UR1 Central Employment Zone

UR1 Central Employment Zone

The Central Employment Zone (CEZ) is defined on the Proposals Map. It is an area of employment growth opportunity to meet the needs of people within the following wards:

Brierley Hill

Brockmoor & Pensnett

Castle & Priory

Lye & Wollescote

Netherton & Woodside

Quarry Bank & Cradley

St. Andrew’s

St. James’s

St. Thomas’s

Within the CEZ the Council will:

encourage and support development, which provides sites, buildings and infrastructure to protect and create jobs;

provide housing, health and community facilities for the direct benefit of local people;

establish a programme of action, consistent with the policies in the Unitary Development Plan, to develop employment opportunities within the following:

i Dudley Town Centre

ii Tipton Road Development Area

iii Castlegate

iv Claughton Development Site

v Thornleigh Industrial Renewal Area

vi Harts Hill Regeneration and Development Area

vii Silver End Industrial Renewal Area

viii Lye Renewal Areas

ix Key Industrial Areas

x Other Renewal Areas

and

Promote and support the provision of further infrastructure, particularly the Midland Metro

Proposals for major development will be expected to meet the objectives of the Zone.

Implementation

Through the Development Control process.
Through the preparation of a detailed regeneration strategy.
Through bids to European, National and Regional sources for grants to support schemes.
Through the designation of the area as a regeneration zone by Advantage West Midlands.
Through the development of an executive partnership of landowners, developers, the Council and the local community in the area, leading if necessary to the formation of a development company.
Through the co-ordination of physical development with community regeneration in the CEZ and its surrounding area.
Through the use of the Council’s land assembly powers.

Monitoring

Amount of land developed.
Number of jobs created.
Number of sites improved.
Indicators to show changes in levels of deprivation.

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