Dec 2010 - South Worcestershire Development Plan

SOUTH WORCESTERSHIRE ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 2010179No B1 floorspace was completed during the year.Policy Aims & Performance1 To protect existing industrial employment opportunities;2 to ensure an adequate supply of jobs in order to meet the needs of theCity's growing population;3 to provide a wide spread of employment opportunities, both in termsof type and geographic location in order to reduce the need to travelto work;4 to preserve and enhance the architectural and historic heritage of theCity Centre;5 to maintain and enhance the vitality and viability of the City Centre asa sub-regional shopping centre; and6 to create a safe and attractive environment for all users(Relates to saved policies E1, E2, E4, E7, E8 and E10 of the City ofWorcester Local Plan.)Between April 2009 and March 2010 around 1.2Worsehectares of employment land has been developed.This represents a significant decrease when compared to 2008/09 when aroundthree hectares were built, thus clearly performing ‘worse’ in this criterion than lastyear.As regards the upcoming supply of employment land; commitments, includingLocal Plan Allocations, together with land already developed would beinadequate to meet the Structure Plan requirement of “about 75 hectares” wereall of the above to be built out.Furthermore, many of these allocated permissions are in outline only andhistorically the City’s completions rate of employment land has been too low tosatisfy the requirement if projected forwards. The situation is improving thoughas the additional three hectares of employment land added to the City’s stock inthe previous monitoring year led to a situation where (when aggregated over the