Adopted Station Quarter Development Brief

The Station Quarter Development Brief was adopted by the City Council as its strategy for the comprehensive regeneration and redevelopment of the Station Quarter on 27 February 2008. It will be a material consideration in assessing future planning applications in the area. It will be used to inform the emerging Local Development Framework (LDF) and will be taken into account by many of the documents which make up the LDF, particularly the City Centre Action Area Plan. It will also be used to support land assembly through use of compulsory purchase powers if necessary.

 

 

A principal objective of the Brief is to present a vision for the area that is realistic and deliverable. Developer interest in the area has already been identified and it is important that this interest is further encouraged and refined following the adoption of the Development Brief.

 

In preparing the Brief a number of physical / technical issues were identified that will need to be resolved. These include the relocation of some existing users from the site; the acquisition of a number of key land holdings; the need for significant road improvements; and the implications of improving the rail infrastructure in the area. The scale of these improvements and their timing (early on in the development programme to facilitate development) mean that public sector funding is likely to be needed to realise the regeneration objectives of the Station Quarter.

 

In this context the preferred strategy is for the private sector to work with public sector partners to take the development forward in a comprehensive manner in order to ensure that the problems are overcome and the benefits of redevelopment realised. As such a masterplan for the site, respecting land ownerships, but setting out a comprehensive mechanism for delivery to satisfy the vision and objectives of this Brief, seems to be the best way forward.  Opportunity Peterborough will be working with the landowners and the City Council to achieve this.