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Infrastructure Delivery Plan Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Infrastructure Delivery Plan March 2021 1.0 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 2.0 Background and Policy Context ..................................................................................... 2 National Policy ...................................................................................................................... 2 Local Policy .......................................................................................................................... 3 Local Plan policy context and strategy for growth ................................................................ 4 Policy STR 1 - The Development Strategy .............................................................................. 6 What is infrastructure? ......................................................................................................... 8 Engagement ....................................................................................................................... 10 Prioritisation of infrastructure .............................................................................................. 11 Identified risks .................................................................................................................... 12 Timing ................................................................................................................................ 12 Costs .................................................................................................................................. 13 Potential funding sources ................................................................................................... 13 Status of the IDP ................................................................................................................ 14 Strategic Sites Masterplanning and Infrastructure Study .................................................... 15 3.0 Overview of Infrastructure ............................................................................................ 17 Theme 1: Transport ............................................................................................................ 18 Theme 2: Education ........................................................................................................... 42 Theme 3: Health ................................................................................................................. 51 Theme 4: Water .................................................................................................................. 59 Theme 5: Utilities and Digital Infrastructure ........................................................................ 73 Theme 6: Community, public and social services ............................................................... 80 Theme 7: Sport and Recreation ......................................................................................... 89 Theme 8: Green Infrastructure ......................................................................................... 101 Theme 9: Waste and Recycling ........................................................................................ 105 Theme 10: Public Realm, Art, and Culture ....................................................................... 110 4.0 Summary .................................................................................................................... 113 Appendix 1: Infrastructure Delivery Schedule ...................................................................... 115 Appendix 2: Existing open space by parish (as identified within the Open Space Study 2018) ............................................................................................................................................. 155 Appendix 3: consultation and liaison with key stakeholders ................................................. 163 November 2016 stakeholder engagement: ...................................................................... 163 July 2018 stakeholder engagement: ................................................................................. 166 March 2019 stakeholder engagement: ............................................................................. 171 June 2019 stakeholder engagement: ............................................................................... 175 October 2020 stakeholder engagement ........................................................................... 176 1.0 Introduction 1.1 This Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) has been prepared by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (the Council). The IDP sets out: • The national and local context in relation to infrastructure provision and the importance of infrastructure and its timely delivery within the Local Plan process; • Details of engagement with infrastructure providers and key stakeholders in determining the level of infrastructure required to support new development; • Background and context to key infrastructure that has been delivered recently, or is in the process of being delivered; • An analysis of existing infrastructure provision; • Any capacity issues in relation to current provision; • Details of the infrastructure that is required to support the existing and future needs and demands for the borough to support new development and a growing population, as envisaged through the Council's Local Plan; • An Infrastructure Delivery Schedule setting out the infrastructure required, priority, risk, delivery body, indicative cost (if known) and funding position. 1.2 The IDP has been informed through discussion and consultation with relevant service providers operating in the borough, alongside reviewing existing evidence and publications (such as management plans and strategies). It is published as a “Live Document’, updated to reflect relevant changes in information and further changes may be required as a result of further updates and information from service providers and progress with the production of the Local Plan. 1.3 This IDP should also be read in conjunction with the Strategic Sites Masterplanning and Infrastructure Study 2021, which has been prepared in relation to the two Strategic Sites proposed in the Local Plan at Paddock Wood and east Capel, and Tudeley Village. 1.4 The IDP is supported by various appendices, as follows: • Appendix 1 - Infrastructure Schedule; • Appendix 2 – Existing open space by Parish (as identified within the Open Space Study 2018); • Appendix 3 - Consultation and record of liaison with key stakeholders; 1.5 The IDP provides critical evidence to support the Local Plan and provides details of projects required to be delivered to support the growth proposed in the borough. It also provides detail for negotiation with developers to ensure developer contributions are delivered as part of new development. Page Tunbridge Wells Borough Council 1 of 182 Infrastructure Delivery Plan Date of publication – March 2021 2.0 Background and Policy Context 2.1 The Council, in its role as the Local Planning Authority, is required to plan positively to ensure that development and infrastructure needs are met. This is to ensure that new development is delivered sustainably in a planned way and that housing and employment growth is balanced alongside vital infrastructure. National Policy 2.2 The National Planning Policy Framework February 2019 (NPPF) highlights the importance of the provision of infrastructure to achieve sustainable development as the overarching objective of the planning system and plan making. Paragraph 8 sets out the following: "Achieving sustainable development means that the planning system has three overarching objectives, which are interdependent and need to be pursued in mutually supportive ways (so that opportunities can be taken to secure net gains across each of the different objectives): • an economic objective - to help build a strong, responsive and competitive economy, by ensuring that sufficient land of the right types is available in the right places and at the right time to support growth, innovation and improved productivity; and by coordinating the provision of infrastructure; • a social objective - to support strong, vibrant and healthy communities, by ensuring that a sufficient number and range of homes can be provided to meet the needs of present and future generations; and by fostering a well-designed and safe built environment, with accessible services and open spaces that reflect current and future needs and support communities' health, social and cultural well-being; and • an environmental objective - to contribute to protecting and enhancing our natural, built and historic environment; including making effective use of land, helping to improve biodiversity, using natural resources prudently, minimising waste and pollution, and mitigating and adapting to climate change, including moving to a low carbon economy." 2.3 Furthermore, paragraphs 15 and 16 refer to the importance of the planning system being genuinely plan led, and that plans should "be shaped by early, proportionate and effective engagement between plan-makers and communities, local organisations, businesses, infrastructure providers and operators and statutory consultees..." 2.4 Paragraph 20 refers to how "strategic policies should set out an overall strategy for the pattern, scale, and quality of development, and make sufficient provision for: Page Tunbridge Wells Borough Council 2 of 182 Infrastructure
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