AIRPORT CITY MANCHESTER CONNECTIVITY

AEROTROPOLIS EMEA

10 JULY 2014

JOHN TWIGG – PLANNING DIRECTOR M.A.G.

NORTH WEST TRANSPORT FIRSTS

Manchester Ship Canal 1894

Manchester – Liverpool railway 1830

Preston by pass (M6) 1958

Light rail (Metrolink) 1999

Manchester Airport 2nd runway 2001

A new economic hub : GM’s Enterprise Zone

4m sq ft of mixed use employment – logistics, offices, advanced manufacturing, bio-medical, hotels, support uses

£650m development over 10 years

Up to 15,000 new jobs – focused on local people

Sustainable, high quality development

Crucially ….. founded on transport connections – air, road, rail, tram, bus

RECOVERY & REGENERATION : AIRPORT CITY

THE BEST CONNECTED PLACE

T2 T3 T1

Station

M56

5

CONNECTIVITY ON ALL LEVELS

GATEWAY TO THE WORLD

21m passengers; 200 destinations; 100+ airlines

150,000 tonnes of freight

7 flights a day to Middle East

Washington, Moscow, Berlin, Lisbon, Cairo now served

Flybe hub and code share

New route to China

REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY

100 rail destinations

9 trains an hour to Manchester

150 coach destinations

12 minute frequency Metrolink trams

24 hour bus & rail services

TRANSPORT INVESTMENT

• The Station – expansion to deal with growth & Airport City opportunity

• £300m Metrolink extension to Airport – opens 2014

• Northern Hub - £600m rail investment package including 4th Airport platform

• High Speed Rail (HS2) - £32.7bn • £290m Airport - A6 link road – opens

2017 • £27m Airport City road & infrastructure

HS2 OPPORTUNITY Aviation Opportunity - Extended catchment area for Manchester Air gateway for Northern Britain ; the only 2 runway airport outside London;

Capacity for 50 m passengers approved, and without major planning constraint

20m people within 2 hours travel time; excellent connectivity

Transport Opportunity - Multi modal gateway – 1 hour to London Access to M56 and motorway network

Links to existing rail, bus and coach interchange at the Airport

Western extension of Metrolink to link HS2 & development sites

Economic Opportunity - Catalyst for further growth Links to Airport City - £690m development; 15,000 jobs

Supports wider Enterprise Zone & Wythenshawe regeneration

Reinforces the Airport’s wider economic impact; attraction for inward investment & tourism Serves the broader South Manchester – North Cheshire business market

HS2 – STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY

ACCESS AND WIDER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

By 2020 our transport infrastructure will be almost fully developed

J6 Improved

M56 widening

Runger Lane dualling

Ringway Road diversion

Ringway Road West dualling and Airport – A6 link road

Metrolink

Northern Hub and 4th rail platform

World Logistics

Hub

HS2

MANCHESTER

“For Manchester is the place where people do things...... 'Don't talk about what you are going to do, do it.' That is the Manchester habit”

Judge Parry, 1912