REVIT Heritage Report.pdf

Torfaen County Borough Council
REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites
4.5.22 The main aims of the municipality are to transform the Brownfield site of the
former railway freight terminal into an attractive inner urban area and realise its
development potential. Through the new mixed-use proposals for this
Brownfield site, it is an objective to improve the inner urban quality of life,
especially in the residential areas close to this inner city site. It also aims to
stimulate additional investment in the inner urban context.
4.5.23 The first step was for the Committee for Environment and Technology to
produce a draft framework concept for the goods station encompassing a
mixture of services sector businesses, the existing companies, sport and
community functions with residential buildings.
4.5.24 In 2005 a competition will be carried out for the individual buildings with the
aim of developing the site by 2007.
4.5.25 Other Brownfield regeneration projects in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen include
Kreidler Werk II, which is a former leather company, copper processing and
vehicle production site; the Grenadierkaserne, which is a former military
barracks; and the Waggon-Metzger site, a former railway-car production and
cleaning site. Many other potential sites are focused on railroad area and the
old industrialised areas of Vaihingen, Weilimdorf and the Neckar Valley.
Tourism
4.5.26 The Stuttgart region, located astride the Neckar Valley, has a varied range of
cultural and leisure activities. The Neckar has a number of diverse tourist
attractions including the river and its locks, castles and vineyards, the Swabian
Mountains, the Black Forest and indeed the historic spa city of Bad Cannstatt
and the state capital of Stuttgart.
4.5.27 The Bad Cannstatt site has particular potential to attract tourists as within two
kilometres of the site there are mineral water springs and large leisure centres,
such as the Leuze and Berg mineral water swimming pools, the Rosenstein
park with the natural history museum, and the historic town centre of Bad
Cannstatt. There are also three metro lines, three tramways and trunk roads
providing convenient transport connections.
4.5.28 The linking of Stuttgart’s main railway to a main arterial route could be an
important watershed for the city in providing visitors with easier access to the
city and the Neckar valley. This could provide a link to cycle routes which
cover hundreds of kilometres.
4.5.29 However, because of the nature of the Stuttgart railway station regeneration
project there is less emphasis on the capability of the project to attract tourists.
Nevertheless the proposals to create attractive new public buildings, such as
hotels and a museum dedicated to the theme of travel around the new central
square, will prove useful in attracting tourism to the urban quarter.
4.6 Hengelo
Introduction
4.6.1 Hart van Zuid Project (Heart of the City) involves upgrading an industrial area
which currently enclosed by the railway station and the Twente kanaal and
making it part of Hengelo. The 'Hart van Zuid'Master plan was presented in
the spring of 2001, however, due to the scale of the current and proposed
functions and economic aspects of the area, the transformation will take
several decades to complete.
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