SWIFT NETWORKING MEETING:NEW EASTERN VILLAGES (NEV)

24th September 2015

Samantha HowellStrategic Allocations Planning Manager and NEV Programme Lead

Introduction

• Strategic Overview• NEV Vision• What does success look like? • Where are we now? • Challenges to delivery• Transport Strategy • Swindon and Wiltshire LEP: Local Growth Fund• Communication with key stakeholders• Questions

Strategic Overview

• Largest planned new greenfield development in country

• Strategic Allocation in Adopted Swindon Local Plan • 8,000 new homes• 40 hectares employment (c.4000 new jobs)• District Centre • Local Centres • Health and leisure facilities • Secondary School• New Primary schools / extension to South Marston school

Swindon Local Plan:NEV Inset Diagram

Draft NEV Illustrative Masterplan

VisionThe NEV development will create sustainable well-designed places where

people want to live, work and spend time. It will: •Be a high quality, sustainable development with an excellent level of strategic infrastructure that benefits Swindon as a whole; •Form a new eastern gateway to Swindon that improves the image of the Town and maximises benefits to the wider economy with improved connectivity to the town centre;•Sensitively and positively respond to the existing landscape context, natural and historic assets and the character and identity of the surrounding villages as well as enhancing biodiversity and green infrastructure; •Comprise new distinct villages with individual identities and characters linked together by green spaces that integrate with the existing urban area and wider landscape setting;•Provide facilities and services required for the new communities and opportunities for existing communities to benefit from the development.

A destination of choice for people to live, with high property values and distinct communities, with good access to facilities and served by excellent infrastructure. A series of linked villages providing homes for all, with high quality education, leisure

and community facilities built at the right time to create sustainable development.

What does success look like?

An improved strategic transport network that facilitates

public transport priority and is complemented by a comprehensive network of walking and cycling routes linking new development to

destinations of choice.

Where are we now?

•Outline planning permission granted for 40ha employment at ‘The Hub’

•Outline planning application received for 2380 homes and associated facilities north of the A420 at South Marston and Rowborough - Hallam, Hannick and Taylor Wimpey

•Outline planning applications received for 2600 homes, including 200 to be accessed via Wanborough Road, at Lotmead and Lower Lotmead - Ainscough

• Planning application expected from Redlands/Barbery Developments Autumn 2015

Challenges to delivery

•Number of land owners / promoters involved

•Viability of development due to high infrastructure burden

•Phasing to ensure infrastructure is delivered in the right place at the right time

Transport Strategy

•NEV transport strategy underpinned by evidence base prepared in partnership with Highways Agency (now Highways England) to support Local Plan Examination in Public (JMP EV Transport Strategy)

•Need to maintain journey time reliability on strategic and local road network

•Links with other strategic projects, in particular along A419 corridor - M4 J15

•Public transport priority supported by comprehensive walking and cycling networks

•Local Growth Fund allocation of £48.7M for NEV transport improvements

SWLEP: Local Growth Fund

• New Eastern Villages (NEV) allocation - £48.7M• Subject to submission of business case to Department for Transport – Dec 15

Key interventions

-West of A419 Mitigation - Greenbridge Roundabout Capacity Enhancements

-West of A419 Mitigation 2 - Nythe, Piccadilly, and Coate

-A420 Junction Improvements

-White Hart Junction

-New bridge across the A419 at Great Stall

-Southern Connector Road

Communication with key stakeholders

• Website: www.swindon.gov.uk

• Email: NEV@swindon.gov.uk

• Public exhibitions and consultation events

• Statutory processes including for planning applications

• Future SWIFT Networking meetings

Any Questions?

Samantha Howell Strategic Allocations Planning Manager and New Eastern Villages Programme Lead

Email: showell@swindon.gov.ukTel: 01793 46 6500