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Background
Information
The Stockton
- Middlesbrough Initiative is the long-term framework that will
bind together every development in the towns over the next 20 years.
It is jointly led by Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough Councils,
and is backed by a range of partner organisations from throughout
the North East.
Our overall
aim is:
To create and
develop a new city-region within the Tees Valley that will
- be more competitive
than Stockton and Middlesbrough acting separately
- aim to perform
at the national average rate of economic performance within a
20-year period and deliver a city-region as competitive as the
best in the Northern Way.
Strategic
Context - The Northern Way
The government's
growth strategy, Moving Forward: The Northern Way, outlines the
new regeneration framework for the whole of the north. As one of
eight city-regions identified in The Northern Way, the Tees Valley
must take this opportunity.
We must create
the right environment to thrive and be competitive on a regional,
national and international level. To do this, the Tees Valley must
develop itself as a distinctive high-quality city-region.
However, the
lack of a coherent city-scale presence at the geographical core
of the Tees Valley will continue to hold back its development unless
it is addressed in a strategic and collaborative way.
The task is
to create a place in which people want to invest, live, work and
visit. This means focusing on the key things that can transform
the area and doing them well. Size matters when it comes to asset
building, but it is vital that the assets created here are of sufficient
quality to be truly competitive.
By creating
a green-blue heart of land and water-based assets within the urban
core of the Tees Valley, the Stockton - Middlesbrough Initiative
is moving towards the creation of a genuine city-region.
A successful
city needs a number of components that come together to provide
a spectrum of cityness - a multi layered approach that provides
a city scale environment.
To achieve genuine
city status, the Stockton - Middlesbrough Initiative needs to deliver:
- a regional
approach to cityness - embracing the whole of the Tees Valley
and the North East
- infrastructure
- ensuring that the urban core is well connected, both internally
within the Tees Valley and strategically with the wider North
East region and beyond
- aspirational
development - creating and attracting high-quality city scale
assets
- culture and
community - creating a vibrant and diverse urban core where people
want to invest, live, work and visit
- an interplay
between landscape and water - seizing the opportunity to deliver
a radical new landscape as a key signature for the city-region
- sport and
leisure - building on existing assets, with the River Tees at
its heart
- new industry
- keeping the old and embracing the new to develop a new industrial
landscape by harnessing the potential of the universities, skill
base and land supply/infrastructure
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