Tees Valley Growth Point Programme of Development
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Tees Valley Growth Point Programme of Development Why Tees Valley, Why Now? Our action plan to deliver accelerated, Infinity Bridge at Stockton (Erected September 2008) additional economic and housing growth. Tees Valley Growth Point Programme of Development Executive Summary Vision: By 2016 we will have implemented a Growth and Renewal development programme to respond to the needs of our changing and growing local economy Tees Valley PoD Objectives Our Compelling Case for Growth Overall Programme and Priority Growth • To take an integrated approach to the regeneration, planning, Sites employment, transport and housing agendas; • Our economic assets include a world class petrochemical industry, • To redevelop Brownfield sites and reclaim former industrial our port (the second largest in the UK), our low carbon economy sites to create new, environmentally sensitive, urban places; • The overall programme delivers 17, 076 units to 2016/17 and 27, 756 and research capability and our advanced engineering and • To provide long term and sustainable benefits which extend units to 2020/21. digital/multi-media cluster: sectors more resilient to short term beyond housing growth; • We have identified sites for accelerated development to 2011. These market fluctuations; • To Increase urban competitiveness; are: • Track record of delivering gross housing development of over 3,300 • To extend the socio-economic benefits of growth to all; Central Park East Central Area units per annum; • To develop housing which compliments future economic growth Former School Sites Central Hartlepool HMR • The ability to materially restructure our housing markets including Lingfield Area Golden Flatts and addresses our specific housing needs; the political will and resources to support a total demolition Central Darlington North Hartlepool • To develop the skills to support economic growth and the programme of 7,500 units; Greater Hemlington Bowesfield Riverside promotion of design excellence and sustainability benchmarks; • Evidence based strategies to target and prioritise the programme; Cargo Fleet Northern Gateway Phase 1a • To promote transformational change to establish mixed income • 10 years of partnership working and delivery across Tees Valley Inner Middlesbrough Northern Gateway Phase 1b communities in the core areas of the city region; Prissick and College sites Northern Gateway Phase 2 with best practice development of our MAA • To achieve an annual build rate of 2,670 new homes per Greater Eston - Southbank, Grangetown, and Low Grange - • Sites that can be leveraged to maximise public and private annum (net) in Tees Valley by 2016. Feasibility partnership solutions to delivery Key Delivery Enablers Responding to the Current Market CLG Funding Requirement To deliver our planned growth further investment is required in: The PoD details how we will deliver the programme. Specifically it The Expression of Interest promoted sites that were strategically sets out: deliverable. This built off a track record of supporting over 200 major • Capacity investigation to deal with planned additional growth including • How we have built off a 10 year track record of successful planning decisions over the last five years. This PoD further tests these flood risk assessments; partnership working to develop a strong governance structure sites against current market conditions to provide an evidenced based • Cross Programme Enablers to deliver the PoD. approach to accelerated development. • Site specific priorities • Details of our Multi Area Agreement (MAA) that promotes an • Effective governance and programme management investment planning approach across housing, regeneration, A key focus has therefore been to promote a twin track programme that: and transport funding streams • Mitigates the impacts of the credit crunch to promote more This supports capital and revenue funding support from CLG of £24.6 • How we will promote the wider sustainable placemaking housing sooner that would otherwise be the case (1,000 units by million. The direct impact of CLG investment on our priority sites is 867 net components across our programme including good design, 2010/11) additional units by 2011. By 2020/21, and the successful delivery of our sustainable construction standards and healthy living choices • Protect the overall programme to deliver annual 20% uplifts over PoD, we expect to achieve an additional 5,962 than would otherwise have • Our engagement with private sector partners and the RSS been achieved. stakeholders Contents Section 1 Introduction & Background 11.0 Well Served by Wider Community Infrastructure Section 5 Outputs and Outcomes 1.0 Vision and Rationale for Growth 2.0 Navigating our Programme of Development 12.0 Master Programme of Projects Section 2 Presenting the Case for Housing Growth 13.0 Risk Management Plan Appendices 3.0 Stage 1: Strategically Enabled Growth 4.0 Stages 2 and 3: Developing Our Initial Housing Trajectory 5.0 Steps 4 and 5: Refining the Housing Trajectory against Current Market Appendix A Programme of Growth Sites Conditions Appendix B Site by Site Analysis 6.0 Steps 6 and 7: Identifying Prioritised Sites for Growth and Associted Appendix C Prioritised Site Proformas Funding Requirements Appendix D CIF2 bid (Sept 2008) Appendix E Presentation of Infrastructure Projects Section 3 Critical Success Factors for Delivering the Appendix F Letter of Support from the Highways Agency Appendix G Housing Trajectories Programme Appendix H Tees Valley Credit Crunch Task Force Report Appendix I Site Specific Green Infrastructure Needs 7.0 Robust Delivery Mechanisms and Structures Appendix J Letters of Support from LA Chief Executives Appendix K Tees Valley and South & East Durham Growth Point Joint Section 4 Promoting Effective Placemaking Statement 8.0 An Integrated Transport Infrastructure Response 9.0 Environmentally Sensitive Development 10.0 Well Designed and Well Built Tees Valley’s Growth Point Programme of Development: 27th October 2008 SECTION ONE Introduction and Background Stockton Riverside CHAPTER ONE Vision and Rationale for Growth BBC Proms in Central Square, Middlesbrough (reproduced by kind permission of Itwoi) Location Map of the Tees Valley Districts Vision and Rationale for Growth 1.0 Vision and Rationale for Growth • To promote transformational change to establish mixed income communities in the core areas of the city region; 1.0.1 The Tees Valley Growth Point Vision: • To achieve an annual build rate of 2,670 new homes per annum (net) in Tees Valley by 2016. By 2016 we will have implemented a growth and renewal development programme to respond to the needs of a changing 1.1 Strong Foundations for Success and growing local economy. The identified gaps in our housing ladder will have been addressed to provide a series of 1.1.1 In 2006 the Tees Valley authorities were asked by the Secretary of sustainable communities which makes Tees Valley an attractive State for Communities and Local Government to produce a city place to both live and work, for existing residents, potential region business case which showed how the Tees Valley would inward migrants and future generations. improve its economic performance. The Business Case is centred on two basic principles: 1.0.2 This vision is supported by the following objectives: • Enhancing our economic assets – our world class petrochemical • To take an integrated approach to the regeneration, planning, industry, our port (the second largest in the UK), our low carbon employment, transport and housing agendas; economy, our research capability at the Wilton Centre and the • To redevelop Brownfield sites and reclaim former industrial sites Universities of Durham and Teesside, and our advanced to create new, environmentally sensitive, urban places; engineering and digital/multi-media cluster; • To provide long term and sustainable benefits which extend • Improving our urban competitiveness – through enhancing our beyond housing growth; quality of place through regenerating the centres of our towns, • To increase urban competitiveness; providing a modern competitive transport infrastructure, • To extend the socio-economic benefits of growth to all; renewing our ageing housing stock and improving our housing • To develop housing which compliments future economic growth; offer, improving the liveability of the Tees Valley by improving • To develop the skills to support economic growth and the our environment, cultural and retail facilities and tackling promotion of design excellence and sustainability benchmarks; problems of worklessness, lack of skills and social deprivation. Tees Valley’s Growth Point Programme of Development: 27th October 2008 Page 1 Vision and Rationale for Growth 1.1.2 The Tees Valley City Region Business Case sets out our strategies • A decrease of working age people on out of work benefits from and programmes for improving our economic performance based on 5.1% higher than the national average to 2.6% higher than the these two fundamental principles. The Tees Valley Multi Area national average; Agreement (MAA) agreed with Government in July this year provides • An increase in the overall employment rate from 3.8% below the the resources to provide an integrated, comprehensive programme national average to 1.8% below the national average; to implement the business case. It builds on the Regional Economic • An increase in the net additional homes constructed from 2,224 Strategy (RES) and brings together One North East’s regeneration per annum in the Regional Spatial