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The LansdowneBournemouthDelivery Plan

Adopted November 2015

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Foreword

The Lansdowne has great potential as a world class business and educational area, and as a Council we are excited about its future.

We are committed to working in partnership with others to secure changes to make the Lansdowne a more vibrant, enterprising and dynamic place.

This Delivery Plan sets out a vision and strategy for the Lansdowne based on feedback from some of the area’s landowners, businesses and institutions. It puts forward a series of proposals for the area which will help us to build a better Bournemouth.

Councillor David Smith

Portfolio holder for Planning and Environment


Produced by:

Bournemouth Borough CouncilDesign and HeritageTown Hall AnnexeSt Stephen’s RoadBournemouthBH2 6EA

Tel: 01202 451323

Email: [email protected]

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Contents

Part 1: Introducing the Lansdowne Delivery Plan 1.1 Introduction 9

1.2 The purpose of the Lansdowne Delivery Plan 11

1.3 Background 12

Part 2: The Way Forward2.1 The Vision for the Lansdowne 18

2.2 First steps 19

1 Effective Leadership 19 2 Promoting the Lansdowne 212.3 Land uses 22

Part 3: The Transformational Projects3.1 Timescales 26

3.2 The Physical Projects 26

3 Holdenhurst Road 28 4 The Station roundabout and ASDA area 30 5 Lansdowne Roundabout 32 6 Holdenhurst Road at the Station 34 7 St. Paul’s Road 35 8 The College Site 36 9 Start up workspace 37 10 Oxford Road to Cotlands Road link 38 11 Christchurch Road 40 12 St. Swithun’s Road South 42 13 St. Paul’s Gateway 43 14 St. Paul’s Lane 44 15 Oxford Road 45 16 Lansdowne Road 46 17 Cotlands Road and York Road 48 18 Meyrick Road 50

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3.4 Strategic Projects

19 Smart Network 52 20 Enterprise Network 53 21 Signage and Public Realm 54

Part 4: Making it happen4.1 Funding 564.2 Delivery phasing 66

Appendix1 Further road safety information 68


1 Introducing the Lansdowne Delivery Plan


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The Lansdowne and its surrounding area

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The Lansdowne in Bournemouth is a key location for employment and the economy. The area benefits from hosting many companies in the financial services, digital and creative sectors, as well as Bournemouth University and Bournemouth and Poole College. It has the potential for strong transport links and a number of vacant sites that provide the prospect of future growth. Local workers, students and residents mingle in the area’s cafes, bars and restaurants, and contribute towards a forward looking community. All this is set within the stunning environment of the town, with its award-winning beaches and parks, and distinctive characterful architecture.

However, despite its enormous potential, the Lansdowne, as a result of the national downturn in the economy, has stalled in recent years in terms of attracting more businesses and to continue to develop into the world class commercial business district it deserves to be. Despite the great location of the area it has room for improvement in terms of the quality of the streets and spaces and particularly access to and from the rail and coach station. Also some of the office stock is ageing, there are issues with the viability of new office development and there are pressures to replace offices with residential uses and student accommodation. There is a need to create a place that people want to spend time in, which will make the area more attractive to investing businesses.

In order to address this potential, the Lansdowne is recognised by Bournemouth Borough Council as a priority to encourage investment and more employment opportunities in the area. The area has long been identified as being critical in terms of meeting the Borough’s need for employment land. The Bournemouth Local Plan: Core Strategy supports and allocates principally business uses and tertiary teaching development. The Bournemouth Local Plan: Town Centre Area Action Plan reinforces this. The recent adoption of The Bournemouth Town Centre Development Design Guide marks another important step in helping to establish a positive future for Lansdowne and sets out more detail about improvements that would benefit the area. The Lansdowne has also been identified as a priority area in the Dorset Strategic Economic Plan by the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership – also known as the LEP.

The need to promote the potential of the area has also been identified by some of the significant landowners, institutions and businesses in the area, and so consultants have produced a document known as “C:Side Creative Business Quarter Bournemouth.” The C:Side document sets out a vision and strategy for the Lansdowne and makes a number of proposals, based on the input from the stakeholders.

A modern building at 100 Holdenhurst Road Traditional buildings in the Lansdowne

1 .1 Introduction


The consultants who have produced the document have provided an interpretation of how the area might look in the future, and identified a number of potential actions for the business community and the Council alike. For clarity the C-Side document currently has no formal status as a Council document, and has not been the subject of public consultation, nor has it been necessarily drawn up with a view to securing conformity with the Council’s existing plans and strategies. For example, it is not possible to dictate the precise uses of land, which in any case needs to conform with the existing Local Plan policies. It is however a visionary document designed to stimulate thoughts and potential actions for Lansdowne.

This document, the Lansdowne Delivery Plan, is the Council’s formal response to the C:Side document. It sets out an appropriate and deliverable way forward for the Lansdowne, following the recommendations of the C:Side document, and should be read in conjunction with the C:Side document.

This Delivery Plan has been subject to a four-week public consultation which has informed the content of the final plan. The Delivery Plan was adopted by Cabinet in November 2015.

The C:Side document Extract from C:Side: place for exchanging ideas


The primary purpose of this Delivery Plan is to take a pro-active approach to ensure actual delivery on the ground.

Although the planning policy framework is in place to allow for the Lansdowne to be developed into a world class business and educational area, it is not enough to simply identify a site for development and expect something to happen. We need to reinvigorate progress now that the economy is starting to grow again, to reinvent the Lansdowne and to more actively invest in and promote the area.

The Delivery Plan is designed to be a corporate action plan which will provide:

• A series of actions that will require a number of Council services to work collectively to coordinate their activities in order to improve the quality of the environment and to stimulate and promote investment.

• A commitment to ensure that the Council creates a prospectus to encourage investment in the area.

• A framework to secure funding for the area.

• A focus for the Council in terms of its land holdings, and ability to assemble sites to secure a positive future for the Lansdowne.

It does not form part of the Council’s planning policy framework. However, where it is relevant and concerns planning issues it is a material consideration when determining planning applications. It therefore has some status in terms of guiding planning decisions.

1 .2 The purpose of the Lansdowne Delivery Plan

Relevant planning policy

The following documents form part of the Bournemouth Local Plan and are directly relevant to the Lansdowne.

Core Strategy

Policies CS8: Lansdowne Employment Area and CS26: Protecting Allocated Employment Sites are particularly relevant; the other policies of the Core Strategy will also apply where relevant.

Town Centre Area Action Plan - AAP

Although all the policies of the AAP will apply where relevant, the following policies specifically apply:

S1: Spatial StrategyD5: Tall buildings D7: Public realmU1: Mixed usesU6: Frontage designationsT6: Highway improvement schemesT8: Public parking locations

A number of sites within the Lansdowne area are also allocated in the Town Centre AAP for specific uses.

Town Centre Development Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document

Produced to help manage the town’s evolution by promoting coherent streets, high quality, sustainable buildings and a recognisable sense of place.

Bournemouth Public Realm Strategy: Guiding Principles Supplementary Planning Document

Sets out overall aims and principles to guide change to the borough’s streets and spaces.


The Lansdowne’s roots lie in Victorian villa development, which after World War II were mostly redeveloped for commercial uses. The area now contains a wide range of architectural styles, and large modern commercial buildings stand side by side with traditional terraces.

The railway station, built in the area in the 1890s, was instrumental in the early growth of Bournemouth. Today, the main railway station allows regular direct services to London Waterloo in 1 hour 50 minutes.

The Lansdowne also benefits from direct access to the Wessex Way A338 which links via the A31 to the M27 and M3, with journey times to London by road being in the region of 2 hours 15 minutes.

The long distance coach station, beside the railway station, provides further connectivity, including to Bournemouth Airport which runs routes to and from popular domestic and international destinations.

The Lansdowne is exceptionally well integrated into the conurbations’ comprehensive bus network which provides the greatest coverage in the southwest after Bristol.

1 .3 Background

Map showing the location of the Lansdowne, Bournemouth, in the South of England

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Positive and distinctive features of the Lansdowne include:

• Long, wide and straight grid of roads.

• The rail, bus and coach stations are located in this area.

• Detached office and academic buildings with large footprints.

• Some attractive historical terraces in the vicinity of the Lansdowne roundabout.

• Buildings from the Victorian and inter-war eras as well as many modern buildings.

• It has several listed buildings.

• Several buildings exceeding six storeys.

• Flat topography.

Whilst many positives exist it is important to also identify the issues and opportunities for enhancement of the area in order to make it a more attractive area in which to invest, work and live. The Lansdowne area also faces a number of issues:

• Limited amount of landscaping or public open space.

• Road widths and vehicle speeds form major barriers to pedestrian and cycle movement and create a hostile environment.

• Roads create severance between different parts of the area and to surrounding areas.

• Lack of wider pedestrian and cycle connectivity between the Station and the heart of the Town Centre including the main shopping area

• Varying building styles and heights appear disjointed.

• Pressure to replace offices with residential and student accommodation.

• Pressure to develop vacant sites for student accommodation

• Higher values achieved from non employment uses

• Existing office stock not up to modern standards and appearing unattractive.

• Relatively large number of vacant sites, despite the grant of planning permissions.

• Inefficient use of land.

• Poor environment on arrival to the town centre.

• Wide range of architectural quality.

An important strength of the site is its accessible location, but it is important that the highway network is also safe and any weakness addressed. For example, the table below shows that there are seven road safety cluster sites for vehicle related collisions in the Lansdowne area including Station Roundabout, the top ranked site for accidents in the Borough. A number of the collisions involved pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. Further information is provided in Appendix 1 on page 68.

Rank – compared to the rest of the borough Location

1 - worst Station Roundabout

5 St Paul’s Roundabout – east side

7 Lansdowne Roundabout

10 Holdenhurst Road outside the Travel Interchange / station

40 St Swithun’s Roundabout

41 Holdenhurst Road, Cotlands Road junction

53 Holdenhurst Road, between Wellington Road and Bournemouth Travel Interchange

Source: Bournemouth Borough Council Road Safety Report – 2015


The Bournemouth Borough Council Road Safety Report 2015 notes that between 2009 and 2013, 57% of those killed or seriously injured in traffic accidents in Bournemouth involved either a pedestrian or cyclist. Meanwhile the Bournemouth Local Plan Authority Monitoring Report 2013/14 has found that cycling in Bournemouth has experienced a boost in numbers with the 10 year trend seeing a 47% increase. There is particular need for cycling facilities in the Lansdowne given the large number of students in the area but provision is currently limited.

The Bournemouth By Night Strategy 2012 highlights the importance of the evening and night time economy in the Town Centre, including the Lansdowne. It puts forward a co-ordinated approach to the management, development and promotion of the Town Centre as a destination with a wide offer of culture and experiences in the evenings and at night.

The Bournemouth By Night Strategy identifies the Lansdowne as a place where students bring an edgy and quirky atmosphere to an otherwise business-led area. It highlights the importance of Holdenhurst Road as a route, and suggests improved lighting of the streets and landmark buildings. It also pinpoints a need to get genuinely student led and local entrepreneurial businesses into the Lansdowne rather than national chains.

To start to address all these issues, a number of ways forward are identified in the Town Centre Area Action Plan and in the Town Centre Development Design Guide SPD, including public realm improvements and guidance for the design of new buildings. The following diagram from the Town Centre Development Design Guide gives a framework for this.

Building on this framework, this Delivery Plan sets out more detailed proposals to drive change on the ground in the Lansdowne area.

100 Holdenhurst Road is a local landmark, but Station Roundabout is a hostile place


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2 The Way Forward


The Vision

LANSDOWNE BOURNEMOUTH is an exciting place where ideas, innovation, technology and enterprise flourish close to the free and relaxed climate of the beach.

Workers, visitors, residents and students exchange ideas and knowledge in the many vibrant streets, plazas and parks.

The synergy of education, places to live, dynamic workspaces and culture create an atmosphere of enterprise.

VISION OBJECTIVES

A vibrant and dynamic place: Where creative collisions between people, organisations and businesses of all sizes helps foster innovation.

A smart and enterprising place: Where business and education can together attract a highly skilled, knowledgeable and talented workforce.

A connected and networked place: Places for people to meet and exchange ideas with superfast technology and great transport links

LANSDOWNE BOURNEMOUTH WILL BE AN EXCITING AND ATTRACTIVE PLACE TO LIVE, WORK, STUDY AND ENJOY

The Vision and Vision Objectives above will be used to guide the work that the Council will undertake. They were developed as part of the C:Side document and were positively received by the wider community in the public consultation.

2 .1 The Vision for the Lansdowne


2.2 First steps

1. Effective leadership

Effective leadership will be necessary to promote and advocate for the Lansdowne and to ensure the delivery of the vision and proposals in this Delivery Plan.

A Lansdowne Delivery Board should be established to lead the delivery of the proposals and to co-ordinate the proposed projects. Although the Council will have a key role to play in delivery, the active involvement of the business community and other key stakeholders will be fundamental to its success.

It may also be necessary to appoint a Lansdowne Delivery Manager to work with the Delivery Board and ensure the delivery of the projects.

It will be important to be clear about the responsibilities of the Board and the Delivery Manager from the beginning. The source of funding for the Board and Delivery Manager will also need to be identified.

One of the first tasks for the Delivery Board may be the production of an Area Management Plan to address matters including streetscape management, safety and security, events, area marketing, waste management and joint procurement of items such as stationery. The Area Management Plan would complement and add value to the activities of the existing Town Centre Business Improvement District.

The Delivery Manager would lead the preparation and delivery of the Management Plan, in conjunction with the Delivery Board and relevant Council departments. A separate Area Management Working Group may be required. A key part of the plan’s preparation would be public consultation with the wider community.

The content of any Area Management Plan would need to be carefully considered. The proposals set out in the C:Side document for area safety and security measures and for a street concierge would need further thought. It is important that diversity – of the buildings, environment and people - is encouraged and that security does not prevent people from undertaking normal and legal activities. Security should be encouraged by promoting the area for people to use rather than setting limits on who can use public spaces and how they can use them. However, the Council would in principle support an increased presence of Town Centre Rangers in the Lansdowne. The Rangers are funded by the Town Centre BID, and they provide a friendly face helping local people and visitors.

Another early opportunity to promote the Lansdowne may be through a festival or series of events which would raise the profile of the area and would promote a sense of community. This could include a place specific festival based on the themes of creativity, innovation and enterprise. This will require further consideration by the Delivery Board, including identifying funding sources. Any festival or series of events should be co-ordinated with the events calendar for the town as a whole. It may be possible to achieve synergies by working with other parts of the town for a linked or combined event. The events should be inclusive and accessible to all.

A Town Centre Ranger helping visitors


Delivery Action 1:

The Council will work with the business community and other key stakeholders towards effective management for the Lansdowne area. This may include:

• A Lansdowne Delivery Board

• A Lansdowne Delivery Manager

• A Lansdowne Area Management Plan

• Local events

Delivery lead: initially Bournemouth Borough Council’s Economic Development Service with support from other relevant colleagues, the business community and other key stakeholders. The responsibilities would be transferred to the Delivery Board once it was fully established.

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2. Promoting the Lansdowne

The Lansdowne needs more promotion in order to achieve the vision and objectives set out in this Delivery Plan. A prospectus for the area will be a key way for the Council and the business community to demonstrate the potential of the Lansdowne to future investors. It will be a way to demonstrate the area’s many strengths, including the outstanding businesses, institutions, heritage, character and relevant events and festivals. It will be able to illustrate that there are the right elements in place for positive change, and it will also help to present a narrative which can be used to consistently promote the key messages to investors and talent, whether national or international.

The Prospectus will build on the helpful background already provided in the C:Side document. It may also include a review of the branding put forward in the C:Side document. These concepts may be perceived as fairly abstract and without meaning unless they are fully explained. They may, however, have some merit as ways to make the Lansdowne distinctive to businesses considering investing in the area. A number of the rebranded locations are currently without a specific name, or are part of a wider named area, and so in some cases the branding could be positive and effective.

Delivery Action 2:

A prospectus for the Lansdowne should be produced, designed to attract inward investment to Bournemouth and to help promote the wealth of talent which currently exists in the Lansdowne and the supporting infrastructure provided by the town. Preparation of the prospectus may include a review of the branding proposed in the C:Side document, and any branding taken forward should be clearly explained in the prospectus. A suitable campaign to launch and promote the prospectus will be important.

Delivery lead: to be led by Bournemouth Borough Council’s Economic Development Service in consultation with the business community.

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2.3 Land UsesThe Bournemouth Local Plan: Core Strategy and Town Centre Area Action Plan are the adopted planning policy documents that designate future land uses in the Borough. The Local Plan is based on extensive evidence, has been subject to thorough public consultation and has passed a test for Soundness by an independent Planning Inspector at an Examination in Public, in May 2012. Critical evidence included future economic projections and the need to accommodate significant numbers of jobs on the diminishing amount of brown field land suitable for employment uses.

Nevertheless, the Local Plan allows a certain amount of flexibility. The Local Plan: Core Strategy and the Town Centre Area Action Plan positively promote the primary uses of B1 Business and tertiary teaching accommodation within the Lansdowne Employment Area. This is the area bounded by Lansdowne Road, Christchurch Road, St. Swithun’s Road South, St Paul’s Road and the Wessex Way – please see the following map. This area includes Holdenhurst Road between the Lansdowne Roundabout and the Station Roundabout.

Within this area, employment and tertiary teaching uses will be expected to be the main uses. However, there may be a role for enabling development, in order to make the primary uses viable. Acceptable secondary, subsidiary uses, may therefore include other employment generating uses, ground floor small scale retail or other commercial uses, and residential or student accommodation. These would need to be clearly subsidiary to the main B1 business or tertiary education use.

Outside of the Lansdowne Employment Area – for example on the southern side of Christchurch Road – The Core Strategy and Town Centre Area Action Plan encourage a mix of uses. The adopted planning policy also promotes a flexible mix of ground floor uses to support local communities, the shopping function of the Town Centre, and to maintain active fronts on key routes.

This Delivery Plan supports the planning policies set out in the Core Strategy and the Town Centre Area Action Plan.

A view towards the Lansdowne Employment Area from Station roundabout, Holdenhurst Road


Active ground floor uses in the Lansdowne

The Lansdowne Employment Area- policy CS8 applies

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Waverley House an example of successful office use in the Lansdowne


3 The Transformational Projects


The C:Side document states an aspiration for the Transformational Projects to be delivered over the course of the next 5 to 10 years. Although it is important to keep a sense of momentum and it will be possible to achieve some of the projects fairly quickly, these timescales may not be realistic for much of the works. Many of the projects will require millions of pounds worth of funding, which is not immediately available – for more information please see the Funding section of this Delivery Plan on page 56. Even with funding in place, many of the projects require traffic modelling to be sure of their effect on the transport network, and then considerable detailed design work, before a robust procurement process to ensure the Council gets best value for the work. Works need to be timed so as not to cause excessive disruption – for example the summer and Christmas seasons need to be avoided where possible. Nevertheless, it is important to have a plan in place so that initial work on the projects can be undertaken, which will set a course for delivery of the projects in the medium to longer term.

3.1 Timescales

The C:Side document proposes a series of physical projects to improve the public spaces, streets and buildings in the Lansdowne area. The proposals are at a very early conceptual stage but even so they illustrate aspirations, shared by the Council, for high quality public realm and development in the Lansdowne that is inclusive and accessible to all. Proposals for changes to the public realm should be in line with Council and Government policy and guidance, including the adopted Bournemouth Public Realm Strategy: Guiding Principles Supplementary Planning Document.

So as to be in a position to start delivering these aspirations, the Council has considered the proposals and sets out its own series of proposals over the following pages. All the projects are important for the future of the Lansdowne, however the priorities are covered first. This is based on the needs identified by the Council as well as the results of consultation with the public and stakeholders in the business community.

The Delivery Actions for these projects can be seen on page 51, and the potential sources of funding are covered from pages 56 to 65.

3.2 Physical Projects

Careful project management is required to reach delivery


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3. Holdenhurst Road – between the Lansdowne Roundabout and the Station Roundabout

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This project proposes major changes to the public realm of Holdenhurst Road – between the Lansdowne Roundabout and the Station Roundabout.

Public realm elements of this project could include:

• A review of traffic use and restrictions, to ensure the best possible environment for pedestrians and cyclists

• High quality pedestrian access to Cotlands Road and any new east-west routes

• More green space including street trees and other new planting

• Distinctive lighting, street furniture and co-ordinated surfacing

• Public art

• A review of the locations of bus service stands

Land use and property elements of this project could include:

• Active and welcoming ground floor uses including spill out space from buildings where appropriate

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4. The Station roundabout and ASDA area

C:Side document section: 13 “Reception @ C:Side”

A new public space and development focused around the rail, bus and coach station, to make it easier to move on foot and by bicycle between the station area and the heart of the Lansdowne area along Holdenhurst Road.


• New public realm or further public realm changes to make the area more welcoming to spend time in

• A review of the highway and public realm layout, including the Station roundabout junction, to make movement on foot and by bicycle easier, safer and more attractive. This could include removing intimidating subways and reducing the impact of wide, busy roads.

• High quality, locally distinctive and attractive public art, lighting and planting

• Increased provision of cycle stands and secure storage facilities at the Station

• A cycle hire scheme at the Station

• A clear cycling route in both directions past the southern side of the station


• New development to mark the gateway to Bournemouth

• Creating extra space for development as a result of realigning the road

• Utilising areas of left over and underused green space

• Short term improvements to the facades of the ASDA building and car park, including public art, lighting and architectural treatment

• Active and welcoming frontages facing all routes and spaces including architecturally interesting facades, doors, windows and carefully positioned main entrances

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This proposal is for a landmark public space at the Lansdowne Roundabout.


• A review of traffic use and restrictions with the potential to create additional public space for events

• Eye catching and innovative public art, seating and purpose designed lighting

• A review of the use of the service roads of Lansdowne Crescent with potential to consider alternative ways of balancing pedestrian, cycle and vehicle uses, to prioritise pedestrian use.

• Co-ordinated and carefully designed street furniture, planting, signage and surfacing

• Service infrastructure – e.g. electricity points – for use for events such as outdoor performance and exhibitions


• Active and welcoming ground floor uses including spill out space from buildings where appropriate


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6. Holdenhurst Road at the Station

Improved road layout and high quality public realm treatment to enhance pedestrian, cycle and vehicle access to the Station, businesses and properties along this section of Holdenhurst Road.

This project could include:

• A review of the road capacity required for motor vehicles

• Realignment of the road layout focused on continuing to allow motor vehicle access while enhancing the experience of pedestrians and cyclists, improving safety and reliability of journey times for all road users

• A review of access arrangements for vehicles, retaining but rationalising access

• High quality public realm treatment including lighting, landscaping, surfacing and street furniture

• Improved facilities for cyclists including segregated cycle lanes

• Improved facilities for pedestrians including dedicated crossing facilities

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Improved road layout and high quality public realm treatment at one of the key gateways to the Lansdowne and the Town Centre.




• An improved junction for traffic leaving the ASDA and Station area and for Oxford Road. This may include an interim road layout for traffic leaving ASDA and the Station, before more comprehensive changes take place on the ASDA site.




• Public art at key intersections

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8. The College site

C:Side document section: 8. The Clock Tower Rooms

The Bournemouth and Poole College consider that their current site accommodation no longer meets their physical requirements or fits their needs for modern teaching space. Following successful relocation of the College to another suitable site in the Town Centre, this project could see sensitive refurbishment and development with a mix of uses, to include a recognised growth location for high digital, creative and cultural businesses. This site is outside of the Lansdowne Employment Area, so there is more flexibility for a mix of uses.


• New development to support the refurbishment of existing buildings

• Smaller scale employment, high quality housing and local retail uses

• A boutique hotel or other leisure uses

• Sensitive conversion of Listed buildings that protects and enhances features of heritage value

• Active frontages including doors, windows and entrances facing Meyrick Road and all other internal streets

• A connection through to Christchurch Road, Meyrick Road and Gervis Road

• High quality public realm and architectural treatment to provide sensitive setting and respect the character of the listed buildings and conservation area

• Retention of mature existing trees and planting where possible, and replanting where appropriate

The College site


• Provision of co-working space, permanent desks, office pods and studio spaces

• Affordable desk space in characterful buildings with on site services and business support

• Collaborative, flexible workspaces to encourage like minded thought leaders and creative businesses to work together

• Access to training, development and mentoring services including free networking and promotion

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9. Start-up workspace

C:Side document section: 7. B-Enterprising

Providing flexible, small scale, affordable enterprise workspace for local entrepreneurs and graduates focused around the creative - including digital, cultural and knowledge based industries. New workspaces would be provided for those seeking start-up and expansion opportunities in a managed, shared service environment. This could be around the southern end of Holdenhurst Road and along Christchurch Road.


• Refurbishing and using suitable underutilised building stock

• Providing co-working space, permanent desks, office pods and studio offices

• A supportive business environment bringing together the right mix of people, energies, services and facilities

• A programme of business events including debates, peer-to-peer talks and co-working clubs

• Sensitive and appropriate conversion of existing buildings to contribute to the streetscape and activities within it

• Active and welcoming ground floor uses, for example meeting spaces, workspace social areas and communal rooms located at the front of the building facing the street

• Retaining Listed buildings and other good quality older buildings, with sensitive refurbishment to preserve and enhance the heritage features Extract from C:Side: Affordable Enterprise

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10. Oxford Road to Cotlands Road link

C:Side document section: 12. Christchurch Loop

This proposal is for new public realm and development to create a mainly pedestrian and cycle link between Lansdowne Road and Christchurch Road. This would make it easier for people to walk and cycle in the area by making links through some of the large development blocks in the area.


• A high quality pedestrian and cycle focused route, allowing servicing, access to buildings and turning where appropriate

• Surface changes, public art, benches and signage where the route meets Holdenhurst Road

• Improvements to pedestrian and cycle crossing facilities at Holdenhurst Road, Oxford Road, Lansdowne Road and Christchurch Road

• A new public square somewhere along the route

• High quality public realm including distinctive lighting, paving, street furniture and signage


• Negotiation with landowners or land assembly to create the route through currently privately owned sites

• High quality development of a number of vacant or under-used sites along the route

• Active and welcoming frontages - ground floor uses to provide high quality, well positioned entrances, doors and windows

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11. Christchurch Road

C:Side document section: 6. Christchurch Boulevard

A bustling neighbourhood street with independent retail units, boutique shops, small workplaces and residences is proposed here, with an emphasis on creative enterprise.


• An Avenue or Boulevard street layout

• Flexible, affordable workspaces for local entrepreneurs, to be provided in existing or new buildings

• A review of traffic use and restrictions with the potential to consider alternative ways of balancing pedestrian, cycle and vehicle uses along the service roads including

appropriate levels of on street parking and service access, alongside high quality surfacing, street furniture and lighting

• Potential to use these areas, at certain times, for spill out space from buildings, specialist markets, temporary art or leisure installations

• Investigate the possibility of improving pedestrian and cycle connections through to Cotlands Road, York Road and Gervis Road

• Additional street trees and planting

• Improved facilities for cyclists including segregated cycle lanes and convenient, secure cycle parking

• Service infrastructure – e.g. electricity points – for events including markets and outdoor exhibitions

• Co-ordinated and carefully designed street furniture, planting, signage and paving

• Improvements to make it easier for pedestrians to cross Christchurch Road, particularly where key connections meet. This could include surface changes and/or contrasting materials as well as formal crossing locations

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• Active ground floor uses where possible, such as independent retail units, gallery space and creative workspaces

• Ground floor uses to provide high quality, well positioned entrances, doors and windows to ensure that the frontages are active and welcoming

• On both sides of Christchurch Road, primary uses could include small scale employment and local retail

• Within the Lansdowne Employment Area – on the northern side of Christchurch Road – secondary uses could include student residential, private residential and leisure - these would need to be clearly subsidiary to the primary use

• Outside the Lansdowne Employment Area – on the southern side of Christchurch Road – primary uses could include private residential, student residential and leisure uses

• Potential for pop-up shops and low-cost creative work spaces

• Use of flexible consents regime and Local Development Orders or a Simplified Planning Zone

• Moveable internal walls to allow flexible work spaces tailored to business need

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12. St Swithun’s Road South

Improved road layout and high quality public realm treatment along a primary route to the heart of the Town Centre and the coast.






• Additional landscaping to create an avenue of trees along both sides of the road

• Improved facilities for pedestrians including more direct crossing facilities, particularly to address the main flow of pedestrians on Holdenhurst Road


• Public art at key intersections

• A review of St Swithun’s Roundabout at Christchurch Road to make it easier for pedestrians and cyclists to move around it

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13. St Paul’s Gateway

C:Side document section: 14. St Paul’s Gateway

New development and public realm proposals at a major gateway to the Lansdowne at St. Paul’s roundabout.


• A high quality pedestrian and cycle connection between Lansdowne Road and Oxford Road


• New landmark buildings with high quality, locally distinctive architectural design

• Positive frontages including architecturally interesting facades for day and night time, lighting and planting to face St. Paul’s Road, Lansdowne Road and the Wessex Way.

• Active and welcoming frontages to include high quality, well positioned entrances, doors and windows

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14. St Paul’s Lane

C:Side document section: 15. St Paul’s Lane

A pedestrian and cycle link extending St Paul’s Lane through to Holdenhurst Road and then to Cotlands Road, to make it easier to walk and cycle in the area. The principles for this are similar to the Oxford to Cotlands Lane, this proposal is different in that it is located further north, and so would further improve pedestrian and cycle connections in the area. This could be subject to a number of constraints, mostly linked to land ownership.


• Negotiation with landowners or land assembly to create the route through currently privately owned sites

• High quality development of a number of vacant or under-used sites along the route

• Active and welcoming frontages - ground floor uses to provide high quality, well positioned entrances, doors and windows


• A high quality pedestrian and cycle focused route, allowing servicing and access to buildings where appropriate

• Improvements to pedestrian and cycle crossing facilities at Holdenhurst Road and Oxford Road

• High quality public realm along the lane, including distinctive lighting, paving, street furniture and signage

• Improved public realm along Oxford Road including lighting and street furniture

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Improvements to make the route more welcoming for pedestrians and cyclists while accommodating extra vehicles that may use the route as an alternative to Holdenhurst Road following changes there.


• Review of the road layout of Oxford Road including the Madeira roundabout, focused on continuing to allow motor vehicle access while enhancing the experience of pedestrians and cyclists, improving safety and reliability of journey times for all road users



• Improved facilities for pedestrians including dedicated crossing facilities


16. Lansdowne Road

Improved road layout and high quality public realm treatment to enhance pedestrian, cycle and vehicle access at this key gateway to the Lansdowne area.


• A review of traffic use, restrictions and the road capacity required for motor vehicles



• Improved facilities for pedestrians including crossing facilities

• Better relationships between the road and the public and civic uses, including the University buildings and the Lansdowne Church

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17. Cotlands Road and York Road, and surrounding sites

C:Side document sections: 10. BH1 and 11. St Swithun’s Place

These two projects are very closely related, so they are better combined into one.

The name BH1 would cause confusion, as it is already used for the Madeira Road student accommodation, and has been used in the past for a proposed development on a site on the corner of Holdenhurst Road and St Swithun’s Road South. The name St Swithun’s Place would suit both these proposals just as well.

These sites could be a place for major new development focussed on the financial or business sector. Alternatively, they could host new tertiary teaching accommodation for one of the town’s educational institutions. There is potential for contemporary new development meeting modern requirements for high quality floorspace, architecture, environmental considerations and servicing.


• Employment or tertiary teaching uses as primary uses

• There may be a need for additional uses such as student or private residential accommodation or local retail to make the schemes viable, however these must be subsidiary to the primary uses.

• Creating major new frontage to St Swithun’s Road South and Christchurch Road with high quality architectural treatment

• Active frontages including main building entrances, windows and doors facing public spaces and routes throughout the development

• Positive frontages including architecturally interesting facades, lighting and planting to face St Swithun’s Road South

• Key buildings located at main entrances such as St Swithun’s Road South and at the termination of key vistas

• Landmark buildings may be appropriate in certain locations, remembering that a landmark does not necessarily have to be tall or large

• Replacement car parking for Cotlands Road Car Park would need to be provided





• A local square within the scheme linked to other supporting local public spaces in the area

• Improved linkages knitting the development into Holdenhurst Road, St Swithun’s Road South and Knyveton Road

• Improved public realm treatment to Cotlands Road and York Road including high quality surfacing, lighting, green landscaping and street furniture

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18. Meyrick Road

C:Side document section: 9. Meyrick Road

This proposal is for improved public realm to aid the connection between the Lansdowne Roundabout - Lansdowne Circus - and the East Cliff lift and beach.


• Public realm works that protect the character of the existing street and aid way finding to the beach from Lansdowne Circus

• Lighting, surfacing and street furniture related to the public realm works at Lansdowne Chine – Holdenhurst Road

• A review of traffic use and restrictions with the potential to consider alternative ways of balancing pedestrian, cycle and vehicle uses or create a pedestrian focused design

• Public Art on the roundabout with Gervis Road


• High quality, active and welcoming frontages to Meyrick Road

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Delivery of the Movement and Public Realm aspects of the projects

Delivery Action 3:

The movement and public realm aspects of the transformational projects will be taken forward to deliver physical changes to the streets and spaces within the Lansdowne. This may include the following:

• Developing a strategy for the streets and spaces which would bring together analysis of the area, transport modelling, topographic survey data and information on costs to set out a more detailed preferred strategy for the streets and roads in the area.

• Securing sources of funding for the schemes, including making bids for funding from external sources.

• Detailed design and construction of the schemes. A key part of the development of detailed designs will be public consultation with the wider community.

Delivery lead: to be led by Bournemouth Borough Council.

Delivery of the property based elements of the projects

Delivery Action 4:

In order to deliver the property elements of the transformational projects, it may be necessary for some or all of the following to take place:

• Fesibility studies, business plans, development briefs

• Securing sources of funding

• Land assembly and negotiating with landowners and covenant holders.

• The future of specific sites may also be negotiated with landowners through the Planning process.

Delivery lead: to be led by the Lansdowne Delivery Manager working with the Lansdowne Delivery Board, relevant Council departments and landowners. Where sites come forward of their own accord the Local Planning Authority would have a leading role.


19. Smart Network

C:Side document section: 16. Smart Network

Providing cutting edge infrastructure and technology for people visiting, working and living in Lansdowne.

This could include:

• Innovative, unique and sustainable modes of transport to move people around the area, linking to key destinations such as the Station, the beach and the retail heart of the town centre

• A form of renewable energy provision that will provide local power and heating to the C:Side area including a Heat Network through an Energy Centre or District Heating Scheme

• Cutting edge communication and digital technology around the area that allows people a superfast connection to the internet inside buildings and outside in public spaces

• A Digital Spine installed during the public realm improvements allowing for future capacity and data demand

• Introduction of beacon technology to give people immediate access to information on transport timetables, product information, restaurants, availability of meeting spaces, events etc. for example through a Lansdowne App

• Dynamic kiosks that display real-time information including through touchscreens, giving information on traffic, weather and local news

• Solar powered charging stations - socially-oriented, solar-based chargers and Wi-Fi stations which could also function as bus stops

• Either a new car club in the Lansdowne for businesses and residents or greater uptake of the existing car club

Strategic Projects

Extract from C:Side - dynamic kiosks A car club car

INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT

Delivery Action 5:

This will be a matter for a Lansdowne Delivery Board but the Council would have a supporting role. No specific actions identified at this stage.


20. Enterprise Network

C:Side document section: 17. C:Side Enterprise Network

To promote business to business interaction and networking. This includes identifying opportunities for sharing knowledge, local purchasing and facilitating a ‘single business voice’. The social connections between people to exchange ideas and promote business development are equally as important as the physical connections through the area.

This could include:

• Establish a Business Forum

• A programme of business engagement events and activities

• Implement regular business surveys and performance ‘barometer’

• Signposting to business advice services

• Fostering stronger links between the educational institutions and businesses to provide work experience opportunities for students

• Shared conference facilities with access for all businesses

Extract from C:Side - establishing an enterprise network

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Delivery Action 6:

The Lansdowne Delivery Board will need to lead on this, working with the Council’s Economic Development Service and a well established business engagement organisation. Organisations such as Bournemouth University, Arts University Bournemouth, the Chamber of Trade and Commerce, the Town Centre BID and Silicon South will have a positive role to play. No further actions at this stage.

Delivery lead: to be led by the Lansdowne Delivery Board


21. Signage and Public Realm

C:Side document section: 17. C:Side Enterprise Network

Providing public realm quality, wayfinding and interpretation signage through the C:Side area.

This could include:

• Implementing a co-ordinated set of public realm components that can be applied throughout the C:Side area

• A co-ordinated palette of street furniture and surfacing

• Locations for landmark public art at the Reception @ C:Side area, Lansdowne Circus and St Swithins Place

• Lighting of routes, spaces and landmark buildings

• Soft landscape treatment such as street trees and low level planting to be included within key spaces and along main routes

• Way finding signage has recently been provided at main intersections such as around the Travel Interchange and Lansdowne Circus; this may need to be reviewed when projects start to take place in terms of their content, and more signage may be needed in other parts of the Lansdowne area

A Public Realm Strategy for the Lansdowne area could identify a co-ordinated palette of street furniture, surfacing, lighting, public art, green landscaping, and so on. This would be considered in the context of available budgets and the public realm proposals within the Town Centre as a whole.


Delivery Action 7:

A review of the way finding signage in the area, to be undertaken by the Lansdowne Delivery Board at an identified point when changes take place in the area. A key part of this action will be public consultation with the wider community. No further actions at this stage.

Delivery lead: to be led by the Lansdowne Delivery Board


4 Making it happen


All of the projects identified will require significant financial resources that cannot be supplied from just one source. Although the Council is keen to promote improvements in the Lansdowne area, its own funds are becoming more constrained and so an innovative and determined approach to securing funding will be necessary. It is likely that funding from several sources will need to be brought together for each project.

Sources of funding may include:

Bournemouth Borough Council Initial funding to get projects started may be one of the most effective ways of using Council resources, given the limitations on funds and the need to balance work in the Lansdowne with work elsewhere in the town.

Bournemouth Development Company – BDCThe Bournemouth Development Company – or BDC – was set up in 2011 to help to deliver the aims and aspirations of the Town Centre Vision, as set out in the Town Centre Area Action Plan – or AAP. Also known as a Local Asset Backed Vehicle – or LABV – it is a mechanism where the Council invests its land assets in return for financial investment by a private partner, Morgan Sindall Investments. The Bournemouth

Development Company has an option on the Cotlands Road Car Park, which is Council owned.

Governmental organisations outside the CouncilThe Council sometimes has the opportunity to bid for money from central government funds, particularly relating to transport and public realm improvements. These opportunities are usually directed at specific outcomes, for example improving sustainable transport, and match funding from Council sources is usually required. Deadlines for funding applications can be short, and so it is sensible for the Council to develop plans with enough detail for applications in advance of the funding being available. Funding directly from central government has already helped to make significant improvements in and around the Lansdowne area, for example money from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund provided improvements to the layout and design of bus stops on Christchurch Road and helped to fund an award-winning public realm scheme nearby at Horseshoe Common.

The Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership - LEPLocal Enterprise Partnership are voluntary partnerships between local authorities and businesses set up to help determine local

4.1 Funding

Changes at Horseshoe Common were funded from a combination of sources


economic priorities and lead economic growth and job creation within the local area. The Dorset LEP has already secured funding, known as the Local Growth Fund, to improve infrastructure and create thousands of new jobs.

The Dorset Strategic Economic Plan, produced by the Dorset LEP, identifies the Lansdowne for investment to create a Lansdowne Business and Enterprise Quarter. The Strategic Economic Plan proposes for the Lansdowne public realm improvements, redevelopment, and business support, to attract more private sector financial, digital and creative businesses to the area. The Plan identifies that investment in these areas would lead to new jobs. The Council may be able to bid for funding from the Dorset LEP as and when funding becomes available, by submitting an application with a clear business case that sets out proposals that would help to deliver the aims of the LEP.

European Structural Investment Fund Growth Programme – ESIFThe European Structural Investment Fund Growth Programme – or ESIF – is set up to implement the regional policy of the European Union, with funding from 2014 to 2020. The top priorities of this Programme are innovation, support for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises – or SMEs, low carbon,

skills, employment and social inclusion.

ESIF is administered in partnership with Local Enterprise Partnerships across the country, including the Dorset LEP, which has published the Dorset European Structural and Investment Fund Strategy 2014-2020 to set out how it intends to use the Growth Programme Funds. The key aim of the strategy is to build on Dorset’s strengths and opportunities to increase the competitiveness of SMEs and the skills and employability of the workforce and those entering/returning to the labour force.

The funds of the Growth Programme are released gradually for individual regions. When funds become available, the Council can apply for funding. Applications must demonstrate clearly how the proposed project(s) contribute towards the aims of the Growth Programme and the LEP.

Growing Places FundThe Growing Places Fund supports key infrastructure projects designed to unlock wider economic growth, create jobs and build houses in England. The Dorset LEP Growing Places Fund has been provided with £9.4m from Central Government for 2014/15 as a revolving loan scheme, to support major investment and regeneration in Dorset.

Changes to Station roundabout could greatly improve pedestrian and cycle access between the rail, coach and bus station, and the main Lansdowne area, opening it up for businesses


Planning ObligationsPlanning obligations are paid by developers where there is a need for the impact of their development on the area to be mitigated, and they must be: necessary to make the development acceptable in planning terms, directly related to the development, and fairly and reasonably related in scale and kind to the development.

The regime for planning obligations changed in April 2015, to include the Community Infrastructure Levy – or CIL, which is a tariff based levy charged on certain developments. The tariff has been determined based on viability evidence, and is set out in the Council’s CIL Charging Schedule, which the Council anticipates adopting in the autumn of 2015. Within the Town Centre, it has been found that it would not be viable to charge a CIL on office, education or private residential development, and the only type of development that will be eligible to pay the levy is student residential accommodation.

Even with CIL in place it may still be possible to negotiate a contribution for infrastructure from a developer through Section 106 payments. However, the Council in accordance with the CIL regulations, is only allowed to pool together 5 or less S.106 agreements to fund any individual infrastructure project.

There may also be scope for developers to consider offering unilateral undertakings, which for example provide for funding of enhancements to the Lansdowne area and cover items not directly linked to the development. Such undertakings normally sit outside of the planning considerations and would rely on the developer/ landowner voluntarily making a contribution in the wider interests of the area.

Business Improvement DistrictBusiness Improvement Districts – or BIDs – can be set up through a ballot process working in partnership with local business ratepayers to deliver additional services to businesses.

A BID is voted for by local businesses, and charges a levy on business rates. It can be run by a Manager or Co-ordinator, and overseen by a Board or Steering Group formed from representatives from local businesses. It uses the money to fund projects that are agreed by the board and that are in addition to services provided by local authorities. Improvements may include, but are not limited to, extra safety or security, cleansing and environmental measures. There is already a Town Centre BID, which includes the Lansdowne area. However, it does not include businesses with a Rateable

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Value under £9,500 or commercial offices not open to the public, and so many of the businesses in the Lansdowne are not included.

The Lansdowne area has already benefited from the work of the Town Centre BID. Projects funded by the Town Centre BID were chosen through extensive consultation with businesses and have included Town Centre Rangers, additional way finding signage, the Gardens of Light Festival, and support for the Wheels Festival. The Town Centre BID has also attracted additional voluntary contributions from some businesses.

Funding from the Town Centre BID is intended to help the businesses of the town centre as a whole, and it is likely that there will be shared ambitions for future projects.

The Town Centre BID comes to the end of its allotted time in 2016, at which point it intends to seek an additional term through another ballot process. It would be useful to promote a focus on the Lansdowne in the Town Centre BID’s strategic thinking and in the run up to a re-ballot.

Tax Incremental FinancingTax Increment Financing is an investment tool for financing infrastructure and other related development. It does not involve any additional taxation and results in a net gain for the local and national economies, delivering private sector jobs and physical and social regeneration which can save public money. UK TIF is a national framework through which responsibility and power for local economic growth and renewal is given to local communities.

It is based on reinvesting a proportion of future business rates from an area back into infrastructure and related development. It applies where the sources of funding available for a scheme to deliver economic growth and renewal cannot cover the cost of infrastructure required by the scheme.

Private sector direct investmentA key funding source will be private sector and University direct investment, for example in developing sites and possibly in delivering some public realm improvements. Business investment in existing sites and inward investment from companies will be the major source of investment in the Lansdowne.

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Sale or development of surplus Council owned highways landReconfiguration of the highway around Station Roundabout and St Paul’s Road to improve safety, connectivity and the quality of the public realm would free up surplus highways land. Careful planning of changes to the highway would result in the creation of viable development plots. These could be sold or alternatively developed by the Council or the Bournemouth Development Company. This would help to create active frontages and a vibrant public realm as well as generating capital which would help to facilitate infrastructure improvements.

The wider communityThe support of the wider community, in particular key stakeholder organisations and individuals, will be vital in bringing forward the aims of this delivery plan. Support could be in the form of voluntary financial contributions or in-kind services.

For example, in order to bring forward small scale improvements such as frontage improvements, funding from local businesses could be combined with funding from an external source. Current and potential employers in the area may wish to contribute towards public realm improvements that would make it easier to attract and retain staff.

In-kind contributions from local businesses could be in the form of providing meeting spaces, speakers for business events, or professional expertise in a particular area of work.

Advertising and sponsorshipIt may be possible to attract advertising and sponsorship from major local businesses and wider interests across Bournemouth and beyond.

SubscriptionsIt may be possible to set up a business network, which could operate on a subscription basis to fund events, promotional materials and other marketing activities. This could follow models of best practice such as the Wakefield first Bondholder Scheme, which is a membership scheme for Wakefield businesses with 100% of membership fees being re-invested back into promoting Wakefield district.

Sources of funding not includedThe C:Side document suggests that a Lansdowne Infrastructure Levy could be charged on new developments. Evidence collected for the Community Infrastructure Levy - CIL suggests however that there is very little viability in new developments in the Town Centre, which is why only student accommodation is proposed to be eligible for CIL. So a Lansdowne Infrastructure Levy is unlikely to be possible. For this reason it is not included as a potential funding source in this Delivery Plan.

Further sources of funding Further sources of funding may be identified during the delivery process, and so project delivery will need to be flexible in order to take advantage of this.


Summary table of funding sourcesThe table on pages 62 - 65 shows the possible funding sources for the projects identified in this Delivery Plan.

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The proposals could be delivered in phases. These are set out on the following page. The position of each project has been based on a basic assessment and an approximation based on the information available at this stage. It is likely that the phases could change when more information is available. Nevertheless, this does identify some early wins that would be easier to deliver than others.

The Phases correspond to the following timescales:

Phase one – within two years

Phase two – within seven years

Phase three - within ten years

4.2 Delivery phasing

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9 Start up workspace BBC

10 Oxford Road to Cotlands Road link Private sector and BBC

11 Christchurch Road BBC

12 St. Swithun’s Road South BBC

13 St. Paul’s Gateway Private sector

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Appendix 1:

Further road safety information

A number of the collisions at these locations involve vulnerable road users (i.e. pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists). The casualty breakdown is shown in the table below (number of collisions is shown in brackets).

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Motorcycles Pedestrians Pedal cycle Child OAP

Station Roundabout 36 38 5 (5) 5 (4) 10 (10) 1 2

St. Paul’s Roundabout - East side 21 29 2 (2) 0 (0) 1 (1) 5 2

Lansdowne Roundabout 18 18 0 (1) 4 (4) 9 (9) 0 0

Holdenhurst Road O/S Travel Interchange 16 17 3 (3) 5 (5) 5 (5) 0 1

St. Swithun’s Roundabout * 10 14 2 2 1 0 1

Holdenhurst Road, Cotlands Road junction *

9 10 4 3 0 0 2

Holdenhurst Road, between Wellington Road and Bournemouth Travel Interchange *

8 8 0 4 2 1 1

Accident analysis period considered: 2009 - 2013

* Detailed accident breakdown is not currently available for these sites

Source: Bournemouth Borough Council Road Safety Report - 2015

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