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8th June 2009
SWRDA’s allocates £10 million to continue Gloucester’s regeneration
After a complete review of its capital budgets The South West Regional Development
Agency has announced that Gloucester has been allocated up to £10 million in funding over the next two years.
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14th May 2009
City Regeneration plans raised in Parliament
The future of Gloucester’s regeneration was debated in the Houses of Parliament yesterday after Gloucester MP, Parmjit Dhanda, secured an Adjournment Debate on the South West Regional Development Agency’s (SWRDA) support for Gloucester.
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Record number of exhibitors at Future of the City Exhibition
More than 40 exhibitors have asked to take part in this year’s Future of the City event at Blackfriars Priory, between Southgate Street and Ladybellegate Street., from 29 April to 2 May.
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9th April 2009
Railway Triangle plans up for consultation
Plans for a comprehensive regeneration of the Railway Triangle, one of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ sites leading Gloucester’s urban renaissance, were largely welcomed by local people when the proposals went up for public discussion at Gloucester and District Irish Club
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1st April 2009
GHURC team takes regeneration to the streets
The Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company’s (GHURC) Community Engagement Team will be out visiting more than twenty community groups over the next two months, taking their Exhibition Mobile Unit (fondly called ‘EMU’ by GHURC Staff) with them wherever they can.
Over the next few weeks, the team will be at events including a Gloucester Works Employment Fair at Kingsholm, the Women Together, Jamaican Culture event at the Friendship Cafe and at Barnwood for a Fun Day being organised by Barnwood Neighbourhood Partnership.
Chris Oldershaw, Chief Executive of the GHURC, said: “As the landscape across Gloucester continues to change, particularly at Gloucester Quays where a huge amount of work is going on before the opening of the Designer Outlet Centre on May 21, people are rightly continuing to ask questions about what the regeneration will mean for them.
“Martin and Sam spend most of their week out and about sharing information on the regeneration’s progress with local groups and bringing any views and concerns that they might have back to the GHURC so that we can address them if necessary.”
Sam Hoad, Community Engagement Manager, said: “When we get the opportunity to show the progress and discuss the plans for the regeneration of Gloucester to people within local communities, we generally discover that we can allay any worries or concerns they might have. Other concerns that aren’t so easily dealt with we take back to the team at GHURC so they can be discussed in more detail.
I love getting out, about and under the skin of Gloucester as much as possible, because successful regeneration is as much about the people of Gloucester both now and in the future as the buildings which are being restored to provide new homes and jobs.”
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26th March 2009
Railway Triangle plans up for consultation
Proposals for the comprehensive regeneration of the Railway Triangle, one of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ sites leading Gloucester’s urban renaissance will be up for display on 2nd April at Gloucester and District Irish Club, Horton Road, GL1 3QA Gloucester.
Local businesses and landowners are invited from 3pm – 5pm and local residents and community organisations are invited from 7pm – 9pm.
A masterplan covering the entire area, of over 40 hectares (approximately 100 acres) - running East to West from the Bristol main railway line (parallel to Eastern Avenue) to Gloucester Central Railway Station and North to South from Armscroft Park to the Southern Railway Triangle - is in the process of being prepared by a multi-disciplinary team of consultants led by GVA Grimley.
The proposed uses include eco housing and employment, incorporating a medi-park, health innovations centre and medical legal centre, and major landscape improvements including a new linear park.
Representatives from Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company and GVA Grimley’s Masterplanning team will be available to discuss the emerging plans which are being prepared for presentation to the GHURC Board at the end of May, and where the views and outcomes from the consultation will be reported.
For more information or to register an interest in attending contact: Jo May at GHURC – either by e-mail: jo.may@gloucesterurc.co.uk or by telephone on 01452 782999.