Background

Cornwall’s Town Deal programme is the largest in the country and covers Camborne, Penzance, Truro and St Ives.

The focus of this funding is on the regeneration of town centres as part of the Government’s wider ‘Levelling Up’ agenda, and includes a series of coordinated Town Investment Plans across each town, seeking to align current town assets, private sector development ambitions and wider projects with this funding opportunity.

Interventions across the towns include urban regeneration, planning and land use, skills and enterprise infrastructure, connectivity, and sustainable transport.

MWJV has been involved across all four towns, including early-stage strategic programme support for Cornwall Council’s Town Deal Accelerator Fund and the development of the Truro Town Investment Plan, through to the current design phase up to Treasury Green Book business planning.

In working with multiple stakeholders and the town boards, MWJV is seeking to maximise the benefits of this funding to Cornwall and ensure coordination across interdependent projects as well as ensure efficiency of delivery into construction.

Example projects across the £60m+ of projects being developed by MWJV include extensive public realm and new riverside access in Truro, a series of new cycle and walkways to support sustainable and active travel in all towns, harbour development in Penzance, and new cultural facilities in Camborne.

Services Provided & Delivery Partners

Project Management, Cost Consultancy, Architecture, Highways & Transport, MEP, Structural Engineering, Civils Design, Planning Consultancy.

Sustainability / Carbon Neutral

Individual projects are developing low-carbon design solutions and include aspirations for Whole Life Net Zero Carbon ambitions. Extensive social sustainability outcomes through access to new employment, skills, community consultation and the MWJV teams engaging with schools programmes in the delivery of the projects.