Strategic Development(SE Wales)

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Strategic Development(SE Wales) Wales Spatial
Plan
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Purpose

• To report current position
• To inform future strategic development options in
  the LDP

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South East - The Capital Network
Vision An innovative skilled area offering a
high quality of life international yet
distinctively Welsh. It will compete
internationally by increasing its global
visibility through stronger links between the
Valleys and the coast and with the UK and Europe,
helping to spread prosperity within the area and
benefiting other parts of Wales.
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Key Deliverables

• the role and function of settlements
• definition of strategic sites for the area
• areas where strategic development is required
• strategic actions required to enable South East
  Wales to function as a networked city region.
• PRODUCT - AN AREA DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK INFORMING
  ISSUES FOR COLLABORATION TO DELIVER THE CITY
  REGION AND LOCAL PLANNING TO SUPPORT THIS

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LEARNING FROM ELSEWHERE
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HYBRID OPTION

• An Innovative,Competitive Cardiff in a strong and
  sustainable city region

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Networked City Region

• City Coast
• HOV Plus
• Connections Corridor

HOV Plus
Connections Corridor
City Coast
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Key settlements

• Aberdare
• Abergavenny
• Barry
• Blackwood
• Bridgend
• Caerphilly
• Cardiff
• Cwmbran

• Ebbw Vale
• Llantrisant
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Newport
• Pontypool
• Pontypridd

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Employment

• Recognise Cardiff/Coasts contribution to job
  growth and forecasts
• Grow higher value employment structure
• Move more public sector out into sub region
• Realise HE opportunity
• Make Heads of the Valleys strategy a reality
• Tackle economic inactivity

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DTZ -Baseline Scenario Forecast Employment
Change Across Spatial Plan Areas
Wales 7.5
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Transport

• More effective management of the existing network
• Invest in public transport to link key
  settlements
• Link transport directly to job creation
• Grow employment/housing around transport nodes
• Secure strategic contribution of M4 by avoiding
  need for local congestion

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Housing

• Consensus on initial allocations for 106k
  households
• Allocations by housing market area
• Affordable housing challenge
• Brownfield not greenfield
• Cardiff,Newport and the Valleys major growth
  points

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Environment

• Perception changing
• Constraints eg sewerage/utilities
• Low carbon region
• Networked environment region

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Other areas of opportunity

• Health
• Culture including Sport
• Skills
• Sustainability
• Social Justice
• Governance and participation

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Strategic proposals

• Transport Investment
• Inactivity programme
• ICT development strategy
• Sectoral and basic skills programme
• Knowledge economy projects
• Settlement development/regeneration schemes on
  transport corridors

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