The Big City Plan is a 20 year vision to encourage and support the continuing transformation to create a world class city centre. It covers every aspect of the built environment, from improving links into and out of the city, and maintaining and enhancing its unique character, to developing new residential communities and supporting our diverse economy. A plan showing the boundary covered by the plan is below.
Covering 800 hectares of the city centre, the Big City Plan is a physical regeneration tool and strategic planning document. It provides a framework to
- Create 1.5 million square metres of new floorspace
- Create over 50,000 new jobs
- Contribute £2.1 billion to the economy each year
- Create a well connected, efficient and walkable City Centre
- Provide 65,000 square metres of new and improved public spaces
- Provide 28 kilometres of enhanced walking and cycling routes
- Provide over 5,000 new homes with new leisure and recreational facilities to attract more families
- Value the city centre’s heritage and cultural assets
- Integrate sustainable development and address the impact of climate change as part of the future transformation of the city centre
- Deliver five areas of transformation supporting the growth of the City Core