Case Study
Great North Plan
Peter Brett (PBA) | Great North Plan Great North Plan PBA, now part of Stantec, in partnership with Newcastle University, has been instructed by the Royal Town Planning Institute to produce the high-profile ‘People and Place Spatial Framework’. The Framework will form part of the ‘Great North Plan’ which seeks to advance the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ area – comprising the former Yorkshire and Humber, North West and North East regions – as a single interconnected area. Taken together, this area is home to over a quarter of England's population (15 million people); contains over a quarter of England's workforce (7.2 million people); achieves £304 billion annual Gross Value Added (if the North was a country, this would make it Europe's 9th largest economy ahead of Norway and Austria); contains fi