Radstock Town Centre Area Action Plan

Radstock Town Centre Area Action Plan – Project Scope

Radstock Town Council and Bath and North East Somerset Council are working in partnership to look at regeneration of Radstock Town Centre.

Bath and North East Somerset Council has been successful in obtaining revenue funding from the West of England Combined Authority Housing Regeneration Enabling Fund to prepare delivery plans working in partnership with landowners and stakeholders. This will facilitate delivery and access to funding, to support the infrastructure needs arising in communities including response to strategic growth.

The scoping project will look at opportunities to improve the vitality of the town centre including enhancement of infrastructure, public realm and heritage assets, links to green infrastructure, and transport, improved local shops, business and community premises offer, potential for tourism, given the town's heritage and encouragement of use of sustainable travel modes.

Opportunities

Types of project areas that could be tested through the Action Plan are outlined below. The projects will be guided by existing policies and provide a strategic approach to future planning in the Somer Valley.

The Radstock Town Centre Area Action Plan will identify links between existing projects, gaps in provision & opportunities for action, for example:

• Somer Valley Rediscovered green infrastructure projects

• DfT Active Travel: Walking & Cycling Social Prescribing Pilot

• Radstock Healthy Living Centre

• RADCO Redevelopment

• A37 & A367 Corridor Improvements

Skills

• Better pathways to employment

• Improve skills in conjunction with Bath College Somer Valley Campus

• Green jobs

• Apprenticeships

Public Realm

• Changing toilet, seating, space for food stalls and events in Tom Huyton Park

• Infrastructure and road layout

• Parking

• Access to broadband and improvement in speeds

• Improvement scheme for shops in Fortescue Road

• Improve bus shelters

• Recharge points for electric bikes and bike racks

• Review and rationalisation of signage

Property

• Redundant property register and suggested re-use, eg Trinity Methodist Church, Children's Centre, Library, St Nicholas old school, Brunel Shed, museum toilet block and Lifestyle Fitness site

• Property finding for local businesses and organisations

• Mapping ownership of town centre property and sites

Vibrant Town Centre

• Embrace the 15 minute neighbourhood concept where everything a resident needs is 15 minutes away by foot or bike

• Place branding

• Events and markets

• Bring vacant shops back into use

• Tourism opportunities

Green Infrastructure

• Green energy production

• Wellow Brook

• Promote link between the Norton Radstock greenway and two Colliers Way

• Street trees

For the latest update and further details, please visit the Town Council’s website – www.radstock-tc.gov.uk. Further communication and consultation will be announced in the near future.