Bradford's proposed vision and objectives

Vision:

We are one of the UK’s biggest, youngest, most diverse and entrepreneurial cities. 

Our lives are shaped by unique, welcoming and digitally-connected places and neighbourhoods. Sweeping landscapes create opportunities to walk, cycle, relax and play any day in a network of thriving nature. With city centre on our doorstep, our efficient and affordable public transport connects to world-leading sustainable business districts and innovation centres. While heritage buildings and vibrant retrofit spaces host our creative, caring and future-focused enterprises while we lead the UK’s Clean Growth.

Objectives:

• Establish an Economic Engine of the City.  Creating a Central Business District (CBD) by establishing an iconic high-growth core with Grade-A office units to attract key growth sectors and business people to relocate and work in the city. Centred around the City Park and the station hubs, the new CBD, complemented by food markets, restaurants, cafés, and retail units that feature local businesses, will create a vibrant ambience during the day and evening. 
• Harnessing the Innovative Brain of the City. Encouraging an education-led regeneration by becoming a new knowledge and innovation leader focused on Bradford University and the College to increase Bradford’s attractiveness in priority sectors (e.g., health and advanced manufacturing). By partnering with the University, urban regeneration can be planned and delivered sensitively in collaboration with the communities. 
• Expressing the Cultural Heart of the City. Bradford’s central public spaces & routes are the city’s cultural heart. Foregrounding these with expressions of culture and affirming City Park as a pedestrianised, multi-functional, digitally connected space for relaxing, socialising and intermingling between residents, workers, commuters, and tourists will provide a memorable experience. The city has the capacity to create a globally competitive cultural and lifestyle destination and decarbonised visitor economy. 
• Adopting a Life-Centric Approach to Enhancing Routes & Parks. Creating accessible Green & Blue Networks by improving the thriving ecosystem, habitat and biodiversity links along Canal Road and River Beck and across the city. Creating safe walking and cycling routes alongside key housing and growth areas, City Village, Holme Wood development commuters, school runs, and shoppers pass by, while a network of parks socialises physical mobility with active recreation facilities. 
• Plant the Seeds for Clean Growth. Creating opportunities to diversify the employment base and encouraging the city’s entrepreneurial spirit by proving co-working & incubators spaces. Enabling a network of smallerscale, flexible shared workspaces for commercial and social enterprises to foster the exchange of ideas. Networks that allow opportunities for professionals, entrepreneurs, and trainees to cross both physical and social paths can share ideas and collaborate more organically. 
• Repurposing Heritage Assets for Community Focused Spaces. Celebrating local businesses, high-quality food, sustainable production, and social connection by redeveloping ex-industrial areas as shared commercial units in the form of community trade and market spaces. This will lead to better utilisation of space, materials, resources, technologies, operational energy supply, and waste management. 
• Introducing Modern City Centre Living. Developing low-carbon & high-quality housing to Encourage city centre living that is well integrated with vibrant facilities and amenities, linking active, distinct and safe surroundings to foster healthy and convivial communities within high-density neighbourhoods. Providing diverse and varied typologies and tenant mixes allows intergenerational families, families with kids, and couples to live harmoniously. 
• Inclusive Urban Regeneration That Benefits All. Delivering affordable housing and access to opportunities through equitable and sustainable land use and development without displacement, where existing community members remain in and strengthen their neighbourhoods and networks while accommodating new residents through compact, mixed-use developments. 
• Creating Regenerative Businesses & Job Opportunities. Providing opportunities for all residents and businesses and supporting the transition to a green economy through economic and workforce development incentives. Through investment in new skills and training infrastructure and network to create green jobs and businesses. 
• Transitioning Mobility for the City. Develop a convenient, safe, clean, and affordable regional and local transportation system that enhances mobility and reduces car dependency. By increasing the appeal of public and active mobility, the city can support people’s healthier and more sustainable lifestyle choices while supporting station quarter economic regeneration from increased footfall at the Interchange, Forster Square, and the new station.