The plan incorporates:
- 650 well designed quality sustainable homes, including family, first time buyer, affordable and retirement housing
- New employment opportunities including speculatively developed workspace and offices for small to medium sized enterprises
- A neighbourhood centre including community leisure facilities, convenience shops, meeting rooms, interpretation and community police space
- £4.8m investment into a new half hourly bus service to Peterborough and Huntington, including new covered bus stops and travel vouchers
- Comprehensive travel strategy including speed reduction schemes, new signalised junctions to tackle congestion at key pinch points, including Burton Garage in Bury and new safe foot and cycleways
- New safe pedestrian and cycle routes linking the site to Bury and Upwood
- Restoration of the former Guard House and Upwood Hill House
- Enhanced woodland and natural habitats
- Biomass boiler and use of adjacent agricultural land to supply biomass
- A school nature conservation area
- Development-led investment into Upwood Primary School and local primary healthcare facilities for improvements and expansion
If you have any comments on the masterplan and proposed regeneration of RAF Upwood please email: RAFupwood@beattiegroup.com.