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Staveley Town Investment Plan December 2020 Contents Staveley Town Investment Plan December 2020 Contents A little something about our logo Foreword 4 Students at Springwell Community College were Executive Summary 6 challenged to create a new logo to capture the spirit of this major opportunity to regenerate 1. Introduction 10 their town. Almost 70 young people submitted Introducing Staveley 12 their designs to the Staveley Town Deal logo Our People 14 competition, which was launched in September Our Potential 16 for year seven students at the school. Investment Context 18 Staveley Accelerator Fund 20 Alex Atkinson was declared the overall winner for Wider Opportunities 22 his design which incorporated some of Staveley’s most well-known landmarks. The winning entry 2. Context Analysis 24 was picked by a judging panel which included the Evidence of Need 26 Chair of the Staveley Town Board, Ivan Fomin, and Innovation and Enterprise 28 Staveley-based design company, Q2 Creative. Inclusive Growth 32 Place 36 Alex then had the opportunity to work with Q2 Health and Wellbeing 40 Creative to turn his hand drawn design into a Conclusions 44 format that would be suitable for use on the official website and on banners and hoardings in 3. Strategic Plan 48 and around Staveley. Context 50 Thematic Pillars 52 Our Vision and Objectives 56 The Staveley Project Package 58 Theory of Change 76 Spatial Strategy 78 Strategic Context 80 4. Engagement and Delivery 84 The Staveley Town Board 86 Local Community Buy-In 88 Forward Plan for Further Engagement 92 Private Sector Buy-In 94 Business Case Development Plan 96 Delivery Plan 98 4 5 Foreword In 1990 I moved to the Staveley area to work as a them into useful assets to push forward the growth facility like this will be built in the Staveley area, but it is manufacturing engineer as part of the then Coalfield and prosperity of the town. At a time when Covid-19 no surprise to me. Our rich heritage has left a legacy of Regeneration Programme. The regeneration of has re-energised the discussion about the use of strong supply chains; at a recent ‘meet the buyer’ event, England’s former coal mining areas has been one of outdoor space, we have a unique canal setting that Talgo had over 200 local companies attending, all keen the biggest challenges of the last few decades. In the has the potential to link Chesterfield and Staveley for their expertise to be utilised as it starts to build trains Staveley area, these challenges were compounded to the national canal network for the first time in 113 in the UK. by the closure of chemical works and manufacturing years. We know that local places, local services, local sites that once saw thousands employed in skilled amenities have a huge role to play in a post-Covid The innovation centre is just one of the projects set out industry. Looking back, programmes like the Coalfield world and Staveley must be ready to seize these in our investment plan, projects that will ensure we are Regeneration Programme have achieved a massive opportunities. ready to adapt and change as the role of towns evolves amount. But there were gaps left, and there is still work over the coming years. Whilst the projects are vital, it’s to do: industrial land requiring remediation, historic We have consulted widely with local stakeholders, also about the people and our local leadership. There is a buildings needing refurbishment, derelict waterways, including residents via online sessions, direct surveys deep and strong commitment from across the Town Deal worklessness, health inequalities, training and skills. and local schools initiatives. There is a buzz in Staveley Board to provide this for the people of Staveley. This is the story of Staveley. about the Towns Fund bid, and we are pleased that we have already been able to deliver some early The Town Deal Board has been an effective group In all of this there are the communities, the families, the success through the Accelerator Funding we received of community leaders and representatives from the workers, and of course the young people progressing in October. This funding has been aimed at delivering business, public and community sectors. The Board has through local education and looking for their first job. early improvements to demonstrate to our community worked hard throughout the development of our bid to All having to deal with the legacy of a failing industrial the difference we know the Towns Fund will make. ensure that the projects put forward will stand the rigour situation. It is against this background that the once- of scrutiny and can be successfully implemented once Our Town Investment Plan is built around a simple in-a-generation opportunity is presented by the Towns funding is in place. I would like to thank all the members of vision for Staveley as: Fund. Our approach was to be open to all proposals the Board as well as our advisors and colleagues for the that can be tied together by a ‘golden thread’ which continued hard work and guidance in putting together a place to start, a place to stay and a place to grow. links the various projects to drive long term economic our investment plan. and productivity growth. I have been fortunate through my own business to give people a start with their career, develop their skills as As Chair of the Board I am delighted to present the As a local employer, I am acutely aware of the need to they choose to stay and see their ambitions and their Staveley Town Investment Plan, one that I know will bring develop a higher skilled workforce not just to improve families grow. renewed hope to our communities and ensure a bright competitiveness and productivity, but also to meet the future for Staveley. aspirations of local people to enhance their prospects We know that many more people, employers, visitors and to grow their own lives and families. This is the and investors will want to come to Staveley, to start, only way that we can ensure the growth set to come to stay and grow here. Following the announcement of the area will be inclusive growth, benefiting Staveley the proposed HS2 depot in the area and HS2 services people. to nearby Chesterfield, we have seen momentum build. The Spanish rail manufacturer Talgo has You will see in our bid that Staveley is well blessed announced its UK headquarters will be here in Barrow by geography, as well as assets including land, Hill where it will establish a new rail innovation centre. heritage buildings and transport links, but these all Ivan Fomin I am immensely proud that a nationally significant Staveley Towns Fund need investment and local leadership to change Board Chair 6 7 Executive Summary DRIIVe Hartington Industrial Park Construction Skills Hub HS2 Staveley Miners Welfare FC Academy Staveley Corridor START Wider A career Staveley Station Chesterfield - Staveley Regeneration Route A business Investment A family TIP Wheels to Work Staveley Hub Barrow Hill Line Staveley 21 Markham Vale Staveley Waterside New Housing Staveley Hall Conference Centre Chesterfield Canal Barrow Hill Memorial Hall The Staveley Town Investment But what if incomers don’t HEALTH AND Plan covers the town of Staveley contribute to the social and WELLBEING An enhanced green and the surrounding villages of economic life our town and our setting and heritage offer with multiple INNOVATION AND our parish. We are perhaps one community doesn’t share in the options for staying local means our ENTERPRISE of the smaller settlements within benefits of this investment? wellbeing is vastly Opening up employment improved, drawing sites and bringing new high the Towns Fund but the relative Worse still, what if our plans more people to the quality jobs creates momentum. scale of planned investment is stall and these opportunities area. extraordinary. HS2 has created fail to materialise? With already momentum and now long standing high levels of deprivation in our plans are becoming a reality – community and a high proportion applications are being made, of our workforce employed in investors are coming, business sectors that have been negatively GROW STA cases being developed. We have a impacted by Covid-19, it is fair to Your skills To live Your ambition To visit £1billion plus plan to deliver over say our position is vulnerable. Your family To enjoy the next 15 years, which will see our population grow by more than That is why we need the stimulus 15%, 100 hectares of brownfield provided by the Towns Fund. As land are to be remediated and in demonstrated in this diagram, excess of 2,000 new jobs created. the cogs are in place but further INCUSIVE PLACE Visitors have a leverage could deliver so much GROWTH reason to come Creating a sense of and new homes Staveley will be a great place to more. The 11 projects in our TIP place and a 21st enrich our Century offer retains growing start on the housing ladder, your complement planned investment income in the area, community who bringing further career, a family, your business; a and are aimed at turning a virtuous have vibrant enterprise and jobs for places to enjoy, our upskilled and great place to stay to visit, and cycle of prosperity whereby meet and spend. connected community. not pass through, to have fun and people Start out in Staveley, Stay enjoy, to live your life and a great and Grow and with them new place to grow your skills, your generations in Staveley contribute family, your opportunities, your to this process. business, your ambition and you. 8 9 Sitting beneath our vision is a focus on the thematic complementing each other to make our intentions Staveley TIP Thematic Framework pillars of Business and Skills and Leisure and Living, a reality.
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