DEVONPORT Regeneration Community Partnership and Redrow are working closely to make sure the Vision scheme delivers essential community benefits.

Following on from the first stage of in-depth community consultation and planning, which helped to shape Devonport’s programme of fundamental and long term change, DRC Partnership is working to deliver, with its partners, the vision for the new Devonport.

Chris Byers, Head of Development for DRC Partnership, said: “The development of the South Yard Enclave is probably the most significant event in Devonport since the destruction of the old town centre and its subsequent use as a stores enclave shortly after the war. The scale of the development will transform the area, sending out a positive message of new found confidence in Devonport, to both local and city wide residents”.

DRC Partnership has been working closely with both of the South Yard Enclave’s key partners, English Partnerships and Redrow, from the early development of the plans through to the start of the development phase. A key role is to ensure that the South Yard Enclave not only has a strategic impact in improving peoples’ housing, employment and shopping choices, but that local people benefit directly from the skills training, and new employment and business opportunities that follow a development of this scale.