THE SHROPSHIRE REGENERATION PROSPECTUS LDF IMPLEMENTATION PLAN- Infrastructure requirements to support the Core Strategy Contents 1. Purpose of the LDF Implementation Plan 2. Structure of the LDF Implementation Plan 3. Shropshire’s Vision 4. Local Development Framework key issues and strategic objectives 5. Delivery through partnership 6. Resources 7. Identifying priorities and measuring and reporting on progress 8. Infrastructure Delivery Strategy: Area Programmes Shrewsbury Vision and objectives Scale and type of development Delivering infrastructure requirements Housing trajectory and timescale Market Towns Vision and objectives Scale and type of development Delivering infrastructure requirements Housing trajectory and timescale Rural Areas Vision and objectives Scale and type of development Delivering infrastructure requirements Housing trajectory and timescale 9. List of place based appendices 2 1.0 PURPOSE OF THE LDF IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 1.1 The Local Development Framework (LDF) Implementation Plan forms an important part of the evidence base for Shropshire’s LDF. It supports the Core Strategy, by identifying the infrastructure required to deliver the development strategy for Shropshire, which is required to realise Shropshire’s vision. 1.2 Planning Policy Statement 12: creating strong safe and prosperous communities through Local Spatial Planning, states that ‘The Core Strategy should be supported by evidence of what physical, social and green infrastructure is needed to enable the amount of development proposed for the area, taking account of its type and distribution. This evidence should cover who will provide the infrastructure and when it will be provided. The Core Strategy should draw on, and in parallel influence any strategies and investment plans of the local authority and other organisations’. (PPS12, para 4.8) It is therefore clear that in order for the Core Strategy to be found ‘sound’, by an independent examination, the required infrastructure for the scale of growth outlined in the Core Strategy must be identified. It is also evident that the specific infrastructure requirements for the strategic sites, identified in the Core Strategy, need to be identified. 1.3 The LDF Implementation Plan therefore seeks to • provide an overview of the infrastructure needs of the area, to support the scale and location of growth identified in the Core Strategy; • enable the local authority and others to understand what is needed to implement the Core Strategy and therefore make difficult decisions on infrastructure priorities, given limited resources • inform the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) charging schedule that sets the contribution required of developers towards infrastructure; 1.4 In addition, the LDF Implementation Plan is closely linked to the Local Investment Plan (LIP) arising from the ‘Single Conversation’ with the Homes and Communities Agency. Together the LDF Implementation Plan and LIP form an integrated delivery programme, aimed at coordinating investment and infrastructure provision to deliver the shared vision for Shropshire. As both documents have a place based focus, they share a set of place based appendices (see paragraph 2.4-2.7), which detail the investment programmes and infrastructure requirements for specific settlements. This package of documents is known as the Regeneration Prospectus (see figure 1) which is the umbrella framework into which each separate delivery framework will feed. 1.5 As a package of delivery frameworks, the Regeneration Prospectus is closely linked with the Shropshire Partnership External Funding Strategy, which identifies how partners will work together to secure the external funding 3 needed to deliver Shropshire’s priorities, as set out in the Regeneration Prospectus and the Community Strategy. 1.6 Whilst this version of the LDF Implementation Plan focuses on the infrastructure required to support the Core Strategy, it is recognised that the Plan will need to be reviewed and updated to reflect any additional infrastructure requirements for sites allocated for particular uses. An updated version of this Implementation Plan will therefore be produced alongside the publication of the Site Allocations and Management of Development (SAMDev) DPD. 1.7 It is also recognised that infrastructure needs and priorities change over time and it is important to respond to these changing circumstances. The LDF Implementation Plan should therefore be viewed as a ‘living’ document that takes account of these changes as they come forward and provides a continual process by which to align the programmes and actions of many organisations. The list of projects included within the Implementation Plan is therefore not intended to be exhaustive, as the process of implementation will constantly be responding to local circumstances over the life of the Core Strategy and in time the SAMDev DPD. 2.0 STRUCTURE OF THE LDF IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 2.1 PPS12 states that good infrastructure planning should consider the infrastructure required to support development, costs, sources of funding , timescales of delivery and gaps in funding. The LDF Implementation Plan and place based appendices therefore identify, as far as possible: • infrastructure needs and costs • phasing of development • funding sources; and • responsibilities for delivery 2.2 For the purpose of this Plan, infrastructure is understood to be those services and facilities that are required to support development, without which Shropshire’s development strategy can not be achieved. 2.3 Using the guidance contained in PPS12 and Shropshire’s development strategy, the below table sets out the types of infrastructure that are included within this Plan. Transport PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (roads and other transport facilities) Energy (electricity and gas supply, renewable energy) Water (water supply and wastewater treatment, flood risk management) Waste (recycling, composting and waste recovery 4 systems) Minerals (construction material for growth) ICT/Digital (Broadband/wireless) Business Growth and Employment (investment in business development and sector growth, enhancement and expansion of business parks) ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE Regeneration (Market Town revitalisation and regeneration) Skills Training Education (primary and secondary schools, nursery education and higher education) Health (Hospitals, GPs, Dentists) SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE Community Facilities (Libraries, Police, Fire, Ambulance, Cemeteries and Crematoria, youth facilities, village halls and community centres) Open spaces (formal and informal open space, forests and woodlands, allotments) Recreation and sporting facilities GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE (sports pitches, children’s play areas) Green public realm (footpaths and bridleways, river and canal corridors) 2.4 However, it is understood that sustainability is based on many different factors and what is needed to make and maintain a sustainable community in one place may differ in another. The LDF Implementation Plan therefore consists of this main document, which outlines the key infrastructure requirements needed to support delivery of the Core Strategy, and a set of appendices, which provide an individual ‘place making plan’ for each settlement. 2.5 The place based appendices list all the infrastructure and investment requirements needed to create and maintain Shropshire’s settlements as sustainable places. They complement the Government’s focus on local leadership and seek to deliver better local services which are more tailored to local need. 2.6 The place based appendices support the bottom up approach taken in Core Strategy Policy CS4 (Community Hubs and Community Clusters). The plans will provide an important part of the evidence base for implementing CS4, by informing the community testing events which are intended to assist local 5 communities to arrive at an agreed understanding of their current sustainability. They will also inform future decisions on what local community priorities are in terms of community benefit and therefore determine what development will be permitted to meet community needs. 2.7 As this current version of the LDF Implementation Plan is aimed at supporting the Core Strategy, the current appendices are based around Shrewsbury and the seventeen Market Towns and key centres identified in Core Strategy Policy CS3 (see list on page 44). They will, however, be extended to include the investment and infrastructure requirements for smaller settlements and the rural hinterland, as part of the process of preparing the SAMDev DPD. 2.8 The below diagram provides an overview of the Infrastructure Planning process in Shropshire. 6 Figure 1: Overview of the Infrastructure Planning process in Shropshire. KEY STRATEGIC OUTPUTS DRIVERS Strategies and Shropshire’s Plans Community • Local Development Framework THE Strategy • Housing Strategy REGENERATION Delivery (2010-2020) • Climate Change • Capital Funding- including Strategy PROSPECTUS Regional Funding Advice • Revenue Funding-Council • Local Transport Plan LDF • Economic LOCAL Corporate Plan Development IMPLEMENTATION INVESTMENT • Shrewsbury Growth Point Strategy PLAN PLAN (LIP) and Vision • Shropshire Council’s • Developer contributions Corporate Plan Services and facilities Charging Schedule for local • Parish & Town Plans required to support the The ‘Single infrastructure needs LDF development Conversation’ with • Local Area Agreement strategy the Homes and • Shropshire Business Board Communities Agency Business Plan • Shropshire Partnership Area Evidence