A new joint venture is to embark on a £300m regeneration of
Urbo Regeneration comprising AGD regeneration, Bolsterstone Group and Arnold Laver Group has joined with Chesterfield Borough Council to deliver the waterside project in Derbyshire.
Chesterfield Waterside will regenerate a 40-acre former industrial site adjacent to the A61 in the River Rother corridor into a 1200-home village.
The scheme includes a retail and business quarter, a landmark public square, an eco park and public open spaces, and the restoration of the local canal network to create a fully navigable route including a new canal basin and canal arm.
The jv’s plans for the site were displayed at an exhibition in March and a detailed planning application for the canal basin and other infrastructure works was submitted in March.
Outline planning for the whole site is expected in late summer 2008 together with the start on site of the canal basin.
Pete Swallow, Chesterfield Waterside Partnership chairman and director of Urbo Regeneration, said: “Chesterfield Waterside will enable an innovative re-use of mostly derelict land and create a new urban quarter and extension to the town centre.
“Economic growth will be just one of the benefits to
“The Urbo approach will make it much easier for local authorities to deliver wider regeneration through our willingness to purchase land up front and manage the regeneration process to meet shared public-private objectives.”
