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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: •S omer Valley Rediscovered green infrastructure projects •D fT Active Travel: Walking & Cycling Social Prescribing Pilot •R adstock Healthy Living Centre • RADCO Redevelopment •A 37 & A367 Corridor Improvements
Skills
• Better pathways to employment • Improve skills in conjunction with Bath College Somer Valley Campus • Green jobs • Apprenticeships
