2.1.5
Original Document
It is clear that whichever option is followed within the Core Strategy, the city centre must play its part in accommodating the big rise in population and households that is forecast for the city. This has important implications in two areas. Firstly, the need to create balanced communities with a full range of facilities that will encourage families to live in the centre; and secondly, the need to adopt planning policies that allow for the right kind of residential growth within the centre. A growing population will need more jobs, schools, more shops, places to go, places to enjoy. This report suggests ways in which these changes may be realised and delivered.
Plain English Translation
The city centre must help to house the rise in people and households that we expect for the city. There are two important things:
- we must have balanced neighbourhoods with lots of facilities that will mean that families want to live in the centre
- we must have planning rules that mean we have the right kind of new housing.
A growing population needs more jobs, schools, shops, places to go, places to enjoy. This report has ideas about how we can make this happen.