TelfordTown Deal Board17 July via ‘TEAMS’

Telford Town Deal Board – What we Agreed in June

The Board considered a series of potential packages for our Investment Plan

• Agreed that TIP include series, inter-linked, investable projects acknowledging need to prioritise

investment to maximise impact

• No proposals were rejected, no additional packages were added

• A range of comments and suggestions were made to shape the proposals

• Board Members were invited to rank and add additional comments via an online survey

• Board to meet in July to confirm packages and be updated on next phase of work

• The Board asked for further consideration to be given to community and business engagement

• The Board asked for a draft Vision Narrative to be presented to the July Board that

• Addresses the issues, challenges, assets and opportunities facing Telford

• Considers Covid19 recovery while focussing on long term economic growth

Further Government Guidance – July

• Establishment of Towns Fund Delivery Partner as part of Towns Hub:-

• Providing technical support, topic expertise, best practice

• Working alongside Cities & Local Growth Unit Regional and Central Team

• Announcement £1m capital grant to bring forward projects that can be delivered this

financial year

• Template for Town Investment Plan

Developing our Narrative – Themes from the Board

• Establishing our ambition and a clear Digital USP

• Connectivity & Skills

• Jobs and skills for the new economy

• Geographical focus linked to rail corridor

• Plus wider benefit to all communities

• Quality design & clean growth

Discussion of Draft Narrative

Investments for Board in Principle Approval

Survey Feedback on the Investment Packages

Ranking – (based on rank 4+)

– Gigabit Telford

– Driving Recovery (proposal to top slice)

– Station Quarter

– Connecting Communities

– Opportunity Towns (Wellington & Oakengates)

Gigabit Telford

Driver for Recovery and Long Term Economic Growth with benefits across communities

Aligns with UK Industrial Strategy & Clean Growth

Aligns with Marches Digital Strategy Vision:

“The Marches will strive to develop an ambitious digital ecosystem, allowing the benefits of technology and

connectivity to be captured fully by our businesses, people places and natural environment, serviced by the

highest quality and most appropriate digital infrastructure and technology”

Gigabit Telford

Gigabit Telford

Gigabit Telford

Gigabit Telford – Proposals for Development

• Establish model for delivery of enhanced fibre network town wide, working with private

provider(s) and in partnership with locally based global leaders in digital sector e.g. Cap Gemini

• Address Digital exclusion in areas of deprivation including focus on early phases of Fibre

role out and link with digital skills programme

• Expanded Telford curriculum offer in digital

• Smart Transport network

• Focus early phase of fibre enhancement into key smaller business premises

Station Quarter, Telford Town Centre

• Transformational regeneration opportunity that will set the tone of new development in the

Town and Town Centre.

• The area sits between Telford Rail Station and Telford Town Centre, highly accessible location

on the M54/rail corridor

• The site until recently dominated by office developments, a number of which have now reached

the end of their economic life and been demolished

• Site has created a platform to bring forward new uses and a new focus for the area

• Brownfield site of 5.2 acres/2.1ha site largely cleared for redevelopment

• Local Growth Funding via Marches LEP will support site assembly

Station Quarter, Telford Town Centre

High-level master-planning proposes mixed use development that could:

• provide an education & enterprise accelerator ‘hub’ linked to physical delivery in key

communities providing skills that meet business need for recovery, resilience and growth

• create an improved pedestrian link between Telford Railway Station and Town Centre, green

corridors and open space

• introduce connected, sustainable, quality mixed use development including residential, at

scale close to employment and travel opportunities

• Drive job creation through provision of space for new investors to use as they develop their

new premises, building on opportunities for supply chain growth

Station Quarter, Telford Town Centre

Station Quarter – Proposals for Development

• Station Quarter will require investment in excess of £25m and phased delivery

• Propose Town Investment Plan establish

– Masterplan and Planning Application for Station Quarter

– Investment to deliver :-

• Skills & Enterprise Hub

• Enabling works

• Connections to Town Centre (enabling wider investment)

• First phase - residential

• Seeking Government support to align other Departmental and Government Agency

investment to continue delivery and realise full economic potential

Skills & Enterprise Offer

• Extend Telford’s Education & Skills offer

• Employer-led

– skills to drive business expansion & attract new investment

– Address changing operating environment and automation

• Digital focus

• Explore new models of delivery - part physical, part virtual delivery

• Accessible to all communities

• Work with HE and FE partners and key businesses to define curriculum

Opportunity Towns – Wellington

• Market Town of 20,000 households – 50,000 residents – with wider catchment

• Includes areas in 10% most deprived and significant new, higher value

development on periphery of Centre

• Strong asset base and foundation for regeneration

– historic streetscape & market;

– exceptional transport links including London rail connection;

– major employer base;

– National Trust

– Renowned schools

– Strong community asset base

• Focus of TWC High Street investment which has started to leverage private sector

interest

Opportunity Towns - Wellington

• Active Regeneration Board working with Town and Borough Council on a Vision for the Town

– Focussing retail provision in the heart of the Town opening up development sites

– Converting landmark/character buildings into residential/employment space

– Re-design the look and feel of the public realm

– creating walking and cycling links from surrounding development sites to Wellington’s

key transport hubs and town centre

Next Steps

• Procurement retail/urban design consultants to assess retail capacity and develop masterplan

Opportunity Towns - Oakengates

• 8,500 residents with large catchment area of c.57,000 residents

• As Wellington identified as ‘Opportunity Town’ by Marches LEP

• Significant asset base including

– The Place Theatre

– Redeveloped Civic and Community Centre,

– Outdoor Market and a range of shopping and services

– Rail connected including links to London.

• The town centre encompasses brownfield land, empty retail space and character buildings

to create housing to attract younger residents as well as new enterprise space.

Opportunity Town - Oakengates

Proposed Interventions:

– Public realm improvements surrounding the theatre and the creation of a ‘square’ linking the theatre

and new Civic Centre

– Improving infrastructure surrounding the enterprise park for delivery of new employment space

– Review and redesign of town centre parking provision to create space for new parking and housing

Investment in the above would lead to opportunities for further investment to address:-

– opportunities around the ring-road for outward facing housing and green space

– Relocation of the bus station closer to the railway station creating redevelopment options

Next Steps

Procurement retail/urban design consultants to assess retail capacity and develop masterplan

Telford - Connecting Communities

Golden thread running through the investment projects:-

Accelerated delivery of Gigabit Telford in most disadvantaged communities

Delivery skills and enterprise ‘out reach’ with physical delivery in key communities linked

to Station Quarter ‘hub’ with focus on digital skills

Investment into rail connected centres that will provide residential and economic benefits to

significant surrounding communities

Start of a longer term dialogue with Government to address the legacy of New Town

infrastructure and the barriers this poses to levelling up

Accelerating Delivery via £1m Capital Funding

Submit proposals for £1m capital funding, subject to discussion with MHCLG, anticipated to

focus on:-

• Delivery network of Community Hubs to enable ‘work from home in the community’ and

extending digital access through conversion/repurposing of buildings in key Centres

• Targeted acquisitions and repurposing within Oakengates and Wellington

• Procurement of Digital private sector partner including targeted investments

Next Steps

• Seek endorsement of Board to draft Vision and investment packages as basis for TIP

development

• Undertake initial community engagement via on line Resident Survey (launch 27th July) and

targeted engagement linked to individual proposals and thematic focus group

• Develop proposals for business survey

• Engage with Towns Fund Delivery Partners to develop interventions and bring first draft TIP

to Board in September