City Deal City Centre Avenues – Sauchiehall Street

Enabling Infrastructure Integrated Public RealmCiaran Buchanan

PROJECT OFFICER: DRS CITY CENTRE REGENERATION / CITY DEAL

Strategic Context

National PlanningFramework 3

Glasgow EconomicLeadership

Glasgow City Vision2012

FDI Strategy

Proposed StrategicDevelopment Plan 2016

Glasgow CityDevelopment Plan 2016

City CentreStrategy 2014-19

City CentreTransport Strategy 2014-24

CCS Districts Strategy

1 CCS defines 9 city centre Districts based on urban form, character and land use – sustainable neighbourhoods

2Developed collaboratively, a Regeneration Framework will be established for each District with a dual process:

• Strategic visioning and place-making policy development

• Shorter term operational and environmental interventions

Supplementary guidance for Development Plan 3

CCS Districts Strategy

Key Projects

• Charing Cross North

• Charing Cross South

• Mitchell Bridge and Charing Cross Station

• Sauchiehall Avenue Extension

• The Underline

• Cowcaddens Station

• Cowcaddens Road

• Port Dundas Junction

What is City Deal?

Unique structure Local

Authority and

Government

collaboration

£1.13b Infrastructure

Fund

£500m each from UK

and Scottish

Governments

£130m from Local

Authority Members

Innovation and Skills

& Employment

strands

Biggest

City Deal in

Scotland

What will City Deal Deliver?

Delivered through a

programme of work

which will greatly add to

the value of the local

economy over the next

20 years.

Deliver 20 major Infrastructure Projects selected for the

Initial List

Generate around 15,000 jobs during construction

Create around 29,000 permanent jobs in the Region

Work with 19,000 unemployed residents and support over 5,500 back into sustained

employment

Improved public transport / transport infrastructure

Generate a permanent uplift in GVA (Gross Value

Added) for the Region of £2.2b per annum (4.4%)

Generate an estimated £3.3bn of private sector

investment

EIIPR Programme aims and objectives

• Avenues will be used as the binding mechanism to integrate

regeneration and place-making initiatives

• Principal Avenues throughout the city centre will introduce an

integrated network of continuous pedestrian and cycle priority routes to

connect key areas and transport nodes and link the city centre with the

surrounding neighbourhoods

• They will be a visible and tangible demonstration of the City’s intent to

transform the quality of the environment and its readiness for climate

change

• They will incorporate gateways around the city centre to make it easier

and more attractive for pedestrians and cyclists to cross physical

barriers, like the M8

• Objectives: improved connectivity, pedestrian-friendly street design,

greening, smart infrastructure, surface water management solutions,

underground/pop-up services

EIIPR route map

Design Elements & Deliverables

Direct Benefits Quantum

Public Realm (New & Enhanced) 184,380sqm

Blue/Green Infrastructure – Rain Gardens 6,930sqm

Road Network (Enhanced) 12,810m

Walk way (New & Enhanced) 14,435m

Cycle Track (New & Enhanced) 9,315m

Junction Upgrades 50

Green Infrastructure – Street Trees 250

Construction jobs 1,698

Extent of WorksSauchiehall Street (Charing Cross to Rose Street)

Elmbank Street, Holland Street, Pitt Street and Douglas Street

Sauchiehall Street looking west - before

Sauchiehall Street looking west - after

Sauchiehall Street looking east - before

Sauchiehall Street looking east - after

INTELLIGENT STREET LIGHTING

Euan Ross – Project Manager, City Deal

ISL – Site Map

LED Lamps

• Replacing lamps, like for like using LEDs

• Using existing columns and brackets

• Delivering the same light levels on to the ground

• The CMS alerts the maintenance teams when

lamps fail

• LEDs last between 15 and 24 years compared to 4

years for Sodium lamps

Future City Demonstrator – Gordon Street

Questions?