Infrastructure Funding Statement

Appendix C: The CIL Infrastructure List

1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020

Published: December 2020

APPENDIX C Community Infrastructure Levy Infrastructure List December 2020

Introduction The CIL Amendment Regulations 2019 abolished the Regulation 123 List and replaced it with the ‘Infrastructure List’, part of the Infrastructure Funding Statement that CIL charging authorities are required to publish annually by 31 December. This is the Infrastructure List. It comprises the infrastructure projects from the Regulation 123 List. They have been split into separate tables of ‘essential’ and ‘place-shaping’ infrastructure. This distinction is set out in paragraphs 4.41 and 4.42 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy. Core Policy 3 priorities essential infrastructure in the event of competing demands. An explanation of why these projects are on the Infrastructure List has been included. For the purpose of this first Infrastructure List, the list of infrastructure projects broadly reflects those in the Council’s Regulation 123 List. While no new projects have been added at this time other than the Trowbridge Bat Mitigation Strategy, some projects have been removed. A final table groups the projects that have been removed and explains why. The List will be updated during 2021 to reflect any new projects that need to be included following a review of the Infrastructure Delivery Plan and the Council’s governance arrangements for prioritising CIL.

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Essential Infrastructure

Essential Infrastructure (As set out in paragraphs 4.41 and 4.42 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy. Core Policy 3 priorities essential infrastructure in the event of competing demands.)

Infrastructure that may be funded, in whole or in part, by the Community Infrastructure Levy

Category Project Explanation

Education Expansion of the following schools to provide additional In December 2018, Cabinet approved an initial allocation of secondary school places: £119,000 of CIL funding for a feasibility study on expanding Abbeyfield Secondary School. There is no other funding for • Abbeyfield School, Chippenham this scheme and, therefore, it requires the total sum to be funded through CIL.

Sustainable Chippenham Transport Strategy: In December 2018, Cabinet approved an initial allocation of transport £136,000 of CIL funding for feasibility studies for three of • Malmesbury Road Roundabout Additional Capacity these sustainable transport schemes: Improvements • Bridge Centre Gyratory Capacity Improvements • Malmesbury Road Roundabout Additional Capacity • Timber Street Safety Scheme Improvements (Chippenham Transport Strategy) • A420 Marshfield Rd / Dallas Road Safety Scheme • Bridge Centre Gyratory Capacity Improvements • B4528 Hungerdown Lane / Sheldon Rd Junction (Chippenham Transport Strategy) • Accessibility improvements to Chippenham Railway • A361 Holy Trinity gyratory capacity improvement Station1 (Trowbridge Transport Strategy) • Alternative provision for long stay car parking outside town centre There remains a likelihood that further funding through CIL • Frogwell to Town Centre pedestrian/cycle scheme may be required for these schemes. • Bumpers Farm to Town Centre pedestrian/cycle scheme

1 This project combines three previously separate projects on the Regulation 123 List; Chippenham Railway Station car parking capacity enhancements and parking controls, Improvements to Chippenham Station: interchange, accessibility, and Chippenham Station Redevelopment.

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Essential Infrastructure (As set out in paragraphs 4.41 and 4.42 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy. Core Policy 3 priorities essential infrastructure in the event of competing demands.)

Infrastructure that may be funded, in whole or in part, by the Community Infrastructure Levy

Category Project Explanation

• Cepen Park North to Town Centre pedestrian/cycle With Chippenham and Trowbridge a focus of strategic growth scheme within the County, their respective transport strategies include • Cycle and pedestrian access to Lackham Campus from (mainly) highways, public transport, and walking/ cycling Chippenham (i.e. River Avon footbridge) schemes considered necessary either to: mitigate the • Improved transport links between Wiltshire College’s cumulative impact of strategic growth; reduce congestion; campuses support the strategic road network; improve the accessibility and attractiveness of town centres, railway stations and/ or Trowbridge Transport Strategy: schools; or to improve road safety.

• A361 Holy Trinity gyratory capacity improvement Outside of the three principal settlements growth areas, other • B3105 Staverton Bridge capacity improvement transport schemes are considered necessary to mitigate the • Broad Street Gyratory reversal cumulative impact of strategic growth on the railway network. • Walking and cycling routes from Trowbridge town centre to Wiltshire College

Other transport projects:

• Trans Wilts Train Service Improvements • Improvements to Railway Station • Installation of capacity enhancement on the single-track line through Melksham • New railway stations in: o Royal Wootton Bassett (including associated required infrastructure) o Wilton (including associated required infrastructure)

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Essential Infrastructure (As set out in paragraphs 4.41 and 4.42 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy. Core Policy 3 priorities essential infrastructure in the event of competing demands.)

Infrastructure that may be funded, in whole or in part, by the Community Infrastructure Levy

Category Project Explanation

o (including associated required infrastructure) • Additional platform at

Open space, green European protected sites projects: In December 2018, Cabinet delegated authority to officers for infrastructure and the approval of the allocation of CIL funding towards these the environment • Stone Curlew and Salisbury Plain Special Protection Area projects relating to European protected sites as and when • Nutrient Management Plan – to address the level of required. phosphate in the River Avon • New Forest Recreation Management Project (Measures A proportion of CIL is ring-fenced for these projects in order to to reduce and manage recreational disturbance ensure compliance with the Habitats Regulations, reflecting an pressures upon sensitive Annex II birds in the New Forest agreement with Natural England during the preparation of the Special Protection Area (SPA) as a result of planned Wiltshire Core Strategy (Local Plan). housing delivery) • Trowbridge Bat Mitigation Strategy

Health and social • Shared Primary Care Centre at Chippenham Hospital With Chippenham a focus of strategic growth in the Core care Strategy, redevelopment of the Chippenham Hospital site remains a priority for the NHS.

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Place-shaping infrastructure

Place-shaping Infrastructure (As set out in paragraphs 4.41 and 4.42 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy. Core Policy 3 priorities essential infrastructure in the event of competing demands.)

Infrastructure that may be funded, in whole or in part, by the Community Infrastructure Levy

Category Project Explanation

Open space, green • Provision of air quality monitoring infrastructure Strategic monitoring of air quality in the eight designated Air infrastructure and Quality Management Areas (AQMAs) in Wiltshire; Salisbury, the environment New cemeteries, or expansion of existing cemeteries in: Bradford on Avon, , Marlborough, Westbury and .

• Bradford on Avon New cemeteries or extensions to existing cemeteries managed • Holt by Wiltshire Council will be required to meet the need for burial • Melksham space arising from the cumulative impact of new development. • Trowbridge These cemeteries have been identified as being full, or close to • Warminster being full, and, therefore, likely to close without additional funding. • Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB Green countryside training and visitor centre A multifunctional countryside centre remains an objective and a policy (WIL8) in the current Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs (CCWWD) Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Management Plan 2019-2024.

Community and Upgrades to sport and recreation facilities within the Upgrades to sport and recreation facilities in Wiltshire Council cultural following buildings: buildings meet an identified strategic need in the Indoor Facilities Strategy and emerging Playing Pitch Strategy. • The Olympiad, Chippenham • Devizes Leisure Centre, Devizes The capacity for archaeological storage may be exceeded by • Marlborough Leisure Centre, Marlborough the need to meet expected demand from the remaining houses • Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre, Salisbury to be built over the Core Strategy period (up to 2026). • Bradford on Avon Swimming Pool, Bradford on Avon

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Place-shaping Infrastructure (As set out in paragraphs 4.41 and 4.42 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy. Core Policy 3 priorities essential infrastructure in the event of competing demands.)

Infrastructure that may be funded, in whole or in part, by the Community Infrastructure Levy

Category Project Explanation

• Trowbridge Sports Centre, Trowbridge The Swindon & Cricklade Railway project would provide a • Amesbury Sports Centre, Amesbury commuter service from Cricklade to Swindon. • Pewsey Health and Wellbeing Centre • Leighton Sports Centre, Westbury The continual updating of library facilities across Wiltshire is a priority for the library service. Enhanced facilities are a • Wiltshire Heritage Museum – archaeological storage particular need in Amesbury, Chippenham, Malmesbury, Marlborough, Mere, Salisbury and Warminster. • Swindon & Cricklade Railway – expansion of leisure/ recreation route from Mouldon Hill to Moredon Bridge

• Library provision

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Removed projects

Category Project Explanation

Essential Infrastructure (As set out in paragraphs 4.41 and 4.42 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy. Core Policy 3 priorities essential infrastructure in the event of competing demands.)

Education Expansion of the following schools to provide additional Either there are currently sufficient surplus places secondary school places: at these schools and/ or developer contributions will be sought instead through Section 106 • St Lawrence Secondary School, in Bradford on Avon Planning Obligations. • John Bentley Secondary School, in Calne • Devizes School and Lavington School, in Devizes and Market Lavington • Pewsey Vale School, in Pewsey • Trafalgar Secondary School, in Downton

Sustainable Transport Trowbridge Transport Strategy projects: These projects have now been completed.

• Improvements to town centre pedestrian way finding and legibility

Other transport projects: The original scheme has not progressed due to difficulties with land acquisition and the significant • Improved access for pedestrians, cyclists and buses to Pewsey cost and impact on highway users. Railway Station • Cycle and pedestrian route between Royal Wootton Bassett and The cycle and pedestrian route between Royal Windmill Hill Business Park, Swindon Wootton Bassett and Windmill Hill Business Park, Swindon, is fully funded.

Emergency services Improvements to (including relocation/ replacement of) the Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Services following fire stations: have since merged. The Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service’s Capital Strategy 2020-21 • Chippenham does not identify a need for major station replacements or enhancements and has no plans

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Category Project Explanation

• Tidworth/ Ludgershall to do so until their Communities Programme has • Trowbridge completed its review of fire cover arrangements. • Warminster

Place-shaping Infrastructure (As set out in paragraphs 4.41 and 4.42 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy. Core Policy 3 priorities essential infrastructure in the event of competing demands.)

Open space, green It is unlikely that the concept of a Chippenham infrastructure and the • Chippenham Hydro Plant Hydro Plant will be taken forward due to the environment relatively weak financial performance of river hydro projects.

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