East Midlands' 20-Year Growth Plan: New Towns & Jobs

0:00On April 22nd, work has kicked off on a 20-year spatial plan for new villages, towns, roads, and city extensions across Derby, Derby Shire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The East Midlands Combined County Authority is leading this with umbrella-planting powers to map out broad areas for growth, including strategic, infrastructure, like link roads and massive business spaces that cross-county lines. This strategy costs 1.6 million pounds a year, or 4.8 million over three years, plus staff hires, and it rolls out from 20. 28. First step is pulling together all the local housing and business plans from 19 councils, right as those councils get scrapped and replaced by. Fewer ones, likely four, starting April, 2028. The plan builds on Mayor Claire Ward's goals, 100,000 new jobs, 52,000 homes, and 4 billion pounds added to the economy. It ies big regeneration spots, like old power stations, the free port, and city centers, while protecting environments and boosting biodiversity at a regional scale.

1:06Key projects include the Trent Ark around Derby and Nottingham for a new town, with over 30,000 homes, 40,000 jobs, and huge. Commercial space, tied to railway upgrades, and M1 junction 24 improvements. Then there's the supercluster of three shuttered Trent River power stations, pushing clean energy like fusion and hydrogen, aiming for 6,000, 500 homes, and global business pull. All this got spotlighted by the Mayor at the MIVIUM Summit in Cairns, back in March, setting up sustainable growth without picking exact build. Sites that's for locals to handle down the line.