PUBLIC REALM + STREET DESIGN |
Smethwick to Birmingham Corridor Framework SPD + Grove Lane Masterplan | Birmingham City Council
Urban Movement was part of the Tibbalds-led team appointed to prepare the Smethwick to Birmingham Corridor Framework Document during 2021. Our specific roles were to develop a comprehensive Transport Strategy for the corridor, and to prepare a Strategic Transport Assessment.
The study area stretches from Galton Bridge to just west of Brindleyplace and is one of the most significant areas of brownfield urban renewal in Europe, with potential to deliver transformational regeneration of the area, building on a number of existing and committed major developments. The Framework creates a vision for the area and guiding principles to be used by all the delivery partners in the detailed design and development of the main redevelopment sites in the corridor and by private sector partners in delivering development.
The Transport Strategy is a core element of the Framework, designed to guide major improvements to transport and connectivity in the corridor, including the future of Smethwick High Street and measures to improve the safety of all users, especially people walking and cycling. It comprises fifty separate initiatives, most of which are designed to sustainable transport modes significantly more attractive than at present, and thereby to make credible the substantial mode shift away from cars and other motorised vehicles that the study area needs to thrive. It will be used by the councils and Transport for West Midlands to create, and seek funding for, a corridor-wide package of transport improvements focused on walking, cycling and public transport.
Alongside the Strategy, the Strategic Transport Assessment provides the detailed basis for developing sustainable, integrated, holistic and balanced transport networks which can support future development proposals in the study area, bringing forward new proposals for change and integrating these with local committed proposals to address future movement within the study area. The STA explores the increase in the demands for movement likely to arise from existing and proposed new developments embraced by the Framework and undertakes a high-level assessment of the impact this development could have on the transport networks in the area, especially the highway network.
The study area stretches from Galton Bridge to just west of Brindleyplace and is one of the most significant areas of brownfield urban renewal in Europe, with potential to deliver transformational regeneration of the area, building on a number of existing and committed major developments. The Framework creates a vision for the area and guiding principles to be used by all the delivery partners in the detailed design and development of the main redevelopment sites in the corridor and by private sector partners in delivering development.
The Transport Strategy is a core element of the Framework, designed to guide major improvements to transport and connectivity in the corridor, including the future of Smethwick High Street and measures to improve the safety of all users, especially people walking and cycling. It comprises fifty separate initiatives, most of which are designed to sustainable transport modes significantly more attractive than at present, and thereby to make credible the substantial mode shift away from cars and other motorised vehicles that the study area needs to thrive. It will be used by the councils and Transport for West Midlands to create, and seek funding for, a corridor-wide package of transport improvements focused on walking, cycling and public transport.
Alongside the Strategy, the Strategic Transport Assessment provides the detailed basis for developing sustainable, integrated, holistic and balanced transport networks which can support future development proposals in the study area, bringing forward new proposals for change and integrating these with local committed proposals to address future movement within the study area. The STA explores the increase in the demands for movement likely to arise from existing and proposed new developments embraced by the Framework and undertakes a high-level assessment of the impact this development could have on the transport networks in the area, especially the highway network.
