Parts of Lowestoft by the harbour and Lake Lothing are to be regenerated
Major regeneration plans for Lowestoft are adopted
By Anthony Carroll
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
4:05 PM
Ambitious plans to transform swathes of Lowestoft’s rundown waterfront areas and former industrial sites into thriving centres for the town by 2021 have been adopted.
The Lowestoft Lake Lothing and Outer Harbour Area Action Plan wants to create at least 950 jobs particularly in the energy sector, deliver 1,500 new homes, improve the town centre by the train station, promote sustainable transport and improve connections between north and south Lowestoft and the waterfront.
Also included in the major regeneration scheme, which covers 600 acres of land and is part of the local development framework plan, are a new primary school and new retail and food outlets.
The action plan is now ready to click into gear after it was adopted by Waveney District Council following approval by the Planning Inspectorate.
Colin Law, the leader of Waveney District Council, said: “Adoption of the action plan is the final piece in the jigsaw for this exhaustive and hugely important piece of work.
“The future of Lowestoft looks really bright now, and added to recent announcements, such as the enterprise zone status and those related to the offshore wind and energy sector, this is a truly exciting time for the town.”
It is also predicted another 4,000 jobs will be indirectly created from the plan, which according to a council document is a “real opportunity to raise the attainment and skills of young people” in Lowestoft and will create a “vibrant heart” in the town.
anthony.carroll@archant.co.uk
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11 comments
So 4,000 new jobs lets say half travel over the bridge, its like my worst nightmare I can picture the traffic now! Third crossing first and then the redevelopment because really who wants to work in a town with bad traffic, what company wants to open a branch in a town with this much traffic!? Yes some people may use the bus, but really how many? Why does it hurt the council so much to listen to what we all want, a third crossing thats all we want! You build a third crossing the business will come back!
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Nathan Long
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Please can it include a multiplex cinema so they can finally close down the 'flea-pit' Hollywood. People shouldn't need to drive to Norwich to see a movie in a clean, modern cinema.
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ECKO
Thursday, February 2, 2012
One minute the harbour is a conservation area (although the rules for such apply only to a few) the next its open house,no planning rules and builidings on stilts so the visitors can peer underneath to look at the sea. Our so called planners are a sick joke and along with the road system responsible for the town being in the dismal state it is. No wonder the town grinds to a halt everytime someone starts road works,with all the roads pedestrianised,closed or now one way because of the last fiasco the "sunrise scheme" there's nowhere for the fraffic to go.All the out of town supermarkets must be coining it in
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kevin bacon
Thursday, February 2, 2012
This regeneration plan is welcome - if anything comes of it! Sustainable transport is good. But several of my neighbours drive 200 yards to the shops, so we'll see how that one goes. Improvements to the railway station are long overdue. Trains arriving in the centre of a seaside resort, so close to the beach, are a great asset, but at present a wasted one. I hope the town centre regeneration is not just more paving, like all the previous ones. The Royal Plain and the town centre have a Soviet bleakness about them for much of the time. (The fountains are great though). I'd like to see some imaginative conservation architecture applied to existing buildings in the town, so that what little sense of place remains is preserved. NorfolkLassie is right about the questionable need for further retail outlets when the town centre is really struggling. Retail jobs are not notably well-paid. As for food outlets, do we really need more McDonalds, KFCs or Subway? Because that's what there will be. It seemed to me that the Kirkley regeneration was doomed as soon as a drive-through KFC appeared! It is a great pity that the Waveney Campus project was scrapped. This kind of regeneration, incorporating an academic institution and CEFAS, would have brought employment at all levels and jobs in supporting industries. It would also be good for school students to see Higher Education possibilities in their home town. I am a supporter of off-shore energy generation, but these developments thrive only at the whim of Government, and I should not wish the town to be entirely dependent on this sector.
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point du jour
Thursday, February 2, 2012
More clap trap and pie in the sky ideas, most will never materialise until they sort out Lowestofts road problems
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Sifu
Thursday, February 2, 2012
It makes alot of sense, it's been outlined in the LDF for ages but when they've started talking about a new retail outlet it makes me wonder what about all those current units in the town centre that are empty? Shouldn;t they encourage new businesses to those unit first and then deliver a retail unit further up the road?
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NorfolkLassie
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Just who makes up all this tosh! .... how many times are they going to roll out all these new job figures, and where is all this money coming from? Well! do they just pluck numbers out of there head. Nothing will change for Lowestoft until they fix the Road structure coming in to the town and out of the town, and sort out the road mess that SCC created and the sunlies scream. Can anyone rearlly see any of this happening? no me neither or the goverment Ploughing millions into Lowestoft! ...not while this gov is on a austerity program. not even in twenty years will we see any of this pie in the sky clap trap.
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Sifu
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Tom Crisp Way was built to help the traffic flow, all it done was to get the traffic to the bridge quicker and cause chaos, to many traffic lights and a one way system which is useless.
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piste- basher
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
some hope of this ever happening in the next hundred years !!!!
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kettle1
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The future of Lowestoft will never be bright for inward investment until we get the third crossing built. Current situation where it is taking an hour a day to get into town says it all. PS Who ever in the council agreed that it would be a good idea to did up Station Square and Oulton Broad at the same time needs to have a long hard look at themselves! makes the town look like a joke
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DaveG
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Now's the time to start thinking about doubling and electrifying the railway line from Lowestoft to Ipswich. Or how about a daily return hydrofoil sevice to London from Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and Lowestoft?
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JCW
Wednesday, February 1, 2012