City Centre Vision 2 - Southampton Connect

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Key Plan ST MARY’S RD MAYFLOWER PLAZA & THE GANTRY WESTQUAY 3 FRENCH QUARTER ADMIRAL’S QUAY OCEAN VILLAGE WOOLSTON RIVERSIDE Aerial photographs (pages 4 & 6) courtesy of COMMISSION AIR – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
The <strong>Vision</strong> The vision for <strong>Southampton</strong>, over the next five to ten years, is a city centre comparable with the best in Europe, as well as the principal centre of the South, offering a vibrant, exciting, well designed, sustainable and maintained centre with a real sense of ‘place’. To achieve the vision, the city centre will: Reconnect with its waterfront. Establish a north-south pedestrian spine, with the Bargate at its heart, incorporating a series of major new public spaces which will provide a memorable experience equal to any of the great pedestrian thoroughfares in the UK and Europe. It will link the city’s historic parks through the retail core with the Old Town and a new public promenade on the Royal Pier Waterfront. Become increasingly pedestrian friendly with public transport circulating around and across the pedestrian spine. Vehicular access will be maintained to all parts of the city centre, but through traffic will be restricted except for public transport. Become a high quality urban environment, incorporating iconic buildings, new and refurbished urban spaces, landmark buildings around the parks, enhanced entry points into the city centre, a waterfront of distinction and international identity, and a cultural quarter. Promote the Old Town as a vibrant quarter based on its own unique historic identity. It will sustain existing, and encourage further residential use, as well as enhance its attractiveness to residents and visitors. Embrace the development of ‘new quarters’ at the Royal Pier Waterfront, West Quay 3, Northern Above Bar, Central Station and Charlotte Place. Incorporate new employment, retail, leisure and residential uses. Be more attractive, efficient and welcoming to all users of the city centre. Develop a night time economy that will be promoted and managed to appeal to a wide audience. Become a major centre for culture and tourism.
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