EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE INFRASTRUCTURE STUDY 2011 ©2011. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction & Context 8 Study Methodology: Stages 1 – 4 13 INFRASTRUCTURE SECTORS: 1. FLOOD DEFENCE AND DRAINAGE 16 1.1 Flood Defence 17 1.2 Surface Water Drainage 19 2. UTILITIES 24 2.1 Water Supply and Distribution 26 2.2 Gas Transmission and Distribution Networks 28 2.3 Electricity Transmission and Distribution Networks 29 2.4 Telephony and Broadband Infrastructure 38 2.5 Sewerage and Wastewater Treatment 42 3. HEALTH 47 3.1 NHS GP Services 47 3.2 NHS Dental Services 55 3.3 Pharmacy Services 60 3.4 Hospital Services 61 4. EDUCATION 63 4.1 Pre-School and Early Years 63 4.2 Primary and Secondary 65 4.3 Further and Higher Education 70 5. LEISURE & AMENITY 74 5.1 Sports and Leisure 74 5.2 Public Open Space 81 5.3 Library Services 85 5.4 Community Recycling 88 6. OLDER & YOUNGER PERSONS' SERVICES 92 6.1 Older Persons' Residential Accommodation 92 6.2 Services for Children and Families 92 7. EMERGENCY SERVICES 96 7.1 Police 96 7.2 Fire 97 7.3 Ambulance 98 8. TRANSPORTATION 100 8.1 Highways 100 8.2 Bus Services 111 8.3 Rail Services 114 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 120 Summary of Investment Need Table 136 References 146 List of Appendices 151 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The East Riding of Yorkshire Council (the Council) has commissioned an Infrastructure Study to provide a detailed evidence base to support the production of its Local Development Framework (LDF), and in particular the Core Strategy and Allocations Development Plan Documents. The document also has a role to play in infrastructure asset management. The main purpose of this study has been to indentify the various forms of infrastructure that are required to meet the maximum level of growth, incorporating upper employment growth scenario (all employment land referenced in the Preferred Approach Core Strategy- May 2010), which may come forward in the Council’s area over the plan period (2009/10 – 2026). SUMMARY OF THE STUDY METHODOLOGY: This study has been undertaken in four separate stages as follows: Stage 1 A review of methods and models available to determine existing and future capacity requirements; Stage 2 The identification of preferred methods and models; Stage 3 The collection of data and application of preferred methods and models; Stage 4 A review of investment needed and funding gaps. Twenty six discrete types of infrastructure were reviewed in detail for this study, and these are summarised in the table below: INVESTMENT NEED FLOOD DEFENCE & DRAINAGE Flood Defence Sufficient land outside of the high flood risk zone has generally been identified to accommodate future development assuming all potential development allocations identified by the potential sites Allocations Development Plan Document are available. Even where it has been identified that it will/may be necessary to locate development in a flood risk area, PPS 25 requires that flood resistance and/or resilience measures are incorporated at the site level to ensure that developments will be safe during a flood event (throughout their lifetime 1). Although there will be a cost for the maintenance of existing defences and for adapting the defences to climate change, which may require developer funding. This cost can only be established once a preferred set of site allocations have been established. 1 100 years for residential development and 60 years for commercial development. 1 Surface Water Drainage In respect of surface water drainage, technically, new development should not exacerbate existing infrastructure capacity issues. This is because PPS 25 requires that new surface water drainage systems include significant storage, either by the use of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) or by the use of traditional attenuation tanks. However, it is not possible to achieve this in all cases, particularly with smaller sites. Also, in some cases, new development may be constrained by flood risk presented by the inadequacy of the existing infrastructure. UTILITIES Water Supply and Distribution There is sufficient water supply provision in terms of abstraction, treatment and main distribution assets within the East Riding to meet all proposed growth to 2026. Gas supply and Distribution Northern Gas Networks has informed that there are no capacity issues within the area at transmission or distribution levels. Five of the Rural Service Centres, namely: Bubwith, Middleton-on-the-Wolds, Wetwang, Kilham and Aldbrough and the Supporting Village, of Melbourne, are not currently connected to a mains gas network, therefore any requirement for a gas supply will require significant private investment. Electricity Although there is no current electricity transmission or distribution network capacity shortfall in the East Riding the network will not accommodate an upper employment growth scenario (including all employment land referenced in the emerging Core Strategy) without significant reinforcement of strategic extra-high-voltage 132kV, 66kV and 33kV networks, with a required investment of around £89million (of which £24.5million would be undertaker funded). Alongside this investment requirement, significant amount of land would also be required to accommodate the additional infrastructure. However, additional analysis has showed that a lower employment growth scenario for the settlements of Beverley, Bridlington, Goole, Hedon, Pocklington, and Melton produced significant reductions in the predicted electrical demand for all of these settlements, with likely total capital investment payable reduced to £39million (of which £2.5million would be undertaker funded). This additional analysis demonstrated the high significance of employment development in relation to the electricity demand requirements of the area into the future. Telecommunications KC are proactively increasing Broadband availability and speed both within and outside their Original Licensed Area (OLA). BT Openreach – the regulated operator of open access networks outside KCs’ OLA – is upgrading assets to increase access to faster broadband in line with contemporary Digital Britain initiatives, and this is captured within their 21 st Century Networks investment programme. There is currently no existing BT Openreach programme to deliver Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) based “Super Fast Broadband” or “Fibre to the Cabinet” within the district. BDUK have provisionally allocated £8.54million to the four Humber local authority areas to assist in meeting the 2 target of 100% 2mb/s broadband coverage and 90% NGA , 20Mb+ speeds by 2015. The local authorities will be expected to find at least the same amount of money to facilitate the delivery. Although the available solutions will currently require many times this amount of money to deliver. Sewage and Wastewater Treatment Over the next 5 years Yorkshire Water will provide Sewage Treatment capacity to meet approximately 50% of the predicted development growth to 2026. Once the growth figures are finalised in the Allocations DPD the figures will be captured in Yorkshire Water’s AMP6 and AMP7 investment plans. Details of sewer flooding incidents across the East Riding provide further indications of sewer capacity has highlighted Bridlington, Market Weighton, Cottingham and Withernsea as settlements with possible restrictions due to sewer network. HEALTH NHS GP services A quantitative provision standard of 1 GP per 1,700 - 1,800 population has been utilised by the Study as an overall strategic review of GP coverage. This identified a shortfall in provision for the East Riding of around 40 GPs by 2026 and a cost of around £2.5million for estate to accommodate them. In terms of specific settlements, there are examples of both over and under provision against the standard. Review of GP coverage has been discussed with NHS East Riding of Yorkshire (NHSERY) who have indicated that, in their opinion, additional primary care capacity will be required to cater for the future growth in East Riding. It is unclear as to what extent the premises developments prioritised by the NHS will help resolve the deficit in GP provision identified. NHS Dental services Using a quantitative standard of provision of 1 NHS dentist 3,500 – 4,000 population, it was identified that by 2026 there would be slight deficit of around 9 NHS dentists in the East Riding, and a cost of around £0.5million for estate to accommodate them. However the general picture was in accordance with the model. In terms of specific settlements, there are examples of both over and under provision against the standard. NHSERY has advised it is reasonable to assume that the population growth envisaged as a result of the proposed housing growth will increase demand locally for NHS dental services. At this stage though it is impossible to determine to what extent and where this capacity may be required. Pharmacy services The NHSERY has already looked in detail at the gaps in Pharmaceutical service provision in the East Riding through its Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment- January 2011. The document identifies a potential gap in the provision of necessary services to the population of Elloughton-cum-Brough. The NHSERY considers that a second pharmacy in the area located in the centre of the village of Elloughton is needed to address this gap in provision. Hospital services As part of its community services strategy NHSERY has already planned for the requirement to improve hospital provision within East Riding. The Beverley Community Hospital now has full planning permission with building underway. This will result in the transfer of beds from Hornsea, the existing Beverley Westwood, and Driffield Community hospitals, and some rationalisation of beds in Withernsea. 3 EDUCATION: Pre-school and Early Years The Council’s Family Information Service Hub produced a new report which forms part of the Council’s second Childcare Sufficiency Assessment and focuses on identifying any gaps in childcare provision.