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Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone

Update – NGA Conference 16th November 2011

Stephen Hilton

Service Director, Future City, Bristol City Council Paul Appleby

Director VID Communications and Chair – Bristol Media CIC

Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone – Key Features

•  Creative and Technology focus •  Superfast Broadband •  Zone covers 70 hectares •  4,000 new jobs in 5 years, 17,000 in 25 years •  New businesses will get up to a £275,000 business rate discount spread over 5 years •  Simplified planning

Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone – Key Returns

•  An inspirational environment for next generation creative and technology based industries •  A highly sustainable and accessible location •  Global connectivity

Temple  Quarter  Enterprise  Zone  –  Securing  Growth  

•  Avoiding Displacement •  Linking with other Economic Priorities •  Ensuring that businesses are sustainable in the broadest sense •  Aiming for widest possible benefits

Temple  Quarter  Enterprise  Zone  –  Site  Specific    

TQEZ : The Opportunity

Creative Bristol’s 4 Levels •  THE FOUNDATION

- McKinsey, NESTA, CIHE reports - Sticky City, Unorthodox, collaborative?

•  THE 10 MINUTE CITY - A constellation of high quality centres

•  DIGITAL CONNECTION - Speed & Collaboration

•  CO-LOCATION - The produced experience

TQEZ : The Opportunity

VISIONING OCTOBER 10th

200 people as the first engagement cohort, developing a framework of:

•  CORE VALUES •  CORE PURPOSE •  GOALS – Long-term and Immediate… plus outlying •  CHALLENGES (& SOLUTIONS)

TQEZ : The Vision : Core Values

Core Values •  SUSTAINABLE Ethical, genuinely sustainable, enduring, and creating a legacy •  INCLUSIVE Reflects & actively promotes the social, cultural & economic diversity of the city •  INNOVATIVE A centre of excellence for creativity & innovation

TQEZ : The Vision : Core Values

Core Values •  A SENSE OF PLACE A unique “soul”, a clear culture; enjoyable and hard to leave •  FOR PEOPLE A living place, a community, not just a workplace •  LOCAL For Bristol, not just in Bristol

TQEZ : The Vision : Core Values

Core Values •  EVOLVING Stimulates change within itself •  BIG/SMALL Human-scale, a local heart with a global view •  INTEGRATED Permeable, linked to the rest of Bristol

TQEZ : The Vision : Core Values

Core Values •  COLLABORATIVE Free-thinking, integrated •  BEAUTIFUL Exemplary development embracing design best practice & respecting heritage

TQEZ : The Vision : Core Purpose

Distilling the core purpose

•  PERCEPTION Front door to Bristol : a beacon for future cities : challenging conventions

TQEZ : The Vision : Core Purpose

Distilling the core purpose

•  HOW THE ZONE IS A beautiful, industrious area : connects : cultivates the diversity of creativity in the area, realising potential : launching new business

TQEZ : The Vision : Core Purpose

Distilling the core purpose

•  HOW BRISTOL BENEFITS The Zone joins up & enriches the city, tapping in to Bristol as big/small ; It connects inclusively to communities ; creates well-being and reaches beyond, to the region

TQEZ : The Vision : Goals

BIG GOALS •  A zero carbon exemplar •  GDPP – Production + Pleasure •  Integrated city/transport/community •  More awards than anywhere else •  No Boundary to the Zone •  Best place for business in the WORLD

TQEZ : The Vision : Goals

2016 Goals •  Redevelopment started •  Support & capacity building for SMEs •  Temporary pop-ups •  Expo 2016 •  Iconic buildings

TQEZ : The Vision : Vivid Descriptions

•  A mix of working, living, shopping and leisure space – a campus, with a human buzz – a “freshers week” feel

•  Temple Meads transformed into an open area, using the tunnels, new entrances

•  An interesting place to hang out – piazzas and green spaces - Covent Garden, Borough Market, pop-up shops, independent trading

•  With water transport – like Amsterdam or Venice

TQEZ : The Vision : Outliers

Challenges •  Leadership •  Drawing in talent •  Success measures & perceptions •  Zero carbon •  Engagement & inclusion •  Funding •  Planning & timing

TQEZ : The Vision : Next Steps

•  Engagement - present the framework to wider groups

•  Development – create instruments based on values & purpose

•  Action – creating milestones and deadlines, measures to unblock barriers

Temple  Quarter  Enterprise  Zone  –    Ini;al  Programmes  of  Work  (2)  

The following key pieces of work will be completed by April 2012 cont’d. •  Identify and implement interim uses of a number of the key sites •  Meet with existing developers who have planning permissions in the zone •  Develop sector engagement plans •  Work with Creative Industry Leads to develop offer in EZ •  Strategically acquire 2 significant sites •  Complete feasibility studies on Superfast Broadband