Section A: Applicant Information
A1 Lead applicant name (Organisation) Southampton City Council (SCC)
A2 Joint applicant name(s) if applicable N/A
A3 Lead applicant address Travel & Transport Policy Southampton City Council One Guildhall Square Southampton SO14 7FP
A4 Bid manager details Name: Phil Marshall Position: Strategic Transport Planner Employer: Southampton City Council Telephone: 02380 832590 Email: [email protected]
Section B: Eligibility Check List
B1 Is the project included within the Transport Delivery Plan (TDP)? Yes No
B2 Is the project expected to have a clearly defined scope? Yes No
B3 Is the project expected to drive employment and/or housing growth Yes No and/or solve a current or future transport problem that constrain economic and/or housing growth or that safeguards existing
employment? B4 Is the project expected to provide sustainable access? Yes No
B5 Is the project expected to comprise a 100% capital funding request from Yes No the LTB?
B6 Is the project supported by a local contribution (public and/ or private Yes No and revenue and/ or capital) of at least 25% of the overall project cost?
B7 Will the project comprise a capital funding request from the LTB of over Yes No £2,000,000?
B8 Is the project expected to deliver high value for money? Yes No
B9 Would the project be largely delivered between 2015-19? Yes No
B10 Is the project supported by the Local Transport Authority/ies whose Yes No area(s) within which the proposal would be delivered?
B11 For a project that is on the strategic highway or rail networks is an in Yes No principle letter of support attached?
1 Section C: Project Summary
C1 Project title Southampton City Streets – Station Quarter
C2 Headline project description. This bid is for the Station Quarter scheme which is part of the Council’s City Streets strategy. It is an improvement to the region’s largest rail interchange. It is based on the proven model of Transport Development Areas and as such facilitates significant regeneration in the heart of the region’s largest City. By December 2015 we are able to implement the Station Quarter North phases of this scheme and are seeking an allocation of £4.185m for the 2015/16 financial year. Southern phases will be implemented in subsequent years and we are looking for this to be indicatively programmed for future years.
C3 Is this a request for a grant or a loan? Grant Loan
C4 Project costs. Total Project Cost £7.865m for Station Quarter North only; £13.814m for Station Quarter South (Phases 1 & 4) scheme. Overall total of £21.679m LTB Funding Request £4.185m in 2015/16 for Station Quarter North with a further £4.733m for Station Quarter South (Phases 1 & 4) scheme for 2016/17 onwards. Overall total of £8.918m Local Contributions £3.680m for Station Quarter North with a further £9.081m for (Please specify source and whether revised partial Station Quarter South / Civic Centre Place scheme. they are confirmed) Overall total of £12.761m The following sources are proposed for this funding: • LA Capital (made up of Local Transport Plan, S106, CIL and potential borrowing) – CIL after 2014/15 based on anticipated levels of funding. Borrowing is against land receipts to be secured on Station Quarter South scheme. • Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF)– confirmed • National Stations Improvement Programme (NSIP) – not confirmed but optimistic of securing funding
C5a Do alternative funding options exist to cover the Yes No full project cost?
C5b If ‘Yes’ to C5a, please explain why LTB funding is being sought. N/A
C5c If ‘No’ to C5a, please list other funding sources considered and reasons for rejection. A Local Pinch Point Fund bid was submitted for Station Quarter North, which was unsuccessful. The overall bid includes a number of other funding sources, which form part of the comprehensive package. These include LTP, S106, CIL, Capital Borrowing, LSTF and NSIP. On their own, these funding sources would not be capable of delivering the Station Quarter interventions required to support city centre growth hence the bid for funding.
C6 Describe the geographical area covered by the project The projects are located in Southampton city centre and the diagram below shows the specific location of the schemes.
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C7 Has any Equality Analysis been undertaken in line Yes No with the Equality Duty?
C8 Please indicate if any information contained in this application is of a commercial nature and should not be published. (State which questions)
C9 Provide a list of the Partnership Bodies (if any) you plan to work with in the design, delivery and operation of the scheme. Network Rail: Have a vested property and service improvement interest and are our partner in this proposal. Our project board includes a senior property manager official and the National Stations Improvement Manager. Appendix 1 – Letter of Support from Network Rail for Station Quarter North scheme; Appendix 2 – Memorandum of Understanding between Network Rail and SCC for joint development aspirations in Station Quarter)
South West Trains: Are also board members and have a vested interest in this project and see significant service improvement and business development opportunities including a new station car park.
Balfour Beatty Living Places (BBLP): the City Council’s Highways Service Partner will provide the resources to design and implement the schemes. They are also a potential developer in their own right.
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Chamber of Commerce / Future Southampton Group: Business representatives with keen interest in transport, planning and urban design issues (Appendix 3 – Joint Letter of Support)
City Centre Traders: Group representing major city centre retailers, including West Quay and Ikea. (Appendix 4 – Letter of Support from West Quay).
South Hampshire Bus Operators Association (SHBOA): An actively engaged bus operators’ forum. The Station Quarter scheme was presented to the group at outline design stage. The group continue to provide input to the design team and will also be a key stakeholder through the development of designs (Appendix 5 – Letters of Support from Bus Operators)
F&C Reit: a property company who hold a long-lease on Overline House. They have been actively engaged with the Station Quarter North scheme and are very supportive of the improvements. They are excited by the opportunities this scheme presents and have submitted a planning application for new supermarket.
Friends of Wyndham Place: an active ‘Champions Group’ made up of local businesses, both large and small, and residents on the Station Quarter North project. Meets regularly. To date the local traders have made some local investments as a result of the development of this proposal including a new cycle hub retail unit, improvement to the frontage of Mayflower Theatre, investment in local enhancements and the creation of a new farmers market. The project is already creating a buzz of activity.
C10 Earliest start date Station Quarter North – 6 January 2014, with advance utility works in Autumn 2013. Station Quarter South (Phases 1 & 4) – 2016/17
Note these are start times for implementation, with design starting in advance of this. Full details are in the project plans provided for G6. Desired start date As above. Delivery timescale (months) Station Quarter North – Two years (planned completion date 18 Dec 2015) Station Quarter South (Phases 1 & 4) – Three years (start date 2016/17)
C11 Are any associated consents in place? If not, state when these are expected to be in place. With the exception of the TRO currently being processed, all approvals are in place and we are ready to start implementing Phase 1 of the Station Quarter scheme in January 2014, with advanced utility works starting in October 2013. This includes:
• A confirmed funding package of £2.3m for Phase 1 of the Station Quarter North project was approved by Full Council and Cabinet in July 2013; • Confirmed funding of £0.4m to progress the master plan / outline design of Station Quarter South in 2013/14.
All other phases will be completed to detailed design stage by December 2013 and all consultation is complete. There is widespread support for these proposals amongst all stakeholders.
For further phases of the north of station scheme approval are expected for: • Station Change process to allow Phase 2a on the Station Forecourt to be implemented – anticipated 2014. Network Rail is fully supportive of the proposals (see Appendix 1); • Listed Building Consent for works in front of Wyndham Court – anticipated 2014; • Traffic Regulation Orders for changes to on street parking and coach spaces – anticipated 2014 for Phases 2 to 4;
Station Quarter South (Phases 1 & 4) • Agreement with Network Rail to deliver redevelopment sites adjacent to Southampton Central Station. Network Rail has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the City Council to progress this scheme (see Appendix 2). Network Rail will need to confirm their requirements to increase rail
4 capacity at Southampton Central as part of the Long Term Planning Process, which could influence the design of the scheme. We understand this work is anticipated to be complete by December 2013.
If funding is confirmed in July 2014, there will be a need to follow City Council Financial Procedure Rules to approve and spend finance. This will require reports to be taken to both Council and Cabinet. Given this confirmation the Station Quarter North scheme phases would be complete on site by December 2015. The south side would follow on from this.
C12 Is this scheme linked to any other applications to the LTB? If so, please provide the project title(s). The Red Funnel Ferry Interchanges bid aims to facilitate the implementation of the Royal Pier Waterfront mixed use development. This will redevelop the Waterfront area in the southern part of Southampton city centre with a mix of office, residential and leisure uses and is a key part of the overall regeneration strategy for the city centre, which is also supported by the City Streets project.
The Cycling to Prosperity Bid, which was submitted in June 2013, provides high quality routes into the City Centre and is therefore entirely complimentary to this bid. City centre growth requires significant modal shift to non car modes of which cycling plays an important part. In the prioritisation process for the July LTB meeting, this scheme was ranked in the third tranche of priority.
C13 If you are the Lead Authority for more than one application, please prioritise your projects. The two projects included within this bid are prioritised as follows:
Priority One – Station Quarter North (for implementation before March 2016) Priority Two – Station Quarter South Phases 1 & 4 (for implementation 2016/17 onwards)
The IoW and City Council are submitting a Red Funnel Ferry Interchanges Bid, which is also a Priority One for implementation from 2016/17 onwards.
The previously submitted Cycling to Prosperity bid remains Priority Three.
Section D: The Strategic Case
D1 Provide a description of the transport project. This bid compromises of two important elements of the City Streets project. City Streets is a project that unlocks development sites and transforms the quality of the street environment. This was identified as a key priority in the City Centre Master Plan (CCMP), which was published in 2012. The original bid, submitted in June 2013, had three elements, namely Station Quarter North, Station Quarter South / Civic Centre Place and Albion Place. Following an assessment of the bid, it was revised to reduce overall costs before consideration by the Local Transport Body. This included removing the Albion Place scheme completely and revising the Station Quarter South / Civic Centre Place to remove some of the proposed phases. The Station Quarter North scheme was retained in full. Subsequent to the original bid, the Government has confirmed that LTB funding will become part of the Local Growth Fund controlled by the Solent LEP and at this stage, confirmation will only be given for funding available in 2015/16. This bid has been re-written on that basis, with a focus on delivery of the Station Quarter North project with funding made available in 2015/16. However, it is important that Station Quarter is seen as a comprehensive project and therefore the bid also retains revised proposals for Station Quarter South (Phases 1 & 4). This is a revision to the scheme considered by the LTB in July 2013 and focuses on the parts of the scheme that will deliver regeneration and economic growth. This is included at this stage as an expression of interest for future Local Growth Fund / LTB funding post 2015/16. Consideration will be given at a later date as to whether a more ambitious bid for post 2015/16 funding is made, based on the original June 2013 submission. The Station Quarter North and Station Quarter South projects in this bid have been identified as priority projects within the City Streets programme. They aim to address a number of key objectives:
• Directly and indirectly facilitating regeneration in the Station Quarter and Civic Centre Place area with
5 the potential to create over 2138 jobs (1816 direct; 322 indirect) and safeguard another 300;
• Indirectly supporting wider city centre growth, which is anticipated to create 6,700 jobs over the period to 2026; and
• To locate major new commercial, retail and employment developments in sustainable locations within the region, with travel needs largely met by growing the model share for rail, bus, walking and cycling movements. The two projects included in this bid are detailed below and outline designs for these schemes are attached separately to this bid. Although implementation of these City Streets projects will take place in phases, as funding becomes available, it is important that their Strategic Case is considered comprehensively Station Quarter North (Drawing 201015-BE-100-004) This project is a comprehensive scheme designed to transform the area immediately to the north of Southampton Central station, creating a high quality interchange for people arriving at Central station by all modes, including bus, walking, cycling, car and taxi, making it a primary gateway in the city centre. The Station Quarter North currently suffers from poor quality urban realm. This results in a poor city prestige, low rents and vacant developments and business units. It is also an area of opportunity with a burgeoning cultural offer, access to a district heating system and rapid growth in student accommodation. The key components of the project address these inadequacies as follows:
• creating a high quality interchange and public realm connecting the station entrance and into the surrounding street network with a high quality pedestrian environment, through to the Cultural Quarter, including Mayflower Theatre, Sea City Museum, Guildhall Square and proposed Arts Complex;
• providing better quality bus interchange facilities with high quality waiting areas, information and better linkage to and from the station entrance;
• providing improved cycle facilities as part of the Strategic East West cycle route through the city centre; • improved taxi waiting area opposite the station; • unlock several development plots through the consolidation of parking into a new multi-storey car park opposite Central Station, releasing existing parking sites for redevelopment; and
• Enabling the provision of expanded retail provision into high quality public spaces This project is the furthest advanced element of City Streets. The first phase (which is funded) is due to start on site early in January 2014, following advanced utility works starting in October 2013 and a comprehensive scheme can be implemented by December 2015 . This is the only City Streets project that is seeking LTB funding in 2015/16.
Station Quarter South / Civic Centre Place (Drawing 13ALM008/001) This area has similar problems to the north of the Station but also suffers from being isolated and segregated from the rest of the city centre. This scheme aims to reconfigure the existing section of the Inner Ring Road between the Western Approach and Civic Centre Place junction, using City Streets principles. This will deliver a number of specific objectives:
• Two major junction improvements with journey time savings for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists; • Creating a new site for regeneration and development, to deliver mixed use development (offices, hotel and residential) immediately adjacent to Southampton Central Station, and a new enlarged Station Square, which will incorporate appropriate retail development, bus interchange, taxi and pick- up / drop off facilities;
• Creating a street design that removes severance and creates a high quality and safer environment for pedestrians and cyclists, whilst maintaining an appropriate capacity for traffic movements and access. This will significantly improve pedestrian and cycle access between Southampton Central station and the city centre. Western Esplanade will be largely reduced to a single carriageway and the Mountbatten Way / Southern Road junction will be converted to a more efficient shared space roundabout. The Civic Centre Place junction will be significantly reduced in size, also without reduction in capacity. It will reduce traffic dominance and enhance the civic heart of the City Centre linking it
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• Provision of an improved pedestrian and cycle link to the retail areas to the south of Southampton Central, creating a direct line of sight for passengers leaving the station to the main shopping centre A soft market testing has begun. We already have interest from a number of potential developers and a hotel operator. If funding is confirmed the city council and Network Rail are prepared to enter into an OJEU compliant marketing exercise. Work is starting to establish an outline Masterplan design by August 2014, which will then be developed into a detail design for implementation, which could start in 2016/17, subject to funding. This part of the bid is not seeking LTB funding in 2015/16 and is an expression of interest for funding post 2015/16. Ongoing design work in the short term will be supported through SCC funding which shows the strength of our commitment and conviction in this proposal to deliver new regeneration opportunities. In this bid, Station Quarter South / Civic Centre Place is now based on a revised scheme to that submitted to the Local Transport Body in July 2013. This proposes to implement Phases 1 and 4 in full, which focus on facilitating regeneration and economic growth by creating redevelopment sites in and around Central Station.
D2 Explain how the project will respond to current and/or future transport problems that constrain economic and/or housing growth or that will safeguard existing employment areas. Southampton city centre has been identified as an area with potential for significant economic growth. The Core Strategy ‘Partial Review’ has identified the following development targets over the 2006 to 2026 twenty year period. The previous Adopted Core Strategy development targets are shown in brackets:
• 110,000 sqm net increase in B1 offices (322,000 sqm); • 100,000 sqm net increase in comparison retail (130,000-200,000 sqm); and • 5,450 new homes (5,450)
The City Centre Action Plan Transport Background Paper provides transport evidence in support of the revised Core Strategy development targets and City Centre Action Plan. This predicts an increase in travel demand arriving in the city centre of nearly 13% during the AM peak between 2012 and 2026. In addition to the traditional weekday peaks, the focus of retail and leisure development in the city centre creates peaks of demand on Saturday lunchtimes, which can coincide with the peak embarkation period for cruise ships in the Port. A balanced transport strategy is proposed to address this growth, with a focus on modal shift to public transport, walking and cycling to accommodate increased travel demand.
We know this will work because it is demonstrated by the experience of the last ten years. The following graph shows that the city centre is a sustainable location to accommodate significant locations of office, retail, residential and leisure accommodation. 170 City Centre Population 160
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100 90 Traffic Flow 80 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Early in 2012, Southampton City Council published the City Centre Master Plan (CCMP). Its recommendations form the core of the City Centre Action Plan (CCAP), which is the statutory planning document for the city centre. The CCMP considered in detail the range of transport, public realm and urban quality issues that also need to be addressed to support the overall growth strategy in the city centre. Its recommendations on these
7 issues are derived from extensive assessment and consultation by specialists including Peter Brett Associates and Gehl Architects. They have been devised to mitigate the existing transport constraints on growth. In summary, the CCMP made a number of relevant recommendations in order to accommodate growth the city centre:
• Develop a modern access infrastructure with capacity to support the anticipated growth • Provide necessary modal shift to deliver growth • Significantly improve and extend the quality of the pedestrian environment • Transform the Inner Ring Road into a series of civilised City Streets • Improve bus facilities and services to service an extended city centre • Make access to and within the city cycle-friendly • Improve the transport interchange and arrival experience at and around Central Station – as befits a principal regional city The Council have begun to put the Strategy into action by devising a City Streets programme of infrastructure improvements to facilitate development projects around the city and deliver growth. The principles of the City Streets Programme build on a report by Gehl Architects, commissioned as part of the CCMP. This can be found at:
http://www.southampton.gov.uk/Images/Southampton%20City%20Streets%20FINAL%20VERSION_tcm46- 342816.pdf
Our bid is focused on the delivery of the north of station scheme by March 2016. This scheme address existing economic and transport problems and barriers in the following way:
• It is consistent with the policy framework promoting economic growth and regeneration in Southampton city centre, which has already identified the need for improvements at Southampton Central station;
• Rail patronage is increasing dramatically to and from Southampton. There is a strategic need to encourage this to bring about sustainable city centre economic growth and to strengthen inter regional and national linkages. The emerging “Three Strands” transport study initiated by the LEP identifies the important role access to London by rail plays with Southampton having a relatively short journey time;
• A recent Peter Brett Associates study showed that bus facilities at the station and in the in the city centre are at capacity. The projects will enhanced bus interchange facilities on each side of Central Station, to support the growth in bus patronage as part of the sustainable transport strategy to accommodate city centre growth;
• The projects will significantly enhance the walking and cycling environment in the city centre, which is consistent with the sustainable transport strategy to increase the use of these modes to accommodate increased travel demand associated with city centre growth;
• The Station Quarter North scheme facilitates 314 jobs (safeguarding a further 300) and when combined with the south side this rises to 2,138 jobs by 2026. It is also anticipated that the city centre will accommodate further leisure development, including the recently approved Watermark West Quay (which is a contender for RGF funding) and proposed Royal Pier Waterfront schemes. Delivery of the latter is directly connected to the Red Funnel Ferry Interchanges bid.
In addition to city centre development, the Port of Southampton is seeing significant further growth in business. Cruise traffic has increased significantly in recent years , in excess of that predicted by the Port Master Plan and the Port handled 1.6 million cruise passengers in 2012.
D3 Explain how the project will contribute to the Solent LEPs economic growth agenda. The Solent LEP Strategy for growth aims to create 10,000 new jobs in the Solent LEP area, contributing to GVA growth of 2.1%, equating to an extra £1bn or £6,400 per capita. Regeneration and growth in Southampton city centre can make a significant contribution to this key LEP objective, with the revised development targets aiming to generate at least 6,700 new jobs by 2026.
8 The City Streets schemes are essential transport investment needed to support this economic growth in the city centre. As well as supporting overall city centre regeneration, the Station Quarter North & South (Phases 1 & 4) schemes will directly facilitate redevelopment sites adjacent to Central Station, potentially directly creating over 1,800 jobs. Not only does the investment physically release the land needed for development, but viability work commissioned by SCC indicates that investment in this essential infrastructure makes the development more viable. This is a first phase of the Major Development Quarter. A recent study by Steer Davis Gleave has identified that poor quality station environments discourage investment, but conversely high quality station environments generate inward investment and regeneration. This has been demonstrated on Station Quarter North by proposals by F.C. Reit to redevelop the ground floor of Overline House for retail uses and was directly prompted by the Station Quarter North proposals. The potential economic benefits of the City Streets programme have been evidenced through detailed studies by MVA, CBRE and Propernomics, set out in a document called ‘Appraising the Economic Benefits’, which is outlined in more detail in E12.
D4 Explain how the project fits with Local Transport Authority objectives and Local Plans. City Streets has been identified as a priority intervention in the TfSHIoW Transport Delivery Plan (TDP), under the Transport Led Urban Regeneration category, to support economic growth and regeneration in Southampton city centre. The TDP has specifically identified the highest priority interventions as North and South of Central Station, together with Civic Centre Place. This bid is consistent with the priorities for City Streets outlined in the TDP.
The City of Southampton Local Transport Plan 3 (LTP3) includes a Joint Strategy for South Hampshire together with a more detailed implementation plan for Southampton over the period to 2014/15. City Streets is consistent with and will help address a number of the Joint Strategy policies, including A, G, H ,K and M. LTP3 also includes a number of Local Goals and the City Streets schemes outlined in this bid will positively contribute towards these. Finally, the Public Realm chapter in LTP3 has identified the need for the City Streets interventions.
The original need for the City Streets interventions was identified by the City Centre Master Plan and supporting Public Realm report. The recommendations from these reports (including support for implementing City Streets interventions) are being taken forward into the City Centre Action Plan, which is the statutory Local Plan document for the city centre.
To summarise, City Streets projects are fully supported throughout a comprehensive range of SCC and TfSHIoW policy framework documents.
D5 Does the project improve sustainable access? If so, is this to a town, city centre or major employment area? As evidenced in D2, economic growth in Southampton city centre will increase travel demands and the strategy to address this is through modal shift towards sustainable modes of travel, including public transport, walking and cycling. Southampton city centre is already a major employment, retail and leisure destination and also a place to live. Future development targets show that its importance will increase in future years. The Station Quarter scheme will make a significant contribution towards providing physical infrastructure encouraging a sustainable modal shift towards public transport (bus and rail), walking and cycling, which is essential support further growth in the city centre economy. This approach will ensure that car journey times to / from Southampton city centre are not adversely affected as travel demands increase.
At a national level, urban traffic flows are now at 1993 levels, despite significant urban regeneration over that period. This emphasises the sustainability of promoting economic activity in dense urban areas is the most sustainable solution, as these locations have a much wider range of travel choices to the private car.
D6 Does this project form part of a wider programme of investment? If so, what is the wider programme and how critical is LTB investment for this project to the successful delivery of the overall programme? The City Streets programme responds directly to proposed growth in the City Centre Action Plan. In doing so, it explicitly tackles the need for an infrastructure backbone to support the city’s ambitious development plans.
9 While the programme is flexible, the LTB funding is absolutely critical to this ambition, being the principal catalytic source needed to build business confidence.
D7 What will happen if funding for this project is not secured? If the funding is not secured through the LTB for the City Streets projects, this would significantly delay delivery of most of the projects until further funding becomes available. This would result in delays to city centre redevelopment and regeneration in Southampton city centre, as investment in City Streets interventions is an essential component of this, compromising the Solent LEP’s aim to create 10,000 new jobs and growth of 2.1% in the Solent economy by 2026.
D8 Is this a project that has funding from another LTB area or is located within another LTB area? If so, please explain the benefits to the Solent LTB area. N/A
Section E: The Economic Case
Transport Economics
E1 Indicate the level of Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) <1 that this scheme would be expected to =/>1 - <1.5 realise following WebTAG appraisal? =/>1.5 - <2 =/>2 - <4 >4 Please describe the basis of the expected BCR. There are a number of aspects of these projects that would contribute to the BCR and this section explains how these have been considered at this stage.
On many transport schemes, particularly those that deliver road capacity improvements, journey time reductions often form a large proportion of the overall benefits within the BCR calculations. For the City Streets schemes, the nature of the proposals is quite different, as they reduce road capacity in some areas, which could potentially lead to journey time increases at certain times of day. However, this is offset by other factors:
• Detailed microsimulation modelling will be used to optimise the designs, so where capacity is reduced, any increase in delays at busy periods is minimised. • Junctions will often have simplified designs, which have the potential to considerably reduce journey times during off peak. For example, we anticipate that the Mountbatten Way / Southern Road junction, which forms part of the Station Quarter South scheme will be converted from an over large signal controlled junction to a “shared space” roundabout. Off peak delays of up to over a minute will be reduced to a few seconds. • The City Streets schemes are also providing much higher quality routes and infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists, reducing their journey times. Pedestrians and cyclists make up a significant proportion of journeys on the road network around Station Quarter and the improvements will deliver reduced journey times.
Other specific elements that are anticipated to contribute positively to the BCR include:
• Improved road safety due to improved junction designs, that reduce vehicle : vehicle conflicts and vehicle : vulnerable road user conflicts; • Improved Interchange benefits at Central Station for people linking between rail journeys and other modes, including bus, walking, cycling, cars and taxis
The City Streets projects will also enhance the quality of the urban realm. Traditionally, the value of urban realm enhancements has not been easy to capture or model. However, MVA Consultancy was commissioned in 2012 to undertake a transport appraisal of the City Streets projects, that included modelling the benefits of urban realm enhancements. The methodology used by MVA was to undertake market research, to understand the willingness of residents to pay for urban realm improvements and this willingness to pay was translated into
10 generalised cost reductions that have been incorporated into the SRTM and combined with a traditional WebTAG compliant transport appraisal of the schemes. The Market Research undertaken in July 2012 involved over 400 stated preference surveys to establish respondents' willingness to pay for urban realm improvements and results showed users are willing to pay between 88p and £1.22 per week for all improvements and infrequent visitors are willing to pay between £1.29 and £2.45 per year.
In terms of evidence to support the BCR of at least 4, the TfSH Transport Delivery Plan appraised the comprehensive implementation of City Streets schemes across the city centre, using the above methodology and this had a BCR of 2.57. However, the appraisal included a number of schemes with more significant negative traffic impacts that are not included in this bid and are reducing the BCR. Previous work to support a bid to the Regional Growth Fund for development at Watermark West Quay for Hammerson included urban realm and transport improvements for Albion Place. The transport economic appraisal for this work, again making use of the SRTM, showed a BCR of 15.3 for the transport elements of the scheme, particularly those associated with improving bus stop capacity and bus frequency through the city centre. Whilst Albion Place does not currently form part of this bid, this appraisal does demonstrate the significant transport economic benefits of delivering interchange improvements, which is similar to what is proposed both north and south of Central Station.
We therefore anticipate that the BCR of the specific City Streets proposals in this bid will be higher (at least 4), given the scale of improvements planned and the associated impacts it will have not just in promoting walking and cycling and improving journey ambiance but also in creating better interchange between modes and opportunity for increased public transport capacity in the town centre. The improved connectivity to retail and leisure opportunities in the city centre along with better public transport interchanges will also help support the economic growth of the city.
Finally considerable benefits could be accrued from increases in retail and rental prices associated with improved urban realm. Previous research has shown that poor urban realm can suppress growth in some areas and, furthermore, that improvements generate a discernible increase in retail and rent values. This will contribute to the growth agenda for Southampton and ensure it remains a competitive city in the sub-region and the South East. The City Council’s investment in the QE2 Mile has shown for every £1 spent, the private sector has invested £5. The very recently completed enhancements to Oxford Street have already seen private sector investment of approximately £2m for an investment of £800K. On average the businesses have grown trade by 5% at a time of general decline.
E2 Where a BCR is unavailable, please use the space below to provide the data requested within the guidance to this question that is not captured elsewhere in this application. N/A
E3 What impact is the project expected to have 0->2m reduction end-to-end journey time? 2->5m reduction =/<5m reduction Please describe the basis of the expected end-to-end journey time reductions. As noted in the previous urban realm report for Southampton, the perceived journey time benefits from those schemes were in the region of 1.5 to 2 minutes and we would expect similar, if not better results here. In the economic appraisal of previous schemes of a similar nature, the majority of benefits have been derived from journey time savings created by providing vastly improved routes for pedestrians and cyclists. Crossing and junction improvements, which are a critical part of the City Streets approach, will provide considerable time saving benefits for pedestrians and cyclists and make it more attractive to walk or cycle around the city centre. New and improved pedestrian and cycle links will also improve connectivity and reduce journey times to key transport interchanges and retail and leisure opportunities in the city centre.
As this scheme includes improvements both north and south of Southampton Central station there will also be considerable benefits generated in terms of improved interchange, as these improvement make access to the station easier by all modes. Capacity constraints on buses will be removed, which is throttling growth. The balanced transport strategy supporting the City Centre Action Plan requires peak hour bus usage to increase by around 30% by 2026. Looking beyond 2026, further increases in bus usage will be required to support ongoing city centre regeneration.
11 Overall benefits arising from the scheme and replacement of the inefficient large traffic signal junction at Mountbatten Way /Southern Road (Junction B on Drawing 13ALM008/001) with a shared space roundabout is likely to improve vehicle journey times overall. In addition, many highway users could benefit from some sections of the proposed urban realm enhancements, when walking to their ultimate destination after parking their car elsewhere. Also some mode shift to active modes reduces highway demand so offsets any loss of highway space.
E4 Is the project likely to have an impact on the cost of travel? If so, describe briefly what that will be? There are likely to be small reductions in the cost of travel as a result of this scheme. Walking and cycling are cheaper ways to travel than motorised transport and thus costs to the individuals that switch to these modes would be reduced.
E5 Is the project expected to improve journey time reliability? Reductions in crossing and improvements at junctions to give greater priority to pedestrians and cyclists will improve journey time reliability for these active mode users. Better information provision at the proposed bus ‘super-stops’ and the interchanges will also provide passengers with greater certainty of journey time and therefore perceived benefits in terms of journey time reliability.
E6 Is the project expected to improve journey safety? The overall safety impact of this scheme is difficult to assess at this stage, but the simplification of street layouts and designs which reduce vehicle speed and apply shared space principles are anticipated to improve road safety overall. For example, the Ashford Ring Road scheme has seen a significant 41% reduction in injury accidents since installation. The improved cycle and pedestrian facilities are likely to generate benefits through reduced conflict with traffic and provision of safer routes to cross roads and through public transport interchanges. Given the potential to unlock growth in cycling and walking through this type of scheme, there could also be some ‘safety in numbers’ achieved by a significant growth in cycle flows achieving ‘critical mass’ benefits.
E7 Does the project make better use of existing transport infrastructure or complement / multiply the benefits of existing transport infrastructure / operations? The City Streets projects are focused in the most accessible locations within the largest urban centre in the region. It therefore maximises the inherent transport assets that already exist. In particular It will encourage more activity and travel into Southampton by rail and bus, utilising spare capacity on commercial services and support a growing city centre population by making the local environment better easier to negotiate by foot or by cycle. That is why this project demonstrates significant jobs growth at fairly minimal infrastructure cost.
Economic Growth
Please use the Part B application form (Excel Spreadsheet) for questions E8-E11.
E8 What are the expected employment (direct or indirect) outputs? (Complete the table below and use the space below to provide any explanatory information of the numbers.) Part B Please refer to: Part B and Appendix 7 (both attached), for a more detailed breakdown of the jobs totals provided here, including further explanatory notes. The calculations are based on the Employment Densities (2nd Edition) 2010, Homes and Communities Agency/Drivers Jonas Deloitte metrics, using development quantum’s revised May ’13.
The following are assumed to be direct jobs:
Station Quarter North • 300 newly created jobs, which is an estimate of existing vacant office space that can be filled. • 300 safeguarded office jobs, which is approximately 7% of the current jobs in the area, which we estimate would be lost over time without additional investment into the area. • Overline House extension
Station Quarter South • Comprehensive mixed use development including areas adjacent to Central Station and land immediately west of Police Headquarters.
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The City Streets schemes relate only to a discrete set of ‘city centre’ job categories. City development schemes are also generally only able to provide projected employment against use classes (as opposed to sectors of economic activity). We have therefore grouped our job outputs using broad use classes, then set these against the BRES (2011) breakdown for Southampton of economic activity categories, to produce projections for GVA. Where the Use Class is not yet entirely known, jobs have been calculated using the figure for Use Class A3 Retail - Restaurants and Café.
Our data sets do not provide consistent breakdowns of jobs against specific years. We have therefore provided a total figure for the period set out in the PART B form in the ‘future years’ box.
In addition to construction jobs and GVA directly associated with the transport project, the direct inward investment of £91m of private sector investment will generate £34m of additional GVA and assuming a three year construction period, approximately 375 construction jobs over that period.
The data presented in Form B & at Appendix 1 has been compiled using: SCC Major Projects Operational Report ; SCC City Centre Delivery Plan report; Southampton City Deal - Indicative Site Data ; and Planning Applications.
Total Jobs Total jobs created (direct or indirect) 2,138 Total Jobs safeguarded 300 Total construction Jobs created 84 ( based on maximum in year spend of £6.732m) Total new jobs 2,422
E9 Identify the expected total employment floorspace that the transport project will support (directly or indirectly). Provide the total number, and use the space provided to explain how the transport project will support the employment floorspace. Total employment floorspace 17,100 sqm Please see APPENDIX 7 for a detailed breakdown of the build-up of this total. This new office space relates to redevelopment adjacent to Station Quarter South including the area immediately adjacent to Central Station and land immediately to the west of the Police Headquarters. Job creation and safeguarding at Station Quarter North relates to existing land use and does not therefore increase floorspace.
E10 How many housing starts is the transport project expected to support (directly or indirectly). Provide the total number, and use the space provided to explain how the transport project will support the housing starts. Total housing starts 255 The scheme will directly support 197 units at Station Quarter South and indirectly support other residential development in the city centre. Please see APPENDIX 7 for a detailed breakdown of the build-up of this total.
E11 Identify the expected GVA impact of the transport project. Construction stage GVA £8,021,030 GVA per capita £206,977,683 equivalent to £176 per capita based on Solent area population of 1.174m
E12 Describe any wider economic benefits expected to contribute to the overall value for money of the project. Answering D3 above, we described the evidence base assembled to appraise the economic benefits of the City Streets Scheme http://www.southampton.gov.uk/Images/Southampton%20City%20Streets%20FINAL%20VERSION_tcm46- 342816.pdf
13 Our research identified precise benefits in terms of an uplift in land values and concomitant increases in rental yields need to reach the tipping point’ for the provision of Grade A office space. We believe the evidence produced through PERS analysis and market research, also describes a multiplier effect, in which the intangible goal of “becoming a prestigious place to do business” is brought about by improvements to the public realm. Specific sites brought forward through the City Streets scheme are set out in Appendix 7.
Market research into urban realm improvements in the city was undertaken by MVA Consultancy in July 2012. Public realm improvements can contribute to an uplift in land values and retail rents. Local data on residential property prices and retail rents was collected from Rightmove and the Valuation Office Agency for Southampton and PERS audit was taken of before and after conditions. Results indicate that in the immediate vicinity of the urban realm improvements, an increase of between 4% and 14% may be expected for residential property prices and between 3% and 11% for commercial property prices. Full details are available in the Valuing Urban Realm Report.
Work undertaken for the TDP on the whole package of urban realm measures for Southampton estimated wider economic benefits in the region of £8.5m by 2036, arising mainly from agglomeration benefits, with some small benefits generated from more people in work and the move to more productive jobs. These figures were generated using the Land-use Economic Interaction Model (LEIM) element of the SRTM. Although, the package presented here differs from that in the TDP, the interventions are broadly the same and we would anticipate a similar level of benefit generated from these interventions.
Looking at other evidence from elsewhere, the recent Centre for Cities study Beyond the High Street: Why our city centres really matter has examined the dynamics of city centre economies and in particular, the wider economic benefits of focussing jobs in city centres. The report highlights how: • focussing both a large number of jobs and residents in a city centre, supports the wider city centre economy, including retail and restaurant sectors; and • most medium sized cities, including Southampton, have seen a relative decline in the proportion of private sector jobs located in the city centre.
The report has highlighted the factors necessary to improve city centres as places to do business. This includes a wide range of measures, but in relation to transport notes that any city centre needs to be served by good transport links to efficiently link workers to jobs and manage congestion and that good transport links also increase the pool of labour that businesses can hire from. The report focuses on public transport improvements as a key element of this. The City Streets schemes in this bid are entirely consistent with the transport recommendations in the Centre for Cities report, as they promote significant improvements to transport infrastructure that make the city centre a more attractive place for employment and will therefore contribute to and support wider city centre regeneration.
Local Environment
E13 Explain the impact of the project on emissions from transport and disturbance from noise. What impact will this will have on the local area? This scheme is likely to generate a reduction in highway demand and a shift towards more active modes as the environment is more attractive for walking and cycling. Given the improved access to Southampton Central station and interchange benefits generated there, a shift to public transport away from the private car can also be expected. This mode shift will have subsequent benefits in terms of a reduction in carbon and greenhouse gas emissions.
We submitted a Pinch Point bid application for elements of the North of Central Station scheme, which forecast reductions of nearly 754kg of carbon per 12hr period as a result of the scheme. In NPV terms, the reductions to greenhouse gases, including carbon, equated to £556,000. As this was only a small element of this City Streets programme, we anticipate much greater air quality benefits will be realised from implementing the whole scheme.
E14 What is likely to be the overall impact on the natural environment? The City Streets schemes are not anticipated to have a significant impact on the natural environment, as the proposed schemes are not directly adjacent to any protected sites and are located within an existing urban area. However, through the development of the proposals, particularly the substantial Station Quarter South /
14 Civic Centre Place project, the impact of the scheme on environmental issues will be considered to ensure no adverse impacts take place and to identify if any amelioration measures need to be implemented.
E15 What is likely to be the overall impact on streetscape and/ or the urban environment? The designs for the Station Quarter are consistent with the Manual for Streets 2, and recently issued local design guidance. This compliance will ensure designs of the highest aesthetic standard, combining the needs of all modes to maximum effect. The team responsible for design will be led by the Design Manager who has been responsible for award winning streetscapes in Southampton and beyond. The schemes are located in the vicinity of listed buildings (e.g. Wyndham Place at Station Quarter North). Consultation will be undertaken with English Heritage to ensure they are satisfied that the designs are acceptable. Necessary consents will be sought for this.
Section F: The Financial Case F1 What is the total cost of the project? £7.865m for Station Quarter North; £21.679m for comprehensive Station Quarter North & South (Phase 1 & 4) scheme
F2 What is the capital funding request from the LTB? £4.185m for Station Quarter North; £8.918m for comprehensive Station Quarter North & South (Phase 1 & 4) scheme
F3 What percentage of the total transport project cost is the LTB request? 53% for Station Quarter North; 41% for comprehensive Station Quarter North & South (Phase 1 & 4) scheme
F4 How is the remainder of the transport project cost to be funded? The remainder of the project costs is to be funded from the following sources. This has been broken down for the different elements of the project and for clarity, LTB funding is also included:
Station Quarter North LTB Funding - £4.185m LTP Integrated Transport - £1.079m Local Sustainable Transport Fund - £0.498m PUSH Funding - £0.086m National Station Improvement Programme - £1.046m TOTAL - £7.865m
Station Quarter South (Phases 1 & 4) LTB Funding - £4.733m S106 / Community Infrastructure Levy - £4.548m SCC Capital Borrowing - £4.533m TOTAL - £13.814m
F5 Set out the indicative funding profile in the table below
Note that two tables are presented below. The first of these relates specifically to the Station Quarter North project and is the bid for LTB funding, which will be confirmed in 2015/16. The second table shows the comprehensive scheme with Station Quarter North combined with Phases 1 and 4 of the Station Quarter South project. Note that the LTB requests for Station Quarter South are an expression of interest for future LTB funding post 2015/16and would be subject to a future bid in due course.
** Note that in both tables, £2.717m of LTB funding is shown allocated to the pre 2015/16 column. This is 2015/16 funding, but once it is confirmed by the Solent LEP, we are looking to spend this in advance in 2014/15. This significantly reduces the risk of not spending the LTB funding by 2015/16.
15 Station Quarter North only £m <2015-16 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 >2018-19 Total LTB Capital Funding 2.717** 1.468 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 4.185 Sought LA Capital 0.259 0.820 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.079
LA Revenue 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Third Party Capital 0.584 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 (Public) Third Party Revenue 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 (Public) Third Party Capital 1.191 0.826 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 2.017 (Private) Third Party Revenue 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 (Private) Total 4.751 3.114 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 7.865
Station Quarter North plus Station Quarter South (Phases 1 and 4) £m <2015-16 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 >2018-19 Total LTB Capital Funding 2.717** 1.468 1.252 3.482 0.000 0.000 8.918 Sought LA Capital 0.877 1.055 3.680 0.000 0.000 0.000 5.612
LA Revenue 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Third Party Capital 0.584 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.584 (Public) Third Party Revenue 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 (Public) Third Party Capital 1.606 0.826 1.800 0.000 2.2333 0.000 6.565 (Private) Third Party Revenue 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 (Private) Total 5.784 3.349 6.732 3.482 2.333 0.000 21.679
F6 Will the project require ongoing revenue support? If so, how will this be funded? The maintenance of the scheme will be brought into the five year TAMP programme managed by BBLP under a 10 year partnership agreement.
F7 Would funding awarded to this project comply with European State Aid regulations? Yes. The funding will be used towards public areas, primarily on the public highway.
Loan Applications
F8 Please list the source(s) of loan repayment. N/A
F9 Please set out the preferred loan repayment term. N/A
Section G: The Management Case G1 Is the scheme deliverable within the 2015-19 period? If not, when will the project be delivered and will LTB funds be spent within the 2015-19 period? This City Streets bid includes two distinct elements. The Station Quarter North project is due to start on site in
16 October 2013 with advance utility works, with main construction starting in January 2014 and will be implemented in full by December 2015.
The bid also includes details for the Station Quarter South project. Initial design work on this has started, but implementation would not begin until 2016/17 and would be deliverable within the 2015-19 period. Although this project is not seeking funding from the initial tranche of money in 2015/16, it is included within the bid , as: • it will require LTB funding in future years; and • the Station Quarter project needs to be considered as a comprehensive scheme for the purposes of appraisal.
Appendix 8 includes detailed Gantt charts for the design and implementation phases of Station Quarter North and an overall Gantt chart for the Station Quarter South project.
G2 Is the scheme on the Strategic Road or Rail network? If yes, does the relevant infrastructure owner support this scheme and committed to its delivery within the 2015-19 period. The Station Quarter North project involves joint working with Network Rail and SWT although no rail infrastructure schemes are proposed other than the forecourt enhancement to station interchange. Both are fully supportive of and committed to the project and are on the Station Quarter Project Board.
Network Rail has significant land interests around Station Quarter, to both the north and south of the station that have the potential for regeneration. The City Council and Network Rail have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (Appendix 2) as a joint commitment to progressing redevelopment of these sites.
At Station Quarter South, the operational part of Network Rail is progressing route strategy work as part of the Long Term Planning Process, which may identify the need for additional physical rail capacity at Southampton Central. It is anticipated that this work will be complete by December 2013 and will identify any land take requirements. This has potential implications for the proposed redevelopment sites in the Station Quarter South project, but may provide additional redevelopment opportunities if the southern side of Central Station needs to be rebuilt.
G3 Does the scheme impact on public transport operations? If yes, are public transport operators supportive of the scheme? Bus operators are fully supportive and have been engaged in the designs of all these projects. There are significant capacity, patronage and service benefits to them. (Appendix 5)
G4 Demonstrate the design and implementation resources that will be in place to develop and deliver this project. Also confirm who the senior officer responsible for the delivery of the project will be. The City Council has a ten year strategic highways partnership contract (with potential extension for a further five years) with Balfour Beatty Living Places (BBLP), which started in October 2010. This contract provides access to the necessary design resources to deliver the City Streets schemes and BBLP can bring in additional resources when necessary through partner consultants to deal with peaks in work demand.
The contract partnership BBLP also provides a route for procuring contractor resources to implement the schemes. However, on large scale schemes, the City Council has the option to test the market for scheme implementation, which may provide a more cost effective solution. At Station Quarter South, the scheme is integrated with development sites and a potential route is for the Council to procure a development partner that will deliver the City Streets as an integrated scheme with the redevelopment.
To deliver the detailed design and construction phase of this project as set out in the project plans in Appendix 8, BBLP proposes the following delivery team:
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Project Director Strategic management and resource co-ordination Overview of Project Lifecycle Project/Design Management Delivery and quality auditing Progress reporting and monitoring Cost control and spend profiling Change control Resource planning Co-ordination of design disciplines CDMc Design Engineers Design Production Cycle Route Audit Cost production Specification and Documentation Safety Audit Stage 1,2,3 Safety Audits Construction Manager Co-ordinating construction team Site management team QS and construction cost management CDM Health and Safety
The SRO from SCC for the scheme will be Frank Baxter, Head of Transport, Highways and Parking.
The City Council have a tried and tested Project Governance structure which is enshrined in delegated powers reports and embodies a gateway from of project management. A City Streets Project Board has been established, chaired by the Head of Planning, Transport & Sustainability and membership includes relevant Council officers and the delivery partners, including Network Rail and South West Trains.
It should be noted that the City Council is familiar with delivering large and complex civil engineering projects on time and to budget. Recent examples include the QE2 Mile, Platform for Prosperity and Building Schools for the Future.
G5 Confirm your commitment to maintain the asset post delivery. The Highways Service Partnership agreement with Balfour Beatty Living Places, which started in October 2010. This partnership agreement includes the ongoing maintenance of all adopted public highways in Southampton and will incorporate these schemes.
Some parts of the Station Quarter North scheme are not on public highway and are subject to separate asset management regimes. These include: • non adopted highway areas owned by Southampton City Council. These are maintained through the City Council’s Property Services section; • off street car parking areas, which are maintained by the City Council’s Parking Services team; and • the Station Forecourt area, owned by Network Rail and maintained by South West Trains who lease Southampton Central from Network Rail.
It is intended that areas currently maintained through Property Services will become adopted highway and be
18 maintained through the Highways Service Partnership with BBLP. The Station Forecourt area will initially be maintained by the City Council, with an intention to transfer this responsibility into the new South West Trains franchise, which is currently due to be let in 2019.
G6 Set out the high level project stages.
Please see attached Gantt charts in Appendix 8. This an includes an overall summary, together with more detailed Gantt charts for the design and delivery elements of Station Quarter North.
G7 Is the project likely to be publically acceptable? Yes. The Station Quarter North scheme has already been subject to detailed consultation and engagement with local residents, businesses and other key stakeholders and has been strongly supported. Initial key stakeholder consultation (major city centre landowners / retailers / business representatives) has taken place on the Station Quarter South / Civic Centre Place scheme and wider City Streets projects and is supported. The principle of City Streets has been established through the City Centre Master Plan, which has also been subject to public consultation.
G8 Has any consultation taken place or is any planned? If so, please summarise. Detailed public consultation has already taken place on the Station Quarter North scheme and early key stakeholder consultation on Station Quarter South / Civic Centre Place scheme. This is at an earlier stage of development and will be subject to extensive consultation with key stakeholders throughout the development of the outline and detailed design. Key stakeholders include the public, businesses and public transport operators.
G9 Has the project been successfully delivered elsewhere, and how transferable is the project to the Solent area? The City Council has already successfully delivered a number of projects in Southampton city centre, which follow the principles of City Streets. These include the award winning London Road Improvement scheme and QE2 Mile. The key personnel from these projects still work for BBLP or the City Council and will b directly involved in the design and delivery of City Streets. There are other scheme examples successfully implemented around the UK and Europe, which will be used to influence the designs of these projects. These include: • Sheaf Square, Sheffield – Major scheme to enhance Sheffield Station Quarter; • Poynton – Replacement of complex and busy traffic signal junction with shared space roundabouts; and • Ashford Ring Road – Major town centre shared space scheme on Inner Ring Road
G10 Set out the key risks associated with the project. Please see attached Risk Register in Appendix 9. Note that this is just for the Station Quarter North project, which is seeking funding in 2015/16.
Section H: The Commercial Case H1 What investment will this scheme lever in? The City Streets schemes are anticipated to directly lever in additional private sector investment into Southampton City Centre. This includes £91m of direct redevelopment and regeneration at Station Quarter South. The City Streets schemes will also indirectly support wider growth and regeneration in the city centre, estimated at £75m. Full details of the breakdown of this figure are given in Appendix 7.
H2 What is the public investment private investment ratio? Taking account of directly related private sector investment (£97.6m), the ratio is 6.46:1. However, also including indirect private sector investment (a further £75m), this ratio increases to 11.4:1.
Section I: Monitoring & Evaluation I1 Can the scheme be Net additional jobs created (directly or Yes No measured against these indirectly) or safeguarded in the Solent LTB KPIs? area that can reasonably be linked to the
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Net additional housing or employment Yes No floorspace enabled as a consequence of the transport intervention (either directly or as part of a wider package of enabling measures).
Private sector investment leveraged as a result Yes No of the delivery of the transport scheme (either directly or as part of a wider package of enabling measures).
Local Gross Value Added (GVA) created or Yes No safeguarded.
I2 Provide a short summary of how you will monitor and evaluate this project. We will seek to quantify the number of jobs created by the schemes by monitoring them in a similar way to the Regional Growth Fund. To that end we will write to all impacted businesses and new development and request they identify any new recruitment activity from the unlocked developments.
We will record housing numbers delivered on an annual basis
We will redo the PERS analysis in a suitable future year
We will collect business rate data to show the total growth in economic activity as result of this project
The wider Local Sustainable Transport Fund Programme will be key to monitoring the success of the Station Quarter & Albion Place schemes. The LSTF already mandates Southampton to closely monitor modal split and travel trends within the cities, and the LSTF monitoring regime will therefore determine citywide trends. The LSTF monitoring of Travel Attitudes, Modal Split, Travel Plans and Personal Travel Planning will all contribute to monitoring the impact of the Station Quarter scheme, targeting impacts to the city.
Section J: Declarations J1 Senior Responsible Owner As Senior Responsible Owner for City Streets I hereby submit this request for prioritisation to the LTB on behalf of Southampton City Council and confirm that I have the necessary authority to do so.
I confirm that I have read the supporting guidance and that Southampton City Council has the resources in place to develop a full transport business case should this proposal be short-listed and that Southampton City Council will have all the necessary statutory powers in place and resource to ensure the timescales in the application can be realised.
Name Frank Baxter Signed
Position Head of Transport, Date 21 September 2013 Highways & Parking
20 Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of Maritime and Skandia Point HMSO. Crown copyright and database right 2012. All rights Oceana House Coastguard Agency reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number: 100048446 SIGNIFICANT RESIDUAL RISKS The following list provides a cross reference between this drawing and the Designer's Health & Safety Risk Assessment Cutline and identifies those areas of Significant Residual Risk Description of Risk Ref. No. Working close to live traffic and pedestrians 1 Commercial Road Excavation near existing stats 2 Pavement materials in relation to COSSH 3 Key: Bespoke granite paving (450x600mm)
Granite setts (200x300mm) approximate size
Wyndham Bespoke granite wall Place
Fourposts Hill See inset 1 Bespoke granite steps
Bespoke granite seating
Granite bespoke level paving (450x600)
Bespoke granite feature Frobisher Bespoke granite slope feature flush to 300mm House Bespoke concrete retaining wall
Bespoke concrete paving ramp
Bespoke concrete amphitheatre steps
Norwich 40mm inlay resurfacing
House Wyndham Court Blacktop carriageway table and central island
Blacktop carriageway ramp
Existing footway paving material to be reused
Footway surfacing construction
Tactile paving Grenville House Landscaping areas Wyndham Court Bespoke lighting feature Lemoore Setts (200x300) or similar approximate size Bespoke Lemoore paving (450x600)
Lemoore paving (450x450)
Existing car park to be re-marked Blechynden Southbrook Terrace Full depth carriageway construction Road Self binding gravel
Cutline Brick retaining wall
Bespoke basalt kerb canal edge 800mm wide Tree Existing tree to be retained Central Station Bridge Existing tree to be removed Clipped hedge Central Station
Overline House Retail
See inset 2 Key: Phase 1 construction works Phase Station Forecourt construction works Phase 2 construction works Phase 3 construction works Phase 4 construction works 1:500 @ A1 Phase 5 construction works 1:1000 @ A3
See above Halcrow Group Limited Elms House, 43 Brook Green, London, W6 7EF Tel +44 (0)20 3479 8000 Fax +44 (0)20 3479 8001 Cumberland Place www.halcrow.com
A3024 A See above
Cutline Southampton Station Quarter Commercial Road West Park Road
Phasing of Construction Works Phases 1 to 5
Area of land that is to be acquired for the Proposed coach parking Cutline introduction of the advisory cycle lane. This land is currently owned by Southampton City Council. Multistorey Car Park Mayflower Theatre
Broadcasting Centre
Inset 1 Inset 2 Commercial Road East West Park Road Phase 1 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 C - D F A A - B C D - F D
B - C C - E B Phase 2
Future Works
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B 06/06/13 RA RA ST Phasing updated Southampton City Council - RA 30.05.13 A 04/06/13 RA RA ST Phasing updated Civic Centre SOUTHAMPTON SO14 7LY 1 of 1 B RA ST NTS City Depot & Recycling Park First Avenue, Millbrook SOUTHAMPTON SO15 0LJ Southampton City Streets Tel +44 (0)2380 798010 Fax +44 (0)2380 512883 Phasing Plan Web www.bblivingplaces.com 13ALM008/01 Design Group ¤Balfour Beatty Living Places
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Frank Baxter Head of Transport, Highways and Parking Southampton City Council 4th Floor One Guildhall Square Southampton SO14 7FP
11th June 2013
Dear Frank,
Local Major Transport Funding Bid
The Future Southampton Group of Business Solent and the Transport and Planning Committee of Hampshire Chamber understand the City Council is submitting bids to the recently established Local Transport Body for the Solent area for the following schemes:
City Streets o Station Quarter North o Station Quarter South (Mountbatten Way to Civic Centre Place inclusive) o Albion Place
“Cycling to Prosperity” o Improvements to Strategic North / South Cycle Route between University of Southampton and the city centre o Improvements to cycle facilities on the Itchen Bridge
The Future Southampton Group and the Planning and Transport Committee are united in their support for the principal aim of Southampton‟s City Centre Master Plan which is to enable and facilitate greater economic prosperity alongside improved environmental and social outcomes. We therefore strongly support the City Streets bid, which will deliver significant elements of the infrastructure improvements necessary to enable the city to meet the challenges of the seven key themes in the Master Plan. Delivering comprehensive improvements around Southampton Central Station is an essential requirement at this important gateway and major transport interchange and we welcome and endorse these improvements which will provide much higher quality pedestrian and cycle access between the station and surrounding parts of the city centre, including an improved link through to important retail destinations to the south of the station. We also strongly support the proposals for the Station Quarter South scheme which will release valuable land for new development, contribute directly towards the overall objective for city centre regeneration and bring much needed jobs and enhanced prosperity to the city centre.
Our members have engaged in the detailed consultation on the Station Quarter North scheme and welcome the opportunity to be involved in the detailed development of the Station Quarter South and Albion Place schemes. The Albion Place proposals are a vital element in ensuring that the city centre derives maximum benefit from the Watermark WestQuay development which will bring growth and jobs to the city. They will help secure direct linkage between the new development and the Bargate (Heart of the City) area, facilitating much improved interchange with the bus network at a key location serving the
Continued overleaf> retail core through the provision of „Super Stops‟ and providing the opportunity to incorporate enhanced public realm and more focused pedestrian priority areas between WestQuay / Watermark and the Bargate.
A high quality and comprehensive cycling network alongside pedestrian and road improvements must be another key aim for Southampton and we are confident that the “Cycling to Prosperity” programme will build upon other improvements to the cycle network being delivered through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund and the recently submitted Cycle City Ambition Grant bid. We therefore fully support this bid to encourage further cycling in Southampton, to widen travel choice and to accommodate future travel demands in a more sustainable manner on these important transport corridors.
We look forward to your overall bid being successful and to working with you in partnership to further develop and implement these important improvements to the city.
Yours Sincerely,
James Prowse, Chair Nick Farthing, Chair Future Southampton Group Planning & Transport Committee Business Solent Hampshire Chamber of Commerce
Business Solent Ltd. Hampshire Chamber of Commerce Ocean Village Innovation Centre Wates House, Wallington Hill, Southampton SO14 3JZ Fareham, Hampshire PO16 7BJ
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12th June 2013
Paul Walker Interim Travel & Transport Manager Southampton City council Transport Highways & Parking Planning & Sustainability Division Directorate of Place Floor 4, One Guildhall Square Civic Centre Place Southampton SO14 7FP
Dear Paul,
First Hampshire & Dorset Ltd support the approach taken by Southampton City Council towards developing the city streets programme and supports its development through the LTB funding process as part of a balanced approach to transport within the city.
The proposals in the bid will help make for better bus based and other modal interchange keeping the bus at the heart of the economic development of the city recognising the massive contribution the bus makes to the economy of the city. Overall the improvements to the street scene within Southampton will contribute to economic growth as we as making better use of the urban space to improve the quality of facilities for bus passengers.
However, it must be stressed that all the individual elements within this bid must support either existing bus access or provision in the city for enhanced bus access. This is due to the bus being such an integral part of the economy, but more importantly due to passengers wishing to have good access to retail and work place locations.
Yours Sincerely,
Marc Reddy Managing Director, First Hampshire Dorset & Berkshire
Appendix 7 APPENDIX 7 Source: SCC Economic Development May 2013 estimates
Development Related to City Streets programme (Note - Assumes only Phases 1 of Station Quarter Project delivered together with elements of Phases 3 and 5
Est. No. Construc- Construc-tion Office (sq Retail (sq Leisure Hotels Resi Est no. End Use Est no of Job Site name/ location Summary details tion Value Jobs (@ 12.5 m) m) (sq m) (beds) (units) Jobs safe-guarded (£m) per £1m spent)
Station Quarter (& Civic Place) Station Quarter North -transport & public New interchange / plaza/station realm improvements forecourt/pedestrian link routes 7.9 99 300 300 Station Quarter South Commercial/leisure/housing 17,100 513 5,726 150 197 90 1125 1,502 Station Quarter South - transport & public Station Square & improved interchange realm improvements facilities 13.8 173 0 Overline House extension Ground floor retail 250 1 13 14 SNAC Arts Centre/restaurants/housing 2,000 6,000 38 70 875 272 Close to resolving viability - Grosvenor developer - DA signed planning consent Innovation units and student Marland House accommodation 20 5 25 50 Out to market - identified party to move forward
City Streets Totals 17,100 2,763 11,726 150 255 188 2,309 2,138 300
TOTAL FLOORSPACE 31,589 TOTAL NEW JOBS 4,747
NOTES 1 These figures have been compiled using: SCC Major Projects Operational Report SCC City Centre Delivery Plan report Southampton City Deal - Indicative Site Data Planning Applications
2 Job calculations are based on the Employment Densities (2nd Edition) 2010, Homes and Communities Agency/Drivers Jonas Deloitte, using development quantum’s revised May ’13. Mayflower Halls - 1100 units
3 For the purposes of calculating GVA for Q E12, in line with the guidance, we have selected and grouped relvant economic activity sectors using these BRES estimates for Southampton:
4 Note that the 5,726 sqm floor area in Central Station South Side relates to the 150 bed hotel. Based on comparable floor area per bedroom for Premier Inn Hotel in Harbour Parade
business register and employment survey ONS Crown Copyright Reserved [from Nomis on 10 June 2013]
area type local authorities: county / unitary area name Southampton date 2011
Employ- Employ- Employ- Industry Employ-ees ment ee % ment % G : Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 16,059 16,529 30.62 30.34 I : Accommodation and food service activities 7,762 8,001 14.80 14.68 J : Information and communication 3,877 3,942 7.39 7.23 K : Financial and insurance activities 5,172 5,173 9.86 9.49 L : Real estate activities 1,149 1,208 2.19 2.22 M : Professional, scientific and technical activities 5,819 6,377 11.09 11.70 N : Administrative and support service activities 9,218 9,330 17.57 17.12 R : Arts, entertainment and recreation 1,517 1,927 2.89 3.54 S : Other service activities 1,881 1,999 3.59 3.67 Column Total 52,452 54,487 100.00 100.00
Notes: a) All figures have been rounded to the nearest 100 to ensure they are non-confidential and comply with the ONS user guide for BRES data. b) Estimates are subject to sampling errors which increase as geographic areas become smaller and industry more detailed. (Please see http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/all-releases.html?definition=tcm%3A77-230512 ) c) Employees: An employee is anyone aged 16 years or over that an organisation directly pays from its payroll(s), in return for carrying out a full-time or part-time job or being on a training scheme. . (It excludes voluntary workers, self-employed, working owners who are not paid via PAYE) d) Employment = employees + working proprietors. Working Proprietors are sole traders, sole proprietors, partners and directors. This does not apply to registered charities.
Appendix 8 Station Quarter Quarter Station Station Quarter Quarter Station South North Phases 2A- 4 - Detail Design Detail - 4 2A- Phases Design Detail 1- Phase Feasability Design Study Outline / 4Implementation 2- Phases implementation Forecourt Station 2A - Phase Main construction 1- Phase utility Advance 1- worksPhase Phases 1& 4 Phases Design Detailed City Streets - Overall ProjectSummary Plan Overall - Streets City
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Qtr 4 STATION QUARTER NORTH DESIGN PROGRAMME Station Quarter North Programme Rev 9.mpp
ID Task Name Start Finish 2014 April May June July August September October November December January February March April May 01/04 08/04 15/04 22/04 29/04 06/05 13/05 20/05 27/05 03/06 10/06 17/06 24/06 01/07 08/07 15/07 22/07 29/07 05/08 12/08 19/08 26/08 02/09 09/09 16/09 23/09 30/09 07/10 14/10 21/10 28/10 04/11 11/11 18/11 25/11 02/12 09/12 16/12 23/12 30/12 06/01 13/01 20/01 27/01 03/02 10/02 17/02 24/02 03/03 10/03 17/03 24/03 31/03 07/04 14/04 21/04 28/04 05/05 12/05 1 Station Quarter North Thu 30/08/12 Fri 18/12/15 2 HGL Project management/Meetings Thu 18/10/12 Fri 10/01/14 2 3 Inception meeting/kickoff Thu 18/10/12 Thu 18/10/12 4 Develop delivery programme Fri 19/10/12 Mon 05/11/12 5 Receive order Mon 05/11/12 Mon 05/11/12 6 Receive project info Fri 19/10/12 Thu 01/11/12 7 Design W orkshop Tue 06/11/12 Tue 06/11/12 8 Review prelim DRAs Tue 26/03/13 Mon 01/04/13 8 9 Review Detailed DRA's Thu 11/07/13 Wed 17/07/13 9 10 Prepare pre construction Plan Thu 18/07/13 Wed 24/07/13 10 11 Review Construction Plan Mon 06/01/14 Fri 10/01/14 11 12 Project meetings inc reports/risks (monthly) Tue 04/12/12 Tue 06/08/13 22 Champion Group (2 monthly) Wed 14/11/12 Wed 10/07/13 28 Corporate Governance Fri 26/04/13 Wed 24/07/13 28 29 Cabinet Member Briefing Fri 26/04/13 Fri 26/04/13 29 30 Forward Plan Submission Mon 13/05/13 Mon 13/05/13 30 31 Scrutiny Mon 20/05/13 Fri 31/05/13 31 32 Executive Cabinet Report Mon 03/06/13 Fri 21/06/13 32 33 Cabinet Authorisation Wed 17/07/13 Wed 17/07/13 33 34 Call in Period Thu 18/07/13 Wed 24/07/13 34 35 Preliminary Design Thu 30/08/12 Fri 16/08/13 35 36 Design general Fri 02/11/12 Fri 09/11/12 40 Site investigation Fri 02/11/12 Thu 14/02/13 47 Stakeholder Management Thu 30/08/12 Fri 16/08/13 47 48 3rd Party Land Ownership Agreements Thu 30/08/12 Wed 31/07/13 48 49 Agree key stakeholders and develop Wed 07/11/12 Tue 13/11/12 50 Liaisecommunication with Stakeholders plan Wed 14/11/12 Fri 16/08/13 50 51 Prelim Design Fri 02/11/12 Tue 16/04/13 51 68 Pinch Point Funding Bid Mon 21/01/13 Fri 15/03/13 73 Public Exhibition Mon 04/03/13 Fri 03/05/13 73 78 Detailed Design Wed 24/04/13 Tue 14/01/14 78 79 Design Kick off Wed 24/04/13 Wed 24/04/13 80 C3 Stats inquiry Thu 25/04/13 Thu 23/05/13 80 81 Review comments from exhibition and agree changes Mon 06/05/13 Fri 10/05/13 81 82 Update highway design model Thu 25/04/13 Wed 15/05/13 82 83 Finalise Material Choice Thu 25/04/13 Wed 15/05/13 84 Finalise Base model Wed 15/05/13 Wed 15/05/13 15/05 85 Phase 1 design tasks Thu 16/05/13 Wed 12/06/13 85 86 Decision on extent Phase 1 Wed 12/06/13 Wed 12/06/13 Decision on extent Phase 1 12/06 87 Drawings/schedules Phase 1 Thu 13/06/13 Wed 10/07/13 87 88 Phase 2 to 5 Design Development Thu 25/07/13 Tue 14/01/14 89 Develop Bespoke design Thu 25/07/13 Thu 08/08/13 90 Design Progress Meeting Fri 09/08/13 Fri 09/08/13 91 Draw up designs and tech note Mon 12/08/13 Thu 24/10/13 92 SCC review Fri 25/10/13 Tue 29/10/13 93 Board Approval Wed 30/10/13 Wed 30/10/13 94 Develop construction details Fri 25/10/13 Thu 21/11/13 95 Phase 2 to 5 Construction Drawings Thu 01/08/13 Thu 21/11/13 96 Specification and BQ Fri 15/11/13 Thu 28/11/13 97 C4 Fri 22/11/13 Tue 14/01/14 98 Sustainability Review Fri 22/11/13 Thu 05/12/13 99 Stage 2 RSA Fri 22/11/13 Thu 28/11/13 100 Designers Response Fri 29/11/13 Tue 03/12/13 101 Update design Wed 04/12/13 Tue 10/12/13 102 Submit Final Set of Drawings Tue 10/12/13 Tue 10/12/13 10/12 103 Specialist material specification/detailing Thu 16/05/13 Wed 29/05/13 104 Agree specialist materials with SCC/BBLP Thu 30/05/13 Wed 26/06/13 105 Procurement Specialist materials Thu 27/06/13 Wed 24/07/13 106 Pre Order materials Thu 25/07/13 Wed 13/11/13 107 DRA's Thu 04/07/13 Wed 10/07/13 107 108 Design Review Thu 11/07/13 Fri 12/07/13 108 109 Sustainability review Mon 15/07/13 Fri 19/07/13 109 110 RSA Stage 2 and designers response Mon 15/07/13 Tue 23/07/13 110 111 Update design Wed 24/07/13 Tue 30/07/13 112 C4 Stats Thu 11/07/13 Mon 19/08/13 112 113 Bill of Quantity Wed 24/07/13 Tue 30/07/13 113 114 Specification appendicies Wed 17/07/13 Tue 30/07/13 114 115 Cost estimate/procurement Mon 15/07/13 Fri 02/08/13 115 116 Statutory Consultation/agreements Wed 24/04/13 Fri 20/12/13 116 117 Draft TRO's/TTRO's Thu 16/05/13 Fri 21/06/13 117 118 SCC legal team draw up TRO's Thu 25/07/13 Wed 07/08/13 119 Advertise and Statutory consultation period Thu 08/08/13 Mon 16/09/13 119 120 Objection handling Tue 17/09/13 Mon 14/10/13 Risk of objection taking longer 120 121 DfT approval for non standard signs Mon 24/06/13 Fri 11/10/13 122 Road Space booking Wed 24/04/13 Wed 24/04/13 24/04 123 NRSWA S58 notice Mon 07/10/13 Mon 07/10/13 Serve S58 notice 07/10 124 District Heating Liaison Thu 25/04/13 Mon 10/06/13 125 Agree plan with DH Mon 10/06/13 Mon 10/06/13 Agree plan with DH 10/06 126 District Heating installation Tue 11/06/13 Fri 20/12/13 127 Prepare Network Rail drawings Thu 16/05/13 Wed 29/05/13 128 Network Rail Approval/Consultation Thu 30/05/13 Wed 21/08/13 129 Pre Construction Tue 26/03/13 Fri 20/12/13 129 130 Appoint ECI contractor Tue 26/03/13 Mon 22/04/13 131 ECI Phase Wed 01/05/13 Tue 23/07/13 132 Stats diversion/protection Tue 20/08/13 Fri 20/12/13 133 Pre construction site pack Wed 31/07/13 Tue 06/08/13 133 134 H&S Plan &Method Statements Wed 07/08/13 Tue 13/08/13 134 135 Construction Phase 1 (TBC) Mon 06/01/14 Thu 13/11/14 136 Mobilisation Mon 06/01/14 Fri 17/01/14 136 137 Construction start Fri 17/01/14 Fri 17/01/14 17/01 138 Construction Mon 20/01/14 Thu 30/10/14 139 RSA Stage 3 Fri 31/10/14 Thu 13/11/14 140 As Constructed drawings Fri 31/10/14 Thu 13/11/14 141 Health and safety file Fri 31/10/14 Thu 13/11/14 142 Phase 1 Completion Thu 13/11/14 Thu 13/11/14 143 Construction Phase 2a Mon 02/06/14 Fri 19/12/14 144 Construction Mon 02/06/14 Fri 19/12/14 145 Construction Phase 2 Mon 29/09/14 Fri 02/10/15 146 Construction Mon 29/09/14 Fri 02/10/15 147 Construction Phase 3 Tue 28/04/15 Fri 18/12/15 148 Construction Tue 28/04/15 Fri 18/12/15 149 Construction Phase 4 Mon 27/04/15 Fri 18/12/15 150 Construction Mon 27/04/15 Fri 18/12/15
Task Milestone Project Summary External Milestone Inactive Summary Duration-only Manual Summary Finish-only External Milestone Deadline Project: Station Quarter North Programm Split Summary External Tasks Inactive Milestone Manual Task Manual Summary Rollup Start-only External Tasks Progress
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ID Task Name Start Finish 2013 2014 2015 2016 Q1 '13 Q2 '13 Q3 '13 Q4 '13 Q1 '14 Q2 '14 Q3 '14 Q4 '14 Q1 '15 Q2 '15 Q3 '15 Q4 '15 Q1 '16 1 Station Quarter North Mon 22/04/13 Fri 18/12/15 Station Quarter North
2 Detailed Design Mon 22/04/13 Tue 10/12/13 Detailed Design
3 Phase 1 Mon 22/04/13 Fri 30/08/13 30/08 4 Phase 2a to 4 Mon 12/08/13 Tue 10/12/13 10/12 5 Construction Mon 06/01/14 Fri 18/12/15 Construction
6 Phase 1 Mon 06/01/14 Fri 28/11/14 Phase 1
7 Construction Mon 06/01/14 Fri 28/11/14 28/11 8 Phase 2a Mon 02/06/14 Fri 19/12/14 Phase 2a
9 Construction Mon 02/06/14 Fri 19/12/14 19/12 10 Phase 2 Mon 29/09/14 Fri 02/10/15 Phase 2
11 Construction Mon 29/09/14 Fri 02/10/15 02/10 12 Phase 3 Mon 27/04/15 Fri 18/12/15 Phase 3
13 Construction Mon 27/04/15 Fri 18/12/15 18/12 14 Phase 4 Mon 27/04/15 Fri 18/12/15 Phase 4
15 Construction Mon 27/04/15 Fri 18/12/15 18/12
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Appendix 9 Station Quarter - Scheme Risk Register DatedStation Quarter Risk 09/07/2013Register - Rev 1.xlsx
Current/ Baseline Scoring Est. Financial Cost of Risk Change to assessed risk from previous month Impact
Consequences ▲ Root Cause/s Risk Event Increase Deadline for action to (Impact on scheme objectives/ Actions to Control or Mitigate Risks (Known factors/ weaknesses) (What might happen if not corrected) Mitigate Risk
Risk ID WBS requirements) ▼ Risk Category Responsibility Decrease Probability Financial Score Financial Impact P P x ( [L+H]/2 ) £k Probability Score Performance Impact
Environmental Impact ▬ Mean Financial Impact Health & Safety Impact Event probability (P) % No Change Schedule (Time) Impact Financial Score Low cost estimate (L) £k (Prob. x Financial Score) Current Combined Score High cost estimate (H) £k Performance Score Environmental Impact Schedule (Time) Score Health & Safety Impact (Prob. x Greatest Impact Score)
Early involvement with Taxi Operators and ongoing consultation with them. Next operators meeting due 7th March 2013. Taxi drivers Re-design required that does not have thus far been positive about the new rank however there is an expectation that a toilet facility will be made available to them. Taxi drivers object to the proposed 1 Consultation Adverse publicity, political lobbying adequately resolve modal conflicts m M M M 3 3 3 3 9 9 50 200 40% 50 SW Met taxi group recieved some minor comments on the design which can be incorporated. Agreed toilet facility is not required as Steve W ▬ layout for drop of and pick up No Change July 13 outside the station entrance part of scheme. Minor changes required as part of exhibition meaning loss of spaces, need to re consult with Taxi group
Chosen design for construction Early engagement and continued dialogue with stakeholders through workshops, consultations, exhibitions, media / communications Reduction in community and political Protracted development time of project 2 Consultation unpopular and not aligned with vl M H 1 3 4 0 0 0 4 3 50 200 25% 31 and meetings. Steve W ▬ support through objection No Change Complete community aspirations Exhibiton held no significant issues raised
Objections affect Cabinet decision Pre-consultation with local businesses, residents and other key stakeholders will be used to define TRO, which is advertised. This will Objections to Traffic Regulation 3 Legal resulting in design change causing Increased costs and delay M M H 3 3 4 0 0 0 12 9 50 200 50% 63 minimise the objections level. Cabinet ultimately make decision on TRO, considering any objections. Steve W ▬ Orders (TRO) No Change Aug 13 delay, disruption and reprogramming TRO's for phase 1 agreed and prepared ready for SCC to advertise following Council approval of scheme
3rd party landowners do not licence the Engagement with Landowners - Network Rail and their Leaseholders needs to be undertaken at an early stage to factor in the time it Failure to complete agreements to 4 Legal Council's contractors to work on their Increased costs and delay h M H 4 3 4 0 0 0 16 12 50 200 50% 63 will take to get all consents approved by each respective legal team. Steve W ▲ working on third party land Increase Aug13 land Ali Mew working on legal agreements and land ownership, delay in acertaining land ownership information
Key member briefing dates will be included on the Project Communications Plan. 5 Political Political Risk Reduction in political support Withdrawal of financial / political support VL L L 1 2 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 50 10% 3 Steve W ▬ SW undertaken regular briefings No Change Aug 13
A partially complete or reduced scope Continued work to identify further funding sources and submitting bids. Work with project partners Network Rail to secure NSIP Not enough funding to complete the full Phase 1 which is not in line with the funding. Design the project flexibly to ensure that the costs can potentially be reduced through value engineering. 6 Finance Funding shortfall design of Phases 1 - 3 and the H H H 4 4 4 0 0 0 16 16 500 1000 20% 150 Steve W ▬ project objectives, or a partially Pinch point funing applied for and phasing adjusted to suit. No Change Aug 13 construction of Phase 1 complete design for all phases. Reviewing costs and adjusting extents of phase 1
Minimise disruption through effective planning and appointment of competent Traffic Management Contractor. Communicate with Temporary TM and Parking Poor repoire with community and community prior to works commencing, ensuring that Members are briefed and prepared for any questions that may come as a result 7 Construction Arrangements result in congestion and Complaints from Community L L M 2 2 0 3 0 0 6 4 50 100 20% 15 Matt Dyer ▬ escalation to members of the temporary traffic management and parking arrangements. No Change Sep 13 access issues BB Regional Civils on board and undertaking ECI role
Minimise disruption through effective planning and appointment of competent Traffic Management Contractor. Communicate with Risk of Public Safety during Injuries/ fatalities to members of the Injury compensation costs + poor local community prior to works commencing, ensuring that Members are briefed and prepared for any questions that may come as a result 8 Construction Construction (very busy part of public VL H 1 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 1000 5% 25 Matt Dyer ▬ public and national PR of the temporary traffic management and parking arrangements. No Change Sep 13 realm) To be discussed with Regional Civils as design progresses
Early involvement from Highways required to adopt any proposed material palette, or compromise of choice in accordance with their Material used degrades over the Alternative materials may not align with liability costs. Chosen Highways Material pallette not 9 Design medium to long term with no the Project Board or Community M M 3 3 0 0 0 0 9 9 0 800 40% 160 MD discussimg internally at BBLP to ascertain any implications John R ▬ adoptable into Highways Partnership No Change July 13 maintenance aspirations Details developed and meeting with SCC and BBLP held on 8th July for approval. SCC require tech note for Board approval in a few weeks time Stock standards of the PFI may not Early involvement from the PFI Team required to investigate the use of non-maintainable PFI assets. Chosen Lighting Stock not adoptable Lighting stock degrades / fails with no 10 Design align with the Project Board or M M 3 3 0 0 0 0 9 9 0 500 40% 100 Meeting between design team SCC and SSE on 18th March John R ▬ into the PFI Contract maintenance agreement in place No Change Ongoing Community aspirations Meetings ongoing with SCC/SSE, to discuss and agree details
Parks and green spaces may not be Unmaintained green spaces and dead Early involvement from the Parks and Recreation Team required to adopt any proposed trees and / or green spaces. Further to this 11 Design maintained within the P&R Trees and green spaces may perish trees are not a positive impression at M M 3 3 0 0 0 0 9 9 0 300 40% 60 plans to involve resident and business groups in the planting and maintenance on Blechynden Terrace will be progressed. John R ▬ No Change Ongoing maintenance contract one of Southampton's key gateways Have been involved and provided a positive response, board approval may be required
objection to layout of parking in Develop concept layout proposals early and undertake consultation to get agreement 12 Consultation delay to the project design Protracted discussions and redesign vl VL m 1 1 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 50 40% 10 S Wong ▬ Wyndham Place All agreed No Change Complete
Station manager requirements for Spaces cannot be provided within the Early negotiation with Station Manager and SCC parking team 13 Design parking spaces not achievable within design giving risk to objections and Protracted discussions and redesign h l m 4 2 3 0 0 0 12 8 0 100 70% 35 S Wong ▬ SCC Agreed not to reduce parking spaces, scheme with NR/SWT for internal consultation No Change Complete design delay to project Commercial proposals for ground floor Affects finalisation of the design in front Early negotiation with operators of overline house - Discussions ongoing 14 Design Protracted discussions and redesign vh l m 5 2 3 0 0 0 15 10 0 100 60% 30 John R ▲ overline house of overline house F&C want like for like on parking spaces, JR reviewing and discussing with SCC Increase Ongoing
Taxi queuing arrangements in car park Early development of options and discussion with Taxi operators and SCC parking team 15 Design Delay finalising the design Protracted discussions and redesign m vl m 3 1 3 0 0 0 9 3 0 50 60% 15 ▬ or on Bletchynden terrace Agreed No Change Complete A Webb/S Wong Planning restrictions may influence the Discuss with SCC planning team to confirm whether there will be any planning requirements for the project if so programme them in Planning requirements for toilets and Delay to the programme, possible 16 Design design which does not align with the vl l h 1 2 4 0 0 0 4 2 0 100 25% 13 SCC Planning responded confriming that planning permission is required and programme has been updated to reflect this ▬ work on private land objections No Change Complete aspirations of the Board SCC confirmed not required as permitted development M Dyer Agree costs with client at an early stage and place orders with contractor 17 Design Delay obtaining SI information Unable to finalise the design vlvlh 114000 4 1 0 50 60% 15 Programme updated, SI underway and results being passed through as work progresses. ▬ No Change Complete Completed M Dyer
Unable to agree requirements and Station operators requirements may not Discuss requirements with station operator produce options 18 Design Requirements for bike storage vlvlm 113000 3 1 0 50 40% 10 ▬ design with Station Operator align with aspirations of the board Maximum cycle storage within scheme, wait for NR consultation No Change Ongoing A Webb/Swong Draw up proposals and consult with SCC parking team Objection by SCC parking services to Redesign of the scheme to reduce loss 19 Consultation Protracted discussions and redesign vl l m 1 2 3 0 0 0 3 2 0 100 20% 10 SW discussed with SCC parking manager and agreed in principle ▬ loss or change to parking of parking No Change Complete Agreed SW Undertake early desk top study and identify any issues. Environmental report completed, recomends contact with SCC archaeologist Environmental impacts identified which changes to the design required which and english heritage and SCC 20 Design Environmental issues identified give rise to further studies or need to l l m 2 2 3 0 3 0 6 4 0 40 20% 4 ▬ do not meet the aspirations of the board environmental team. No Change Complete change design m Desk top study undertaken following SI report showed signs of contamination, no significant issues. C Weedon/A Webb Redesign which results in a scheme Complete SI and review results 21 Design Unexpected ground conditions Additional costs to overcome issues that does not align with the aspirations 2 3 3 0 0 0 6 6 0 300 40% 60 Desk top study undertaken following SI report showed signs of contamination, no significant issues. ▬ No Change Complete of the board l m m Radar surevy completed and reviewed unlikely to affect design proposals M Dyer/Design Team Diversions or changes of the design Complete SI and review results 22 Design Buried services Additional costs and delay required which do not meet the h h h 4 4 4 0 0 0 16 16 0 1000 60% 300 Locations where sservices are likely to be affected identified this will be used for C3 quotes ▬ No Change Ongoing aspirations of the board Waiting for C3 qoutes M Dyer Station Quarter - Scheme Risk Register DatedStation Quarter Risk 09/07/2013Register - Rev 1.xlsx
Current/ Baseline Scoring Est. Financial Cost of Risk Change to assessed risk from previous month Impact
Consequences ▲ Root Cause/s Risk Event Increase Deadline for action to (Impact on scheme objectives/ Actions to Control or Mitigate Risks (Known factors/ weaknesses) (What might happen if not corrected) Mitigate Risk
Risk ID WBS requirements) ▼ Risk Category Responsibility Decrease Probability Financial Score Financial Impact P P x ( [L+H]/2 ) £k Probability Score Performance Impact
Environmental Impact ▬ Mean Financial Impact Health & Safety Impact Event probability (P) % No Change Schedule (Time) Impact Financial Score Low cost estimate (L) £k (Prob. x Financial Score) Current Combined Score High cost estimate (H) £k Performance Score Environmental Impact Schedule (Time) Score Health & Safety Impact (Prob. x Greatest Impact Score) Review as design progresses, design out where possible opportunities for skateboarders and stunt bikes, use materials resistand to Skateboarding and stunt bikes using 23 Design Causing nuisance and damage Bad publicity h m l 4 3 2 0 0 0 12 12 10 50 60% 18 damage ▬ the completed scheme No Change Ongoing AW and CT to consider as part of design process Design team Review as design progresses, use materials that can be cleaned consider anti grafitti coatings 24 Design Grafitti Damage to to scheme cost of maintainence, bad publicity M M M 3 3 3 0 0 0 9 9 5 20 30% 4 MD to check requirements ▬ No Change Ongoing Design team Delay to scheme, redesign which results Early discussions with SCC tree officer to agree principles, understand requirement for planning board approval. Objection to the removal of existing Scheme has to be redesigned to 25 Design in a scheme that does not align with the m m m 3 3 3 0 0 0 9 9 5 20 20% 3 Met with tree officer, meeting recorded need to get tree officer sign up ▬ trees within scheme accomodate existing trees No Change Ongoing aspirations of the board Agreed in principle need approval A Webb Delay to scheme, redesign which results Review dainage survey to date and assess the need for additional survey work, if required organise ASAP Scheme has t o be redesigned at late 26 Design Incomplete drainage survey data in a scheme that does not align with the l m m 2 3 3 0 0 0 6 6 5 20 20% 3 Additional drainage CCTV identified and being organised ▼ stage Decrease Complete aspirations of the board Completed and being reviewed as part of design PN Delay to scheme, redesign which results Early informal consultation with Kevin White SCC and English Heritage to discuss scheme and gauge reaction. Listed Building English Heritage object to design 27 Consultation Listed building consent in a scheme that does not align with the mmvhmvlvl 3 3 5 3 1 1 15 9 5 20 20% 3 application to follow during detailed design ▬ around Wyndham Court No Change Sept 13 aspirations of the board SW meeting KW to discuss. Application could take up to 5 months A Webb Delay to scheme, redesign which results Early discussions with Network rail and the various stakeholders. Need to identify the correct people within Network rail who can make Network Rail Station Change 28 Consultation Objections from rail stakeholders in a scheme that does not align with the mmmmvlvl3 3 3 3 1 1 9 9 5 20 20% 3 decisions. Also obtain rail design guidance to avoid any unecessary redesign. ▬ consultation No Change July 13 aspirations of the board Plans for NR consultation being prepared S Wong Delay to scheme, redesign which results Early discussions with SCC cycle lead and cycle groups Cycle groups unhappy with cycle 29 Consultation Cycle provision in a scheme that does not align with the l l l lvlvl222211 4 4 5 20 10% 1 Meeting held to discuss and scheme updated to include revised proposals ▬ provision within scheme and object No Change Complete aspirations of the board Agreed S Wong
Businesses in area object due to longer Early discussion with affected businesses have deatils of alternative route details for discussion. Delay to scheme, redesign which results Objection to restricted use of Morris route to get to commercial road if going Some discussions held further discussions to be held with specific businesses 30 Consultation in a scheme that does not align with the l mhmvlvl234311 8 6 5 20 20% 3 ▬ Road from businesses west, particularly business who paid for Morris Road ban right turn supported. However safety issues with removing right turn ban from access to the west. SW to consult No Change July 13 aspirations of the board existing signals through S106 again S Wong Unable to commence phase 1 in line Early discussion with district heating company to agree programme of installation Delay in district heating network Delay to scheme or having to reinstate 31 Consultation with programme or have to open up hmhmvlvl434311 16 12 5 20 20% 3 Meeting held positive response from DH possibility of installing short extension to beyond phase 1, discussion ongoing ▬ agreeing and installing new service scheme soon after inplementation No Change Aug 13 scheme to lay at a later date S Wong Early discussion with specialist suppliers to establish lead in times and place orders at appoopriate time to achieve delivery dates. Long lead in time for specialist 32 Procurement Delay in starting phase 1 Delay in scheme h m h m vl vl 4 3 4 3 1 1 16 12 5 20 20% 3 Needs to tie in with cabinet approval of scheme. ▬ materials No Change July 13 Agree programme M Dyer Delay to scheme, disruption during Late appointment of Contractor/ECI Late design changes required, inefficient Early appointment of BBLP contractor who is involved throughout the detailed design stage 33 Procurement construction creating poor public vlmmhvlm1 3 3 4 1 3 4 3 5 20 20% 3 ▬ input working poorly planned scheme Regional civils on board No Change Complete perception M Dyer
Late design changes or scheme Early identification of signs requiring approval and submission to DfT 34 Design DfT approval of non standard signs Delay to scheme m l m m vl vl 3 2 3 3 1 1 9 6 5 20 20% 3 ▬ objectives not achieved Discussing options with BBLP and preparing order No Change Oct 13 C Weedon