Vision for east Hull

Residents are being asked to give their views on how £400m could be spent transforming the Holderness Road area with new homes, schools and green spaces

If you live in the Ings, Preston Road or Newbridge Road areas of east Hull, or on Holderness Road itself, now is the time to have your say about plans for the future of your neighbourhood.
The plans could become the biggest face-lift the area has ever seen – if you, the residents, give them the thumbs up.
Using more than £400m of public and private money (that's enough to build nine KC Stadiums), the plans are being developed by Hull City Council, with a view to being implemented over the next 15-20 years.
They include building or refurbishing thousands of private homes, and demolishing many other council and private homes which date back to the 1920s or 1960s.
The plans also include the relocation of the Archbishop Sentamu Academy to Preston Road, the creation of 'green spaces' where wildlife can flourish, and the development of pedestrian and cycle route networks across the area – as well as improved parking and access on roads.
"Our aim is to make this an area where more people want to live and work," says Janet Whipps, chief executive of Gateway, the organisation which will deliver the plans.
"We want to improve the quality and choice of housing, and at the same time create safe and attractive communities where residents have better access to jobs, education, shopping, community facilities and high quality open spaces."

Options stage

This is the second time residents have been asked about plans to transform the Holderness Road area.
Last summer, a series of consultation events were held, including roadshows at Morrisons and Asda car parks and at Ings Shopping Centre, where local residents were able to meet staff from Gateway and the council's planning team.
More than 400 people gave their views about what changes they would like to see and what problems needed tackling.
These views have now been used by planners to create four specific 'options' for regenerating the Holderness Road area.
The 'preferred option,' for example, includes the building of more than 4,000 family homes for sale, rent or shared ownership, and the refurbishment of a further 1,400 homes.
It also includes the demolition of 1,900 homes, including the remaining Caspon homes on Ings and all the Winget and Wild homes on Preston Road.
There are also 'minimum,' 'medium' and 'maximum' options for development of the area which each offer different levels of change.

Have your say

A summary of the proposals under each option is outlined in a special newsletter which is being sent out to more than 20,000 households this month.
The newsletter includes easy-to-follow instructions showing residents how they can have their say, either by post or online.
It also gives dates and venues of more consultation events at which residents can again meet staff face-to-face.
"This is an important stage in the consultation process because it's the first attempt to set out in detail how the area could be changed over the next 20 years," said Mark Jones, head of regional development at Hull City Council.
"It gives people the chance to shape the future of their community by commenting on all of the various options for change."
By law, all comments must be put forward in writing.
Every single comment will be responded to by Hull City Council.

What happens next?

Planners will use these latest findings to create a Holderness Road Corridor Draft Area Action Plan (AAP), to be published this autumn, which will outline the delivery of the area's regeneration programme over the next 20 years.
The draft AAP will also be published on the council's website, along with residents' individual comments and responses to these from the council.
A further public consultation will then take place on the draft AAP, before its 'soundness' is officially examined at a public hearing by a government inspector.
Following that, if successful, the AAP will be adopted into Hull's planning framework.

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Building work could start as early as next year where sites are vacant Gateway is also leading a major regeneration programme in the Newington and St. Andrew's area of west Hull Gateway is working in partnership with a range of public and private agencies, but its main partner is lead private developer Bellway Homes. It recently selected 12,000 residents at random from across Hull and the East Riding to fill out a postal questionnaire asking what types of housing they would like to live in, and the factors other than housing which attract people to a particular area For more information call 300300 or visit www.gatewayhull.co.uk