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Students honoured at City College ceremony see page 19
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Ambitious plans for waterfront
August 2016
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Ideas that could bring parts of Plymouth’s foreshore to life along with identifying sites for hotels, housing, improved green spaces, heritage trails and public art are being put forward in a new masterplan for the city’s historic Waterfront. Wildflower and coastal grass could be planted on the fringe of the Hoe to remove its municipal feel and acknowledge its link with the sea, while on the water’s edge, empty buildings should be opened up. The suggestions are being put forward in the Plymouth Waterfront Strategic
Masterplan prepared by LDA Design who have been jointly commissioned by Plymouth City Council and the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership Business Improvement District (BID). The Waterfront has been identified as • continued on page 2
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1,200 new homes built There were over 1,200 homes completed in Plymouth last year, the second highest number since 1988/1989. In the year ending March 2016, a total of 1,244 homes were completed in the city smashing the City Council’s own Plan for Homes target of 1,000 homes a year. Commenting on the figures, Councillor Patrick Nicholson, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Strategic Housing, Transport, and Planning said, “Plymouth needs new homes for local people and this shows that the plans we have put in place are beginning to make a real difference. I am also pleased that last year we brought 55 empty properties back
into use and we want to do more on that in the coming months”. As at March 2016, there were also 1,007 homes under construction in the city and new housing starts were a further 1,282 both up from previous years. Councillor Nicholson added, “The figures on housing starts and houses under construction are both positive signs for the future; however I remain concerned that we still have 4,924 homes in Plymouth with planning permission that developers have not yet built. We want to work with developers to unlock these stalled sites, because we don’t want to lose green fields to housing development unnecessarily when there are planning permissions not yet implemented.”
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