Structure Plan 1996 - 2011 - Worcestershire County Council

large companies from outside the region. There were about 57 hectares of landin this category. Enigma Business Park, Malvern is an example of such a site.The third category is land classified as being in the local market sector. Thiscategory comprises two sub-categories: good local which are sites appropriateto accommodate successful local firms wishing to expand/relocate. They areunlikely to attract inward investment but capable of commanding localspeculative interest; and other local which are capable of development but lesslikely to attract speculative private interest. About 17 hectares were available inthis category. The Coloroll Redevelopment Site at Kidderminster is an exampleof such a site. The County has a higher percentage of available land in thenational/international market sector (87%) than the West Midlands regionalaverage (77%). For further information on this indicator reference should bemade to the Regional Industrial Land Study 2001.Figure 20:Readily available land for employment uses by market sector in theCounty at 2001 (hectares).National/InternationalRegional Local Total ReadilyAvailable52 57 17 126Source: Regional Industrial Land Study, 2001Indicator 36:Readily available land for employment (B1-B8) purposes since 1996,completed and available (at date of monitor).3.11.9 See Figure 14 above.Indicator 37:Employment changes in terms of sector/full-time employees/part-timeemployees.3.11.10 From Figure 21 it can be seen that the largest net gain in full-time workers in theperiod 1998-2001 occurred in Malvern Hills District due to the growth in servicesector employment outstripping the decline in manufacturing jobs. The largestnet loss in full-time workers was in Wyre Forest District where there were netlosses in the manufacturing, construction and other services sectoral groups.As Figure 22 shows in respect of changes in part-time employment, the largestnet gains were in Worcester and Redditch Districts. Wyre Forest suffered thelargest net loss in part-time jobs over the period. The year 1998 was chosen asthe nearest to 1996 for which comparable data to 2001 is available.19