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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