Opportunity
The Arden Cross site in the West Midlands is a key transit-oriented development area containing a proposed interchange station – the first HS2 stop north of London.
Solution
Based on a market appraisal of the scale of opportunity for the site, we developed a masterplan to deliver a phased and sustainable development, taking into account the area’s unique context. Our work included vision workshops, identifying enabling infrastructure, estimating costs, developing the outline business case and producing supporting strategies to underpin the masterplan. These encompassed utilities, environmental sustainability, communities and social value, and land use and delivery.
Outcome
The Arden Cross masterplan brings together the vision for a sustainable, smart and connected new destination with opportunities for employment, learning and living. Arden Cross will support up to 27,000 new jobs, and create 557,418m² of employment space, 3000 new homes and new infrastructure to ensure the benefits spread far and wide. Our business case secured £50M of funding for the enabling works. We also helped Arden Cross Ltd to secure a development partner for the site. We are now working to move the proposals to the delivery stage.