The recent plan by BCP Council to become a ‘world class city
region’ has been knocked by local climate group member.
Climate group member, Tina Cresswell branded the ‘Big Plan’ to be “blatantly commercial at the cost of any environmental policies”.
Tina Cresswell is a member of Christchurch Climate Action Group.
BCP’s ‘Big Plan’ was released at the start of 2021 and it is said to hopefully bring in £3 billion to the community.
Tina Cresswell has just under 100 people in her Climate Action Facebook group.
The group is “loosely” linked to the environmental organisation, Friends of The Earth.
They provide help, information and training for the members.
Tina added:
“There is no mention of tree planting, wind farms, community power development, managing sewage pollution, citizens forum or home insulation”.
She was disappointed with the plan, as the council only declared a climate emergency two years ago and nothing is being done to help that.
What is the ‘Big Plan’?
BCP’s Big Plan consists of these five major concepts:
ICONIC- BCP are going to invest in an “iconic cityscape” and display themselves to be innovative by making positive adjustments for the future.
Some of these adjustments are refurbishing the Bournemouth International Centre (BIC).
They want to harness the potential of the site with the amazing views and location.
There’s also going to be a £7.5 million investment in Lansdowne and a £22.7 million investment in Boscombe.
Next is the seafront, where they’re going to be working on Durley Chine, Sandbanks Pavilion Building and Southbourne Beach to name a few.
The rejuvenation of Poole is going to include building up retail, hospitality, residency and more green spaces.
They want to give Poole a positive makeover to inspire more business and interaction.
An example from the infrastructure plan is doubling the number of passengers at Bournemouth Airport to reach 1.5 million by 2022.
Another example is the aim to shorten the travel time from Bournemouth to London Waterloo, to only 90 minutes.
As a result, it’ll boost sales in travel, and make it less of a hassle.
Lastly, there’s the Act at Scale project.
This is where the aim is to develop and build more than 15,000 new homes in the area, for people of all incomes.
If you click here you’ll be able to view an interactive map of where some of the ‘Iconic’ projects taking place.
Among the five big projects, there are three underlying main focuses.
These are children, community and culture.
The aim is to provide 13,000 jobs, 15,000 homes and finally up the town’s worth by £3 billion.
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