The Vision
The vision for Southampton, over the next five to ten years, is a city centre comparable with the best in Europe as well as the principal centre of the South, offering a vibrant, exciting, well-designed and maintained centre with a sense of place.
Southampton�s city centre has a unique contribution to make to the future of the region. It provides approximately 50,000 jobs and plays a key role in the sub regional economy. It functions as a major retail, commercial, cultural and leisure centre, transport interchange and as a place to live.
The city centre has gone through a transformation over the last few years, largely due to the opening of the WestQuay Shopping Centre in September 2000. This has helped place Southampton at 7th position in the UK�s top shopping destinations. The pace of transformation is likely to increase further as a result of current projects set out below. Nearly 2,700 residential units, approximately 32,000 sq m of office floorspace, about 50,000 sq m of retail / leisure floorspace and new and refurbished public spaces are currently being developed. This will provide over 3,000 jobs and represent private sector investment of over �600m.
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Key Plan
Supporting documents:
The following strategy documents have been instrumental in developing the Vision for the City Centre and you can view these by clicking on the links below.
Southampton Urban Design Strategy/ Development Design Guide - An urban design led development strategy to improve perception, image and visual quality of the city centre.
Local Transport Plan - Sets out the City Council�s objectives, policies and investment plans for transport for the next five years.
City Strategy : The Renaissance of the City - Presents the City Council�s vision of Southampton for the future, looking ahead for the next 20 years.
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