City Centre Area Action Plan DPD

Stop press - consultation on East Pilgrim Street

Although outside the formal Area Action Plan process (see below) you may well be interested in a recent consultation on proposals for the East Pilgrim Street area in the City Centre. Click here for the page describing the consultation, which ended on 7 November 2008

Introduction

The City Centre is a large and complex area. We are dealing with through an Area Action Plan, with the status of a Development Plan Document.

We need to look at:

Development and land use issues
Amount and phasing of development
Associated transport and other infrastructure needs
Relationship with adjacent residential communities
Relationship to other plans and strategies
Consultation
Sustainability
Delivery, including partnership working and funding steams
Monitoring and review arrangements
Follow on exercises including Supplementary Planning Documents, design codes and other guidance

The areas likley to undergo the most change will probably be:

Discovery Quarter, covering land at Gallowgate, the former Brewery, St James Boulevard, George Street Triangle, Newcastle College, Central Station and land to the south and west down to the river Tyne
East of Pilgrim Street, incorporating vacant sites and property between New Bridge Street and Swan House roundabout;
Newcastle and Northumbria Universities campus development areas, including the Manors site.

Key milestones for the Area Action Plan

Preferred Options Report
(with non-statutory consultation)
Draft Plan published
(six week formal consultation)
Submission to Secretary of State
Public Examination by Inspector
Adoption

Revisd dates for the above will be published as soon as we hae them - sometime in early 2009. Please watch this space for updates.

Consultation - what we have done already

In advance of the imminent Preferred Options consultation programme, we have been finding out more about what people think. We have been identifying key issues and emerging options for the future of the City Centre. As part of this we published:

Issues and Development of Options document (PDF, 5.4 MB).

CCAAP - Issues and Options Paper Consultation, Summary of Public Responses to Questionnaire (PDF, 48KB, opens in new window)

CCAAP - Issues and Options paper consultation, Consultation responses from meetings, event and stakeholder responses (PDF, 144KB, opens in new window)

We have also produced a summary consultation leaflet (PDF 1.2MB) with an accompanying response form (PDF 293KB)

For translations, please select this link (PDF 221.1KB)

Other archive material

Communication and Consultation Strategy for the City Centre Area Action Plan (CCAAP)

Sustainability Appraisal

Alongside producing the City Centre Area Action Plan we are required to produce the sustainability appraisal in order to assess the likely environmental, social and economic effects of the plan. The Draft Scoping Report was published for consultation until the 27th March 2006. Responses were considered and the Scoping Report amended accordingly. Since such time there have been some important changes to national and regional policy including revisions to the Integrated Regional Framework. An Addendum Report has therefore been prepared to outline the Council's proposed changes to the Scoping Report. If you wish to comment on the Scoping Report and / or the Addendum Paper please respond by the 14th November 2008.