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Improving health and well being
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Protecting and enhancing our natural assets
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Improving water quality and flood risk
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Maximising the economic and social benefits of the High Speed 2 rail link and Interchange
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Mitigating the impacts of High Speed 2 and the growth associated with the Interchange area
Policy P1A Blythe Valley Business Park 1.
The Council will support and encourage the development of Blythe Valley Business Park within its boundary defined in this Local Plan to support its role as a mixed use development including as a prime employment location (to enhance its important role as a high quality, managed business park) and residential community. Development that will be supported and encouraged is as follows:
2.
Business development comprising of offices, industrial and warehousing. The Council will expect development to progress in a well planned way that will maintain the attractiveness of the Business Park to investors and that will protect and enhance the environment including the natural environment.
3.
The Council will also support a broad range of supporting ancillary or complementary uses needed to enhance the attraction of the business park to occupiers. These could include hotels, health and fitness, leisure, childcare facilities and local facilities of a scale that does not compete with existing or planned facilities outside the business park, particularly designated town centres as appropriate.
4.
At Blythe Valley Business Park the Council will support and encourage the delivery of additional employment floorspace by improving the attractiveness of the park to investors through an improved range of amenities, supported by well planned residential development that will create an overall sense of place and a more sustainable location.
5.
The Council will expect new facilities, including the residential element of Blythe Valley Park, to be developed within the context of a masterplan to demonstrate how integration would be achieved between existing and planned facilities and with the network of villages that lie nearby and that the business park looks outwards as well as inwards in terms of connectivity to facilities beyond the business park and how any new facilities could be provided in a way that benefits the wider area including nearby communities.
Justification 109.
Blythe Valley Business Park did not begin to be developed until the late 1990s and has a different character to Birmingham Business Park in terms of its architecture and occupiers. It has attracted large buildings for corporate occupiers though more recently has catered for smaller scale uses whilst retaining its commitment to distinctive high quality design.
110.
The Business Park has an area of land of some 7ha remaining to be developed. The Business Park has aspirations to increase vitality and provide a greater sense of place by broadening the business use offer and enabling a range of supporting facilities that will help
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