastside provides a focus for Birmingham’s learning, technology and knowledge-based industries, connecting with our highly regarded further and higher education sectors. The newly completed £30m Birmingham Ormiston Academy, and Birmingham City University’s developing city centre campus join Aston University and Birmingham Metropolitan College to create a critical mass of skills and learning within the area. By investing in the city’s physical and digital infrastructure, new technology will play a vital part in bringing forward important projects that will generate inward investment and employment growth, and develop a first class connected city. Phase one of the Digital Districts project will cover Eastside and Digbeth, developing an infrastructure capable of delivering high speed next generation broadband internet to residents and businesses. This will encourage growth in key businesses to compete globally and enhance Birmingham’s reputation as a digital city. Over the next few years, the public and private sectors will invest several hundred million pounds into Eastside, regenerating this very important area of the city centre. Birmingham City Council is actively enabling these changes and will work with our existing and potential partners to ensure they are successful. We are all committed to Eastside’s future which will provide an exciting range of activities, opportunities and developments that will further enhance Birmingham’s status as a great global city in which people can live, work, visit and invest. Councillor Mike Whitby Leader of Birmingham City Council Foreword
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introduction / eastside masterplan 5 eastside masterplan / introduction 4 • Identifying new and improved connections through Eastside and into adjoining city quarters to promote wider regeneration. • Identifying changes and enhancements to transport networks to ensure accessibility into the quarter by all modes of travel to all destinations. What the masterplan does The Eastside Masterplan forms part of the Big City Plan - City Centre Masterplan (CCM) approved by the City Council in July 2011. The CCM sets out the vision and broad principles for the future regeneration of the quarter which are expanded through this masterplan by: • Developing proposals for expanding the city core and opportunities for economic growth by maximising potential and providing certainty to developers. • Promoting the role Eastside will play in the cultural and educational future of the city centre.
• Establishing the urban design principles for the HS2 station building and key public spaces and routes. • Demonstrating how the new Eastside City Park complements the HS2 proposals and establishes longer term principles for the evolution of the park. The Big City Plan establishes Eastside as an Area of Transformation within Birmingham city centre. As part of Birmingham’s Enterprise Zone and with the benefits of the proposed station and current investment Eastside has tremendous potential for growth. This masterplan provides a fresh framework and principles to guide development, regeneration and connectivity that will capitalise on this unique location. Introduction • Retaining and enhancing existing character and distinctiveness, using the heritage assets of the quarter as an inspirational staring point. • Proposing a strategy for delivery. ST.GEORGE AND ST.CHAD DIGBETH
SOUTHSIDE AND HIGHGATE WESTSIDE AND LADYWOOD JEWELLERY QUARTER EASTSIDE
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Status of the document The main principles and proposals of this masterplan are embedded within the City Council’s Draft Core Strategy - the statutory planning document that will provide the planning policy framework and overarching strategy for the whole of the city. Following consultation, the Eastside Masterplan will be formally endorsed by the City Council’s Cabinet Member (Transport, Environment and Regeneration). The location Eastside forms one of the city centre’s seven quarters. This masterplan focuses specifically upon the area stretching from the City Core at Moor Street out to the Middle Ring Road; Jennens Road is the boundary to the north with Aston University adjoining and Digbeth to the south beyond the West Coast Mainline railway viaduct. Connectivity diagram v v KEY Ring Road Rapid transit priority Bus routes Metro route Potential Metro route Metro stops Bus interchange Coach interchange National rail station Heavy rail improvements A457 A456
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Birmingham’s Enterprise Zone will include this area of Eastside, providing the conditions for boosting development and encouraging new and growing businesses and activities. The Vision for Movement jointly published by the City Council and Centro highlights the principles of improving accessibility for all modes of travel within the City Centre. Works on delivering the Interchange at Moor Street Queensway started late 2011 which provides greater bus and rail connectivity and enables the delivery of the Birmingham City Centre Metro Extension. In 2012, the new Eastside City Park will open providing a new green heart for the quarter - a world-class public open space acting as a catalyst for the area’s ongoing regeneration. The linear park, running from Park Street to Cardigan Street, will consist of a series of spaces from the formal landscaped gardens and new high-tech science garden of front of Millennium Point through a new public square, to the more informal open spaces around Albert Street and historic Park Street Gardens. A new campus is proposed for Birmingham City University accommodating up to 10,000 students and staff on land between the park and the canal. This development will not only bring extra vibrancy to Eastside, it will strengthen the learning role of the quarter, building the knowledge base of the city. the opportunity / eastside masterplan 7 eastside masterplan / the opportunity 6 Eastside’s focus on science, technology, learning, and leisure activities has already established it as a natural expansion of the City Core. A new burst of development activity coupled with advantages to be brought through the Enterprise Zone, HS2 and potential for a greater cultural offer, makes Eastside an ideal location for further physical expansion to deliver economic and cultural growth of the city centre. Development activity continues with construction of the Hotel La Tour (opening 2012) and the first phase of Birmingham City University’s new Eastside Campus has started on site. All of the major redevelopment sites have developer interest and extant planning consents for mixed-use schemes. The regeneration opportunities of the quarter link well with other initiatives within the City, particularly around the Bordesley Park area and the growth corridor to Birmingham Airport and rapid transit corridors to a range of destinations. Progress continues The quarter’s prominence as a major regeneration area is highlighted through the Big City Plan’s identification of Eastside as an Area of Transformation. The plan’s vision sets the aim to maximise the unique and extensive development potential to create a vibrant part of the city centre, supporting the best in learning, technology and science, with opportunities for expanding the City Core with new commercial, residential, leisure and educational uses. Success so far Eastside has been a focus for regeneration over the last decade with the opening up of the quarter through the removal of the ‘concrete collar’ of the Moor Street Queensway and Masshouse Circus sections of the former inner-ring road. Significant progress has been made in bringing forward major sites for development which to date includes Millennium Point, Birmingham Metropolitan College, and residential buildings at Curzon Gate, Etna House and Masshouse. During 2011, the Ormiston Academy and Eastside Multi-story Car Park have been completed. The opportunity Eastside Area of Transformation Eastside City Park BCU Campus Phase 1 - a new home for the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) n NORTH
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/ the opportunity The future • High Speed 2 (HS2) The proposals for HS2 announced by the Government in 2010, will transform Eastside into a key arrival destination, unlocking development opportunities and linking the quarter into the city centre’s retail and office locations. The HS2 station terminal is proposed to front Moor Street adjacent to Moor Street Station and within 5 minutes walk from New Street Station, together forming a major international rail interchange and high quality station plaza. With 18 trains per hour each way at peak times, up to 12,000 passengers an hour would be using the HS2 station on completion of the network. This increase in activity presents a huge opportunity to breathing new life into the area around the new station. The HS2 route through Eastside impacts significantly upon land to the south of Curzon Street (see image below) and previous development plans; however the HS2 proposal while allowing for a fresh approach that will maximise the potential of Eastside as an important part of the city centre. • A focus for culture - Curzon Square Proposals are being developed which would see the creation of a major new cultural destination of international significance - focussed on a new public square fronting the impressive Curzon Street Station building. In response to DfT consultations, the City Council has identified that the Grade 1 Listed former railway station building could be related to a second entrance into the HS2 station from Curzon Street bringing it back to it’s original use and creating an historic gateway into the City. This could Incorporate a new museum of photography based upon Birmingham’s world class photographic collection. A new Museum of Contemporary Art and a gallery for displaying the collection of the Arts Council could be built around the square which itself would be enlivened with sculptures, concerts and events. The major new arts offer, together with the existing Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum, will transform Eastside’s significance as a leisure and learning destination, unparalleled in Birmingham in recent times. HS2 development corridor A focus for culture - Curzon Square a sequence of places / eastside masterplan eastside masterplan / a sequence of places Download 366.57 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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